great!
Ask about BD.ISO, M2TS subtitle options
there is a possibility in your future firmware update?

You sir are a scholar and a gentleman. Consistently updating and posting more releases! If I had more money I would donate!
Cheers, keep up the good work.

Thanks for the new version, b-rad. I’ve got it all loaded up and almost everything seems great thus far. I just tossed a few $$ your way, and I highly encourage everyone else to do the same. If you’ve got cash to buy an overpriced coffee each day, then you can spare something for b-rad’s efforts.

Anyway, I said almost everything. For the life of me, I cannot get the background or screen saver to load my custom edited image files. I edited the images maintaining the same resolution, naming and file type, and placed them in the orig.images folder just prior to this last firmware update, but no luck. I also tried copying them off of my USB thumb drive to /osd/image, but I of course got the Read-Only File System error. And with the background image, I used the “config_tool -c BACKGROUND_IMAGE=xxx.jpg” command with no luck. It just stays as the wood panel villa_bg.jpg… My deepest apologies if this is just pure n00b speak, but I have failed and I could not find any complete directions here or elsewhere…

Looks awesome! Are icons visible in NZBGetweb?

Thx Brad,

do you have th elink to the ext3 version as well that can run from USB directly, without reflashing (once you run one of your FW already)

<<< edit: Its linked in the forums. –b-rad >>>

Thanks!
Any plans for debian-squeeze-wdlxtv-live?

<<< edit: It’s planned, but not trivial due to the amount of incompatible libs…I gotta do some serious work arounds. –b-rad >>>

Thanks B-Rad,

Is there any chance of adding a Greek locale? Happy to help out!

<<< edit: Grab the skeleton translation file and get translating and have at it –b-rad >>>

Thx for your great work! but i still have the Problem that my USB drives arent automounting at startup as a result of that no s00config is loading. I have a 1TB WD MyDisk (NTFS) and a 8gb usb stick (fat32) the usb stick is the only thing that getting mounted. When the WDTVLive is started i can acces my mybook only trough the mybook thumbnail not trough the USB1 or USB2 thumbnail but the usb stick can be accesed trough USB1 or USB2. To see the mybook in the USB1/2 folder i have to unplug/plug it. maybe this helps a little bit.

<<< edit: what the heck is a ‘mybook thumbnail’? –b-rad >>>

Thanks for yet another amazing update! Your hard work is much appreciated!!!

Just one quick question, not necessarily directed at you but to the WDTV community at large: it appears as though the WDTV live doesn’t support JBOD formatted USB enclosures. Is that a problem endemic to the device, or is it correctable in firmware?

Keep up the good work, my friend.

<<< edit: I could probably support them in wdlxtv-live, but it would require you or someone else buying me one of the devices. –b-rad >>>

Hi B-rad.
I’ve just updated firmware from 0.3.1 to 0.3.3 . Problems with Deluge are gone, but some new problems came up.
1) The firmware now doesn’t load app.bins (like WDTVExt.app.bin) and also ROOT.BIN won’t load. I’ve tried both USB ports. (My Flash drive is EXT2 FS)
2) As the firmware doesn’t load .bins, the Custom-translations won’t work either. I copied custom-language-01.po to my flash drive, tried every language and nothing happens. After restart the custom-language-01.po automaticaly dissapears from drive (but still no translation). Weird…
3) NTFS support without USB HUB is now as bad as NTFS with USB Hub in previous version (0.3.x). NTFS worked well for me in 0.2.x versions. == NTFS drive doen’t appear in Samba share, and dosn’t support special chars like ěščřžýáíé

<<< edit: you know WDTVExt was only for original WDTV, right? You have found a fairly major bug though, I’ve patched it and am testing now. The bug should only have prevented apps & devices from mounting, root.bin should have loaded without issue since its mounted via different process. Your custom-language file should not disappear, I don’t ever move/delete it. Thanks for the pointer. –b-rad >>>

Hello B-rad.
Thanks for great work. Have the same problem than Woife, no auto-mount of my NTFS USB HD.
Automount worked well till version 0.2.2.1
Since 0.3.x there are problems.
I have to unplug/plug every time – then it works…

Hi, im not a user of the WDLXTV but looks is a awesome firmware.

i have a question the new firmware support the movie sheet on the WD TV LIVE? or is a problem of the app.

