Firmware - Western Digital - WD TV HD Media Player - Page 54

Is there any change to create anyone official or unofficial firmware to support both external dvd-roms and dts downmix.

A lot of thanks.

Can anyone using b-rad's and Hanewin NFS Server, please explain how you set it up.

I did it exactly as it should be done, but the OSD will not display my files once again. It was working fine, then all of a sudden it didn't want to list anything.

I had Hanewin exports set up, I had the xmounts done, and the /tmp/media/usb/Videos folder was showing contents before. Restarted the WDTV and all of a sudden nothing is shown. I am getting no errors in the messages.txt either.

EDIT: I tried a simple test. I moved a bunch of my files out of a folder and checked again. It worked fine. Apparently there is a limit to the total size of the files in a folder. I added an MP3 folder with hundred of files and it lists them fine. However, a folder with a couple dozen movies, all 10GB+, and it would not display a listing. It only gave me a list when I removed some files from the list. I also made sure it wasn't a particular file giving this behavior. I guess organizing your directories is going to be important for this device, as you can't just pack a folder full of huge files.

EDIT 2: New symptom. It won't play any files now, even files it played before when it worked on b-rad 0.3. It gives an error, saying "Check manual about converting to supported format." for every file that worked before.

Sure thing....

Gear
WDTV ext3-boot-0.8.7.2
Lexar JD Firefly 2GB
No HUB

HW
- Win XP Pro SP3
- Pentium 4 3.07GHz
- 2.00 GB Ram
- Media HDD Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS
* SATA 3.0Gb/s\t
* 1.5TB
* 120 MB/s sustained data rate
* 32-MB cache buffer

NET
- Netgear GA311 - Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter (Realtek RTL8169/8110)
- Netgear GS108 - Prosafe 8-Port Gigabit Ethernet switch (unmanaged)
- LevelOne USB-0201 - Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
- Cat6 Wires (self made)
(Jumbo Frame tests were performed with Asus NX1101 Series Gigabit Network Adapter supposedly supports up to 16K Jumbo Frames (BS IMO))


NET CONFIG Netgear GA311
- 802.1Q/1p Vlan Tagging - Disabled
- Checksum Offload - Rx & Tx Enabled
- Flow Control - Enabled
- Jumbo Frame - Disabled
- Large Send Offload - Enabled
- Net Address - Not Present
- Speed & Duplex - 1.0 Gbps Full Duplex
- WOL Settings - ALL OFF

Driver Details - Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
- Rtnicxp.sys 5.713.0121.2009 built by: WinDDK (Signed MSWHC)
- RtNicProp32.dll 1,2,0,3 (Signed MSWHC)

NFS Platform
- Microsoft Services for Unix 3.5 ver. 8.0.1969.1
- All Drives NTFS

Services For Unix Administration
Server For NFS > Server Settings
- Enable TCP support - ON
- Enable NFS v3 support - ON
- Directory cache size - 128 KB

Client For NFS > Performance
- Transport protocol - TCP
- Mount Type - Soft
- Maximum number of retries for any operation - 1
- Interval between retries - 0.8 sec
- Read buffer size - 32KB
- Write buffer size - 32KB

Registry Tweaks - see attachements
point of interest [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Server For NFS\\CurrentVersion\\Exports\\
"ReadDirPreference"=dword:00008000
"ReadMax"=dword:00008000
"WriteMax"=dword:00008000

Case Study 1
7,026,154,656 bytes
# time cat 01.mkv > /dev/null
real 14m 31.34s
user 0m 5.49s
sys 12m 32.94s
61.54 Mbit/s

Case Study 2
8,535,010,889 bytes
# time cat test00.mkv > /dev/null
real 17m 51.47s
user 0m 6.66s
sys 15m 27.83s
60.74 Mbit/s

Case Study 3
944,357,114bytes
# time cat 00.avi > /dev/null
real 1m 53.03s
user 0m 0.64s
sys 1m 38.07s
63.76 Mbit/s

 

Client For NFS.txt 4.1875k . file

 

Server For NFS.txt 6.69140625k . file

Greetings

I just upgraded from 8.6 to 9 and now I get the following

This folder is empty

I am using the same mount command, but nothing.
Was there something that changed that I am not aware of ?

Hi Daystrom,

Can you tell me the xmount command for mounting dsn323 using CIFS?
I keep getting error message like:

xmount //192.168.2.2/movies dns323_movies cifs user=my_user,pass=my_pass
mount: permission denied. (are you root?)

Of course I could, but this would be a fairly time consuming thing fidgeting with the xml files to get the layout right...so not too high on my list


good to hear you figured it out


slight chance with #1 (see signature)
#2 no.


try and either leave the box unplugged for a few minutes or hitting the reset button. I've seen this happen a time or two, reset fixed it up.

recently I bought a Zyxel NSA-220 NAS.
I activated a UNFS 3 server on it, shared a folder using
/i-data/md0/video 192.168.0.0/24(ro,insecure,no_auth_nlm,anonuid=0,anongid=0,no_root_squas h,no_subtree_check) in exports.

I am able to mount it on wdtv (with ip 192.168.0.112), I can see the mounted filesystem structure but, when I am trying to read from it i get an Input output error


I tested on another linux box (ubuntu 8, ip 192.168.0.113) I have no problem mounting and reading from that share.

Anyone knows what the problem could be?

I have now tried to contact the WDTV with FTP and this works fine, it was also no problem to replace the background image over FTP.

When going to Videos and Folders I still can´t see the mounted share?

What could be wrong? Do you know where I can get help with this?

Hi netdada,

did u get any answer regarding nested folders? I'm having similar problem ...

