Comments on: WDTV Optware tips #3 – bittorrent with rtorrent

By: ruffles619

ruffles619 — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:17:55 +0000

so are there limits or no? <<< edit: no clue, don't use it. Ask here. --b-rad >>

By: ruffles619

ruffles619 — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:57:16 +0000

is there a file limit size that i can download? Because i download large 1080pHD files that can range from 4gb to 30gb.

By: realtebo

realtebo — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:57:46 +0000

After a while I installed your latest firmware, and it’s all ok.

I reinstalled also rtorrent following this guide, but when I drop torrent files into the watch directory rtorrent doesn’t react. Really, nothing happens.

What could be the cause?

<<< edit: No clue really, but guess would be misconfiguration of rtorrent.rc. Refer to forum.wdlxtv.com for support. –b-rad >>>

By: Maxycatz

Maxycatz — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:31:37 +0000

Many thanks for your tutorial and for getting this going on the WDTV; you’re a star.
Set it all up yesterday and very impressed by first 4gb download.
Trying to add another torrent today and rtorrent dies with:
Caught Bus error, dumping stack:0/ 0.0 KB] [Port: 51777] [U 0/11] [D 0/0] [H 0
Stack dump not enabled.
A bus error probably means you ran out of diskspace.
[screen is terminating]

rtorrent.conf is the same; there’s plenty of space (50 odd gb on drive) and not change to the attached drives.

Any solutions?

Many thanks,

Maxy

<<< edit: not sure, forums would be a better place to ask. –b-rad >>>

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:16:46 +0000

Solution to previous post: I had to change the location of the data folder through both modifying rtorrent.conf and re-running the install page of wtorrent. My previous location was on /mnt, and version 0.5.7.1 changed that mount point.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:07:43 +0000

After updating WDLXTV to version 0.5.7.1, rtorrent no longer recognizes my ext3 partition as writeable (although samba does). I tried pointing it to the location in /tmp/media and in /tmp/mnt. None worked.

By: Sagar

Sagar — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:58:31 +0000

Related to my earlier post :
I replaced optware bin with the original one & did all the steps again & did not see the error this time.

By: Sagar

Sagar — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:35:54 +0000

I installed rtorrent as per the instructions here. But when I try to execute it, get the following error. Do I need to set TERM ?

# rtorrent
Error opening terminal: linux.

I’m using WDLXTV 0.5.6.1

<<< edit: weird, dunno what to say. –b-rad >>>

By: Methos

Methos — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:53:33 +0000

I tried WDLXTVonly for torrent downloading.
And, as mentioned upper, rtorrent always killed by kernel because of out of memory about half an our after being started.
Even when only one torrent is trying to download.
I’ve limited peers too.
When i restart, the file is in checking hash for hours, download a bit, and crash again (about 30mn).
Googling for days didn’t give me a solution.
Most think it’s because there’s no swap.

Is it possible to mount a .bin (like optware) as a swap partition ?

<<< edit: go to wdtvforum.com and look for the rtorrent/wtorrent thread, people there have it running successfully. –b-rad >>>

By: Sami

Sami — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:34:19 +0000

Thanks for the very good firmware…
I was thinking, that would it be possible to make the firmware look for the thumbnail pictures from the MKV-container? I mean that you wouldnt have to have .jpg by itself.

<<< edit: Cheers. It is possible, but not something I’d do without motivation as I don’t think I have a single mkv with an internal thumb. –b-rad >>>