DVDMOD is a custom firmware I made for the Western Digital WDTV. I have remixed both official firmware releases and added optical drive support via cd-manager. Yes, this means you can boot with a usb dvd drive connected and play from it on your WDTV now. The only limitation is that since dvd drives are officially unsupported you must have a supported (aka FAT32, NTFS, HFS,…) drive/flashdisk inserted. If there is no supported drive in the WDTV reports ‘no storage present’ and you will be unable to navigate to the browser. DVDMOD also enables you to use ext2/ext3/reiserFS/xfs drives with your WDTV.
This firmware is flashed to your WDTV like the updates that have come from Western Digital, unlike Zoranders ext3-boot firmware that is available from WDTV HD player unofficial firmware wiki. Whereas ext3-boot is for pros (sorta) this ones for joes.
This is a maintenance release to solve buggy issues with the 1.02.00 firmware. 1.02.03_DVDMOD-0.4.2 is a highly recommended update for users of 1.02.00-DVDMOD. The sluggy OSD issues, that weren’t my doing, have been fixed.
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Yes, I’ve finally gotten around to part 3 of 3 in my rtorrent with wtorrent tutorial. Wtorrent is an excellent webui for rtorrent and after this tutorial you’ll be able to manage rtorrent from the web…forward a port and you can even connect to your wdtv from the internet to queue up torrents!
In order to take advantage of this tutorial you must either be running WDLXTV or Zoranders ext3-boot. You must also have my Optware for WDTV package installed, that stuff is covered elsewhere. I’ll be including every necessary step here, so you might be able to skip around if you already have some of this done.
This writeup presumes that you have already executed the steps from part 1 and part 2. If you haven’t done them yet, then get over and complete them first!
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WDLXTV is a souped up unofficial firmware for the Western Digital WDTV. It is based off the 1.02.03 firmware, but with many extra features. Similar to my dvdmod firmware, this is a permanent flash, just like an official upgrade. There is no Linux knowledge required to use WDLXTV.
Hot of the press, again.
0.4.3.1
* NFS/CIFS/XFS/reiserFS mounting fixed.
0.4.3
* now based on 1.02.03 !!
* screen_saver shrunken for size
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WDLXTV is a souped up unofficial firmware for the Western Digital WDTV. It is based off the 1.02.00 firmware, but with many extra features. Similar to my dvdmod firmware, this is a permanent flash, just like an official upgrade. There is no Linux knowledge required to use WDLXTV.
0.4.2
* fixed OSD sluggishness
* corrected freezing setup->about screen
0.4.1
* all OSD images are back to original size
* once again removed fsck_hfs for the space (download core-extras.app.bin)
* OSD tweaks (filename listings are much wider)
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DVDMOD is a custom firmware I made for the Western Digital WDTV. I have remixed both official firmware releases and added optical drive support via cd-manager. Yes, this means you can boot with a usb dvd drive connected and play from it on your WDTV now. The only limitation is that since dvd drives are officially unsupported you must have a supported (aka FAT32, NTFS, HFS,…) drive/flashdisk inserted. If there is no supported drive in the WDTV reports ‘no storage present’ and you will be unable to navigate to the browser. DVDMOD also enables you to use ext2/ext3/reiserFS/xfs drives with your WDTV.
This firmware is flashed to your WDTV like the updates that have come from Western Digital, unlike Zoranders ext3-boot firmware that is available from WDTV HD player unofficial firmware wiki. Whereas ext3-boot is for pros (sorta) this ones for joes.
This DVDMOD-0.4.1 release includes another option for users, 1.02.00-DVDMOD, which is based off the latest WDTV firmware that includes thumbnail functionality.
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WDLXTV is a souped up unofficial firmware for the Western Digital WDTV. It is based off of the brand new 1.02.00 firmware, but with many extra features. Similar to my dvdmod firmware, this is a permanent flash, just like an official upgrade. This firmware is an option for those whos hardware is stable with Zoranders ext3-boot, or those who don’t do much firmware programming to take advantage of ext3-boot. Once again, ext3-boot is for (sorta) pro’s and testers whereas WDLXTV is for everyday use.
Sorry it took me so long to whip this up 
Good stuff added:
0.4
* now based on firmware 1.02.00 !!!
* fsck_hfs is back in the firmware, no binaries have been removed this time
* thanks to DXR for reducing a handful of large OSD images to give me extra space : )
* fixed background back to Hardwood Night (after a mishap)
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WDLXTV is a souped up unofficial firmware for the Western Digital WDTV. It is based off of the 1.01.02 firmware, but with many extra features. Similar to my dvdmod firmware, this is a permanent flash, just like an official upgrade. This firmware is an option for those whos hardware is stable with Zoranders ext3-boot, or those who don’t do much firmware programming to take advantage of ext3-boot. Once again, ext3-boot is for (sorta) pro’s and testers whereas WDLXTV is for everyday use.
Good stuff added:
0.3
* rewrote hotplugging/unplugging script
* defaults to video on boot
* independant welcome_logo and screen_saver
* Samba/CIFS support aka windows share mounting (requires Samba app pack)
* Experimental wireless adapter support (thx to Zorander) (requires wireless-mod-wdlxtv app pack)
* new logo's by Pennhaven
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Heres another app.bin pack for use in WDLXTV, my custom WDTV firmware. The following pack contains all the necessary binaries to enable SAMBA/CIFS network share mounting. This means you can now mount your Windows shared drives and watch them from your WDTV. I’ve also included a SAMBA server which will share the contents of your WDTV over the network, therefore you can have an easier way to get files to your WDTV.
Remember CIFS is much slower than NFS, so if you can get NFS working that is the preferred way to go. NFS will stream 1080p, whereas CIFS cannot. (more…)
DVDMOD is a custom firmware I made for the Western Digital WDTV. I have remixed both official firmware releases and added optical drive support via cd-manager. Yes, this means you can boot with a usb dvd drive connected and play from it on your WDTV now. The only limitation is that since dvd drives are officially unsupported you must have a supported (aka FAT32, NTFS, HFS,…) drive/flashdisk inserted. If there is no supported drive in the WDTV reports ‘no storage present’ and you will be unable to navigate to the browser. DVDMOD also enables you to use ext2/ext3/reiserFS/xfs drives with your WDTV.
This firmware is flashed to your WDTV like the updates that have come from Western Digital, unlike Zoranders ext3-boot firmware that is available from WDTV HD player unofficial firmware wiki. Whereas ext3-boot is for pros (sorta) this ones for joes.
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As I sat down to start on the wtorrent tutorial I promised back in my rtorrent article I thought about how it is really two seperate parts: getting the webserver running and then getting wtorrent running on that. So today I’ll be going through everything to get the lighttpd webserver running on your Western Digital WDTV, with PHP for dynamic pages too. lighttpd is a lightweight fully featured webserver that suits the WDTV perfect. lighttpd even powers some high profile sites like YouTube and wikipedia.
In order to take advantage of this tutorial you must either be running WDLXTV or Zoranders ext3-boot. You must also have my Optware for WDTV package installed, that stuff is covered elsewhere. I’ll be including every necessary step here, so you might be able to skip around if you already have some of this done.
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