MKV files playback via WD TV HD 1080p Media Player


If you have a wide-screen TV/LCD and wanna enjoy High-Definition videos, photos or music saved in your laptop, USB drive or network, what will you do? Okay, take it easy! Combined with a WD TV HD Live, your dream will be came true. The Western Digital TV HD Media Player is a High-Definition Multi-Media Adapter. You need an external drive to use the WD TV, but it costs friendly and easy to use.

Connected with any other external drive, this player is the most ideal way to play HD movies or common videos, experience the stunning sound clarity of digital audio and spectacular photo quality of HD video on your TV. Also works with popular USB drives, digital camcorders, internet content (including Youtube, Flickr, Live365, etc), and portable devices that can be viewed as mass storage devices.

Now, when you have a bunch of MKV files you are interested in and you may want to playback them via the WD TV on your Home Theater. As we know, WD TV is very powerful in supporting various video/audio formats, including MPEG1/2/4, WMV9, AVI (MPEG4, Xvid, AVC), H.264, MKV, MOV (MPEG4, H.264), MP3, AC3, DTS, etc. However, since MKV is a weird multimedia container format which can not be absolutely supported by some media players, it is inevitable for many users to deliver various "bug report" about MKV files playback. For example, some people revealed "I have an issue with some .mkv files. They are heavy stuttering. I use WDTV (newest firmware) live over network shares."

Solutions are as follows:
Check the version of WD TV (WD TV or WD TV Live) and ensure whether it is almost obsolete
Use a USB device attached to the WD TV and check if the file plays ok
Encode MKV files with MKVtoolnix or Handbrake
Get Moyea MKV Converter and alter MKV files to AC3 without quality losses

Here I would like to take the last solution above for an example and offers you a free Guide on transfer ring MKV files to WD TV for playback. First, you just download Moyea MKV Converter and load MKV files to it. Second, Specify output format as the one like AC3 supported by WD TV. Also you can adjust the audio streams or tracks as you wish. For example, you can designate 5.1 channels. Of course, you are also allowed to do some preliminary and advanced video settings. Finally, you can launch the conversion process, and after a while you're gonna get satisfactory video files for your TV. No worries about the output video and audio as this software adopted advanced Dolby Truehd technology.

Hope it works!

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