How To Play/rip Blu-ray/dvd Movie Or Mkv On Wdtv Hd
What we need to know first:
What we need to know first:
What's the difference between the WDTV HD, the WDTV Live and the Live+?
The main functional difference between the WDTV HD and the WDTV Live and WDTV Live Plus is that the Live and Live Plus are capable of connecting to a network (and the Internet) for media playback, whereas the WDTV HD has no networking capability and only plays media from attached USB devices.
Video formats that WDTV HD supports
Thats only part of the issue. AVI, MKV, M2TS, etc. are only containers. They are not video formats. An AVI file could contain QuickTime Video (which is supported), or it could contain DV streams, which are not supported. An MKV could contain AVC (which is supported) or WMV2 (which is not.) Each container can also carry multiple audio types, not all of which are supported by the WDTV. See How to Re-encode below.
How to Re-encode video for WDTV HD
If you have a file that is not supported or causes playback issues on the WDTV, consider Re-encoding them using a program such as Pavtube
Video Converter. This video converter supports a large number of input file types, and software is available for Windows and Mac. Import the file into the video converter, select the WDTV preset, and output to MKV using h.264 video.Try the resulting MKV file on the WDTV. If the bit rate is still too high, you can try increasing the "Frame rate" factor to numbers higher than 22. Quality will be degraded as the Frame rate as increased, but so will the required bandwidth. A side benefit of re-encoding is that the resulting files will often be significantly smaller than the source media with no noticeable loss of quality.
I have some MKV files that the WDTV doesn't play. Either there's video but no audio, or it won't...
The Matroska specification allows for a form of compression called "Header Removal," that before recently was rarely encountered. The WDTV players do not support this form of compression, and may not give an error if its encountered.
Recent versions of the popular
Video Converter (which is used to transcode video filies) turn this feature ON by default on audio and certain video tracks.
Certain MKV files will not be playable. Further, if an attempt is made to play such a file, it may render the WDTV unable to play ANY video files after that. The main symptom of this is that the screen just goes black, without the On-Screen-Display that usually appears when a file starts playing. You may also notice when browsing videos, that the name of the .mkv that had the header compression, is displayed at the top of the browser, as if it was an audio file playing in the background while you browse your media.
To recover from this condition, perform all the steps outlined in Section 1G and either delete or re-mux any compressed header .mkv files.
I have many Blu-ray and DVD disc collection, and I wanna to put these Blu-ray/DVD movies onto WDTV for playback, how...
Blu-ray movies have a great performance in HD movies playback, and Blu-ray discs are very popular now in our daily life. We just need a ripping tool to rip Blu-ray to mkv or m2ts for WDTV HD. Google has many good Blu-ray Ripper such as this
Blu-ray Ripper. Load Blu-ray/DVD disc onto the Blu-ray Ripper, choose "WDTV" perset and start conversion from Blu-ray/DVD to WDTV supported format. The Blu-ray to WDTV converter features supporting all the versions of Blu-ray discs(Mkb v19) and high output quality.
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