I’m curious about how the WD TV indexes the media on external storage.
Is there any reason that a storage device could not be indexed before plugging it into the WD TV box? Scanning the drive on a PC would go much faster than the WDTV can manage, especially when dealing with 1TB+ hard drive sizes.

Any thoughts on the idea?

<<< edit: a binary called by the osd indexes shares. –b-rad >>>

Problems I have with 0.4.0
-takes long time for movies to start
-unable to go to about
-when clicking about the box locks up
-occasionally I have to power on and off as the device doesn’t seem to have any of the media read

<<< edit: try 0.4.2. It doesn’t solve the long delay problem but that isn’t me. WD will fix that soon. –b-rad >>>

Can u please put up the WDLXTV – enhanced WDTV firmware 0.4 based on the 1.01.02 firmware?

The 1.02.00 firmware has too many bugs.

I had to go back to std WD 1.01.02 firmware

Thanx

<<< edit: no, not worth the time and effort to maintain two seperate versions. –b-rad >>>

< << edit: now you go to wdtvforum and ask for help. Reading the firmware hacking wiki wouldn’t hurt either. –b-rad >>>

Thanks, Daniel

< << edit: I've moved around to different versions many times since 0.4 and theres been no issue. Have you opened wdtv.ver in a notepad and changed the version to 1.10? That should kick off an upgrade. --b-rad >>>

Until they fix the long delay before movies start would it be possible to provide a download link for your 0.3 version so I my try it please?

Regards,

Steve

Also, found out that DTS audio play without stuttering now! (don’t know if it’s fixed by you or WD, but it’s great!)

Really thanks for your update. Only found out one problem…

The background image of the submenu’s is gone…

Also, in a movie for example, when you press the ‘enter’ button to get the info screen, there is no background.

Is this only with me or is this just a modification you said in the release notes to free up some space?

And 1 other thing, I experience delay in the menu when I skip to for example from Movies to Music. Due to new firmware or is it just at me?

<<< edit: yes, some images were chopped up to save space. Due to uproar though they have all be placed back as original. Theres a 0.4.1 prerelease at wdtvforum with the images back as original and a few other OSD tweaks. –b-rad >>>

I have successfully enabled NFS sharing on Mac OSX 10.5.6 and can successfully stream to WDLXTV using an Apple USB-to-Ethernet.

2 things I noticed :

- Continually scanning USB device
- Takes at least 10 seconds before streamed xvid avi starts playing after movie is selected.

Would you know what this might be please?

Regards,

Steve.

<<< edit: library db changed, so media library must be turned off & then back on again to get rid of the scanning. the ~10s wait is a ‘feature’ of the new firmware, its not me. –b-rad >>>

<<< edit: anythings possible. Will I be doing it? doubt it. You’re free to hire me to investigate other (actual) possible methods that you might be able to do this, but even then no guarantee at all. –b-rad >>>