Anyone using the new Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player?

You can't really use it with the readynas because it's not a networked device. You'd have to copy your content from your readynas to a USB drive and then plug it in to that WD thing.

I'm using a WDTV with a ReadyNAS Duo. The WDTV is running the WDLXTV firmware which among other things, adds support for USB network adapters. I have an Apple USB ethernet adapter attached to the WDTV and can stream 1080p from the Duo over NFS flawlessly.

@jraneses

I have basically the same set up - WDTV running WDLXTV but I can seem to mount the media directory on the ReadyNAS Duo using NFS.

Would appreciate your help in how you config your WDTV and your ReadyNAS Duo.

Many thanks

ppftong wrote:
@jraneses I have basically the same set up - WDTV running WDLXTV but I can seem to mount the media directory on the ReadyNAS Duo using NFS. Would appreciate your help in how you config your WDTV and your ReadyNAS Duo. Many thanks

I'm not currently auto-mounting shares on the Duo, but you can easily do so by editing the net.mounts config file. Any direct mounts you create on the WDTV via ssh are retained between power cycles of the device. Note that turning the WDTV off using the red button the remote doesn't actually power it down, rather it just puts the WDTV into sleep or hibernate mode.

Here's an example using xmount, where nas is the name of the ReadyNAS Duo, media is the name of the share, and duo is the name of the folder that will show up on the WDTV:

xmount nas:/media duo nfs

Great info, thanks for that. Do you think it will work with any USB-Ethernet adapter? I see some cheap ones on eBay, about $6.

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There's a list of compatible adapters on the WDTV wiki: http://wiki.wdtv.org/doku.php?id=supported_usb_devices

Hello,

I own a WD TV player and have connected it to my lan with a Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 adapter. However 1080p video streaming may get poor losing audio and getting choppy video for several seconds.
Now I am considering of buying a Readynas and connect it to my WD through USB.
The idea is that the WD will see the Readynas as an external hard disk and thus giving me enough throughput for 1080p video.

I this right or am I missing something here?

Thanks for your response.

yib wrote:

Hello, I own a WD TV player and have connected it to my lan with a Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 adapter. However 1080p video streaming may get poor losing audio and getting choppy video for several seconds. Now I am considering of buying a Readynas and connect it to my WD through USB. The idea is that the WD will see the Readynas as an external hard disk and thus giving me enough throughput for 1080p video. I this right or am I missing something here? Thanks for your response.

No, you won't be able to use the ReadyNAS as an external disk. As far as your current setup goes, are you accessing the WDTV using SMB or NFS? While accessing SMB shares through the WDTV works, it doesn't do so efficiently. NFS is the way to go.

Hello,

I can't access my nv+ media share with the wdtv live

readynas NV+
security mode: share (workgroup name: workgroup)
Default shares: media (no password) + backup (password protected)
nfs service enabled, and aslo on the media share (read write)

the wdtv live always shows "no media ..." throught the file browser, ect
it obly finds the nas name on the network, bu does not show any subfolder (media, media/xxx),
i tried username blank, anonymous, Gusest... no success...

the nas is accessible without password from windows workstation

Any help ?

thanks

Finally found the solution : use the share name as username for authentication...
so simple, but not indicated nowhere in the documentation....