Comments on: WDLXTV – enhanced WDTV firmware 0.5.8.1

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:10:41 +0000

Or better yet. Lets try and troubleshoot at that topic: http://forum.wdlxtv.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1167 in the forum which I started and still nobody replied.

By: damo102000

damo102000 — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:37:27 +0000

I have the same problem as Alex,any suggestions would be great.

<<< edit: I suggest you both debug at forum.wdlxtv.com instead of the comment area here –b-rad >>>

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:26:29 +0000

Hey Rad, Great release.

I use an NTFS 2T disk and when I try to play 720p movies with external subtitles, I get choppy video and loss of audio after 5 minutes or so. If I turn off the subtitles, the movie catches up with the sound and you can continue your movie. You may even re-enable the subtitles till you get the same lousy effect again. With lower resolutions there is no problem and highjer resolutions tend to have a much worse problem. If I try to reproduce a 1080p with 60fps, I get this effect in a few seconds even without the subtitles.

Any ideas? My drive is a 2Tb NTFS volume.

<<< edit: Dunno, but I can tell you that NTFS is the slowest of all choices of filesystem types to use. Haven’t heard this issue though, might try and defrag the drive. –b-rad >>>

By: Rut

Rut — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:06:11 +0000

Hi B-Rad!

I’m an old-fan of your mod-fw.

I know that there’s no space for further mod .. but..
a little improve..

As you know, there’s many app’s to modify wdtv layout.
But we need more app’s.

I’d like only a little mod for 0.5.8.1: the possibility (embeded) to load a “background.jpg” image as a background for each folder.

What do you think ?

Thanks!

<<< edit: what you’re asking for cannot be done by a shell script or in 5KB of space. Further developments will [b]only[/b] come if there is interest purveyed over at forum.wdlxtv.com in the WDTV 1 section. –b-rad >>>

By: joe

joe — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:19:09 +0000

i bought one and im god dam much happier now with the live thanx a million to B._.RAD

By: Sabir

Sabir — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:07:24 +0000

Sup there,

I have an issue.. I installed the WDLXTV and everything went fine..

But when i boot the wdtv up it would display the WDTV Logo (original) then the screen would go blank. after a couple of minutes, WDLXTV would finally load.

I’ve also noticed that it sometimes wouldn’t detect my hard drive even if it’s plugged in before boot or after boot..

Are these normal?
if not, What are the fixes?

thanks, great work btw.
\sabir

<<< edit: Sounds normal. –b-rad >>>

By: BVG

BVG — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:39:51 +0000

Hi there,
In first place, thanks for your great work regarding to wdtv product.
In 2nd place, I have a question about the next wdlxtv firmware (it will happend?). There is any support to a client torrent? Now I’m trying rtorrent + wtorrent (yes, thanks for the great tutorial) and having a lot of memory issues (canot allocate memory).
My dream is to put this little box with a client torrent, 24h a day

Thanks again.
Regards from Portugal.

<<< edit: then go buy a WDTV Live. There is not any additional space in WDLXTV-1 for ANYTHING!!!. –b-rad >>>

By: Schniggi

Schniggi — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:53:35 +0000

I’ve updated to 0.5.8.1 and it works fine (also no sluggish remote with teh net-mount delay set). Is there any way to enable access-control for the dropbear sshd (via hosts.allow)?

Regards

By: Oskar Gunn

Oskar Gunn — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:30:16 +0000

It seems to work now after I downloaded the latest nfs and ftp files and created the mount point within net.mounts

By: Oskar Gunn

Oskar Gunn — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:19:52 +0000

I updated to WDlxTV 0.5.8.1
I use a USB2lan adapter to connect to Hanewin NFS.
I connect through telnet and issue an xmount command to connect to a shared folder.
the mount point works in the telnet connection.
However I can´t see the folder showing up on my tv through wdtv

Do I perhaps have to use WDlxTV 0.5.7 ? (it all worked there)