Ty in advance and keep the good work rad.

Hi Brad,

yes found the ext3 on the forum for 0.3.3 not 0.3.3.1
Why not just post it here as well directly next to the FW ?

tx

<<< edit: mass confusion and five hundred thousand questions about it. Its directly linked on the forum post that I suggest to check out, thats good enough. –b-rad >>>

Hi B-rad,

First of all thanks a lot for your effort in developing the WDLXTV firmware. Good job…;-)

Just one question, why do share the files over a commercial hoster like Rapid-Share? I can’tundstand that…

Why not sharing the files over an open torrent server?

Thx for your answer
Lukas

<<< edit: Thanks. I don’t directly host because my server costs enough to keep snappy as is and I don’t want the extra processor load of 50GB+ of download traffic a day. Mirrors exist if you check the forum. –b-rad >>>

Hi Brad,

thanks for all your hard work. i donated to you just after you got the live in your hands. i don’t know if I missed it but did you get movie sheets to work? thanks for everything you do.

Hi b-rad,

Thank you for all the great work you are doing.

about : “Looks awesome! Are icons visible in NZBGetweb?” from Laurens Bosscher (2nd post),

I think the problem is here :

# pwd
/var/www/nzbgetweb
(in fact, a symlink to /etc/nzbget/nzbgetweb)

# ls -lad images
drwx—— 1 default 232 308 Jan 1 1970 images

there is no Read and execute for group and other on the “images” folder.

Thanks

<<< edit: Good find. This will be fixed on the next maintenance release…Its not critical enough to warrant a release of its own. Cheers. –b-rad >>>

It’s based on 1.01.11 isn’t it?

What about 1.01.17 realeased today?

<<< edit: The only enhancement that 1.01.17 offers is a safer online upgrade process. I’ve disabled the online updater since I don’t offer online updates–therefore 1.01.17 does not apply to WDLXTV-Live. –b-rad >>>

Thanks a bunch B-Rad! Your work is greatly appreciated.

I’m dying to try out your firmware b-rad, but the 0.3.3.1 upgrade appears to fail for me

Currently I’m on 1.01.17 and trying to flash to 0.3.3.1. The USB update files are detected OK. After the reboot, the settings menu again tells me that a new firmware update is available.

The system info says I’m still at 1.01.17, so the upgrade seems to have silently failed.

Is there a chance that the 1.01.17 update from WD (which was related to firmware upgrading) has disabled USB-based upgrades? (Long shot, but worth asking…)

Thanks!

<<< edit: odd indeed. So you’re saying you initiate an upgrade, then it reboots–but never flashes or loads wdlxtv-live? Post your details to the forum and perhaps I or someone else can debug it there. –b-rad >>>

Would I be right in Saying that Optware does not work with the WDTV Live?

<<< edit: correct, binary incompatibility between mipsel architectures. –b-rad >>>

Hi b-rad,
first of all thanks for your great work!
Just one question:

Is there a chance to get a “random-play-function” for VIDEOS?
The thing is… I have about 650 music videos and i dont want to listen to them from “A-Z” every time.
Would be great if you could add that to your firmware.
Provided that it is not a big problem to program that.
THX very much!
greetings from germany

<<< edit: I could do it, but you’d have to donate quite a sum because it wouldn’t be completely trivial to implement. –b-rad >>>

I have 0.3.2 firmware installed on my box, and am trying to run the latest 0.3.3.1 bootable from my usb stick.

I have noticed that my menu text seems to be changed…like it is at a lower resolution and harder to read. It just appears more aliased. The video image looks fine…just the OSD stuff is effected.

Thoughts?

I would post in the forum, but it appears to be down at the moment.

Thank you very much for this software.

