WDTV Live Plus Limited Public Beta 1.03.39_B (9/9/10)

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Attention WD TV Live Users,

We are pleased to offer another limited public beta WD TV product update to make your viewing experience better than ever.  We are limiting this to the first few hundred people who download it.  Feel free to install it, but be aware this is beta firmware that we are still testing, so use it at your own risk.  Please post your experiences to this thread.  Do not contact customer support for issues found with this firmware. 

WD TV Live Plus Firmware Limited Public Beta Release: 
http://wdc.com/wdtvliveplus_limitedpublicbetarelease/

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I cant install it! Tried with 2 different usb´s, but its a no go.

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You don’t have a Live PLUS, do you?   All your other posts are with respect to the LIVE, not the Live Plus.

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YOU are very right! Didnt notice the PLUS thingy :slight_smile: Thanks

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Just so everybody understands:

This is for the LIVE PLUS only and will not work with the LIVE.

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MKV audio still doesn’t work.  I’ve seen in other threads where some users report it fixing there problem but not in my case.  I have both a WD TV Live and a WD TV Live Plus.  The WD TV Live plays all of the MKV files without any issues, the Plus version plays them without any sound.  Other file formats are ok.

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Can you please provide either sample files that exhibit this problem or Mediainfo for the problem files? 

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Guy_K wrote:

Can you please provide either sample files that exhibit this problem or Mediainfo for the problem files? 

If its the compression issue Mediainfo won’t help - it just decrompresses the headers but doesn’t  tell you it has done so.

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Right, if it’s a question on HEADER COMPRESSION being present or not, MKVINFO is the tool to use, part of the Matroska Toolset.

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Here is the Medio Info for a file that doesn’t play audio after upgrading WD TV Live Plus.  This same file plays without issue on WD TV Live running last official release firmware  Let me know if I can provide anything else

Format                           : Matroska

File size                        : 729 MiB

Duration                         : 1h 44mn

Overall bit rate                 : 974 Kbps

Writing application              : HandBrake 0.9.4

Video

ID                               : 1

Format                           : AVC

Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec

Format profile                   : Main@L3.0

Format settings, CABAC           : Yes

Format settings, ReFrames        : 2 frames

Muxing mode                      : Container profile=Unknown@3.0

Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC

Duration                         : 1h 44mn

Bit rate                         : 506 Kbps

Width                            : 718 pixels

Height                           : 356 pixels

Display aspect ratio             : 2.35:1

Original display aspect ratio    : 2.35:1

Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps

Color space                      : YUV

Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0

Bit depth                        : 8 bits

Scan type                        : Progressive

Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.083

Stream size                      : 379 MiB (52%)

Writing library                  : x264 core 79

Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=2 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=hex / subme=6 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=2 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=0 / wpredp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=20.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Language                         : English

Color primaries                  : BT.601-6 525, BT.1358 525, BT.1700 NTSC, SMPTE 170M

Transfer characteristics         : BT.709-5, BT.1361

Matrix coefficients              : BT.601-6 525, BT.1358 525, BT.1700 NTSC, SMPTE 170M

Audio

ID                               : 2

Format                           : AC-3

Format/Info                      : Audio Coding 3

Mode extension                   : CM (complete main)

Codec ID                         : A_AC3

Duration                         : 1h 44mn

Bit rate mode                    : Constant

Bit rate                         : 448 Kbps

Channel(s)                       : 6 channels

Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE

Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz

Bit depth                        : 16 bits

Stream size                      : 335 MiB (46%)

Language                         : English

Text

ID                               : 3

Format                           : UTF-8

Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8

Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text

Language                         : English

General
Format : Matroska
File size : 729 MiB
Duration : 1h 44mn
Overall bit rate : 974 Kbps
Writing application : HandBrake 0.9.4
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@3.0
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 44mn
Bit rate : 506 Kbps
Width : 718 pixels
Height : 356 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Original display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.083
Stream size : 379 MiB (52%)
Writing library : x264 core 79
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=2 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x1:0x111 / me=hex / subme=6 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=2 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / wpredb=0 / wpredp=2 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=20.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Color primaries : BT.601-6 525, BT.1358 525, BT.1700 NTSC, SMPTE 170M
Transfer characteristics : BT.709-5, BT.1361
Matrix coefficients : BT.601-6 525, BT.1358 525, BT.1700 NTSC, SMPTE 170M
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1h 44mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 335 MiB (46%)
Language : English
Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language : English
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As they said, please provide info using MKVINFO, which will show us if the header info is compressed or not.

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It won’t be…  It was authored with Handbrake which doesn’t do that…  

I’m going to hazard a guess that your Live is set to STEREO, but your PLUS is set to DIGITAL, and your receiving device doesn’t support Dolby 5.1.

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Success!!!  That was exactly the issue.  The television that the Plus is on apparently doesn’t support digital, the one the Live is on does.  Thanks for the quick responses.   Rock On.  

Moderator, feel free to remove my postings as they appear to not be related to the upgrade.

Thanks again.

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What about for us vanilla Live users?  Aren’t we getting a beta update as well?

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Gee, Jackster!   Impatient, aren’t we?  :)

Heck, the Live has had THREE betas in the last 3 months.   This is a first for the Plus.  :)

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Thanks here from Argentina :smiley:

I will tell you if i come up with any issue

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Jackster wrote:

What about for us vanilla Live users?  Aren’t we getting a beta update as well?

It will come – they wanted to get this beta out for the Plus quickly to see if it can fix some of the many Netflix issues (the MKVMerge is actually very secondary to all this, but will be in the next firmware update for the Live, I’d take to the bank).

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I can confirm the Netflix frame rate issue has been fixed. Everything looks good now.

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mkelley wrote:

 

Jackster wrote:

What about for us vanilla Live users?  Aren’t we getting a beta update as well?

It will come – they wanted to get this beta out for the Plus quickly to see if it can fix some of the many Netflix issues (the MKVMerge is actually very secondary to all this, but will be in the next firmware update for the Live, I’d take to the bank).

 

I’m eagerly anticipating!

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TonyPh12345 I’ll be more impatient to get a final delivery for the wd tv live that fixes usefull issues/ideas submitted but I think now it will never comes (last one is from March …).