(2014-10-27, 21:21)TerminHater Wrote: I appreciate all the feedback but I am really just new at this. I have no idea what an SMP or NFS is. As of right now I installed Kodi on my laptop and it works great. I just wanted a simple way to stream the videos I have on WD live book to my tv via a tv box and hoping that box would include kodi.Thought this would be a whole more simple then it is. Guess the simplest way might be for me to buy a WD media player tv box and hope for the best as far as getting kodi on it. Still want to thank everyone that took the time to answer my post.
Well, you're still going to have to setup a WD media player to connect to your My Book Live, just as you would with Kodi (either SMB or NFS, although you can also use DLNA/UPnP but I don't recommend it).
SMB and NFS are both network share protocals. SMB (Samba) is Windows share and NFS is Linux share, the My Book Live is capable of either.
Adding a SMB share would be the easiest for you. All you have to do is follow these instructions:
http://kodi.wiki/view/Adding_video_sources, but select "Windows Share (SMB)" and then select your device (the name of your My Book Live), select the folder you want to add.
And as I said, you have to do the same thing on a WD Media Player to add the share to it's media library.
As z31fanatic said, WD media players will play most any files (I have 4), but they are not very powerful and fairly slow compared to something like the Fire TV w/Kodi.