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How to Play Local Video/ Blu-ray & DVD Moive on WD TV HD/Live/Mini Media Player?

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Although it looks like the Roku, Apple TV and many other set-top "pucks," the WD TV HD/Live/Mini Media Player is something different. Instead of focusing on streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Video, the little box prides itself on being able to deliver pretty much any file in your media collection -- video, audio or photo -- to your TV and home audio system. The device has no built-in storage, but interfaces with your existing storage devices, such as external hard drives, a NAS server or a computer, via its USB ports or your home network. And here, we show you the mehtod to play all of your videos, Blu-ray movies and DVD movies on WD TV HD/Live/Mini Media Player.

Supported file formats for WD TV HD/Live/Mini Media Player

WD TV HD Media Player (Gen 1)
Video WMV9, AVI (MPEG1/2/4, Xvid, AVC), H.264, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), MOV, M2TS, TP, TS, MOV/MP4 (MPEG4, h.264), DVR-MS, VOB (unprotected or unencrypted) 
-MPEG2/4, H.264, and WMV9 support up to 1920x1080p 24fps, 1920x1080i 30fps, 1280x720p 60fps resolution. 
- FLV file extensions are NOT supported. Neither are RMVB videos from Real Media.
You will need to use conversion software to convert them to a supported format. 
- The WD TV HD Media Player only supports certain types of codecs based on the extension of your file. You can check the User Manual for a list of supported codecs for each file extension.
Audio MP3, WMA, MPA, M4A, MP4A, OGG, WAV/PCM/LPCM, AAC, FLAC, Dolby Digital, AIF/AIFF, MKA
- An audio receiver is required for surround sound output (including the unsupported DTS audio codec). For more information see Answer ID 3590: DTS support on the WD TV Media Player
- AAC/Dolby Digital decodes in 2 channel output only.
WD TV Live Streaming Media Player, WD TV Live Hub Media Center, WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player, WD TV Live (WDBAAx0000NBK) HD Media Player, and WD TV HD Media Player (Gen 2)
Video MPEG1/2/4, WMV9, AVI (MPEG4, Xvid, AVC), H.264, MKV, MOV (MPEG4, H.264), M2TS, TP, TRP, TS, MP4, ASF, VOB (unprotected or unencrypted) 
- MPEG2/4, H.264, and WMV9 support up to 1920x1080p 24fps, 1920x1080i 30fps, 1280x720p 60fps resolution. 
- FLV file extensions are supported (using a video codec of H.264 and an Audio codec of AAC only) in the latest firmware version for all of the above devices besides the WD TV HD Media Player (Gen 2). 
- RMVB videos from Real Media are not supported. You will need to use conversion software to convert them to a supported format. 
- The WD TV Live HD Media Player only supports certain types of codecs based on the extension of your file. You can check the User Manual for a list of supported codecs for each file extension.
Audio MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digital, DTS 
- AAC/Dolby Digital/DTS decodes in 2 channel output only. You will need an audio receiver capable of decoding these codecs for additional channels.
WD TV Mini Media Player
Video AVI (Xvid, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MP4/MOV (MPEG4), RM or RMVB 8/9/10 
- RMVB supports up to 1024x576x24, 1024x576x30, or 800x600x30 compressed video resolution. 
- MPEG1/2/4 supports up to D1 resolution (720x480 in NTSC, 720x576 in PAL) 
- RMVB videos will play on the WD TV Mini Media Player only. They are not supported on the original WD TV HD Media Player, or the WD TV Live HD Media Player. 
- FLV file extensions are NOT supported. You will need to use conversion software to convert them to a supported format. 
- The WD TV Mini Media Player only supports certain types of codecs based on the extension of your file. You can check the User Manual for a list of supported codecs for each file extension.
Audio MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, OGG, APE

How to Play Local Video/ Blu-ray & DVD Moive on WD TV HD/Live/Mini Media Player?

From the supported format of WD TV HD/Live/Mini Media Player above, we can see that WD TV has limited formats playback capability, in addition, it also has its own compatible file codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, channels, etc. Then how to play local video/ Blu-ray & DVD moive on WD TV HD/Live/Mini Media Player?

To get any unsupported videos and Blu-ray & DVD Moive playable on WD TV HD/Live/Mini Media Player, you will need a powerful media conversion tool. Here Brorsoft Video Converter Ultimate (for Windows) / Brorsoft iMedia Converter (for Mac)  is just the one you need, this remarkable application enables you to convert various different media types including Blu-ray disc / BDMV folder / ISO image, DVD disc / Video_TS folder / VOB files, also incompatible digital file formats including H.265, AVCHD MTS / M2TS, MKV, AVI, MOV, FLV, Tivo files, etc to WD TV HD/WD TV Live/WD TV Mini media player supported formats listed above.

With the built-in editor of Brorosft Ultimate / iMedia, you can easily personalize your DVD / Blu-ray and video to get the very part and effect you want:

- Split video into multiple smaller parts
- Brand your video by embedding a watermark
- Attach subtitless to video
- Adjust video aspect ratio
- Spruce up video by cropping out unwanted objects
- Add special effects
- Create 3D Home Theater with 2D Videos

Meanwhile, Brorsoft has taken full advantage of the latest NVIDIA CUDA technology to enlargely accelerate speed when decoding/encoding the DVD / Blu-ray / Videos with H.264 Codec. It means if you running on a CUDA-enabled Graphics card, the conversion speed of Brorsoft software is about 5-6X faster than before by using H.264.

Guide: Convert Local Video/ Blu-ray & DVD for WD TV HD/Live/Mini Media Player

Download the free trail version of Brorsoft Video Converter Ultimate / Brorsoft iMedia Converter, just keep in mind that you have download the right version, Mac OS .dmg files cannot be installed on Windows platform - and vice versa.

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Step 1: Add source video files

Load Discs: Insert the Blu-ray disc to the Blu-ray Disc drive or DVD to the DVD-ROM and click the Load Disc button to have movies uploaded to the Blu-ray Ripper.

You can also import ISO files, IFO files or Blu-ray/DVD folder for conversion. 

Add Videos: Click Add Files or Add From Folder button to load video or audio files.

Step 2: Select output format

Click Format (located below where your DVD or Blu-ray's files are displayed) and select the format you want from the drop-down list.

If you plan to re-encode local video/ Blu-ray & DVD to WD TV HD/Live/Mini media player morst compatible format like MP4, just navigate to “Format” > “HD Video” > “H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)” as output file format.

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Tip: If you think the video size this not suitable for your devices, you can first choose any one of the provided type, then change the settings. Please remember the file size is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in bigger file size, and lower visible quality loss.

Step 3: Start conversion

Just click “Convert” button to start to convert local video/ Blu-ray & DVD to WD TV HD/Live/Mini media player supported format.

Once the conversion ends, you can locate the MP4 files in output folder. Then you can play your local video/ Blu-ray & DVD movies with WD TV HD/Live/Mini media player.

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