I'm experiencing ssh freezes :/ once a minute or two everything freezes for 5-10 seconds. Anybody have idea how to fix it?

Hi,
where canI download this improved version ?
here ?: http://www.wdc.com/wdtvprerelease/ ? or is this information only "blablabla" ?
I'm interested about each firmware improvements.

Alda

Hi folks,

I have one question, ist it possible to expand
the gui with new funktions, like web-radio stream?

rfehr

Yes I can. There are a download button
Try it:
http://www.wdc.com/global/webtrackin...FW_1_02_00.zip

I don't believe network will ever be supported in official firmwares. The simple reason would be that there is no network port in the WDTV. It may be possible to add it as shown by modified firmwares, but I think WDC considers this a simple and low cost device and have therefore no interest to add network support.

Maybe in the next hardware versions of WDTV..

has anyone been able to successfully modify any of the variables? particularly
a.linux_cmd, just dropped into YAMON and did the setxenv a.linux_cmd "kernel params". Upon reset zboot now fails, now I've read 2 different things. That either iy requires mirroring the xenv settings and both copies need to be in sync. The other is the xenv settings are SHA-1 checksummed and if it doesnt match it fails.

Also, has anyone located the JTAG pins?

This improved version IS NOT available for download yet.

Blackie was reposting a twitter message sent by ScottWD. ScottWD is talking about a "new drop" (a new internal firmware version sent by WD developers to WD testers) which shows improvements.

There is no information yet about when and how the general public will get a next BETA or GENERAL release.

PS: OFF-TOPIC WARNING: please don't continue discussing BETA 1.02 in this thread. This thread is for people discussing CUSTOM (unofficial) firmware modifications, and the use of such custom firmware. Beta 1.02 is discussed elsewhere!

They actually don't need to add anything, its all there already, just not enabled.

Is it really version from this picture ? :
http://twitpic.com/2rtev

Alda

Please tell me how you dropped into YAMON. I spent some time working on it and only managed to brick my WDTV.

I'm also very interested in JTAG but haven't solved that yet either.

Here is my report for b-rac.cc regarding firmware WDLXTV 0.4.
The main feature I tested is how it handles my external CD/DVD player.
To make it short, it works

Now, more in détails:

1) when I activate "About" in the system menu, nothing happens and the box seems to be locked during few seconds.

2) I tried a DVD with AVI + SRT files and it looks like SRT files are ignored Is there an explanation for that ?

3) To switch to another DVD, it seems that going to standby mode is not enough. I need to reboot the box, meaning unplug then plug the power cable. Is there no solution to avoid that and allow an automatic umount/mount ?

4) when my DVD player is connected, the message "Scanning USB device..." never disappears. Is it normal ? Even after I unplug the DVD palyer and reboot, the message "Scanning USB device" is still here. The only solution to make it disappear was to disable media library and then to enable again.

5) Is there a solution to have external DVD support without media library ?

6) I am not sure but my feeling is that the boot takes more time than with the official firmware. Is it true ?

If things could be improved, my priorities would be my points in this order: 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 1 > 6

Regards

Thinking about it and after reading what cd.manager 0.7 is normally able to do, my current feeling is that I have a correct mount at boot (with label) but the eject button of my drive is not correctly handled by cd.manager.
bad luck

0.4.2 has been released which fixes a few minor things... including "about"

I managed to get swamped on some job related tasks this past week, so no screendump.app.bin for now, but I put toghether for your pleasure a tar.gz with all the required libs, modules, binaries and scripts.

Download the archive from h**p://www.mediafire.com/?namom4melzy

Extract someware it in your ext3 filesystem so that file attributes are preserved && cd to that directory.

./install_modules
./screendump dump.png


Edit: copy the generated png on a windows machine, open it in mspaint(not a joke) and save it; mspaint is one of few that recognise the generated png, i don't know why


Technical details:
The tool functions by loading a driver that exposes a framebuffer (em8xxxfb.ko && osdbuf_control) . Some binaries ar built by me, some are gathered from the net.

the framebuffer provided by em8xxxfb.ko is miss aligned; in order to use it you need to align it to PAGE SIZE (4096); this is bad, because all the tools that work with a standard framebuffer will crash and burn.

All in all, you can write the framebuffer too, so ... :

Anyhow, I will put toghether an screendump.app.bin in the near future.

pibos

(Airlink ASOHOUSB)
I can confirm that the Airlink ASOHOUSB USB-Ethernet adapter works well. It's the same Fry's $3.90 clearance special from a TX store. Performance seems comparable to a Trendnet TU2-ET100, corroborated by Richard's speed tests (thx Richard!).

Someone PLEASE update the Wiki table and add this information. The Airlink adapter is a steal, would've saved me some cash instead of buying the Trendnet.

Tried both suggestions but unfortunately neither changed the situation. Also flashed to 0.4.2 and tried suggestions, files still will not play. Testing with a 400MB AVI file and a 13.8GB MKV to start, then everything else. Nothing will play.

How about deleting the .wd_tv directory.

hi b-rad-cc,

How much greasing of your wheels would it take for you to implement a scraper. One that connected to IMDB and automatically downloaded the thumbnail. Similar to what boxee and plex do.

Hey!

I have not manage to solve my problem.

I did the following :

1. Changed my admin account to password protected
2. Set the admin account to the one that the WDTV uses
3. Reduced the length of the shared name
4. Changed the 4 GB USB to a 128 clean USB memmory.

I think that it was really point 4 that solved my problem, on the 4GB memory card I got alot of files in the root that do not have any thing to do with the WDTV, this could be the problem.

There is one thing that I have notic, It is not longer possible to change to PAL? and every time I takes out the power cord and puts it right in the resolution sets to 720 even when I did use 1080p60 ?