I owned a gen1 WDTV Live for about 2-3 years, and its been amazing, I have always been happy if it just works, and it has, it plays everything, but recently I noticed a few files was acting weird when fast forwarding and rewinding, for example they would freeze, and or throw me back to the home screen. One common thing with these files is they all displayed 18:18 as the runtime, now some of these files may of well been 18:18 in duration, but a lot of these files were actual movies well over 18 minutes long. Dont get me wrong, this is not a deal breaker, if I press play and leave well alone, the file plays flawlessly. Another small note, these 18:18 files seem to take about 20 - 30 seconds to start playing, where other files play right away. I am running over a wired network by the way, via ethernet, using PS3 Media Server.
I visited a forum and asked why this could happen, and many people said the same, my files must be Matroska files, or MKV files, apparently they always do this on a gen1, but I was also told the gen3 fixes this issue…I wanted to upgrade anyways as the gen3 is a lovely bit of kit.
Today I set up my new gen3, and played some of the problem files, low and behold…duration is 18:18, now thats cool, I can live with it if the video plays, which it does, but whats causing this? My main issue is when I click select to see how longs left, I can’t get a readout on anything over 18 minutes.
I hope the above makes sense to someone, and thanks in advance for any help or comments I may receive.
Here’s all the info from that program: This movie shows 18:18 as the time in the status menu when playing. =
General
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 2.73 GiB
Duration : 2h 24mn
Overall bit rate : 2 718 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-03-31 15:48:35
Tagged date : UTC 2011-03-31 15:50:18
Video
ID : 2
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=2, N=24
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 2h 24mn
Source duration : 2h 24mn
Bit rate : 2 525 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 704 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.093
Stream size : 2.54 GiB (93%)
Source stream size : 2.54 GiB (93%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2011-03-31 15:41:17
Tagged date : UTC 2011-03-31 15:50:18
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Audio
ID : 1
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 2h 24mn
Source duration : 2h 24mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : 33ms
Stream size : 193 MiB (7%)
Source stream size : 193 MiB (7%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2011-03-31 15:41:17
Tagged date : UTC 2011-03-31 15:50:18
