Hi, before buying i want to know some things about the live hub.
So it is said the Live Hub has a Gigabit Port. That means that it’s better than transfering movies over Ethernet (1000MBits) than USB (480MBits), right? Can someone confirm? How does it work? FTP? Samba? NFS?
So I have a few ripped Bluray mkv’s with DolbyTrueHD. Does the WD TV Live Hub support DolbyTrueHD?
Can I put my USB Flashstick in the USB Port and copy Movies and other files directly with the remote and without my computer?
Is it possible to connect the WDTVLH to a computer with USB directly as a mass storage?
Did you post this from a Firefox 4 beta / nightly by any chance? Very hard to read with all the duplicated paragraphs! ;)
Gigabit Ethernet is mainly a marketing ploy. Yes, the unit has it and it works but transfer speeds are limited by other factors (slow processing speed of the unit perhaps). In Anandtech’s Hub review, I believe they never got past 12MB/sec during transfer tests.
Dolby TrueHD is a bit of a grey area. On the Live/Plus, some people report it working in M2TS containers. Others claim it works “sometimes”. Others claim it doesn’t work at all. I don’t have a suitable AVR to test using the Hub but perhaps Tony or someone else can. I can say with some certainty that Dolby TrueHD won’t work in an MKV container.
USB Flash Drives (and external USB HDDs) can plug directly into the Live Hub and either auto-sync to a folder or you can manually move files into a folder of your choosing.
Direct USB connection of a Hub to a PC is not possible. The Hub will sit on a network and function as a NAS whilst turned on and also whilst in standby, so if you have many files to transfer, it can be done overnight with the Hub in a low-power state.
Hopefully that answers your questions. If you have any more or want clarification on anything, just ask. :)
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Dang it, Tony beat me to it. Curse my slow, cold fingers. :(
The Firefox 4 Beta 7 is great for most things but the Lithium forum software seems to hate it. :D
Yup. You get 923GB usable space on the internal 1TB drive. It would take about 21 hours to fill it in one session, assuming you / it could sustain 12MB/sec. Over a pretty strong wireless N network, I’ve never cracked more than 8MB/sec and the best I’ve ever sustained was a little over 7MB/sec (~36 hours if I wanted to fill it).
Having said that, if you’re just shifting files over to it over time in small batches, the transfer speeds are adequate.
A better solution could be a external hard disk with USB3/eSATA and WD TV Live (the old one). But on second thoughts… when I have copied the movies once they will remain there and I have no need to copy them again. So I can take it. So whats with HTTP Downloads or Torrent? Something possible? How does Facebook work. Is there a Screenshot/Video?
