Comments on: Help us, help you: Suggestions for improving Western Digital’s WD TV HD Media Player

By: Norberto

Norberto — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:16:54 +0000

Yes, please! Add thumb nail support for videos. I have a Sony HD camcorder. I was able to get the videos recognized by the WD TV, but a list of 1000+ file names, with no image or even date reference, is just impossible to navigate. Please fix this! thanks.

By: ronen

ronen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:54:06 +0000

i have a wd tv media player
i dont have voice in mkv moves?
can some one help me?

By: Stavros

Stavros — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:19:08 +0000

I just bought one of these and I like it with one HUGE exception:
I have a relatively large collection of movies encoded and contained in divx with embedded subtitles.

The otherwise nice WD HD TV box plays them without the subtitles and I could not find a way around that yet.

To me, this is weird:
Even my 55$ no name 3 years old divx player with an usb port does that…

By: C3cccc

C3cccc — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:29:08 +0000

WDTV is not bad but it would be much better if it recognised and played FLV files and all ASF files ( It only shows a zero timeline). I have the most current firmware.

By: CCC

CCC — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:46:30 +0000

it would be nice if it would play FLV and asf( it says it will play these file but not a single one of my ASF files play).

Western Digital said that they couldn’t get a license to play FLV files.

By: Defender

Defender — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:00:08 +0000

It would be great if they put support for DV format from DV camcorders, so I could copy avi from miniDV cassete to hard disk and watch it without compression on my HD TV through WD TV player.

By: Lash LaRue

Lash LaRue — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:13:03 +0000

I noticed that DIVX is not on the list of supported formats but I have been playing DIVX movies from 5 years ago and DIVX movies made from the latestest codec and they ALL play perfectly. Since DIVX works just fine why arent they on the supported list or is this a fluke and suddeny when divx.com comes out with a new codec the new movies will suddenly not work?

I absolutely love this device!!!

By: James

James — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:57:16 +0000

I love this thing, but it does need some sort of visualizer for music and an update so I can have audio to most of my MKV files. So many of them are unsupported. I’d say about 80% of my MKV’s have unsupported audio.

By: henno

henno — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:42:23 +0000

I too would love that.

MP3 playback is a bit sluggish IMO. Skipping to the next song does take a milli second or so too long.

By: roy

roy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:57:34 +0000

One fatal problem: photos slideshow usually take more than 10 seconds for one picture change to another. So slow! Such a time consuming. Your will be tired just to look 2-3 pictures!
Hope a new firmware will solve this problem.

By: Mario

Mario — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:29:39 +0000

Option during playback – adjust to screen.

Fix the stutter in playback with some files like mp4.

Play MKV files with digital surround sound.

Play simple OGM files

Have a search option for all files. what i mean with this is a funcion to search scenes with all files.

Hope they could fix all these things with a new firmware

By: Sven Pendergast

Sven Pendergast — Sun, 24 May 2009 09:45:42 +0000

Many of us have own DV movies. I’d appreciate support for DV-AVI files.

By: MarkB

MarkB — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:05:56 +0000

Hi all

I really like this unit. I only have a couple of suggestions for future firmware upgrades.

I do get some stuttering/jittering on some video files and I am not sure what causes this. Some other site suggested global motion compensation or lack of it in the unit causes this?

The other issue is that when the unit is in Auto mode for video resolution my Samsung LCD keeps losing signal when using HDMI. I have the Samsung LA32A550 and LA46A550 models.

I hope some of these issues are addressed in the next firmware release.

Cheers

By: WD TV: New 1.02.07 firmware update released : Boilr

WD TV: New 1.02.07 firmware update released : Boilr — Sat, 02 May 2009 07:00:35 +0000

[...] includes a number of major (highly anticipated and requested) feature [...]

By: victoria

victoria — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:45:38 +0000

i just got mine. i have not tried all features yet, but i would love to be able to browse the folder display thumbnail with the art.

By: sifromerie

sifromerie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:10:22 +0000

Reformat the drive as NTFS. Fat32 does not allow files over 4gb…..on any drive..

By: sifromerie

sifromerie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:03:46 +0000

I third that…

And Thumbnail support please!!!

By: erty

erty — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:59:23 +0000

1. Fix subtitles timings they are a little bit off( they are late)
2. The or italics on subtitles are not used they only appear as that making them anoyying.
3. Ability to sort movies by name or any other way, or avility to check off the files that you have already played.
4. Search feature to find files by name

By: jjck

jjck — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:40:13 +0000

I bought a WD My Book ext. drive to go with the WD HD Mediaplayer but when I try to copy MKV movies of a size about 4.5 G (standard size for HD movie) I get a warning that there’s not enough room on the hard drive (not true) Anyone one else have the same problem or any ideas about what to do (other than convert files to avi which kind of defeats the object of having a HD player) ?

By: spacefly

spacefly — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:32:05 +0000

Being able to change aspect ratio on-the-fly or from the option button etc. would be useful rather than going back to settings to do it.