Is WD TV Live capable of playing Youtube/Hulu videos?
Many reports concerning the new Western Digital WD TV Live media server are hot in the market currently. It means that media fans can take this advantage to store tons of HD videos, music and pictures for watching or enjoying. Nevertheless, there are some questions occur like whether WD TV capable of playing videos downloaded from Youtube or Hulu? To find out the truth, I collected various videos and tried them on WD TV and last I got the answer. WD TV is perfectly compatible with the video formats like MPEG1/2/4, WMV9, AVI (MPEG4, Xvide, AVC), H.264, MOV and MKV (MPEG-4, H.264). However, as we know, the video formats of Youtube or Hulu always constitutes FLV or F4V. Then does WD TV support playing Youtube or Hulu videos-Yes or no? Obviously, the answer is negative. But, is there any way we can do to make WD TV play Youtube videos? Hereby I would like to share my point of view with you all.
The best way we can do is to convert Youtube/Hulu videos for making them played on WD TV.
We can use
Moyea Youtube Converter. It can download, convert, sort out web videos (*.flv, *.f4v) from Google Video, Fox, Myspace, YouTube and other more video-sharing websites. What’s more, it can convert any FLV/F4V to other formats like MP4, AVI, 3GP, MKV, FLV, MP3, AC3, M4A, MOV, MP3 and etc. After the conversion, you can easily put the videos to WD TV.
Okay, the below step-by-step guide will tell you how to convert Youtube to WD TV.
Step one, free download Moyea Youtube Converter and run it.
Step two, click "
Add" button to load your Youtube videos, then the New Downloader window will pop up as below and enter the URL address of a web page like Youtube.
Step three, slightly tick the check box for converting the youtube videos, then you can select the output video/audio formats like MPEG-2 Video from "
Convert to" menu. If you do not want to convert Youtube videos, you can mark "
Keep the FLV source file".
Step Four, "
Settings" button allows users to set Profile parameter like Codec, File Size, Bit Rate, Frame Rate, etc, so as to highlight the output video/audio effect. Now, you can define the destination folder by extending the ellipsis button.
Step Five, start conversion by hitting "
Ok"button.
Once the conversion finishes, you can drag the converted Youtube videos to WD TV for enjoying with your families, friends and relatives leisurely.
Highlights of
Moyea Youtube Converter:
This Converter provides users dual task of simultaneous download and conversion.
It can automatically capture any playing web video’s web page URL, which asks you whether you want to download it or not.
With this program, you can easily, as well as fast convert Youtube/Hulu videos to other regular formats for playback on versatile devices like iPhone, iPod, PSP, Cell Phone, Apple TV, etc.
It utilizes optimized audio and video sync technology, which totally gets rid of the audio and video out of sync issue.
Is WD TV Live capable of playing Youtube/Hulu videos?
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