excellent work b-rad. cant wait to try the new firmware. ive been waiting for this! i donated $5 a couple weeks ago. Please send the download link to xxxxx when you send them out. Thanks a lot for your hard work, looks great!

Yayyyyyy!!! I couldn’t be more happy!!!
Thanks B-Rad for listen to us!
Please accept my respect.

PS: I’ve donated to the wdlxtv-plus project.

Thanks b-rad. Donation sent. Happy to see the new firmware. Sadly no movie sheets, but I can wait. Thanks again.

Sweet. Can’t wait. Just got my box yesterday, and the freaking thing won’t show my shares in Network Server (No media found…). Hopefully this ROM will change that, or at least let me hook up in NFS ; )

(Donation on file ; )

Great work! Looking forward to the incorporation of moviesheets!

B-Rad – thanks for the hardwork – I am sure this is not easy, your efforts are greatly appreciated. Been looking forward to the Plus release. Hope my donation helps

great work. I cant wait to try the new firmwareI have sent donation. please send the download link at xxxxx

Good work b-rad! Donation sent! Thanks!

I have been waiting for this. Donation made! Great work!

Good work b-rad! Donation sent! Thanks!

Well done. Looking forward to the sheets.
MAN I’m glad I googled this!! What luck!
Donation sent.

Nice to see it coming along. When you add movie sheets would it be possible to use one folder to store all the movie sheet data for a given directory? This would be much neater than storing all that information in such a messy way that I have seen before.

Soooo… soon you have time for wdlxtv-g2? ^^ *duckandcover*

b-rad,

thanks for the rom!!
I donated July 31st 2010

My comment is actually a question. Does this firmware offer support for the WDTV Live PLus to access shares from a machine (W7, XP, Svr03) on a domain? I just found out from WD that they do not support it… after I bought the unit.

Thanks

<<< edit: Should be possible with xmount. –b-rad >>>

Thanks! Donated.

Hi b-rad. Sorry for straying away from the topic, but I would like to know if there’s any progress in hacking WD TV Mini? In response to one of the comments posted on your blog on July 3rd you wrote:

“mini is not currently hackable, I tried but the entire device and firmware format is unlike any of the other wdtv’s and the chipset isn’t the same either”

My question is: if Mini’s not currently hackable then will it ever be hackable? What does actually make it unhackable – your lack of skills (no offence or the device’s cryptic architecture and firmware format? Is there any way for you or maybe other programmers to get round it? And lastly, will you ever give it a try again or have you definitely abandoned the idea of hacking it already?

Anyway, keep on working, pal. You’re doing a really great job to the whole WD TV community. Thanks in advance for any response. Cheers!

<<< edit: I already spent money to buy the device and a couple days trying to make sense of the firmware. Its not worth my time for such a fringe device. I have enough on my plate already. –b-rad >>>

Will you be continuing to update when you’ve sent more download links out?

<<< edit: what do you mean? I’ll be sending out the second batch of links briefly. For the next 4 days I will attempt to send out links once a day, but I will be very busy on my trip…will try though. –b-rad >>>

I guess nevermind. I was just confused by the process. I wasn’t sure if you were doing batches at a time or if I had missed it or something and you were already gone.

<<< edit: Second batch has been mailed, you should have link and forum permissions now too –b-rad >>>

Donated just now. U completely deserve it for ur work. If u post a donate link for bogdan petriou, I would be more than willing to donate to him as well if it would assist him in making Moviesheets available any sooner. I would also like to encourage anyone else reading these comments or following forums related to this topic, to donate as well. B-rad has worked very hard on this ROM and has put up with a lot sh-hit, from people that think he should do this work for free. Well put ur dollars where ur expectations are. Thanks B-rad, keep up the good work.

Installed this live+ firmware about an hour ago… I have to say this was the fastest and easiest to install firmware replacement I’ve ever had the pleasure of trying. I think I could have talked my mom through this one (after I emailed her the modified options file). I look forward to putting this one through all the paces. I already notice better stability than the stock firmware such as when trying to switch from ALL to VIDEO on the mediafly channel (still locks up, but not 100% anymore as long as I wait for the channel to load).

Thanks, Brad, for your great job.
I’ve just donated to support you and the future releases. Please, send me the link to the Live Plus firmware capable of future online updates. Can’t wait to receive it, pal.

Thanks a lot.

Brad – you da man! Thanks for taking the time to get this up and running. Well worth the wait and donation. Like WAR mentioned, if getting a donation to bogdan will help speed up WDTVext let us know and it shall be done! Enjoy your holiday!

