Hi there. I just purchased a new WD 2TB elements play. I thought I could display a nice arrangement of my movies through thumbnails. Was I wrong? Can it be done?
Thanks in advance!
Hi there. I just purchased a new WD 2TB elements play. I thought I could display a nice arrangement of my movies through thumbnails. Was I wrong? Can it be done?
Thanks in advance!
Page 42 of the manual discusses turning on Thumbnail mode.
It is turned on. But I donât see it working⊠I want to create thumbnails with the movie posters for each folder, like WD TV Live doesâŠ
I think this only works for the Pictures folders and not video. How are you finding the WD EP so far in comparrison to the WD TV? Have you tried using high def video on the WD TV & the WD EP as on the latter it really doesnât work successfully and is a nightmare to convert and get the audio to work and then when the audio does work the image is really juddery. Real shame as its such a good idea to have the player and the HD in one unit.
WDTV Live doesnât support Movie Posters, unless youâre using the terms âThumbnailâ and âMovie Posterâ interchangeablyâŠ
Iâm sorry, but if I search for movies on youtube, I can see people using pictures os the movie posters to illustrate the folders in which they are in. I think the proccess is called Movie SheetsâŠ
Movie Sheets are not part of the stock firmwares from Western Digital. They have been added to custom third-party firmwares.
I donât know of any third-party firmwares for the Elements Play at this time.
Thatâs exactly what I wanted to know! I already own a WD TV Live which shows all my film/TV cover art as a thumbnail when Iâm browsing. All my cover art is saved as âfolder.jpgâ. However when I switch to thumbnail mode on the browse setting on the âPlayâ nothing seems to alter. I phoned WD direct about this and they couldnât explain why this was. They seemed to think that my device had a fault and suggested that I sent it back.
Interesting then that you are experiencing exactly the same issue as me.
Anyone else out there actually had any success when trying to display covert art on films or music on the âPlayâ?
I too have a WDTV Live and bought the Elements Play 2TB as a standalone complete solution. I have setup my MKV files with like-named jpegs so they show in thumbnail mode. Alas this doesnât work in the EP unit.
I have spoken to the WD support and they confirm that the designers decided to standardise on the âmovie previewâ mode for video on the EP machine. Â The thumbnails are for photos only.
Apart from this everything else seems ok, iso files play with full navigable menus. Â I do not have any full HD files as yet so cannot comment on the 1080P 24 debate.
Thatâs very dissapointing then as I have 100âs of films and music folders stored on there which I wanted to be able to browse as thumbnails of cover art like I do with the TV Live. It also makes it a lot easier for the kids to scan their movies and decide what to watch. Why on earth would they do away with this feature, it just doesnât make sense?
Come on WD, what are you playing at? My unit is going back!
It really seems this whole unti hasnât been thought through properly and there is no word from WD on any updates. Really dissapointing and regreting the purchase now
Likewise!
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Hi guys,
As you know already thumbnails are not supported with this unit and the current firmware 1.00.86. My friend who has one took his apart already and said it Should support it with an update to the firmware. I know WD has had multiple beta firmwares for the WDTV live and Live plus units in the last couple of weeks. I would look for an update soon as this unit was just released.
StormRider951 wrote:
Hi guys,
⊠My friend who has one took his apart already and said it Should support it with an update to the firmware.
Uh, okâŠ
UhâŠÂ before someone takes that seriously, I added the text as well as circling it⊠the Amlogic chips donât really say that⊠just sarcasm.
Lol, that would be quite funny if the chip did actually state that as shown.
Yeah WDTV seems to be getting a load of updates but the WDEP it seems has been forgotten about. If you can show me those updates you are refering to it would be helpful as I canât seem to find any.
I donât know if itâs the same development team working on both, but what I can tell you is that the WDTV Live team has been trying like mad to get HDMI to work correctly. Â They havenât had any âNew Releasesâ since June, which was before this product even came to market; theyâve only been releasing Betas, trying to fix the HDMI bug.
Like it!:smileyvery-happy:
If they could only give us some news on anything that is going on it would be helpful as currently it feels like there is nobody on the other end responding to any of their issues and we are all in the dark. If i had at least an inclination that they are working on something or there is no possibillity that this product will work because of the chip etc etc I could then make a decision on what to do. Currently in limbo and just rtying different setting and compression formats to no avail.