WD TV provides subtle support for Mac-format drives

Hi everybody!
I need some help with my WD TV - whenever i switch it on I get this message on startup “media library compilation requires more storage space:[3814MB]“? I have an HFS+ drive with 800GB left. It lets me continue on past this point it just comes up with this error unless I turn the media library off. I don’t have journaling enabled and I’ve set all permissions to read & write.
What’s wrong? Any ideas?

I have been tempted to buy one of these as well. But the lack of ethernet made me look at other devices.

So I bought a Popcorn Hour instead. It does everything the WD TV does, plus a lot more. It has a 100Mbit ethernet port, which enables you to stream content to it via SMB or NFS.

It can have a hard drive inside (which you have to install yourself, though). With the hard drive inside, you can use the box as a torrent and usenet downloader. This is great! You can have the box downloading at night, and the next day you can watch your favorite tv shows.

The price is right too, in my opinion: 179$

Oh, it supports disks formatted in HFS+ as well ;-)

hey guys not trying to nit-pick, but for FAT32, isn't 4GB the maximum individual file size limit instead of 2?

Just what I have been waiting for -- something to play back all those MKV files. Only problem is that you can only do composite or HDMI, no component, no s-video.

I don't own a TV or monitor but connect ti InFocus X1 which has s-video, component or VGA.

I have a lot of MKV files with subtitle, after few hours of research, I found the best way to handle the subtitle problem is to use MKVtools to extract the subtitle out from mkv, and then use Jubler to covert the subtitle file into .srt.

Make sure both movie and subtitle files both are placed in the same directory, with the same name and their respective extensions.

OMG - thanks for posting this, this is exactly what I have been looking for. FAT32 is great, but limits partitions to 32GB, which is a pain.

This unit has gone under the radar and its a real shame. I've had it for a week, and haven't been disappointed in the least. It can play anything except Apple Lossless files, but it does play every MKV file (across many profiles), and every other audio format I've thrown at it. I've played 1080p BD rips, that are somewhere in the neighborhood of 28mbps. It passes through Dolby and DTS. I've never bought a product that worked exactly like it says...except this one It even combines all the files from both hard drives you plug in (there are 2 USB ports). I've decided to sell my AppleTV because im so tired of encoding all my audio in Apple lossless for audio and very specific H.264 files for video. I tried Boxee and every other hack on my AppleTV, and I've tried MediaLink on my PS3, but no hacking on these machines will allow them to play such a variety of media flawlessly. The AppleTV frankly isn't strong enough for REAL Hight Definition files. I've given the AppleTV two years, and frankly, I want my two years back, this unit fills my needs great. I didn't initially care about network capability, but after a week, i do wish I would add files to my hard drive without having to unplug it and plug it into my computer, just to transfer and move it back. This is a very minor issue for such a powerful unit, and at this price.

The Xbox 360 plays content from HFS+-formatted drives, too.

I bought this unit at BestBuy ($99 sale price) about 10 days ago to use it primarily for playing HD videos from my Canon HV30 on HDTV. I edit my videos on MacPro, export as 1920x1080 videos and transfer them to a portable HD that connects through USB to the unit. The quality of videos on 46" Sharp HDTV is just great (the same like directly playing from video camera, just more convenient). I also transferred to the portable HD some HD slideshows I created with Fotomagico - again, excellent quality. Now using Handbrake I am recoding all my old DVD's and then transferring them to the portable HD. Eventually I do not see any need for the DVD player - 500GB HD can store what I need and when I run out of space I can just add another HD. This unit is something I have been waiting for - and the price is right.

The subtitle support is SRT only...

which is kind of useless