Thank you very much for your dedication to this project.

Happily donated and will again when I can spare more. Enjoy your trip.

Thanks. I had to jump in after reading through all the new features… Donated $10 and hopefully the firmware cover the Header Removal compression created with MKVMERGE 4.1.0 or later.

Hey B-Rad – made a $20 donation today.

I’ve been looking for a half decent product to act as a media player for quite some time. I made my decision on the WD HD Live plus based on quite a number of positive reviews. The one that was the kicker was when they talked about WDLXTV project and that they highly anticipated a release for the plus version.

I don’t currently have an HD tv, just an older 27″ tube based tv that was given to me and my wife when a relative upgraded. Hey money’s tight and I’ll take what I get hehehe Anyhow the video quality is still awesome even though there are no HDMI inputs on the tv.

I have one question – what media server are you using? I am running Linux Mint, with Media Tomb. Unfortunately I’m not crazy about Media Tomb. Its database is slow and it’s upnp/dlna options aren’t all that impressive.

I work in the IT department of a small company. I was thinking of setting up a side business building system, cleaning out viruses, etc for a few extra bucks. The idea I had was to to fill my media server my my and my wifes collection of dvd movies, tv episodes, etc (we have well over 300 dvd’s between the two of us lol) and put them all on the media server (currently has 8tb of space), and let customers watch a movie or two while I work on fixing or building their system.

The improvements I’ve seen in your video over the current firmware are so impressive I know it will work out well I would LOVE to see moviesheets implemented sometime in the future. I will see about donating again when I have spare funds available.

Take care and have a good one! Sorry about the long message, I’m a bit long winded because I’m that impressed

This is a comment for Ptraugot – regarding his network shares….

What sort of problems were you having with Network Shares and the WD Live Plus?

A network share would be like that of a shared folder. It will be accessible by anyone on the same network. In WD Live Plus, under Video, scroll down one and you should see the option for Network Share. This should see any of your shared folders. If your wireless, you may need to check settings on your router. On the Dlink DIR-655, there are a few advanced settings that will literally block any connection from seeing your computer – even if its on the same network. I had that issue before for slightly different issue (RDP between systems).

If your using an actual media server, it will need to be running in the background in order to work.
Out of curiosity what is your software architecture – windows or linux?

If your using Windows – Windows Media Player 11 from what I understand contains a built in upnp/dlna media server. It will need to be running in order for your movies to be shared.

If your using Linux, there are a few different media servers available – such as Media Tomb, and your experience may very on it. Here is a link that may help you on deciding on a media server – http://www.rbgrn.net/content/21-how-to-choose-dlna-media-server-windows-mac-os-x-or-linux

The other question you need to ask is why you need a media server. For most instances – running a network share (right click on folder, share this folder) is all anyone needs. WD Live Plus reads it just fine (although with Windows there appears to be some weird glitches that rarely occur with shared folders and linux clients. Rare but do occur). The WD Live Plus currently is reading all my Network shares, from my linux laptop, my media server, and my wife’s Windows 7 Ultimate laptop.

As for the server, you should only really need the server if you need to play video that is compiled in a format that the WD Live TV can not read natively. Given the large extent of the media formats it can read, most people won’t need to transcode the video. Other options that media server software can offer is giving you the ability to transcode additional online media sources (podcasts, online video sites like Hulu and YouTube, etc) But again with the amount of support already built in to the WD Live Plus, and the additional options configured with the new firmware that B-Rad has come out with, this again reduces the need for an actual media server.

Please send download link (wdlxtv-plus).

b-rad:
I have a silly question: is your new firmware (live plus) compatible with the live hardware?
I do not know if there is a hardware difference between live and plus.

B-rad I am super poor (just had a baby), but I will throw some cash your way when I get some extra.

<<< edit: cheers –b-rad >>>

just found the answer, live+ has extra hardware

Awesome work! Just donated for the wdtvlive+. Currently wdtvlive+ reports no media found for my linux server samba shares. Windows PCs see them fine. Connected my USB backup drive as work around. The wife loves netflix so I may have to buy her one to get access to it. Enjoy your vacation. I’ll wait patiently for the link, drooling the entire time!

B-Rad came through AGAIN!

Nice demo – Congrads.

Hey there B-Rad Awesome job

I’ve donated $20 the other day. I’ll definatly donate more as spare funds are available. This project is something that needs to be supported.

