WDTV Live Scraping

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Setup my new WDTV Live lastnight after ditching XBMC due to various bugs making it wife unfriendly.

So far I'm quite happy with the WDTV, especially taking price in to consideration (£60). It is very laggy on the menus mind, but maybe I'm still used to a very responsive XBMC.

Question; All of my movies and TV shows are named well, i.e. Moviename (Year) and the scraper has caught most, the others were easily found with a manual re-search.

TV shows however are hit and miss. What is the best software to scrape these from Windows? I detest Thumbgen, is there any other options? Or can I rename the TV folders and add in the TVDB number, will that help WDTV find the show?

Bonus Question: do any of the homebrew firmwares work well for the latest gen (Gen 3, is it?), do they give any better response in menus and get rid of any clutter?
 
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Just ordered one of these as I'm trading my ps3 for a ps4 next week and the ps4 doesn't do dlna media streaming :(

Fingers crossed this will play most of my media ok.
 
If I'm honest mate, I've just raised a return for it back to the supplier. I found it very, very slow to navigate. Again it may be because I'm used to XBMC but even my Generation 1 WDTV was slicker. The scraper was also hit and miss, despite XBMC picking up 100% of it all prior.

Reference playback, the WDTV excels in that area and will play most things you throw at it. For £60, you cant go wrong, considering my XBMC setup is more like £200
 
I have multiple tv episode on my nas and wdtv picked them all up.

I had them named as Example:
NCIS.S01E01.avi

Though I found that All episodes had to be named in the same case otherwise it would fail to find some of them...

Have to admit that the menus are a little slow and I have mine connected via GB lan to my Nas, but it has played everything I throw at it without issue.
I don't used the stock menus though, I installed a third part theme called Kudos, looks far better.
 
Just wondering if someone here could me on this please.

Looking at buying my dad a WD TV unit for xmas so he can play X264 ,MKV etc on it i take it he could plug a drive like this into it http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-091-HI and then play the films off that ?

At the moment he plays them on his Pc to watch it but he'd rather watch them on his LCD .

Can anyone confirm that this can be done please.

Thank you.
 
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I'm thinking of ordering one of these but before I do will this be able to do play (circa 30gb) blu ray rips with no problems from an external USB HDD?
 
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