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    Quote Originally Posted by Skippman View Post
    How does Mezzmo work with something like the WD TV Live? I'm assuming given the massive ammount of CODEC's it supports natively it should reduce the instances of transcoding.
    Mezzmo works very well with the various WD TV Live models, and we have many 1000's of WD TV Live owners using Mezzmo.

    Hopefully, some WD TV Live owners may post their experiences for you.

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    Keep in mind that you can set a max size for the transcoded files folder. This will prevent you from using the entire disk but has the downside of needing to trancode the same file again. That was the reason for my decision to pre-transcode into a universal format that all of my devices can use. You can also save the files into a format that most of the important devices would use (home theater etc) and have the one offs transcode as needed. There really is no one correct answer, it depends on what your system is and what you want to accomplish. In my case it was easy because I standardized on one media player before building out the system.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skippman View Post
    How does Mezzmo work with something like the WD TV Live? I'm assuming given the massive ammount of CODEC's it supports natively it should reduce the instances of transcoding.
    Transcoding for me on both my Live and Live Hub is almost null. I have around 7 TB's of video storage ranging from mpg,avi,mkv,flv and Mezzmo works flawlessly with them all. Even with audio codecs the story is much the same.

    I hope this helps you decide better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skippman View Post
    How does Mezzmo work with something like the WD TV Live? I'm assuming given the massive ammount of CODEC's it supports natively it should reduce the instances of transcoding.
    I purchased a WD TV Live Streaming Media Player for one of the upstairs bedrooms.
    Combined with Mezzmo, we've been able to view or listen to every format we've thrown at it... and that's with Transcoding 'unchecked'.
    I'm was so pleased with the setup, that I purchased a second WD TV Live box for another bedroom.
    Mezzmo will also stream different formats to different devices simultaneously.

    We use Mezzmo to stream to a PS3 downstairs also, but the PS3 has issues with a couple of formats.
    I'm contemplating purchasing another WD TV Live box, as it surpasses the PS3 in that regard.

    I tried 6 different media servers, and invested a lot of time tinkering with them, before discovering Mezzmo.
    I am extremely satisfied with all aspects of Mezzmo, and rate it far above any other media server available.

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    Well gents,

    I picked up a WD TV Live yesterday and hooked it up to my bedroom theater. Here's the specs of what I'm working with.

    Panasonic TH-50PX80U Plasma TV
    Oppo Digital 980HD DVD/SACD player
    Yahama RX-V1600
    Motorola UVerse PVR

    The WD TV Live is hooked up via HDMI right into my AVR and via GigE through two Netgear GS105 GigE switches (one at my router, and one at the home theater rack).

    My server is a Core2Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz) with 4GB of RAM and a 3Ware RAID controller running my RAID5 array. It's connected via GigE as well.

    It played back most things perfectly after setting the profile to the WD TV Live in Mezzmo. Other things it was sluggish with. Maybe I need to turn off transcoding for that device all together. I'll likely be buying Mezzmo this weekend as I love all it's features! Thanks for the feedback guys!

    Thoughts on the lag issue?

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    Turn off transcoding. Ive ran many tests with both my WDTV Live and Live Hub and both work much better with it off. Also make sure to update your codec pack if you haven't already, I use Klite which has been very good to me for years. As a side note, I decided to change my device profile to a WDTV Live Plus, I'm not sure if there is much difference between both profiles but it seems to work well.

    I hope this helps you.

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    I'll try that when I get home tonight! Thanks for the tip. I've been using the CCCP CODEC pack, but haven't updated it lately. I assumed Mezzmo would provided the latest FFmpeg CODEC when I installed it.

    Funny side note, when it was looking for images for Planetes (an anime about space debris cleanup) it put a picture from Planet of the Apes on the files instead. lol

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    Turning off the transcoding really helped with playback. Mezzmo plus my WD TV Live box is an excellent combo. Now if I could only get the menu's to work the way I want to I'd be 100% happy.

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