Comments on: WDTV OSD: How to make a custom theme

By: baboano

baboano — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:30:07 +0000

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 >>>

By: HobbyCoder

HobbyCoder — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:38:39 +0000

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 >>>

By: cchance

cchance — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:59:20 +0000

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.

By: blindangel

blindangel — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:46:25 +0000

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 >>>

By: josh

josh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:16:27 +0000

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 >>>

By: hacksrus

hacksrus — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:43:28 +0000

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.

By: hacksrus

hacksrus — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:50:01 +0000

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 >>>

By: rataweb

rataweb — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:13:38 +0000

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.

By: Mr Lazy

Mr Lazy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:45:21 +0000

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 >>>

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:49:55 +0000

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

–b-rad>>>