Automounting NTFS – HDD, as said before by others, isn’t working properly.
Still fighting with the NZBGET software, comm, problem between nzbget software and webui.
Also I am not sure if read/write option is worrking for NTFS HDD.

<<< edit: I’m pretty sure I’ve just figured out the NTFS issue, will be patching and releasing soon. Users on wdtvforum have posted nzbget config and much details on how they’ve gotten it up and running, consult there for clues. –b-rad >>>

Wow, awesome work, thank you so much!

I was wondering if there is any chance that the torrent data of deluge would be saved so that after unplugging you don’t have to create the torrents again.

<<< edit: I’m pondering an elegant way to save state thats semi-transparent to the end-user. So, yes, eventually –b-rad >>>

Hi b-rad,
as always… great job!
One question: I see I can enable the internal ftp server but I haven’t understood if it is possible to read media from an ftp server (no examples anywhere…).

Thanks,
Lore

<<< edit: Not atm, but I’ll have a little gift for you in the next version –b-rad >>>

Any chance to get some help on the WD TV mini?

<<< edit: Are you offering to buy me one? If not then no. –b-rad >>>

Official WD Live firmware version 1.01.17 is up:

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/updates/?family=wdfwdtv_live

Batnun

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I will try to get enough donations. I was just looking to see if you would be willing. I know ppl are looking for help on the WDTV.com forum and you are the WDTV expert. Thx!

<<< edit: Any device (from any manufacturer) that finds its way into my hands will get hacked to bits if its at all possible. –b-rad >>>

Quick question on the live firmware….

It’s based on the 1.01.11 firmware, but I have some bugs with it, mainly playing back mp4’s with AAC audio, the audio becomes out of sync anytime you FF, Pause, or REW. Does this problem exist on the WDLXTV-Live firmware?

If it does, it’s not a big deal, I plan on upgrading to this firmware tonight anyway, just wanted to know.

<<< edit: probably, I don’t touch anything that would affect that. –b-rad >>>

Hi,

The translation trick can be used on a standard WD box or just the Live version? If not, is it easy to do it?

Thanks,

Ilias

<<< edit: If you compile your custom-language-xx.po file using msgfmt from the gettext package and include it at the root of a device at boot, then yes it works the exact same way. Its a hidden feature. There isn’t enough space inside the firmware for all the required binaries to do the compilation on board like I do with the live model though. –b-rad >>>

Donated towards the Mini. Amazon has it listed for $50, Thx!

<<< edit: Check your mail –b-rad >>>

Hello Sir,

Firstly thanks for a great update..

Being a bit of a newbie I hit a problem, I plugged in my 500GB Western Digital book drive into USB 2 port (where i normally put it in) WDTV found the firmware, rebooted then hit a screen saying please wait your WDTV is being WDTVlx’d do not disconnect the power et al.

It sat there for 10min at 0%. Hmm I have bricked my drive I thought, so bricked I disconnected the drive from the USB 2 port plugged into the USB1 port and it upgraded successfully boy did I breathe a sigh of relief

Could you please update your note and say put it in USB1 not USB2 or a small upgrade feature for v 3.3.4 is to load off of either drive.

Again thanks for your efforts!!

Dave

Hallo,
is there any way to play mpc or ape audio with the
WD Live?

firstly thank you for all your hard work.
now the case in point can you please fix the problem of showing jpgs and avis when in network mode. i would be in your debt forever if u could

thx in advance

Would it be possible to implement ftp and http download? How much do you want me to donate for that?

<<< edit: You need to better explain what you desire. –b-rad >>>

Has anyone tried running boxee on top of WDTV-debian? Could be an interesting venture. But saddly I don’t have a Live

Thanks,

I used the msgfmt and I got a messages.mo file as output alongside with these warnings:

msgfmt.exe: custom-language-01.po: warning:
Charset “CHARSET” is not a portable encoding name.
Message conversion to user’s charset might not work.

So just put messages.mo on the root? Need to do any renaming?

PS If this work I am definately donating!

