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post #2251 of 2569
6/10/09 at 5:50pm
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Originally Posted by juliojs View Post

You must edit wdtv.bin on linux. Change the welcome_background image on /osd/image/ folder

Thanks Juliojs for getting back to us So I guess it will take more than just replacing the background picture in /osd/image folder. On the other hand the whole background is almost fully occupied by movie thumbnails, so should I even worry about it

Keep up good work !!!
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post #2252 of 2569
6/11/09 at 2:31am
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Originally Posted by mpfe View Post

if anybody's interested send me a mail, I could make a webserver.app.bin and upload it somewhere or just provide the php file and the pictures

Wonderful. Can you share them (both webserever.app and php files) somewhere?
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post #2253 of 2569
6/11/09 at 2:52am
Hi Juliojs,

Is there any way to get your latest mod working without having to have the pen drive always connected? maybe a feature for your next version.

Muchas gracias por tus esfuerzos
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post #2254 of 2569
6/11/09 at 2:55am
juliojs, thank you! This is exactly what I've been looking for! Great work.


Thank you again for putting time into this for us.
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post #2255 of 2569
6/11/09 at 4:46am
Hi guys,

I need help. I followed this guide: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...6#post16143566 but when i open the Default LAN folder i see nothing. ( i dont see my computer in there ).

The only thing i did different then the guide is that since i only have one Administrator account, i associated that one to 'root' (instead of Compaq_owner<->root). I have a password with my admin account.

Anyone got tips? I'm on TinyXP having no (software) firewall activated for the moment.
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post #2256 of 2569
6/11/09 at 7:23am
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Originally Posted by cibermito View Post

Hi Juliojs,

Is there any way to get your latest mod working without having to have the pen drive always connected? maybe a feature for your next version.

Muchas gracias por tus esfuerzos

+1

It'd be nice not to have one USB port taken just to run the interface. Great job Juliojs!!
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post #2257 of 2569
6/11/09 at 7:39am
Hello

My WD TV Hd is connected to a 40" Samsung LCD (Series 7 ) via Hd cable

When I access the WD Audio/Video setting I notice many display resolution options . Which one is the best for my TV ?
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post #2258 of 2569
6/11/09 at 8:28am
Ok so i have an mkv with FLAC 5.1 from uncompressed 4.6mbps LPCM now according to my knowledge the wd player supports flac? but when i try to watch it, its coming out as 2ch stereo only anyone have any ideas? also im wondering is it possible to convert the flac to dts or ac3? if this is my best route whats the easiest fastest and most efficent way to do this and what tools would i need if someone could point me in the right direction or any ideas how to get the flac to play properly thanks alot
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post #2259 of 2569
6/11/09 at 8:50am
I just have to give a big THANK YOU to Juliosjs!! I love your mod. I do like the version that supports thumbs at 5/2 better though.

I have been trying with very little success to get the osdMod v0.4.0.5 beta mod to display movie info working. Some of my thumbs will work correcty and most would not. So I went back to the osd v0.21 mod which I just love.

I did run across another mod that gives movie info in easy fashion:

http://wdtvforum.com/main/index.php?...9&topic=1039.0

This mod combined with Movie GUI Builder is really nice!! It really makes the WDTV media player come to life!

Now if I could just get Juliosjs' osd v0.21 mod to work with LaurentG's mod, I would be good to go!!!!
Bubba04
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post #2260 of 2569
6/11/09 at 9:22am
bubba04

sounds very interesting, thanks for sharing ...

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Originally Posted by bubba04 View Post

I just have to give a big THANK YOU to Juliosjs!! I love your mod. I do like the version that supports thumbs at 5/2 better though.

I have been trying with very little success to get the osdMod v0.4.0.5 beta mod to display movie info working. Some of my thumbs will work correcty and most would not. So I went back to the osd v0.21 mod which I just love.

I did run across another mod that gives movie info in easy fashion:

http://wdtvforum.com/main/index.php?...9&topic=1039.0

This mod combined with Movie GUI Builder is really nice!! It really makes the WDTV media player come to life!

Now if I could just get Juliosjs' osd v0.21 mod to work with LaurentG's mod, I would be good to go!!!!
Bubba04
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post #2261 of 2569
6/11/09 at 10:02am
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Originally Posted by rbjoin View Post

It is possible to configure and use this wifi card: DLINK 300MBPS USB DWA-140 with WPA2-PSK security with the custom firmware 0.8.5.3 ? My router with WPA2-PSK security is ASUS WL500.

Sorry my english.
Thank's.

