I like my Apple gear. 5S, iPad Air, and I know the restrictions. But, for the life of me, I cannot get any traction on streaming from my WDTVLive to my iPad. Tried Good Player, BuzzplayerHD, ETC

The way they handle video support sucks , aka non supported formats are played with no hardware acceleration, yet they allow third party apps to play all formats, that's another story.

I have a Panny BWT 720, BR/HDD recorder and the app, I can play live TV, but cannot play the recorded video. Another app can, OMG

SKYGO works great.

I can play from my Win 7 laptop, fine.

But I cannot even see the WDTVLive. Apps can see the Panny, and my laptop? I've tried smb:// IP address port forwarded port 455 ( from memory I'm outside in the sun). I expected the apps to see the WDTV but they don't, what am I missing anybody?

I'm not into HTPC, I'm quite happy with WDTV connected to my HD plasma, works a treat. I know I will need to convert to H.264 MP4/MKV as I gather WDTV won't support non Apple formats to iDevices, but of all my docos, some are supported.

I am probably missing something simple network related, so any help will be appreciated. I'm not that network literate BTW.

I am more than happy to bone up on base networking, but either I am missing something simple or it's messy?. From google I see others have it working, to a degree. Degree being software acceleration

Help and cheers!