Hello I am new to this site. I have had my WD live plus for about 6 months. Up until recently right in the middle of the movie i am playing it will stop around the 45 min / hour mark and go blank then go back to the previous screen. Mabye its the HDMI connection? Its very frustrating, I was wondering if there are any solutions. I did upgrade to the firmware 1.03.39_B I do see there is a newer firmware I guess i can try that? I havent seen anyone else with this problem its so annoying please if theres anyone out there that can help i’d greatly appericiate it. Thank you
First of all – you don’t have to shout. We can all see your messages just fine without all the bold and large font stuff.
Most likely you played a “bad” MKV file, which can cause all kinds of problems. You need to remux it with MKVMerge 4.0 or earlier. And, yes, there is beta firmware which fixes this but for now my advice is to wait until it is officially released (it will be soon). If you are downloading files from the internet and playing them that’s a problem – don’t do that (or remux them as advised).
In the computer world “jailbreak” refers to putting firmware on a device like the iPhone which removes restrictions on it imposed by the maker (usually those restrictions are legal and/or tie it to a particular service). There actually IS no jailbreak firmware for the Live (there is third party firmware but it isn’t really jailbreak firmware – it does add some things to the Live but doesn’t remove major restrictions in the same sense that Jailbreaking an iPhone does). No matter whether software is jailbreak or not, installing it will always void any warranty the maker of the device puts on it (IOW, they are no longer responsible for anything that goes wrong with your device after such firmware is installed). So you always do it at your own risk.