Is there any sort of documentation kicking around for the non Plus version that I can peruse? I have the wd live plus, but have been having issues with the thumbnails (which seems to be a common complaint on the WD forums).

great job ! Donate is made.

B-rad, what is your email. I want to get you an amazon gift card, paypal doesn’t accept the only debit card I have. Looking forward to loading the new firmware on my live +.

I’ve donated $10 to keep it up the good work B-RAD !

… and to get de link to download the firmware too

Receipt Number: 5281-7339-3009-7089

Great Work B-Rad! I Aperciate the work effort and already have it installed.
Cant wait to get access to the private forum area. Want to discuss with other that have donated.

-J

Hi, B-rad.
Last friday, I´ve donated US$ 10 to support your efforts. Please, send me the download link. The Paypal transaction ID is xxx
Thanks a lot.
Luis Camara

I’ve donated 20$ two days ago, keep the good work (even if I didn’t test yet, I’m sure it will be cool! )

Thanks!

I donated $10 awesome job!! looking forward to tryin out the PLUS firmware!!

Can I see youtube HD after install this FW? and how about DVD menu(for playing from DVD folders)? Thanks. Great work but please anser my question, and you going to deserve your reward.

<<< edit: yes & yes –b-rad >>>

I was looking at this unit as a maybe purchase (due to it having no native wifi, which really is rather silly for a device of this nature), but after seeing the guts, logs and your firmware for various models, and also learning that it does indeed run Linux, I am completely sold!

I’m going to get one of these units on payday, and sort you out with a donation before the end of September. I hope the offer’s still good by then

I just donated $10, thanks for the hard work.
Send a link when you get a chance. I would like to flash while I have some time off. Thanks

Donated with message, how long does it take to receive a link? In understand you are AFK, just want to make sure I didn’t do something wrong.

donated 10, can’t wait to get the firmware and try it out!

I made my donation – please please send me the link/firmware

YOU ROCK!!!

-Rob-o

Just donated. Thanks for all the work. In for download link.

OMG WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SIMPLY SUPPORT POWERPOINT PPT PPTX FILES? (please).

I donated the suggested $10 now how do i get the link for the firmware?

<<< edit: Check your mail –b-rad >>>

Thanks for the great work, it is very much appreciated. I donated $10 yesterday.

Cheers.

B-rad can you help a brother out? I can’t wait to try it!

I shot you an email about this but figured I may as well thank you publicly too

A HUGE thanks for all your hard work. I dropped $10 your way but forgot to mention this was for the plus…go me. Anywho, here ya go.

Cheers!!

Just donated $10 toward the wdlxtv-plus firmware development. Looking forward to the new firmware. Thanks for all of your efforts!

Donated! Went looking for custom firmware as soon as I bought my live plus, but at the time you had just gotten one yourself. Cant wait to see the results of all the hard work! Cheers!

Hadnt recieved download link just yet so forwarding info incase u missed it.

Thanks B-rad.

Excited about the work you have done. Will be getting a WDTV Live Plus in a couple of weeks and will be donating at that time. Is there any chance of supporting steaming from other internet sources outside of Pandora and Live365? Like somewhere that you can manually set up steams or by using a site as a directory like radiotime.com.

B-rad,

I never use your firmware yet. by just reading the posts thinking the hard worked you put.

I’m sold… donation done.. !

Looking forward to try the + fw..

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! YOU ARE THE MAN!

WDTVbb

Donated, please send me the link. Thank you sooo much for this firmware!!!

Just donated, can’t wait to check it out! Good stuff B-Rad!! Thanks!!!

B-rad…sent, will do more once I get paid. We all really appreciate your hard work!

<<< edit: Cheers. –b-rad >>>

B-Rad.. I donated Sept. 4th. How long will it take to get the download link. Thanks for your work.

<<< edit: Link was sent to you on sept 7th. Check your junk mail. –b-rad >>>

Just donated. Can’t wait to check this out. Thanks so much for the hard work.

Great Job B-Rad and keep up the good work. I have donated this afternoon please send me the download link.
Thanks again.

Hey, gave $20 since I have 2 Pluses! Keep up the good work, can’t wait to take it for a spin.

Hi, Can you let me know if the software solves the issue with WDTVLive beeing connected to an Airport Extreme with attached HD ?

The combination works erratically with 1.02.21

<<< edit: No clue really as I don’t have one, but I believe i remember seeing people successfully mounts Airport Extreme shares. –b-rad >>>

Just finished donating 5$, unfortunately cannot afford anything else, but something is something. Looking forward to the firmware e-mail, the improvements shown in the video are definitely worthy of the donation.

