Comments on: WDLXTV – enhanced WDTV firmware 0.5.5

By: Elliot

Elliot — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:58:31 +0000

your firmware did not fix my movie playing bugs. fast forwarding issues. sound stuttering issues. forwarding to the middle and the sound dis pears. & none of these problems happen on a PC. I spouse this is not suppose to fix the bugs right.I did put you firmware on there & I didn’t like the extreme firmware.I did not notice the difference. all the specs I could not get to work.so I put back the original.well if you would like to fix a couple of issues I’m having in your next firmware. one thing I like you to fix is Codec, is there anyway you can change the codec. some how clone K lite codec pack computer version for the wdtvlive. computer codec works wonderful.& I would love to take computer codec and put it on the wd tv live. Netflix is the other one I like to see B-rad improve. let show wd tv that they are not in charge of this country

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:52:43 +0000

b rad,

Thanks for all the work you do! Seems it takes quite a bit of time away from you that you could be hitting the trails in the mountains! I was wondering if you know of anyway I could get the Trendnet TEW-644UB to work with WDTV (w/WDLXTV)? I’m a noob, so dumb it down for me please!

Thank you so much,

Mike

<<< edit: I got in over 1 million metres of descent last year It would be nice if that was 2 million, but I think I do alright Go to the homebrew forums, someone might be able to help. –b-rad >>>

By: Leo

Leo — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:57:10 +0000

Is it possible to put the samba.app.bin somewere on the wdtv? I use it on a usb-stick so i’ve just one free and that one is for the usb-ethernet stick. Thanks for your comment!

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:11:02 +0000

Thanks, this works fine!!
xmount //10.0.0.33/Muziek Muziekleo cifs
xmount //10.0.0.33/Fotoos Fotoosleo cifs
xmount //10.0.0.33/Films Filmsleo cifs
Network via homeplug 85mb, musik and fotoos fine. Films slowly. Is anyhow nfs possible in this configuration (3 x xp-pro and wdtv)? Nfs seems to be faster isn’t it?, thanks for your comment!!

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:50:54 +0000

I’ve also put the question in the webserver forum, forget that one from now on because it’s twice. So, just put my wdtv on and connect the webserver bin. It works fine. I have the field shares and possibility to make a choice betwen sifs and nfs. When i put the ip in nfs and the sharename, wich is /Muziek i get the warning Mounting failed,
probably because of a bad share name!
Atention! You must not share the same share twice! When i go via ftp to /conf and put the net.mounts and boot afther that i can’t see the folder in the folder vieuw. This is the net.mounts:
xmount 10.0.0.33:/nfsroot Muziek nfs Do you have any idee what’s wrong? Thanks man for your comment!!!

<<< edit: if you’re using windows and just sharing a directory the protocol is cifs. If the share name is /Muziek (on the server) then you need to switch nfsroot and Muziek. If you can telnet in, then execute the commands manually until you find what works. –b-rad >>>

By: Leo

Leo — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:04:31 +0000

Hey b-rad, as a lot of people says. Great firmware! en my compliments! Because i’m no familiar with linux i’ve a problem to change the net.mounts document in the wdtv. Is the ftp module perhaps the solution to easy change it? I’ve tried the ftp but i can’t find the username and pw. My ftp program (flashftp) is asking for it and also firefox and explorer. The reason is that i’m working on the network streaming method. The wdtv has already an ip but i can’t see the shares. So i must setup automounting via the netmounts document i sink so. Can you give me some advise?.

<<< edit: user is root with no password. ftp would probably be easiest, ftp net.mounts to /conf –b-rad >>>

By: Carlos Jorge

Carlos Jorge — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:35:48 +0000

Thanks anyway, but I got it working for now… The problem continued with 0.5.6.1, but I found a way…

By unpluging the power cable of the DVD and the WDTV just before I play the MKV, it works perfectly, but if I “awake” the WDTV from the stanby after some hours and try to play it from a DVD again, it hangs the film…

Don’t understand it, but it works just fine this way…

Best regards,
Carlos Jorge

By: Carlos Jorge

Carlos Jorge — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:20:13 +0000

Hi. Thanks for all your work in this project.

I have a problem, I’m using a external LG DVD by USB and when watching movies the movie freezes (many times on the same place, not always) but the WDTV continues to pass the time…

I tried different USB cables but its not that…

Best regards,
Carlos Jorge

<<< edit: no clue, I can play (and just did last night) 8GB 1080p movies on dual layer dvd-r’s without any problem. –b-rad >>>

By: jgme

jgme — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:11:00 +0000

Your the man

By: jgme

jgme — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:50:11 +0000

Hey b-rad, as everyone else says. Great firmware! Do you this theres any way of adding a 5 or 10min skip ahead feature by using the directional arrows like in xbmc. Would help alot when your finishing a movie you were already at the end on but unplugged ur hdd and the resumes gone. Thanks

<<< edit: Have you ever tried pressing an arrow key while you’re FFW/RW’ing? That give you a 10min skip… –b-rad >>>