WDTV Media Player (SOLVED)

[St1nkf!st]

Hi all! First time on here, first time Mint user, and quite a noob to linux.

I just installed Mint15 Mate, and was last using Ubunutu 11.10... everything was working ok from 11.10 until I installed mint,

Here's my problem as sent to western digital:

serial #: (deleted)
part number WDAAN0000NBK
Firmware 1.06.43_V

Connected to desktop PC (running fresh copy of Linux Mint) via ethernet/router. (I stream Movies via LAN from desktop PC to WDTV Media Players)

WDTV player displays contents of video/music folders, files, etc, however error message "Unable to play the selected file. Please see the User Manual for a list of supported file formats"

What I have tried:

1. Unplug WDTV
2. Restart PC
3. Shared all media on PC
4. Played files on PC to confirm file integrity (files are not corrupt)
5. Attempted to play all types of video file extensions (.mp4, MKV, .avi, .iso, etc..) WDTV will not play any.

Files WILL play on mint through VLC, I checked my second WDTV media player and it also now will not play ANY files, though it sees them all that I've shared to the network. It is NOT a firmware problem with the WDTV as one has new firmware, the other has the old firmware...

Help!!



*EDIT

32 Bit Mint

System: Host: Music4God Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.7.3) Desktop: N/A Distro: Linux Mint 15 Olivia
Machine: Mobo: FOXCONN model: M61PMP/M61PMP-K version: 1.0 Bios: American Megatrends version: 080015 date: 01/30/2010
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon II X2 250 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm) bmips: 12054
Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] bus-ID: 02:00.0
X.Org: 1.13.3 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,nouveau) FAILED: vesa Resolution: 1280x1024@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce 210/PCIe/SSE2/3DNOW! GLX Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 310.44 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:05.0
Card-2: NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 02:00.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.8.0-19-generic
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e800 bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (75.5% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST31000528AS size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID: / size: 915G used: 704G (81%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 2.01GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 152 Uptime: 10:40 Memory: 534.6/2016.3MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.7.3 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4

PS Mint Mate is really cool. Reminds me of my first days using Ubuntu with the Gnome Desktop... I love this OS and Linux in general because of THIS community of people who help. Thank you all in advance!

[St1nkf!st]

Help... sorry for the bump, but WD tech support hasn't replied!

Anyone with Mint have a WDTV Media Player on their network???

[St1nkf!st]

Dang!

SOLVED IT!!

sudo chmod 777 -R Videos/

Sharing and permissions using the GUI was not doing the trick... then my brother in law gave me this termianl command, and shared the crap outta that videos folder!!!!

SWEEEEEEEET!