Questions regarding audio playback and external HDD compatibility. I am interested in buying the WD TV HD media player for 1080p mkv-encoded movies playback, but I have a couple of questions:1. I have an amplifier which does not have an optical input. How can I connect the WD media player to the amplifier for audio if I connect the media player to my TV via HDMI?2. I have a Samsung Story 1.5 TB external HDD. Does anyone know if it is compatible with the media player?Thank you in advance.Andrei Pavel. Questions regarding audio playback and external HDD compatibility. I am interested in buying the WD TV HD media player for 1080p mkv-encoded movies playback, but I have a couple of questions: » Read More Questions regarding audio playback and external HDD compatibility. I am interested in buying the WD TV HD media player for 1080p mkv-encoded movies playback, but I have a couple of questions:1. I have an amplifier which does not have an optical input. How can I connect the WD media player to the amplifier for audio if I connect the media player to my TV via HDMI?2. I have a Samsung Story 1.5 TB external HDD. Does anyone know if it is compatible with the media player?Thank you in advance.Andrei Pavel. « Show Less
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1) You can use the red and white (and yellow) RCA cables.2) Should work all right.
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If your TV has an HDMI input, surely it has audio outputs? If so, just connect them to your amp since the HDMI cable carries audio too. Otherwise, just connect the red and white audio outputs of the WD to your amp.
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It's a very picky player. Sometimes it does but most of the time it doesn't, and I'm not sure what the encoding requirements are to make it one of those special mp4's that will work. This player here Androset 1080P-TVBOX 1080p HD USB HDMI SD/MMC Multi TV Media Player RMVB MKV 50 (Black 1080p tv box) will though. I have both of these players and the URL I pasted is a far better player in my opinion.
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I've had my LG 570 for about 3 weeks now (got it the Saturday after Thanksgiving 2010). I had no issue having it see my USB 3.0 external hard drive box with a 2TB WD Green HD formatted in NTFS (with many folders and mkv, avi files on that HD). However, playback of files is hit and miss. MVK (high profile) files did play. Occasionally I'd see a message at the beginning "file may not properly play". The file continued to play, looked good too. DTS audio plays too. During playback, I'd see flickering. It may not occur at first but into the movie it happened (tested on many different mkv files and happens more than not). The mkv movie may also start to stutter (both in video and audio) but not until into the movie. These same mkv files play without issues using a PC or my WD Media player live plus with that same USB hard drive box. Some avi (divx 5, 6) did not play their audio. I re tried to play them and they now had audio during playback!?! I do not believe that this player is a "great" mkv player due to the repeated "flickering" issue I've experienced. If that was not present, I'd keep my LG 570 (I'm gonna return it to best buy). I've only tried 1 bluray movie, Independence Day and it played without issues until the very end where it then just stopped. I've read many have bluray playback issues with various titles on this player. After firmware upgrades, they will find that bluray movies that did play now do not. Firmware was updated on my player too (around end of November 2010) I think I'm at current level. But issues still persist.. I'm truly disappointed that this player isn't a better mkv, avi player. It'd be sweet to get one at 150.00 USD to be able to play such a range of files, disks. LG has much work to do with their players (at least this one)..
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Hello-I am desperately seeking assistance with my SA8300HD in use with my WD My DVR Expander. I have been using the expander successfully with this box for about a year and a half. Recently Time Warner "upgraded" my area (Austin, TX) with the Navigator interface. After that all seemed to be lost. I had over 150 shows recorded for future viewing all gone. Multiple calls and emails later I was given contradictory information. First I was told that the SATA port would no longer work for the expander. Today I was told that it could be used but only for storage when the dvr is full. No instructions on how to use it in that manner (to switch recordings to the expander or back again) and of course the usual TW company line about not supporting any issues with the expander. Any low tech information about how this might work or what to do would be truly appreciated. Also I just kind of tripped onto this forum while looking for information so a response to my email address would get the information to me more directly or at least point me back to this forum. I am on my phone typing this and it doesn't show me the url where I got started. Thanks so much in advance, Kathy (ksilb@austin.rr.com)
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Actually the player can be configured to play sound RAW or to downstream it to LPCM so you can hear it in a conventional stereo player like standard TVs. Bottom line, you'll have no problems with mkv dts files.