Thank you very much, always good to give to those who work for it.

B-rad donated yesterday how long till i get link to firmware?

Mark

<<< edit: Was out of town for weekend. Links have been sent –b-rad >>>

I donated..there was no place to leave a comment about re “If you donated, but forgot to say it was towards wdlxtv-plus…”
I also joined the forum and sent a pm…re my paypal address being different from forum address..hopefully you can figure it all out.
Thanks for all your hard work!

FW works great. Flash’d last night. Love the new background and love the larger icons. Thanks again B-rad. Do u have any good links to forums talking about this new fw. Would love to read what everyone else is saying about it.

@luv

Save/Export your Powerpoint as simple jpg files and you should be able to display them just fine, using the remote to move back and forth. Just don’t include any silly animations.

Friend just helped me donated $10 as I lack paypal.

Keep it up man, you are amazing! Thanks!

Hey B-RAD I’m super excited to try out this firmware for the WD Live Plus. I just donated and can’t wait to receive the email from you. Ive been watching this forum for months waiting for this. You are the man, I appreciate all your hard work and dedication. I know this kind of stuff isn’t easy and you my friend are a Genius.

just got a friend to agree to donate; i wasn’t able to show him the firmware though…still waiting on the link good sir!

anxiously awaiting the software, thanks

Just finished donating 10$.

Looking forward to the firmware e-mail, the improvements shown in the video are definitely worthy of the donation.

B-rad didnot get link checkrd junk mail folder.

Mark

Brad
Donated $5 yesterday, cant wait for the link

Just donated 20$, please send me the download link.

Thanks for your hard work!!!

Just finished Donating $21 (WDLXTV-Plus) because of the two extra features. Can’t wait to try out your firmware. Also, will there be added support for other wireless usb adapters?

Thanks

I made a donation on Sept. 9 and I have not received the link to download the firmware either. Would appreciate it when you get a chance. Thanks.

<<< edit: I have now sent it to you multiple times, you sort your email. –b-rad >>>

just donated $10 Great work! thanks!

I’m living outside USA, please I need the VPN connection, without vpn I can’t watch Netflix, vpn please please please

thanks!!

<<< edit: It doesn’t matter what you need. I am not breaking us law by helping you circumvent netflix tos via a utility built into the fw. –b-rad >>>

Brad – I’m in for $10. Looking forward to testing this out.

I will Donate once the moviesheet is available in the firmware..

$10 donated for wdlxtv-plus!

Sorry, I knew nothing about the law and Netflix, I pay Netflix because I don’t want to download pirated movies, but if it’s illegal outside USA I will cancel my account. My apologies, but VPN is legal and good for our privacy, I use it a lot, if it is possible would be great!

Thanks

<<< edit: Hey, no need to cancel anything because of what I say All I’m saying is that as a US based entity wanting to stay in good relations with the powers that be I will not be providing a way to do this built into the firmware. –b-rad >>>

Excited for this B-Rad. Can’t wait the firmware.

Sent 10 dollar donation and look forward to testing out the new firmware

Brad
Donated on 14th and havent received the link, please send it

<<< edit: I don’t see your email or name sept 13-14…send me an email or pm on the forum with your paypal email and name and I’ll get you sorted. –b-rad >>>

Hey B-Rad! Finally got my plus firmware installed on my box this evening and playing around in the telnet console. Very cool stuff!

How is the fundraising effort going for the Plus? What is the likelihood we will see the OSDMod and Movie Sheets on the Plus firmware before the end of 2010?

Hope you are well.

Donated on Sept 1st! Not sure if I put the right information for plus unit firmware in correct spot on PayPal form. Please forward link to this email address if and when the firmware is released. Thanks for all the hard work that goes into a project of this scope.

Hello, I have been using your firmware for the Live Plus and I’d like to report a few bugs (they are all intermittent – the unit has occasionally worked perfectly):

-Sometimes there is no audio via HDMI

-Sometimes the display detects the wrong video resolution for HDMI

-Sometimes there is no video or audio via HDMI

-All of the above might be some kind of HDMI handshake issue. I have an Optoma HD66 projector, a Samsung 46B650 TV and a Denon AVR-791 receiver – in case this info helps you debug. I have tried going through the receiver as well as connecting directly to the display.

