I have what may be a simple question or a complex one…
I have the WD TV Live Hub. It’s great. I have been playing my ripped DVDs from its hard drive. This are not ISO rips–they’re folders (Video_TS, etc). Works like a charm.
Tonight, I bought a WD TV Live and hooked it up in another room. It is connected via ethernet. Between it and the WD TV Live Hub are a few hubs and stuff, but it has no trouble seeing the WD hub and connecting to it. The new device and WD hub are both fully up-to-date on firmware.
My problem is that the new device won’t play the DVD folders as DVDs. It doesn’t understand that there are menus and stuff. I checked the settings and DVD menus is on.
I called WD support and the guy said that the hub streams video and so DVDs in folder structures won’t act like DVDs. He said I need to convert the DVDs to other formats. I had hoped to avoid this.
So, my question is simple, is this true? Will the WD TV Live NOT play ripped DVDs from the WD TV Live Hub?
It also depends on how you’re connecting to the Hub.
If you’re running TWONKY on the hub, and thus connecting to the Hub from the other WD as a “Media Server,” then yeah, menus and stuff won’t work. You’ll just be seeing the VOB files.
Since you “just bought” another box, you probably bought the WDTV Live Streaming Media Player, not the Live / Live+ that’s the subject of this forum.
In any case, you can also add the Hub’s “share” as part of the Media LIbrary on the SMP and DVD will work fine in that case.
This only works if the media is directly connected to the player (e.g., a USB drive). Otherwise, it plays through the folder treating everything as a separate video and doesn’t treat the menus as menus.
richUK wrote:
Try by pressing play on the VIDEO_TS folder (do not enter the folder). I assume that you are connecting via network shares.
I hate to presume too much upon your time, but could you explain a bit more? This is the device I just bought: **WDBHG70000NBK. **It is the “WD TV Live” device. > I added the hub to the media library on the WD TV Live, but it doesn’t seem to have made a difference. I know Twonky is running, but I don’t really know anything about it. Should I turn it off?> I hate to ask you to do a lot of typing, but if you know where I could find something step-by-step, I would really appreciate it. As I mentioned, I tried calling WD support, but they were not particularly helpful.
TonyPh12345 wrote:
It also depends on how you’re connecting to the Hub.
If you’re running TWONKY on the hub, and thus connecting to the Hub from the other WD as a “Media Server,” then yeah, menus and stuff won’t work. You’ll just be seeing the VOB files.
Since you “just bought” another box, you probably bought the WDTV Live Streaming Media Player, not the Live / Live+ that’s the subject of this forum.
In any case, you can also add the Hub’s “share” as part of the Media LIbrary on the SMP and DVD will work fine in that case.
richUK wrote:
As Tony says what WD player do you have and what firmware is installed. How are you playing the files via the network.
I answered some of this in a reply I just made seconds ago, but to answer you directly, it is the
WD TV Live HD Media Player ( WDBHG70000NBK) with firmware 1.12.14.
As for how I am watching media, I go to Video then Media Shares and select the Hub. It comes up and I can see all the DVD folders. Pressing "Play" after selecting a folder leads to a message saying there is no playable content in the folder. If I instead dig down to the Video-TS folder, it will play the contents--though not as a DVD (so, no menus).
Now, I was just tinkering with it some more and I found out that, if I use the "dashboard" (blue button), and select the DVD folders from that interface, it WILL play them as DVDs. I guess this is because it is using the Media Library function, but I dunno. My concern here is that there doesn't seem to be an option of ALL videos. There's favorites, new, recently watched, and queue, but nothing for ALL videos. So, though this seems to get things to play, I am worried that it is not a complete solution.
Thanks for the reply. Ok, so going to Network Shares does allow the DVDs to play with working menus…buuuut now there’s a new problem. The audio cuts out after a few seconds. Siiigh.> I’ll go to the correct forum and try to figure it out. Thanks again for all your help.
richUK wrote:
First of all you have the gen3 Live Streaming player so you should be posting on the link below.
