No Audio on my WDTV Options

[11Neal]

Hi All,

I'm new to the community here and took delivery of my WDTV yesterday. I was initially using ATV hacked with XBMC/boxee but cldn't get the external hard drive to mount on the USB so gave up!. I stumbled on WDTV a few days ago and opted for this over a popcorn hour or hdx 1000 due to the simplicity.

Although my initial impressions are quite favourable in terms that it will play ALL my downloaded MKV files, it WONT play all the audio that goes with them even though I have downloaded the latest firmware.

This is such a great little player that this for me is the only downside and I would like some help resolving. When I play the file, the video plays but it says "digital" at the top of the screen and I get no sound. I have played around with the settings but still no joy, I guess this little magic box just doesn't support the audio codecs in my movies.

Does anyone have any suggestions or perhaps someone out there can let me know of some EASY to use software that will allow me to re encode the audio portion of the file to a format the WDTV is happy with???. I'm no techy, so the easiest method possible is what I need..

Your help is much needed and much appreciated!!.

Neal

[neverlift]

Hi Neal,

You should give us the mediainfo profile of your mkv, the WDTV might not support your audio contained inside your mkv container. Grab mediainfo > HERE. Let us know once you have that and someone should be able to direct you down the right path.

Cheers!

[Rev Drew]

what is the wdtv hooked up to for audio playback?

if it's just a tv, no hope in hell of it ever playing dts, the wdtv will pass it off and you will need a dts capable receiver to decode and play the audio for you.

[11Neal]

Guys,

I've checked the files that won't play audio on my WDTV and they are all DTS encoded!. Is there an easy way of re encoding the audio portion to a compatible format?.

BTW, I am hooked up directly to my hdtv via hdmi with no reciever in between!. Do I need a dts receiver to play dts?. Would I have the same issue with a Popcorn Hour as well cos that is my other option?

Thanks,

Neal.

[neverlift]

Hey Neal,
The only simple solution I know of is to buy a receiver that decodes the dts, unless you want to try the dts to ac3 guides located HERE. And yes you need that receiver to decode the dts. Im not really 100% sure but I think the popcorn hour is in the same boat. Hope this helps.

[Rev Drew]

I have re-encoded a few files and it really doesn't take much more than 5 minutes or so..
more of a pain in the 'you know what' than anything else..

that's your cheapest option..