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...
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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 only choose the the video option when I want to browse or search all video files on my hard drive. To create,move, rename or play the file folders containing my different subsets of videos, I choose the all media/file manager at the home screen.
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I have set up a few of these drives for users. In some cases I installed the WD softwares, but in others I did not, depending on the user and his needs. For my personal drive I just plug it in to a USB port and use it as I would any other physical, virtual or cloud storage device. I never installed the software.
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not exactly. It will only play items in the current folder that is open if you choose to open a folder rather than choose to play by either music or movies. IE: From the main menu you can choose movies, music, photos or folder. If you choose movies, it will play all the movie type filess on your drive one after the other (avi, mpeg, mkv etc.) If you choose music, it will play all the music type files (mp3, wav, wma, etc.) if you choose folder, it will play all the file types shown in that folder, but will not play anything in a sub folder.
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I formatted a thumb-drive as Linux EXT4 format and copied a 500MB Mpeg-4 video to the drive. I unmounted it from my Linux system and plugged the drive into my Chromebook 14-Q USB3 port (on the left edge). When I did that a "file browser" opened up and it showed the file listing of my video. When I double-clicked on the MP4 file the video played with audio. I was very pleasantly surprised. Depending on your storage media format and your video recording format, your mileage may vary. Good luck!
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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 I didn't. There are many format options for .avi and .mp4 videos. I used a video converter to try to find what was compatible; now I can't remember, as I lost interest soon after. I only display photo images now, and for that it's fine.You can have multiple 'albums' by placing each on a separate flash card. Using a typical USB multi-format reader with a card in each of 4 or more slots, plus the DP's own slots, you can select collections from quite a few sources.
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I have not used that drive, but I have used a Western Digital 3TB USB 3.0 drive with no problem at all. No problem playing any format video that I have come across with the player.
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On issue #1, I don't know about O-Play and Brite Tube (am interested in knowing the answer myself); but I can confirm that WD-TV Live does indeed expose any connected USB disks as a nas drive for computers on your network.
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Wouldn't it be great if WD published such clear comparisons! Here are a few differences from what I can tell - I'm sure there are more: 1. No netflix on this one 2. Default UI is a little different with favorite tiles showing up by default rather than scrolling options across the bottom 3. I can stream content to this one from other devices which is a little nifty. I don't think the old one did this but maybe so. 4. I can't set my favorite .jpg as the background on this one - previous one supported this. I'm sure there are other things.
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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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Yes...sorta. Organizing content into folders (and just dropping those folders onto the player) is the whole reason I have bought Phillips GoGear players in the past. Most brands won't let you do that. But, this player has a basic software problem of not being able to alphabetize the folders. That may be a Windows 8.1 compatibility issue---I don't know.
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Its fast and easy to play content from an external HDD with the WD TV Live. I've other issues with it but if this is your purpose to have one: yes, it's a good equipment using a USB 3.0 connection. I did not use no USB 2.0 external HDD, then, for this I can't help you.
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The sorting of files/folders was also discussed with customer service at KDLinks. I pointed this out to them and they claim that they will address it in a future firmware upgrade. I also pointed out that each time a new dvd .iso file is played, the Subtitle function seems to be "On" by default and it was suggested that they default subtitling to "Off". Hope this helps.
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The recorded files are stored securely. To view them, go to "Video Player", press "OK", the unit should show "No files!". Hold down on the two "VOL" buttons (VOL-/&lt;&lt;I and VOL+&gt;&gt;I) for more than 3 seconds, the unit will read recorded videos and a list of videos will show up. Use the two VOL buttons to select the one you want to play. Please let us know if this helps. Thank you.
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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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hello and thanks for your question and yes you will be able to add your files to the hard drive from your computer just make sure you turn on media sharing and that your computer picks up the micca player if you dont see it listed in devices do a rescan of devices as i just tested it my self and it worked