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What format are the drives you are trying to get it to see?
Categories: Hard Drives / Storage
Anyone able to get network shared media drives to show up on a WDTV Live player?
How is it done?
The WDTV2L sees both PC and Macs on the network - but cannot see my shared HDDs.
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We just got a brand new WDTV 2 Live and our live/active Dockstar's Samba share does NOT SHOW UP! Mac & PCs do, but no NAS/SMB.
This same SMB share is working perfectly on the LAN with an AppleTV1 using XBMC., and can also stream to Macs, PCs, iPad and phones.
What needs to be done to get the WDTV2L to wake up and see it?
(Also keeping in mind the current Dockstar setup is working great for the AppleTV1/XBMC and need both to work).
(I'm just hoping that once this is figured out - the WDTV2L will be able to play our very very large library of M4V/H.264 files without having to convert them to anything.)
March 9, 2012 4:24 PM
For file playback over a SMB network share, the drive format shouldn't really matter, but I've tried both HFS and NTFS with no difference.
This question is many months old however - I ended up working around the issue by installing PS3 Media Server on my Mac (OSX Lion).
As a result I'm now streaming from external local drives to the WDTVLS. (The version 2 WDTV is also called Live Streaming - LS). I could theoretically stream from the Dockstar/Pogoplug box/drives but this configuration takes that extra routing out of the equation, and works well.
FWIW with this setup, in addition to my M4V library, I can play EyeTV3 recordings directly on the WDTVLS with no conversion via the PS3 Media Server. That gives me the equivalent of an extra Dual Tuner Tivo on the Mac/network - with no fees.
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