Comments on: WDLXTV – enhanced WDTV firmware 0.5.8

By: tonester

tonester — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 07:17:22 +0000

hi b-rad. thanks for the awesome firmware. The font size of the highlighted file on the bottom of the screen seems to be bigger than the official firmware. Is there a setting for me to change to decrease this font size?

By: Perry

Perry — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:03:35 +0000

can i use these firmwares on the wdtv mini?
how do i connect to it, and change the icons, or background?
thank you

<<< edit: No. The mini is a completely different machine and is not currently hackable. –b-rad >>>

By: pyro41787

pyro41787 — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:55:01 +0000

random video would be awesome.. be great if you could ook into adding that at some point

By: Ruben

Ruben — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:41:49 +0000

Does this modification allow for connecting drives larger than 2 TB? Right now, that is the only mod I am interested in trying… It would be nice to connect my HFS+ formatted Drobo without having to partition (i.e. one big volume). In fact, if you could point me in the direction of the donation link… Tks.

<<< edit: You can find a donate button in the about page. I’m unsure if 2TB would work, as I don’t have any—feel free to try and report your findings to the homebrew forums. –b-rad >>>

By: Gigi

Gigi — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:54:05 +0000

It is there a Firmware or Custom Firmware with DTS Decoding?
A can’t hear the sound in MKV with DTS audio track…

<<< edit: Well you should’ve bought a device with DTS decoding WDTV G2 and WDTV Live both decode DTS. –b-rad >>>

By: frakki

frakki — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:09:45 +0000

Hi im having the same problem as gareth. The remote does not respond while playing a video! ive tried the NTP-OFF but the issue is still there. Any other ideas? disabling the media library fixes the problem! but my osd mod needs media library on <<< edit: Ask on the wdlxtv forums --b-rad >>>

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:17:37 +0000

First,thanks b-rad for the excellent job! I have two WDTVs. All have your latest WDLXTV firmwares. I have a hard drive with all my movies attached to one of them. Both WDTVs are connected to home network with USB to Ethernet adapters. I want to watch movies on the 2nd WDTV in another room. However, I do not want to unplug/plug the hard drive for that. What's the simplest solution to share the hard drive attached to first WDTV with the 2nd one? If possible, would you give some detailed instructions? I appreciate your help! <<< edit: Your options are NFS or SAMBA exported shares. You'll have to look up the information on your own or consult the forums for help. --b-rad >>>

By: jay

jay — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:37:20 +0000

THanks for the firmware, I was searching to see if it would have the ability to play my music videos randomly…

I see that the base firmware allows random music playing, but not random playing?

Do you think you can add this feature on the next build?

<<< edit: next build? no. Eventually? maybe. Not on my priority list though. –b-rad >>>

By: balzac

balzac — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:51:46 +0000

Question about the hubs. I have 3 drives, one is not on a hub, 2 are. I don’t use media library due to a lot of TV seasons. When I Click On USB1, which only has 1 drive – I see 2 drives (one not on the hub plus one on the hub). When I click on USB2 I see 1 on the hub. Is there a way to tell the system that I want to see USB1 as one drive (which it is) and USB2 to show however many drives on the hub?

By: cybert

cybert — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:58:01 +0000

I need to delay the BIN load 8 seconds to give the external USB drive time to spin up. Is that possible?

<<< edit: yeh, sorta: echo 8 > /conf/crazymount.wait –b-rad >>>