Is anyone able to shed any light on why my WDTV is not discovering/listing large video files through the Media Player?
I recently ripped my DVD collection to .mp4 and have everything sat on a NAS. The WDTV is picking up every file through the Media Player and listing meta data without issue.
I’ve just started on my Blu-ray collection and for some reason the Media Player will not pick up these .mp4s, though I can browse directly to them from the WDTV and they play no problem.
Is there a limitation with large file types or something else I’m missing? The Blu-ray rips are circa 8GB. The WDTV has latest firmware.
I’m noit understanding what you mean by “for some reason the Media Player will not pick up these .mp4s, though I can browse directly to them from the WDTV and they play no problem.”
The WDTV *is* the media player. So what are you saying is NOT picking them up?
Sorry, not very clear I realise! To clarify, the WDTV my media library function is not indexing the large blu-ray rip mp4 video files, but I am able to browse to the files location through the WDTV and play them. All the smaller dvd rip mp4 video files have been indexed by my media library successfully.
Ok, that makes more sense.
There’s no size limitation that I’m aware of… I have files larger than 40GB that have no problem being found and added to My Media Library.
After you added these larger movies, did you RESCAN the media library?
Go the the parent folder on the WDTV, press OPTIONS – RESCAN.
Also, make sure you don’t have the FILTER set to some mode where it might be excluding the new movies. For example, set it to FOLDER view.
No joy unfortunately, rescanning the parent folder didn’t work and there’s no filters in place that would prevent the file showing. To test this and confirm not a permissions issue I added a new (small mp4 file) to the same folder as the Blu-ray rip which appeared in media library when I rescanned. Any other ideas anyone?
Just as a test and something different to try … try Remuxing the MP4 to MKV
(using MKVmerge GUI … included in the MKVtoolNix install package)
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnix
You won’t lose any Video/Audio Quality … it will just repack the file into a different container (MKV)
i don’t know what the problem is … but it’s worth trying a few different things (just to see what happens … if anything) 
Apologies for the delayed response, have only just had opportunity to try this…
Remuxing to MKV did the trick!
Media Library found the file instantly and added it to the library without any issue. I wonder if there is a file size limitation on .mp4 after all?
Trickadero wrote: I wonder if there is a file size limitation on .mp4 after all?
not that i’m aware of … i would be inclined to blame it on the MP4 bug in the latest firmwares.
