Comments on: WD TV Live High Definition Media Player

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:05:26 +0000

How does your playon work with the new firmware. Mine doesn;t seem to be working any longer…..

By: Kraw

Kraw — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:23:18 +0000

This works great with my WHS. No problems playing straight DVD rips as vob or mkv

By: Maverick

Maverick — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:59:15 +0000

Yestarday I tried to watch a bluray movie format with a high bitrate about 50Mbit/s ~6MB/s from shares folders and the video was working in frames … can somebody tell me which is the problem … is from de player it's hardware limited ? shoud i use the option Media Server ? Thank you.

By: Federico

Federico — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:14:40 +0000

The Box can easely read Share folders: need to enable Guest Account, and plays almast all video formats in full HD (1080p) with multiple subtitles and audio. Best experince with MKV.
But there are many bugs !
Since last firmware Network connectivity is improved but still may bugs !
So is you are, like me, willing to loose some patience and time on it, is definetely the best media box available.

By: JDizzy

JDizzy — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:32:18 +0000

I am running Wild Media Server and this little box can play most anything!
By itself, I wasn't impressed with using network shares, but once I used server software to interface between it and my media I was sold.

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:47:59 +0000

And if you did create User: WD-TV-Live, then how do you set the password on the WD?

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:46:02 +0000

When I try to create such user "WD-TV-Live!" I am told that it cannot contain "!". Did you use ! or not?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:41:32 +0000

I own a WD TV Live and that little box is amazing for what it costs (I paid more for AnyDVD HD which is also great but bought it after I got this little guy).

I'm now looking to run Tversity on WHS for use with the WD TV Live… Anyone able to share any how-to's or links with experience?

By: Jmat

Jmat — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:19:07 +0000

Can you share how you created your account to work on the WHS? I keep on getting booted off the network when trying to connect to shared drives on the media share for my server.

By: man friday

man friday — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:20:56 +0000

my experience, can connect to WHS as media server but not as network share, to me this is key as with media server connection it cannot see MKV files only if connected as Network Share. Since the latest firmware 012, no network share connection found. without the ability to play MKV it is no better than the D Link DSM 520 it replaced. If the $119 purchase price is no problem then go for it, I would but a second unit if this is resolved but not befire then

By: buckey29

buckey29 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:39:34 +0000

I purchased a WD TV Live, use PlayOn for streaming hundreds of shows and movies and have cancelled my cable (ATT Uverse actually).

This is a great unit. If they add plug-in support it would be better but works great when used with PlayOn or Tversity.

By: GMCinema

GMCinema — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:00:58 +0000

This box rocks. Finally plays all my MKV's flawlessly from my WHS server. I've given it it's own account: User: WD-TV-Live! It smokes my iBOX Z400W which cost 3x (ok has WiFi n).