New Release - Firmware Version 3.01.19 for WD TV Live Hub (12/20/11)

[sztyepi]

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headhunter wrote:

Latest firmware is a nightmare! When using digital passthrough with hdmi only sound with files with dolby digital and dts.

Yep... this is BS! I have a lot of videos that has no DTS or DD sound... And with Digital Pass-Through via HDMI Only I have no sound for these files!!! What is worse is that I don't have sound for mp3 or flac files, so I can't listen to music like I did with the previous firmware! 

The only way to have sound for these type of files is to go in the Setup - Audio/Video Output - Audio Output and change the output to Stereo!

So I don't like this at all! WD please fix this ASAP!!!

[yuppicide]

Well, I did the update. Previously I was running 2.0.xx.. not totally sure what version. I had to update two different times to get to this latest version. Not sure if these problems were fixed in this update or a previous one, but:

What I like so far:
- Audio playing is now fixed. It used repeat the first track a second time, even if you pressed to skip to next track.

- YouTube works again. For some reason it stopped working out of nowhere. There's two YouTube apps now.. not sure which I like better as I haven't used them too much.

- New apps and games, although they're probably **bleep** games and I don't really use the apps. I just mainly watch movies and play music.

- When browsing from my bedroom to the living room, it's MUCH quicker. Before I'd go into my Mp3 or the Television folder and it would take 3 - 4 seconds before it opened them. Now it's instant.

- File copying seems a little quicker? Not totally sure on this one, but I think so.

What I do not like so far:

- Tried the new ComedyTime app. It froze up the first time. I had to unplug and replug in. The second time I used the app it started playing, but then crashed and restarted the WD. The third time I used the app it seems to be working fine.

- Network may not stay setup? I'm unsure of this one, but so far every time I've turned the unit on I've had to search again. I like that it has a previous connection button, though, just that so far I've needed to press it every time.

[John_Daristas]

it will be nice if WD gave us gift on christmas by making the local backdrops in the xml to display with no internet connection!

[harry-manback]

I must be doing something wrong I guess. I installed the new firmware today. But stil no thumnails on screen when a movie is selected. This is very frustrating. Especially for my children they just look at the pictures te select the movie they want to see. I can view the backdrops manually in the options menu for each movie, they also show up when the movie is selected, but this takes a few seconds to load.

This is so very frustrating. What is it that I'm doing wrong with my thumbnail viewing. I've seen that there are several meta data programs. I've tried them but none of them seems to do what I want. I just want the thumnails on my screen nothing more. Is there someone out there with the solution to my problem.

[wdtvhub]

Clear the media library.

Have Metadata set to Auto and it should check all film names and create a thumbnail and xml.

If this is not working its either an internet problem, a settings (reset to factory to clear this up, or the movies are named as such that the search crawler cannot name and create files.

If you start from default again, and maybe just have 1 film in 1 folder, try going through the motions with that. The firmware is far from perfect but some of it does work-ish.

[harry-manback]

Thanks for your tips but stil no thumbs when scrolling through my movies. Although I forgot to mention one thing. There are a view movies that have thumbs. These are movies stored in iso format in my WD the rest of my movies is in dvd format (with the video_ts and audio_ts folders). Every movie is in a seperate folder. The XML files for these iso movies are modified by myself because the thumbs for these movies are stored locally on the harddisk.

Does this mean I have te edit every XML file and put the thumnails local???

[wdtvhub]

Ah

I am sure I read someone else saying they could not get it to work with Video TS folders, that may be your problem, unless anyone knows different ?

No use to you unfortunately. So unless you create ISO files, you may have to wait for a fix, or roll back to one that worked, I am sorry I don't use DVDs on mine so I don't know which works and does not.

edit : Here it is, I knew I had seen it...

http://community.wdc.com/t5/WD-TV-Live-Hub-Issue-Reporting/OLD-BUG-Cover-art-doesn-t-show-on-DVD-str...

[harry-manback]

Aaaah. Thanks a lot.

Wel guess I'll have to do a lot of iso making then. The kids just gonna have to be a little bit patient.

Thanks again for your help.

[virgilio]

I think I have this firmware. I haven't noticed any problem with VIDEO_TS folders. They show as expected.

[Vistawall]

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Earlier John_Daristas wrote:

"it will be nice if WD gave us gift on christmas by making the local backdrops in the xml to display with no internet connection!"

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John_Daristas, 

I can confirm that WD did give us the requested Christmas Gift of yours! 

You *CAN* display the local backdrops now without having internet connection now. It works even when the Network connection is not present.

Cheers!

[Vistawall]

"it will be nice if WD gave us gift on christmas by making the local backdrops in the xml to display with no internet connection!"

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John_Daristas, 

I can confirm that WD did give us the requested Christmas Gift of yours! 

You *CAN* display the local backdrops now without having internet connection now. It works even when the Network connection is not present.

Cheers!