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As far as I can see, NO. Test: Source file has AAC 5.1 surround sound, played from WD TV media player through Yamaha RX475 is fine. When played through eHomeMediaCenter (Android app on IMOTO) into Sony KDL40R405, audio passthrough via optical to Yamaha amp, does not play 5.1. There are three options: 1) IMOTO does not support 5.1 2) App does not support 5.1 3) Audio passthrough does not support 5.1 Good luck
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The manual says it only supports playback of pictures from USB devices, though it lists the supported file types as JPG, DIVX, and MP3. I have never tried playing anything from a USB drive on this device, and don't know if firmware updates might have changed what is described in the manual.
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No you can't, must be external HD using the USB port. The quality is poor, the software is poor, I bought one and try to update the software and after that the HD player is not working anymore, do not buy it try another one.
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WD Media players plays just about every type of files you feed it to. It plays regular VOB or VIDEO_TS files (DVD movies) without the need of re-encoding or 'shrinking' it where you'd ended up with a movie of inferior and loss of quality. The internet app on the 'Live Plus' version is more than enough, including Netflix, Blockbuster and others.
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I have 8 3TB WD-Red Sata drives in my QNAP NAS and store 500+ movies as VOB files and also converted to MP4...I have roughly 18 TB of space and it is around half full. The VOB files play on computers with PowerDVD, while I can use DNLA to watch the MP4's which I send to my PS3 and HDMI to my TV. Yes, you can do it, it's how you do it that counts. My smart TV's don't play MP4's or VOB's by themselves. Media Player will also stream video, but I don't use it.
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I stream mkvs from a NAS all the time. It can access PC file systems too. The best part is that it will automatically retrieve movie info for those mkvs.I have no personal experience with HD audio. You can check the A-400 forum for that.
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This unit has a USB port which can be used to display your photos/movies, provided they are in a format compatible with the WD player . It won't read any other external storage device such as a hard drive on your PC. If you are watching photos/movies using the USB port, you don't have to be connected to the internet.
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I contacted Sony customer support, here is the question and response: Model : bdp-s570 Question: When will you offer firmware that will allow more video file formats mkv, m4v, mp4, m2ts, etc... to be streamed over the network connection from a DLNA media server? At this point it plays very few file types. one of the main reasons I purchased this product was to stream video over my network. Thank You Response: Thank you for contacting Sony Support. I'm sorry, but there is no update available to support the additional file formats via DLNA. I've provided a link with the information on the file types that are supported when using the DLNA feature: http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/documentLink.do?externalId=C1017936 Thank you for your time. The Sony Email Response Team
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This player has a HDMI output that includes audio, which you can connect to TV or amplifier (only one of these). It also has a red-white (only one set of red-white audio output) RCA audio output( analog audio output), which you can also use to plug into TV or amplifier (Just one of these, not both, cause there's only one output). You may want to use Y-cable if you want to plug into both. Obviously, your amplifier has to have HDMI or red-white input in order for it to work. This player also has a optical audio output. Hope this helps! http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/OPlay_Mini/#specifications This player has a HDMI output that includes audio, which you can connect to TV or amplifier (only one of these). It also has a red-white (only one set of red-white audio output) RCA audio output( analog audio output), which you can also use to plug into TV or amplifier (Just one of these, not both, cause there's only one output). You may want to use Y-cable if you want to plug into both. Obviously, your amplifier has to have HDMI or red-white input in order for it to work. This player also has a optical audio output. Hope this helps!... » Read More This player has a HDMI output that includes audio, which you can connect to TV or amplifier (only one of these). It also has a red-white (only one set of red-white audio output) RCA audio output( analog audio output), which you can also use to plug into TV or amplifier (Just one of these, not both, cause there's only one output). You may want to use Y-cable if you want to plug into both. Obviously, your amplifier has to have HDMI or red-white input in order for it to work. This player also has a optical audio output. Hope this helps! http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/OPlay_Mini/#specifications « Show Less
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I am serving files via a Synology NAS, model # DS210J. I could not view or play .MKV or M4V video files on the BD player. My solution (after many hours of hair-pulling) was to change the video file name extension from .MKV to .MPG and the 720P video files would be recognized by the Sony and play correctly. I hope this helps.
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Ah...I see. I had the Shark007 32-bit drivers installed but didn't yet have the 64-bit drivers installed. I installed the 64-bit drivers and then rebooted. I opened WMP12; however, all my mkv's are still in the "Other Media" list in WMP12. Do you know how to make WMP12 re-categorize the mkv's from "Other Media" into "Videos"?
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I tried that adapter. It fried the second i hooked it up. Decided to go another route. Western digital makes a player that will play what you want in 1080p via HDMI. And you just play your phone or device directly up to it and it also plays just about any audio and video formats from your phone or portable storage.