-Sometimes the network shares do not mount (I have HDs connected to an Airport Extreme). However, this is still more reliable than the standard WD firmware.

I can provide more info via email if needed.

Thanks!

Hello Mr. Brad, I donated 10usd to your hard word on the WDTV Live Plus Firmware mod. But, how do I download the firmware? Please send me a link to download and start using this awesome piece of work

Hi there, donation made, can’t wait to see what you made possible and get the firmware

Donation sent for Wdlxtv-plus, looking for testing new FW, Thanks

Looking forward to test it.
Thank you B-rad.

Donated $10 and anxious and chomping at the bit to test.

just donated… i am new to wdtv live plus and can’t wait to get the link… how long do you think it will take?

B-Rad Thanks for all your work on this firmware update for the WD TV Live Plus. I have sent my Donation. Look forward to the link. Have a great day!!

Bought WDTV Live Plus yesterday… donated $15 today! Received link a few hours later. Looking forward to setting this up!

Do you know when/if the moviesheets will be available?

+1 Donation. Looking forward to checking it out. Thanks.

I just donated $20…hope this help out your future projects and nice work.

just donated… i am new to wdtv live plus and can’t wait to get the link… how long do you think it will take?

B-Rad, thanks for your dedication to the WDTV project. I’ve made a donation for your hard work. Because of you is the reason why i purchased 2 Plus units.

Wow i like the idea of a live update server, im only a live (no+) user, will this option (or even the plus firmware) be available to us as well, id surely pay to have live updates !

<<< edit: Online update server will be available to wdlxtv-live donators as well. $10 minimum gets you lifetime access. –brad >>>

Does the 1.02.21 firmware have mkv support for both video/audio. I saw a post with issues with MKV support just wanted to verify.

+1 Donation. Looking forward to checking it out. Thanks.

hi b-rad really pround of ya. alot of hard work and dedication put into this.

just donated $10 …. would love to try this new fw out.

thanks

B-Rad, thanks for your dedication to the WDTV project. I’ve made a donation for your

Thanks for the great firmware… to all of those asking about how long it takes to get the link… It took less then 24h to get mine… but i really doubt he’s sitting at his computer waiting to get donations… he’ll send just wait a little

Brad
Check on September 14th here I posted

Thanks for the hard work! Just sent my $10.00 wish I could donate more but times suck right now… It took me almost three weeks to come up with the extra ten…lol…

Can’t wait to get the firmware! Donated to the cause on Sep 17.

Thanks for the work just sent donation

$10 donated for Wdlxtv-plus!

thanks

How do we get the download link for firmware update? I sent a donation in.

All donated…can’t wait to check out.

$10 donated man, your work deserve it
Thanks!

11$ donated today. waiting for fw
thank you!

I was working with the plus. I am getting an intermittent problem where the plus reboots when i hit the option key. I will reproduce this and add a list of all actions and what screen i was on when this happened.

Otherwise …it totally rocks. The netflix is not really worth it but the dvd navigation is sweet. I look forward to the moviesheets. I love those on my live’s. Great work!!

All, I have been searching and researching network media players for the past several days and thanks to the forums have decided to get a WD TV device. The only problem is, which one should I get Live Plus or just Live? Will there be continued development on non-Plus devices or will most of the future development be for the Plus?

The sooner the responses the sooner I can buy the right device!

Thanks in advance,
-Darren

Donated today wondered if there was any update on the firmware and where / when we can download it

I just donated 11$ and am looking forward to the link to wdlxtv-plus and lifetime online updates. Thank you – you do some great innovative work!

Gino, I believe that you can access Windows shares on Domain member PC’s without being a member of the domain if you share the share to Everyone (read-only). Hope this helps.

Good lookin sir. $ 10 dollars dontated in your behalf. just waiting on the link. good job sir and appriciate all you do.

Also donated today (11200696V80690004) and also waitinf for link to wdlxtv-plus FW.

Hi B-RAD !
Thx for your great work !
One question : I am using a WD TV LIVE Hardware. Can I use on this hardware the WD TV LIVE PLUS firmware ???
If so I will donate today
thx Alex

So.. When’s this coming off donationware? Already got the firmware, but I’d like to spread it around..

<<< edit: sunday, september 26th. –brad >>>

Donated today, cannot find a way to register to the forum to send pm.

Alon

<<< edit: link to register at the bottom of every forum page. –brad >>>

Sent $10 donation.

Donated for the link for WDLXTV-Plus Thanks for the hard work on this!

