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| mike boss:
Not sure if there is a better section for this, so thought I would post here. I'm hoping to get some help. I have a WD TV Live that was working AWESOME, not it wont play ANY videos. I noticed however it will not play videos from my Windows Vista PC (that I recently factory restored). I then tried with my BluRay player, and same thing it shows the titles, just wont play media stored on this specific PC. With the WD TV Live I took a file that it played from another PC, but it to the Vista PC and it would not play. So I'm thinking this issue is with the PC somehow ? Sharing is enabled so that isn't it, could it be an update of sorts that I'm missing that causes this ?? For what it's worth videos are playing on the PC , but not the above mentioned sources. I am at a complete loss. Any help would be appreciated. |
| mike boss:
I should add, my WD TV Live is updated and current, and for my BluRay player I installed the required companion software also. Devices see the content on PC, but say the formats are not supported. |
| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: mike boss on January 15, 2016, 08:50:01 pm ---Devices say the formats are not supported. --- End quote --- There is your problem. Saying "video" is absurdly broad. What software created the files? What type of files are they? What format is the video? Audio? Post XP Windows dumped support for some video formats that they had to pay a licensing fee for. This is why you can't view an animated gif in windows picture viewer anymore. |
| mike boss:
But here is something odd. I never had a problem with this WD TV Live in the past. On my PC 60 files are in that folder, it played 2. But not only did it only play 2, it would not play a file one PC1 that it played from PC2. So it's having issues playing files it can play. Could this be a firewall thing ? I checked to make sure my Windows Media Player was current. Could it be a Windows update is missing ? I'm lost. |
| shponglefan:
Could it be that the Vista PC has some sort of media streaming feature turned on? IOW, it's actually converting the video format before trying to stream it? |
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