Can wd media player play mkv files

If I have not stated things correctly, I am sure someone out here will correct me, but I think this is the correct situation.

Thank you for explaining this in more detail. If you play these files over the network you will also find a problem with most media servers actually serving mkv files. The Play only allows you to use media servers so that is a second problem. The WD Play is more centred on Internet apps and is limited in playing certain files. On the other hand the Live Streaming Player plays most files and has limited Internet apps.

No need to install any server softwares. See the link:. Support Downloads Knowledge Base. German Spanish Italian French. HGST Support. YES or NO? Is this correct or not? I have over MKV files and they play just fine, perhaps it is a settings thing. Having troubles playing mkv files. I just noticed something when I was re-reading the manual.

It states, The benefit of using a media server is that it aggregates the content together from the device that is hosting it. Dear Dgreco, mkv is container, and its supported, but codecs used for compressing video, audio and other data might be NOT supported by Play. Just out of curiousity I think I will give Plex a shot and see what it does.

Can't play MKV files? Or is there an easier way to do this? Thanks and BTW my firmware is up to date. Is this the info you need? MKV is just a container format; the video format is separate from that. Way too complicated, easier to just avoid.

Thanks though. How did you figure out that the WD was requesting the same data again to fill the buffer as opossed to new data? I have come to expect anything and everything from WD and this device, and the pros have so far outweighed the cons enormously, so even with issues like this I simply love the HUB and its capabilities. Since you do not see this when you are streaming to a computer can we assume that it is not an issue with the standard video codec but something in the WD application layer code that is requesting the same packets over and over again, even though it already has them in the buffer?

Thanks again for the research, and you have motivated me to investigate what is going on over my own home network. It is a wired connection on cat6e cables to the bt homehub 3. You have way more faith in WD than I do. Support Downloads Knowledge Base. German Spanish Italian French.