I had no issues donating today as I only installed a previous version of your software. I can not wait to get the link to plus and install it. Props to you, and for whoever is wondering if it’s the real deal. It is! and MAKE SURE TO DONATE!

Hey there Brad–where’d you go man? So much great work, and you seemed to have disappeared? I imagine you’re working hard in the bat-cave creating brilliant updates

<<< edit: go settings->system->update –brad >>>

The reboot has been isolated when i am on the local drive folder list. I have one local USB and volume1 via xmount to my synology ds-1010+

I press the option button and it reboots the system.

Otherwise, i have 8 of these running now through the whole house and it rocks

latest update seems to have ruined any sound output on xvid

Just donated. Looking forward to giving this a try. Just got my WDTV Live plus this weekend and already love it right out of the box. Can’t wait to see the new featured!

Does your firmware offer integration with HDHomerun or similar tuners? If not, how involving would it be to set this up?

I just found your product and will test and donate soon.

Oh, btw, if I rarely use netflix and have other devices capable of netflix support do you recommend purchasing the plus or non-plus units?

How would you characterize your firmware roadmap and where you will offer most support and advancement?

Ha! I love being retarded! Thanks Brad–I apologize for my ignorance

Never tried your firmware but need xmount… donated $5! Thanks!

B-Rad

Just donated $10 for the development of WDLXTV-Plus. Thank’s for the great effort you’ve spent for this project. Can’t wait for the FW.

Rodel

Hi, I just donated to receive the firmware.

Sent Donation of $10

I had the impression (maybe incorrectly) that wdlxtv-plus could play normal DVD video disks connected with an external USB DVD drive?

My question is also does wdlxtv-plus DVD videos connected to the WD with an external DVD drive?
Actually this is the only function I would like to use the most. Do I need the whole wdlxtv-plus firmware or the DVDMOD will do, and is DVDMOD compatible with the WD TV Live Plus?

Thank You.

Is the movie sheet available yet?

Just bought two of these and immediately donated to the cause! Now just need to get my hands on that firmware not so patiently waits….

Hey B-Rad, just donated (forgot to put notes, sorry) looking for the WDTV Live Plus FW… THX

Hey B-RAD, Netflix is available in Canada now, but Live Plus doesn’t have the patch for it yet, do you think you can help

state wdlxtv-plus

I made a $5 donation. Please send firmware. Thank you

Thanks so much b-rad. Can’t wait to get this firmware up and running. Happy to have donated!

Thank you for your Hard Work.

I just donated $25.00

I am looking forward to trying your firmware.

Just donated 10 bucks for wdlxtv plus, can’t wait to use it!

I am waiting the link wdlxtv-plus thanks i all ready send the donation

Please forward on the link, I just donated $5.

hey,

donated $10. Hope it helps.

I forgot to add WDLXTV-Plus

Sorry for the stupid question I’m about to ask but is this for the WD HD Theater Live? The plus is throwing me off.

I have the 1st Gen, the 2nd Gen Live and refuse to buy anymore WD HD Theaters cause of them charging $129 dollars for just netflix.

Appreciate if someone could clarify.

Donated $10 and looking forward to trying the new firmware. Please send link for download.

Thanks for all the hard work.

Came by to send a few bucks to hurry things along, and discovered it;s already done, so here’s my @10 from Paypal

GREAT WORK!

I am a little late on the donation for this firmware so I hope it is useful for future updates. And one question, I have an egreat m34a, sigma chip, but on it I can change the screen size (in finer increments) volume color contrast form the player yet these attributes seem to be missing from WD use of the processor. Why Why Why I know that the chip is not the same chip so were these abilities removed from the WD chip?

I sent in a donation a couple days ago. I am looking forward to giving the B-Rad firmware a try. Where do I find the download link for the Live Plus version of this firmware?

Bob

Donated for the link for WDLXTV-Plus Thanks for the hard work on this!

I just sent ya 10 beans for support!

Hope I don’t brick my live plus..but from what I’ve read, It seems I can go back to the WD stock firmware if needed.

Hope to see the server firmware link in my email.

Thnx

Just what the Doctor ordered!!! I hope this is where I post (brag) about my donation of $10usd – let me know where and when I can get the firmware
TIA

Hello, sent a donation! Waiting for the Link to DL! THank you in advance!

I honestly think it’s absolutely ABSURD that you REQUIRE donations now for something that was previously developed for the community. I’m a open source developer and I find it sickening that once dev’s do something and they then see the opportunity to gouge someone out of money they do so. I could donate $1,000′s of dollars as money is not a problem for me but it’s the premise of the way you force it now.

