On the WD live TV, my personal videos on a USB drive show up in the separate folders that I have placed them in (such as "Comedy" and "Drama" and "Horror". Does this player do the same? Or are all of videos grouped together alphabetically when I access the USB drive? On the WD live TV, my personal videos on a USB drive show up in the separate folders that I have placed them in (such as "Comedy" and "Drama" and "Horror". Does this... » Read More On the WD live TV, my personal videos on a USB drive show up in the separate folders that I have placed them in (such as "Comedy" and "Drama" and "Horror". Does this player do the same? Or are all of videos grouped together alphabetically when I access the USB drive? « Show Less
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The player will allow you to browse each folder separately. Contents will be listed alphabetically within each folder.
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I can't answer that because I've never tried doing it. I would ASSUME that it functions the same way and shows you all of your folders.
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I've been a video editor for the past 30 years. These days, I tend to stick with G-Tech for my drives. But realize that EVERY drive will fail one day. It's not a matter of if, but when. So if you don't have two separate copies (preferably in different locations), it's not really backed up. :)
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I had absolutely no luck with this drive. I plugged it in to a USB port on my PC and my home theatre system and used it as a thumb drive, but I could never get the "player" portion of the drive to play. Maybe mine was faulty (?) It's in my junk drawer. It works fine as a drive but I could not get any of the buttons to work at all nor did anything show up on the screen. If you haven't purchased this, don't. If you have, I'm sorry.
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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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Yeah, it acts just like another drive. You just drag the music files over. Very simple. Great player.
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It does have a USB port.... but all the AVI & mp3 & mp4 files that i compress plays on this Phillips DVP3880K All Region player. So far there is no problem with it...& i hope it stays that way. Im waiting for my SONY DVD Burner i purchased last week & hope it arrives tomorrow. But UPS says by weeks end at the 20th of Sept. As i mentioned this player has a USB port, but never tried to use it yet to play files from another USB drive & get it recognized. Cordially, Chas.DeQ. It does have a USB port.... but all the AVI & mp3 & mp4 files that i compress plays on this Phillips DVP3880K All Region player. So far there is no problem with it...& i hope it stays that way. Im waiting for my SONY DVD Burner i purchased last week & hope it arrives tomorrow. But UPS says by weeks end at the 20th of Sept. As i mentioned this player has a USB port, but never tried to use it yet to play files from another USB drive & get it recognized. Cordially, Chas.DeQ.
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I use the 4GB flash drives to upload 1-2 GB videos to and have been pretty happy with them so far. The videos are QuickTime Movies exported from Final Cut X. The flash drives are then inserted in a western digital player and played continuously from the drives for a month. So, in short I'm asking a lot of these drives. They have been good with no issues.
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You can play movies on it, but it is hard to figure out how to do this. Let me explain. I have a USB with 127 movie files on it. I plugged it in to this IVIEW and selected USB as the source. I got the first avi file to play, but I could not figure out to access its subtitles even though the srt file name was displayed. In order to read the remaining 126 files I had to stop the film and then select the USB again. The IVIEW displayed the USB folders much faster than any other player I own. I somehow managed to access a video_ts folder and got that film to play. Again no subtitles could be accessed. When I went back to access some other film files I could not remember what buttons I pushed to view the previous film. There are no instructions from IVIEW on how to use the remote control buttons to access the various video folders. Most of the remote control buttons seem totally useless to me. I pressed every button and it kept saying "feature not available at this time" or some other negative statement. There are many options offered on the right had side of the screen display, but none of these make the film file play on the TV. One would think that selecting the folder and then pressing the PLAY button would work. No it does not. The player seems to have a good brain software with terrible operating instructions and useless remote control. This player does well with avi and other files that are burned on to discs. For my USB film files I always use my Western Digital streamer [the disc menu features work best on the streamer] or my Philips 5990/5992 dvp.
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It didn't come with a disk or anything, if that's what you mean. I just put it in the USB port and I think it did install something, but it doesn't have it's own special program or anything; my files just go into Windows Media Player.
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No, You need choose a media before goes to the next step, so if you choose Videos, you gonna see movies saved on your USB and if you choose Pictures, you gonna see your photos, for example.
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I think it has more to do with the digital frame than the drive. I would be shocked that the frame has a USB 3 port. If by some fluke it does, then this would work better, but I can't believe that it would make any difference. I copied a few video clips and songs and just tried playing them via a USB 2 port, and they played just fine without any staggering, or distortions. Again, I have to believe it's the frame, not the drive. Hope this helps. ---Kelvington
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OldAmazonian doesn't know what s/he's talking about. Yes yes and yes. It's seen as a mass storage device, just open the folder and drag the .avi files to your hard drive. Same on Win and Mac, the included software for those OSes is just bloatware in my opinion, don't need to install it.
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I'm not sure. According to the WD TV live owner's manual, the WD TV live unit looks at the format of what's on the external hard drive connected via USB.
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Creative has a a program called zencast. You paste all your feeds into it and it will put all your podcast in one folder. If your interested in vidcasts(video podcasts) it gets more complicated. The majority of these are in Ipod format(m4v) and need to be converted. Zencast does this but really slowly. More vidcasts are starting to make more formats available, and I think in a short time this should not be a problem.
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Hi Danbo,With the Audioshell I can add the album art to each .wma file, but I would also would like to see the album art for the folder. I can tell windows to add the album art to the folder and that works in windows but does not show up on the WD HD TV. I also used Audioshell to save a folder.jpg, but it also does not show up. Did you have any luck getting the album jpg to show up at the album or at the folder view using the WD HD TV? Thanks for all your help.I also tried to select a jpg for an AVI file but Audioshell or Windows did not allow that, so I don't think you can set a jpg to represent the avi file.Thanks,Marcel. Hi Danbo,With the Audioshell I can add the album art to each .wma file, but I would also would like to see the album art for the folder. I can tell windows to add the album art to the folder and that works in windows but does not show up on the WD HD TV. I also used Audioshell to save a folder.jpg, but it also does not show up. Did you have any luck getting the album jpg to show up at the album or at the folder view using the WD HD TV? Thanks for all your help.I also tried to select a jpg for an AVI file but Audioshell or Windows did not allow that, so I don't think... » Read More Hi Danbo,With the Audioshell I can add the album art to each .wma file, but I would also would like to see the album art for the folder. I can tell windows to add the album art to the folder and that works in windows but does not show up on the WD HD TV. I also used Audioshell to save a folder.jpg, but it also does not show up. Did you have any luck getting the album jpg to show up at the album or at the folder view using the WD HD TV? Thanks for all your help.I also tried to select a jpg for an AVI file but Audioshell or Windows did not allow that, so I don't think you can set a jpg to represent the avi file.Thanks,Marcel. « Show Less
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Does anyone know if you can play avi files (divx, xvid) from a USB thumb drive plugged into the front? The description just lists photos for the USB drive.
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I think the flash drive needs to be in DOS format and you also need to connect a media player device to your TV . The media player will recognise most file formats. Check if it includes the wmv format . If not, try convert it to one of those formats that it recognise first.