WD TV Live Firmware Pre-release Update

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richUK wrote:

I would suggest that you download again as another version has just been added which has the correct ver code and the file size is 31.9Mb. You have to love WD don’t you. In The UK we have a saying about ‘**** ups in a brewery’.

Hopefully people read this first as it’s true; the original 1.02.14 file was really a rollback file / 0.24.

Downloading again gets the real 1.02.14 prerelease.

Installing now…  and done!

The rebooting spinner will be there a LONG time, be patient.

–Feedback–

M4V support is nice, multiple audio / sub streams seems to be working now, along with FF/RW.  Still a bit glitchy in terms of how fast the movie resumes playing following FF/RW.  File will pause for a few seconds following FF/RW and up to 10 seconds sometimes following changing audio stream.  Seems to affect MP4 files too, so I guess M4V and MP4 support is the same now.  :)

Files are taking longer to open… or at least MKV files seem to.  Tried a few smaller files and it took a full 80 seconds for anything to show onscreen, which is terrible.  Tried with a full length movie MKV and same issue, delay in excess of 1 minute before film plays.  :(

Tried power cycling, made no difference.

Ironically, network access / display or network share folders seems faster than ever! 

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Hi,

So my box cannot see the update. Do I need to do anything specifically to reference the USB port ??

Thanks,

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tried mine, won’t play mkv files at all. Waited over a minute nothing, just the cycling wheel. Looks like I am going to downgrade.

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macdonm2 wrote:

Hi,

 

So my box cannot see the update. Do I need to do anything specifically to reference the USB port ??

 

Thanks,

You unzip the archive first and place the 3 files in the root.

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Comment:

Well, now you have a nice spread of font sizes :slight_smile:

That works well - of course they are still too high up on the screen, would be nice with some vertical adjustment, but I understand that is likely to come in the future :slight_smile:

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I left an MKV file “loading” for a few minutes and it did eventually play but we’re taking a lot of minutes (I forgot about it tbh and just heard it start now!).

Will play around to check out the other features but I can see myself downgrading also; solid MKV support is absolutely critical to me.  They MUST fix this before the final release.

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Yes I did that. PC can see the files no probs.

Thanks.

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First Impressions.

You must do a factory default reset once the update is through. Reason for this is that when I started I could play my films fine via the media server but when I switched to network share I could not play anything, no movies, no music, no photos, no Youtube . A software reset corrected this.

Films  - play fine. Seems a little quicker but probably placebo effect. Some seem slightly more vibrant.

Photos  -Here is the big plus. A few days a go I posted that some of my jpegs modified in photoshop would not show. RichUK thought this was due to the encoding being prgreessive. Well they display fine now.

Music  -not tested yet but I don’t play music thorugh this anyway.

Interface  -no change.

Thumbnails - sighhhhhhh

Video listing defaults to preview mode. Works well except I wish there was some way in which the preview wouild start in the middle of the film. Instead it starts from teh beginnin gwhich means you get the Fox logo or similar credits.

Youtube - seems fine. Hate Youtube for denying HD content to us. Come on WD add other services asap or allow us a way of manually adding them.

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Question for those of you saying your MKVs are loading slowly: Are you all playing them through a network share, or is anyone having problems with MKVs through USB or media servers?

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wolfmanii wrote:

tried mine, won’t play mkv files at all. Waited over a minute nothing, just the cycling wheel. Looks like I am going to downgrade.

You MUSt factory reset to solve this. I had the same problem.

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Guy_K wrote:

Question for those of you saying your MKVs are loading slowly: Are you all playing them through a network share, or is anyone having problems with MKVs through USB or media servers?

Guy,

See my comment above. As soon as I switched to network share something went wrong. But onced I factory reset I can no-longer replicate this problem. It is as if the settings I had interfered with the new firmware. Other than that it looks good and seems stable to me.

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Try doing a factory reset on your unit (after updating) if you are having problems playing files etc. - This solved a lot of issues for me in the last update that simply power cycling it didn’t

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I was trying mkv’s through network share

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wolfmanii wrote:

I was trying mkv’s through network share

    • *> Yep- You are right. This is a big bug.> Seems to trigger when playing an mkv via network share. Once you try to play such a file, firstly it cannot load it, then, once you “back” button no other files will play anywhere. A factory reset is the onmly way out.> >
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But I don’t want to reset! It screws up all my settings… *fume*

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There arn’t that many settigns to change :wink: But I know what you mean.

As I have a NAS I only use media server but this will need fixing before the final version comes out. I hope Guy from WD  is still watchin us. It is nice to see him here on this forum. I hope he stays here more.

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exactly. avi’s played ok. mkv’s would not play. Then no other viedeo would play. Will try reset as suggested.

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I’ve done a factory restart but whem playing mkvs in network share they are very slow about 30 sec’s to start , but playing from HDD plays better

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Guy_K wrote:

Question for those of you saying your MKVs are loading slowly: Are you all playing them through a network share, or is anyone having problems with MKVs through USB or media servers?

I was using Network Shares.  MKV’s play back fine via USB flash drive, instantaneously in fact.

Tried a reset via side button, no change in ability to play MKV but interface looks different (defaults to preview mode?).

Tried factory reset via interface, no change.

So not only can’t I play MKV’s over the network but now all my settings are gone.  Twice the fun!  :)

-edit-

Actually, now I can’t get any video files to play.  MKV, M4V, MP4, AVI… all now refuse to play via Network Share.

Might be a network glitch?  Things have actually gotten worse following the factory reset.

-edit 2-

OK, they will play, it just takes minutes.  This now applies to all video file formats, not just MKV.

Doesn’t seem to affect audio files… tried accessing an MP3 album via Media Server and also Network Share and both loaded equally fast.

-edit 3-

Tried playing some AVI videos via Media Server and they load up instantaneously.  Sadly, I can’t access MKV or MP4 via media server to test those.  I’m pretty sure the issue lies with Network Shares though.

-edit 4-

Bleh…  ok, spent most of the afternoon messing with this and it seems that MKV is definitely not working right.  The other file types seem to be working ok now, which is weird.  Also had an issue with playing MKV off a USB drive (same one that worked fine earlier).  Will try again later.

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“Added European language input for keyboard”

Ok, i’m not seeing this at all, how is this supposed to be appear?

Second, I can confirm the slow startup of MKV via network shares.

From I press play it took 2 minutes and 36 seconds before it started to play!