And I’ll tell you my one reason why I think forced donations is absurd. When you flash your box and have any problems it’s the COMMUNITY that is going to help you get your box working. This dev will take your donation and give you nothing in return. If it works great if not then your possibly bricking a $100 box and when the firmware is free it’s a pretty easy risk, you get what you pay for….but when you CHARGE people they expect much more and honestly I just don’t see this guy giving you ANYTHING should that happen. It’s the community that will help you.

<<< edit: I’m sorry you feel that way. There was never any forcing here. This was a simple temporary fundraising period, which ended almost three weeks ago. If you go to forum.wdlxtv.com you will see all firmwares available for free download… brad >>>

Funny the CheapSkate post just came in. I for one just donated ($15) for Brad. I like his work and wanted to support him and the development. Maybe the community will help solve my startup issues, but Brad is the one who will lead new development. How does he get the hardware to support, if it is not by donations ( either cash here or via a donated piece of hardware). Keep up the good work Brad.

B-Rad, awesome job. Just a quick question. Any plans to add a feature that allows you to tweak the audio sync on the fly like XBMC?

Thanks in advance!!!

Matty

Hi,
anybody have an idea if links are bieng sent, after donations ?
Looks like donations are being, but no reactions afterwards. Correct me if I´m wrong.

Regards
Alex

$10 on it’s way. Can’t wait to upgrade my player! Thnx for the hard work!

Cheapskate, it’s hard not to take your comment as a troll. I’m going to assume that you are serious and I can only assume that you know nothing about B-Rad and all the work he has done. He has been creating firmware mods for the WDTV pretty much since the first model came out (for free), has created mods for every new model since then (for free) and he helps out tonnes of people on the forum (http://wdtvforum.com) on a daily basis. He has spent MASSIVE amounts of time and energy (and $ on new boxes in order to create new mods) and has ASKED for donations to help cover his costs (not demanded). The donation period was clearly stated as temporary and he has since released his latest mod for free. Even though I bought my Live+ after the donation period was over I was more than happy to donate as a thank you for all of his hard work that I’ve benefitted from (I had a Gen1 model that I’ve flash quite a few of his mods on) and I know that I’ll continue to benefit from as he puts out even more mods in the future.

Hi Brad,

I was not able to find the source code of the modified firmware. By goggling for it (after searching on your blog, wiki and forum), I found this guy complaining about something I think he is right: http://dren.dk/wdtv.html

IMO it might help to grown the developers community around wdlxtv releasing the sources (or make then more public if they are available already).

Cheers,

<<< edit: You can go download the GPL package from WD yourself. Everything I’ve done is published somewhere or another. –brad >>>

Wait to see it how it works!

This is great

Completely disagree with CheapSkate comment. There must be 1000′s of hours spent on developing and supporting the firmware not to mention the forum responses.

Without this effort we would have the plain-jane WDTV box with all of its limitations, and the spin-off applications like WDTVExt would never have come about. I hardly call $5 a “gouge” and it was not forced upon you.

Just donated $25 and consider it money well spent!

<<< edit: Thank you Markster and thank you for all your support everyone. Haters will be hatin and trolls will be trolls, c’est la vie. –brad >>>

I donated, do I now wait for an email link for the live plus firmware?

hello,

This is a nice project, I’ll try this FW tonight. I can provide you a free nice web hosting (speed) for website or file hosting.
Tell me if u’re interested.

Regards

I donated to the cause but did not read until now the “note” stating I was to add wdlxtv-plus to the notes section. Also, I would like to register on the forum but must be blind because I do not see the link to do so.

I also cannot wait to see the firmware!

Thanks!

I did donate $20 , please give me link for download , thnak you

Thanks man, sent in my donation. Thanks for all your hard work.

Just wanted to thank you for all your hard work and making this firmware available. It is 100% better than the default WDTV Live! version. I find the reboot option very handy, as I noticed sometimes the machine would get sluggish accessing my network shares after a longer period of inactivity (ie. off for a few days).

if you could add some on-screen information on the CODEC and audio streams used, it would be great.

I gladly just offered up a donation of $10. While I’m one for doesn’t discourage using software acquired for free, I do think that if something is worth what it costs that you should support it.

I’ll be testing this out later this evening and can’t wait to see how it looks. Thanks.

