Rewind in WD is slow. Should be an option 30, 60 and 90 second skip on remote control.

Hi,

 

the way we can zoom and pan when video are displayed is great. But one key feature is mising to be able to change the video playing ratio. it would be great to be able to select to play the video in real size, in full screen, in fit-to-screen or full screen with original ratio (the same way you can select the display format with windows media center). Most of the movie are in a different ratio than 16:9 and when the wd live streaming play them, it adds black area on top and bottom. If we zoom, we lose part of the image on the right and left. Changing the ratio should modify the video display but it could extend the video size to its maximum and fully cover the screen.

thanks

 

Lionel

In the Netherlands a lot of people use Uitzending Gemist, which is the ability to watch back TV shows that aired on the 3 Dutch public broadcasting channels (Nederland 1, 2 and 3). They have an API here.

 

Please build in support for this.

Please Add Gapless Audio Playback its a must and it would make WD TV the only option for media playback

I'm not sure how possible this is, but I would love to see some kind of progress percentage when the media player is compiling the media library. Thanks for considering this.

Hello,

Loving the the new WDTV 2011 model.  Plays everything...

But one feature I noticed that is absence is the skip forward and back via the left and right arrows on the remote.  I had this option on the AC Ryan's...

Please advise if this as well as external DVD drive support is due soon...


Thanks.

Would be nice if there was an auto setting for daylight savings time so I don't have to turn DST on and off manually.

Dear users,

What do you think about IMDB or rottentomatoes rating in your movie collections on WD TV? It would be great to know movieratings by cliking on remote control or it could be displayed next to the file name. 

Best regards

Maciej

im in the uk and it be great to catch up on my fav shows instead of downloading them.

so all the uk catch up services

BBC iPlayer

ITV Player

4oD

5 on demand

Please make a digital clock an option as a screensaver.  This is an option with Roku, and I found it to be quite useful.  Other screensaver options, like current weather, would be a welcome addition to the current options.

Each time a different song starts, the screensaver searches the folder that the song is located in and shows pictures relevant to the artist or album for that song.

 

What you would see happen:

 

-Song starts and the now playing screen shows you the current song information for x number of seconds. During this time the screensaver is searching the folder for .jpg files.

 

-The screensaver starts and shows the pictures from that folder for the duration of the song.

 

-At the end of the song, the screensaver stops showing now playing screen again.

 

-Next song starts playing and screensaver searches new song folder for .jpg files and plays them after x number of seconds.

 

I currently edit me XML files so that my films show up alphabetically.

 

So, 'An American Werewold in London' becomes  'American Werewold in London, An', whilst 'Das Boot' becomes 'Boot, Das' and 'The Birds' becomes 'Birds, The'.

 

So, all of my films now appear in the correct place alphabetically, but let's face it, some of them just don't look right.

 

Any chance these terms can be ignored when sorting alphabetically?

 

Steve W

Hi!

 

This idea is something that has been brought up in the regular forum but I cannot find it in the ideas section. It is an incredibly simple concept that involves adding an extra option to the filter section (green button). As we use the filter option when viewing "My Media Library" we have the option to see all media or only TV shows (among others).

 

The option when viewing only tv shows is perfectly made where every tv show shows up as one entry where you can enter and browse seasons and so on. However, when using filter mode "All" this function seems corrupt/missing which shows every single episode as a single entry in the list.

 

If we take one of the most popular tv shows, LOST , as an example, it has 121 episodes covering 6 seasons. So if I have ALL episodes of this show, it will take up 121 slots on the list before you reach the next entry when viewing "All". This fact, coupled with the fact that there is no current way to filter for movies only, makes it a nightmare for someone who has a Media Library full of movies AND tv shows.

 

So in summarizing the idea, I propose an additional filter setting that allows us to only show Movies so that we can separatetly view them from TV Shows.

 

Thank you in advance!

I  keep all my movies and TV shows in separate folders. The movie folders may well contain more than just the movie, but trailers as well. The TV series folder will contain episodes for that series When in Gallery view I would like to see the backdrop picture change for each folder that I view, so it can show a picture associated with that series, just like it does for the video files within the folder. i.e. would like to display associated backdrops for folder.

If the player gets power after being disconnected it unfortunately boots up automatically. That's annoying as most of the time this is not needed or intended. To save power i use a master and slave power plug. But due to its booting behaviour, it's always on and wasting energy. It should boot only if i press the power button on remote control.

Please add the ability to mark Samba shares and media servers as favorites for quick access in the dashboard.

 

Also, when the media library for NAS is finally put in place, be allow the favorite functionality to extend to this media library just as it does for attached storage.

It would be nice to have "Crackle" and other "free" videos other than "You Tube".

I bought the Sony SMP-N100 and liked the "free" videos/apps (Crackle) including the "free" Indie movies (forgot what the App was called).

I returned the Sony since it wasn't really able to play MKV files which it said on the specs that it could (it actually couldn't).

DLNA for the Sony was also nice and smooth. If only the Sony could have played my MKV files, then I would have kept it!

Facebook is a nice addition to the WD TV Live Streaming Media Player although with no support yet for "HTTPS" protocol.

I thought  my unit was broken since it can't view any photos on Facebook..it was all a matter of "HTTPS" to "HTTP" swtiching of my account settings. 

I have a number of SHOUTcast Radio streams that are not listed in the SHOUTcast Yellow pages. Could you add the ability to connect to any stream by manually entering its URL?

 

A preset or favorite list could be used to store the list of these custom URLs for easy re-connection.

 

It is great to see support for SHOUTcast in the new WD TV Live and the custom URL's will make the WD TV able to stream any stream, unlike the competitive boxes that lack AAC+