Wow, incredible work b-rad!

I will try it, thank you very much!

Thanks for the tut B!

One question, once we start making our own themes can we share them with others simply by posting our .osd.bin’s?

<<< edit: of course –b-rad >>>

by executing the instruction I get the following error message. What am I doing wrong?

# mount -o loop /tmp/farscape.osd.bin /tmp/osd
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount ‘/dev/loop6′: Invalid argument
The device ‘/dev/loop6′ doesn’t seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

<<< edit: those are meaningless errors printed as the kernel tries each filesystem until it finds the correct one…its really mounted –b-rad >>>

I’ve been trying to open the .bin files to edit them but i can’t fig out how to get in them…I’ve tried it in xp and in linux…please help me

<<< edit: they are writeable ext3 filesystem images. just mount them somewhere on the command line using the loopback devices, like such:

mount -o loop <someimage.bin> <some.location>

–b-rad>>>

Is there an error in step 2? In step 1 you rename the app.bin to farscape, but in step 2 you still reference the original filename.

<<< edit: corrected it, cheers. –b-rad >>>

Please b-rad, Could you recomended a good xml editor???

I would seeing the result of the edit before to put inside of the wdtv!!!

Thanks.

Hello, I am having troubles making it to work properly… All I wanted to do, was to change the background to the “wood” one, and exchange french language file to mine native. I can do this from FTP level, but with every restart, it gets back to default – so I thought I may create additional app pack, containing those two modifications.

I went with #2, homever, I got the same error message as @mart – and I am not sure it gets mounted, since I can’t umount it afterwards.

#1 went smooth (though indeed it is overkill), I was able to change the background, and language files… homever, all that gets loaded with the newest WDlxTV is language – the background stays the same. To make sure I didn’t screw up, I loaded farscape theme 0.1, posted after #1, and the background stays the same (colors apparently changed). Then I found out that in S00custom-options there is a line for custom backgrounds, but uncommenting it didn’t work. I thought, that maybe event-osd screws it up, but it wasn’t it – it’s the same without it… any ideas?

<<< edit: Theres a hidden feature dealing with languages. If exists custom-language.01.mo, custom-language.03.mo, custom-language.03.mo, or custom-language.04.mo on a device at boot it will replace (respectively) chinese traditional, chinese simplified, korean, or japanese. As for custom welcome_background, well if you use a theme it’ll mess up supplying a custom background on a boot device, as themes will overwrite it. I’ve just tested out placing a custom welcome_background_bg.jpg on a boot device for boot-time replacement and it still works as it should. –b-rad >>>

Well, adding line to s00custom-options copying the background from /opt/my to osd/image did the trick. Changing the language that way does not work, so I guess I will use both custom theme, and background being copied from opt/my, unless until I figure our better way.

Great tutorial, but I got a problem. I am trying to get the “lilibabe.osd” onto your latest release but it does not seem to be working. I put it onto the root of my memory stick. What am I doing wrong?

<<< edit: with so few details, no clue. If you’re trying to load lilibabe on wdlxtv-live it won’t happen. If you’re trying on the original place it on a flash device, might have better luck. Otherwise ask in the forums. –b-rad >>>

wow do I feel dum when I read some of these posts
I Wish that some body would provide a service for a fee, I send you my unit tell you what I want and pay you for your beautiful god given talent!!!!

<<< edit: Depending on what you’re looking for i do –b-rad >>>

i saw in the forums that some people had success to some extent with manually installing files and renaming the necesaary ones for lilibabe, b-rad have you tried this would love to hear your view on getting it to work.

Hi b-rad,

I was just wondering – does this mechanism work for modifying one of your firmware files as well? i.e. can I mount wdtvlive.bin, modify OSD files inside it and expect a “permanent” OSD change?

-H

<<< absolutely not, the filesystem is read only NAND flash. –b-rad >>>

Hi b-rad,

I tried to change just the welcome.xml and welcome_logo.png with the originals by using second method you mentioned. But they weren’t changed even I didn’t get any error. Do you have any suggestion ?

<<< edit: I suggest asking at forum.wdlxtv.com. –b-rad >>>