Brad,

Any way in the future a wireless KYBD could be
added to support WDTVlivePlus

i recently down load and install successfully a firmware two issue 1 i found by accident from another site in order to get the firm ware on the device u have to unplug the device 2 many of the links are dead the other issue is the sever you use to store the files it is so limiting why not use source forforge if your porting in linux would you clarify what version i would like to poke around with the command lines i have tried telnet and can only get to the log in and the password no combination are working

Dear Brad,
this seems to be exactly what I was waiting for. Great, I can’t wait to receive the link! (Hopefully it won’t take toooooo long;-)

I also disagree with CheapSkate. I understood it was a temp fundraising effort. I don’t even have a Live+ and I donated. I appreciate the work that has gone into all of the firmware updates that he has done and wanted to express that appreciation.

If I had a Live+ I could have just waited a month and downloaded it for free. I find NOTHING wrong with offering something up a bit early for those who are willing to pay for it, and at $5 and $10 the cost was inexpensive enough as most people don’t hesitate to drop $5 on a coffee or drink at a bar, so what’s $5 to get something useful early.

Keep up the good work!

<<< edit: Thank you Dizzy –brad >>>

B-RAD…
Thanks for a great hack for WDLXTV-live Plus
Keep up the research, and collaboration.
vince320

Hey b-rad,

I realize the amount of effort that folks like you put into this sort of thing so I have sent you a few bucks. We got a WDTV Live Plus box recently and I didn’t even realize that there was stuff like this for it!

M

I was so impressed I had to donate. Man I hope we see more from you.

Hi, I would like to make a donation but I would like to know if there is a new fix for the latest firmware ?
If yes were can I found it?

Thanks

<<< edit: I have no clue what ‘fix’ you’re talking about. –brad >>>

Your last Firmare is 1.03.49_B-WDLXTV-Plus-0.4.7.3 [flash]. My official firmare is 1.06.16.

What versioin of your firmare can I use?

Your work is amazing. I would like to have it and make a donation.

Thanks

Ben

Gave five bucks

PS:i have now is the official firmware 1.06.16 and it cannot detect your custom firmware wdlxtv-plus 0.4.7.3 can you please help?

Thank you
K

<<< edit: see that file in the zip titled README? It’s called that for a reason, and your answer is within ; ) –brad >>>

I dunno but maybe i just miss it ive read it alright but didnt see it maybe i just scroll too fast, anyway thanks for the quick respond

Hello Brad,

Just have a quick question, before in my official firmaware the AAC audio is already unsupported for some wierd reason so i haven’t got any sound at all playing my .mkv files with AAC audio but now i already downloaded and using your firmware and still have the same problem, do you think you guys can fix that or is it something i should just expect from the future update? Can you please let me know? Thank you!!!

Any respond????

Brad????

Thanks for your work in this. Just donated to the cause for the prize. Looking forward to the file!!

very good review on internet, i just donete and waiting for download lnk.
thanks in advance

Hi there B-RAD, I’m from Brazil and I have a WD TV Live Plus Latin AMerica Version! How can I flash my firmware? I can send a WD Live Plus Latin America to you if needed!
Thanks,
Marcus

Hey I am interested in your hack for the WD Live Plus. I have an issue and I am not sure if your update will solve it.
I bought the North American version of the WD Live Plus but i reside in the Caribbean. When I try using the WD in the Caribbean my Netflix account is not working as it says that I need to get a WD Live Plus from North America. Would your update solve this issue for me?

Thanks.

We appreciate all the work you folks put into stuff like this for the benefit of the community! Bravo!
Sent a donation to keep it coming. (11dec11)
-tony

Brad – here in Australia I have the:

WD TV LIVE HD MEDIA PLAYER
Firmware: 1.06.15_V
Part #: WDAAP0000NBK
Serial #: WNV 100 704 133

Question: Is your wonderful hack compatible with this model?

Cheers

Dean

i can’t find a full list of everything the hack has/offers. I heard is was simply awesome and will def. donate … but what am i getting feature wise?

hi ,,, am from africa , and i wanna watch so arabic tv on my wd tv plus , can you help me to add
zaaptv or live tv logo to my device ,,,, thanks ,,
ibrahim

Playon not working correctly hulu and other built in apps within playon

B-rizzle??? Where are you? Did you fade away? I’m trying to get my wdtv live plus to connect with usb wifi dongle…. no luck.

Hi Brad- Maybe silly question but does this also work for the WD TV Live Plus ‘WiFi’ version? Since I just purchased the latest one with wifi. thx