Movies in slow motion over network, Can start OK but soon cahnges to no sound & slow Options

[KiwiG]

I have a new WD TV Live plus which upgraded its firmware as it first connected to the internet over a Cisco USB WiFi adaptor(dual band) plugged into the WDTV, connected wirelessly to my D-Link router and cable modem to internet.
If I run a movie off the local USB (to WDTV) it runs fine.
The same movie running on the WDTV from PC (Windows Vista Home Premium) over the network is in very smooth slow motion with no sound.
I can see the WDTV local USB stick from my PC and play that same movie fine on my PC, off the USB stick on WDTV (over the same network link but in reverse direction)

If I run a movie from each of two PCs on teh network from the WDTV local USB flash-drive, after a while they start to stop and jitter as I would expect from a network speed problem.

Often there is a very brief noise as if sound was about to start and very occasionally, (once I think) the movie started normally for a few seconds then slipped into slow motion and no sound.

Wow, it even played an ISO file to my amazement (but it was slow motion too). This problem is not limited to one file type.
Some AVIs and other types have come up as can't play file - check manual for supported types (that's another issue if you want to comment - I suspect codec used in AVI encoding?)

Any ideas on why this might happen only from PC to WDTV?

Thanks in advance..

[Rev Drew]

you just proved it's a bandwidth issue, a very common complaint for many WDTV Live and + users

I am using the WDLXTV custom firmware, wireless networking and can easily watch the 34GB release of avatar streaming from my WD caviar green drive. yup, it's a 5400 or 5900 rpm and still works great.

oh yeah, NFS is the network protocol I am using. I don't think stock firmware will use NFS, so yeah, SOL ...

[KiwiG]

I went to a lot of trouble to show it wasn't a network issue I thought. It will stream the movie fine one way but not the other, adn then I loaded it with two streaming movies to show me what happened when the network was too slow: jerky movies but kept going. Unless there is some network issue that you are aware of that I am not. not speed but rather how the WDTV interacts with network when receiving only?
Anyway I'll concentrate now on this new info of alternative firmware.

Could you tell me how to get WDLXTV? Is it downloadable - I'll have a look around WEB & see if I can find it available...
thanks.

Also, if you could tell me how to select or change network protocol. Is that more obvious in the menus if I have WDLXTV installed?
I have no idea what it uses at present. It just connected and works (except for this problem)

Gary

[WDUser]

Sounds like a bandwidth issue for sure from the symptoms described.

Could you tell me how to get WDLXTV? Is it downloadable - I'll have a look around WEB & see if I can find it available...

Why go elsewhere when you can find it right here in this forum? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Note that a new version is due soon, but you can always flash again when it comes out and is known to be stable.

Also, if you could tell me how to select or change network protocol.

Follow the instructions for your OS here.

[KiwiG]

Thank you. I have downloaded the firmware and placed it on the root of a flash drive formatted under WinVista as its version of FAT (can't remember ) but it said somewhere that FAT flashes were better than NTFS
ANyway, it found the upgrade after I adjusted the versin to be one greater than current and it rebooted, nad started upgrade, told me not to remoe flash or turn off power and sat forever at 0% complete.
???

[WDUser]

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