<<< edit: no, you need to follow the instructions. Make sure the file is encoded in UTF-8. The file is named the same, just the extension is changed to mo…so custom-language-01.mo –b-rad >>>

hellow
i update my western digital with the official firmware the last 1.01.17 and i am trying to update my machine with this firmware but it’s not doing anything.am i doing something wrong??
thanks

<<< edit: Yes, you’re not consulting the forums where the discussion takes place. –b-rad >>>

Thanks Your job!
I have one question!
You don’t support WDLXTV for wdtv 1gen?
I Wait next FW for WDLXTV
please!

###Would it be possible to implement ftp and http download? How much do you want me to donate for that?

<<>>###

I would like to use the wdtv for my downloads. I would like a web interface where I can enter download links. Then I can turn off my pc and the wdtv does the job.
It would be especially useful to be able to schedule downloads (for example to make them run at nighttime).

can you check :
deevus said:
EDIT: When trying to boot into ext3-boot-live, it doesn’t broadcast video through HDMI but rather composite, and it just sits on a blank background before rebooting after a minute or so. Is this a known issue with a workaround? Is there a log of the bootup or a way to enable logging?

http://wdtvforum.com/main/index.php?topic=2930.15

<<< edit: I’m using 1.01.11.EXT3-BOOT_LIVE-0.3.4.1 currently and HDMI works as intended. It has with all previous versions as well. Try and not select ‘auto’ instead choosing an actual resolution, there might be a EDID handshake problem or something…although mine is set to auto… –b-rad >>>

Brad,

I think adding bounty section to your site will help users to get what plugin / feature they need by offering money and Others can join the bounty and add more money for a feature.

I am ready to add first bounty

Sorry for my poor English!

Thank you for your hard work.
———————————–
I’m waiting custom firmware for official firmware 1.01.17

<<< edit: well I’m waiting for donations that specifically say ‘please integrate 1.01.17′ –b-rad >>>

B-rad!
Can you explain to me what’s the use for the ntfs-3g included on WDlxTV_LIVE-0.3.4.1 ?
Since I’m a Windows user with some knowledge of Linux, I would like to how to use this and if I will experience overal performance with it.

Thanks

<<< edit: The Changelog is quite clear, its for power users to do the testing themselves at their own risk. WD uses the Paragon UFSD NTFS driver and ntfs-3g might very well be incompatible with it. I don’t use NTFS, but others bugged me to include it for them to test–so i did. I don’t recommend using it at all unless you know what you’re doing and are prepared for possible data corruption or other unforeseen consequences. –b-rad >>>

Thank you very much for the update 0.3.4

After adjusting NZBGET download is working on NTFS formatted drives. Also for so far no mounting problems.
Still existing is comm. between nzbget firmware and webui. Screen is still blanc or better black.
Seems that a certain script isn’t working as it should.
Will search for a solution has no direct priority…..

Keep up de good work much appreciated.

Awesome work, thank you so much!
Can our media player be a web browser?
thanks

at first: Thank you for your excellent work. The Firmware runs perfectly.

Would it be possible to integrate Truecrypt? And would be the performance of the WD_Live strong enough to decrypt 1080p movies?

As the firmware doesn’t load the Custom-translations won’t work either. I copied custom-language-01.po to my flash drive, tried every language and nothing happens. After restart the custom-language-01.po automaticaly dissapears from drive (but still no translation). No working……………

Hi, much thank for everything what for us do you do, Shall I question FW is 0.3.4.1 Shall I create file from translation, will record to the root disk, but malfunctions it ………….pleas help. Thank you
(Excuse for my bad English)

Hi!

Thx for the firmware upgrades B-rad!
After installing 0.3.4.1 fw i lost the image through HDMI. It used to work with the previously installed 0.3.2.1. I have even tried downgrading to previous versions, including the latest original fw, still no image trough HDMI output!
Any suggestions?

Thank you for your good job

but in version 3.3.1 doesn’t the CIFSINTERCEPTOR
with nfs mounting not work.

<<< edit: works for me. –b-rad >>>

I upgrade my wd tv live vith official firmware 1.01.17 and now i dont hev option too change firmware by USB , when you go to update firmware wd serch only internet conection.
Help!!!