I got my D-Link DWA-140 (RT2870 chipset) working with WPA2 on WDLXTV,
used the wireless-mod-wdlxtv.app.bin which is available at mediafire http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ylmw2tzmiyn

I added the following to the end of my net.config:
Code:
[ -e $AROOT/RT2870STA.dat ] && cp $AROOT/RT2870STA.dat /tmp
insmod $APATH/lib/modules/2.6.15-TvDock/rt2870sta.ko
ifconfig ra0 up
udhcpc -H wdtv -i ra0 -r 192.168.1.3
my RT2870STA.dat:
Code:
#The word of "Default" must not be removed
Default
CountryRegion=5
CountryRegionABand=7
CountryCode=DE
ChannelGeography=1
SSID=ssid
NetworkType=Infra
WirelessMode=7
Channel=0
BeaconPeriod=100
TxPower=100
BGProtection=0
TxPreamble=0
RTSThreshold=2347
FragThreshold=2346
TxBurst=1
PktAggregate=0
WmmCapable=1
AckPolicy=0;0;0;0
AuthMode=WPA2PSK
EncrypType=AES
WPAPSK=wpa_password
PSMode=CAM
AutoRoaming=0
RoamThreshold=70
APSDCapable=0
APSDAC=0;0;0;0
HT_RDG=1
HT_EXTCHA=0
HT_OpMode=1
HT_MpduDensity=4
HT_BW=1
HT_BADecline=0
HT_AutoBA=1
HT_BADecline=0
HT_AMSDU=0
HT_BAWinSize=64
HT_GI=1
HT_MCS=33
HT_MIMOPSMode=3
HT_DisallowTKIP=1
IEEE80211H=0
TGnWifiTest=0
WirelessEvent=0
CarrierDetect=0
AntDiversity=0
BeaconLostTime=4
I tried to set a static ip but nothing worked, so i'm staying with dhcp

just wondering why the speed doesn't get above 2,2MByte/s
does anyone know why that is?

Code:
# iwconfig
ra0       RT2870 Wireless  ESSID:"xxxxxx"  Nickname:"RT2870STA"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.462 GHz  Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx [3]
          Link Quality=100/100  Signal level:-47 dBm  Noise level:-71 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
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# ifconfig
ra0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:125053 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24371 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:14832652 (14.1 MiB)  TX bytes:35454651 (33.8 MiB)
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post #2262 of 2569
6/11/09 at 11:03am
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Originally Posted by xxKNSxx View Post

Ok so i have an mkv with FLAC 5.1 from uncompressed 4.6mbps LPCM now according to my knowledge the wd player supports flac? but when i try to watch it, its coming out as 2ch stereo only anyone have any ideas? also im wondering is it possible to convert the flac to dts or ac3? if this is my best route whats the easiest fastest and most efficent way to do this and what tools would i need if someone could point me in the right direction or any ideas how to get the flac to play properly thanks alot

If you want to convert flac to ac3, I would use the program eac3to (I use the command line but there are GUI's available). You can also use it to convert to DTS, but you need SurCode DVD DTS (v 1.0.21 or newer - commercial software) for it to work.
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post #2263 of 2569
6/11/09 at 11:48am
@juliojs

Just a suggestion. Remove these transition lines. It would look so much better without them.



Other than that, the place where the the horizontal and vertical layers cross is too dark ( multiply? ). Stands out a bit. I have touched brightness up a bit for you to see.



Other than that, maybe someone'll like to try this:

http://wdtvforum.com/main/index.php?topic=1039.0
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post #2264 of 2569
6/11/09 at 11:56am
I made a theme for thumbnail mode which shows 3 thumbs per screen
jpgs are automatically scaled to 295x444, no need to downsize movie posters


altered files:
Code:
basic_browse_thumb_video.xml
inc_video_thumb_browse.xml
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=1...4e75f6e8ebb871

just put the 3thumbs_theme.app.bin on your boot device

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post #2265 of 2569
6/11/09 at 12:06pm
Mind resizing the picture?
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post #2266 of 2569
6/11/09 at 1:05pm
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Originally Posted by Tomo_CRO View Post

Mind resizing the picture?

done, sorry
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post #2267 of 2569
6/11/09 at 5:39pm
Not sure if it is known, but the Linksys USB300M seems to work without issues. Just pluged it in with the WD loaded with WDLXTV firmware and the Samba app pack. Created an NFS share to my Windows Home Server that has the Unix services installed and was able to stream 1080p mkv files without issue. Nice job and the hacks guys! Was about to sell my WDTV and buy a second popcorn hour, now I dont have to. No more going back and forth with an external hard drive!
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post #2268 of 2569
6/11/09 at 5:45pm
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Originally Posted by mls15000 View Post

Not sure if it is known, but the Linksys USB300M seems to work without issues. Just pluged it in with the WD loaded with WDLXTV firmware and the Samba app pack. Created an NFS share to my Windows Home Server that has the Unix services installed and was able to stream 1080p mkv files without issue. Nice job and the hacks guys! Was about to sell my WDTV and buy a second popcorn hour, now I dont have to. No more going back and forth with an external hard drive!

Can you assist me with the NFS? I can't get my pc to appear in the Default LAN. Did you get any trouble similar?
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post #2269 of 2569
6/11/09 at 6:49pm
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Originally Posted by vanylapep View Post

Can you assist me with the NFS? I can't get my pc to appear in the Default LAN. Did you get any trouble similar?

My server does not show in the Default Lan, yet it still works. My NSF services were disabled after the install, so I had to manually re-enable them and then start them. Then I mapped the user/group accounts. I shared out a folder and telneted into my WDTV to test the xmount commands and it just worked. Also verify your firewall ports (if your server hosting the files has one) are allowing traffic fro the WD to your server.

I followed pretty much everything in this post, except the firmware used part: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...php?p=16143566

Wish I could be more help, but I'm a windows guy and know very little unix/linux.
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post #2270 of 2569
6/11/09 at 8:27pm
I dont understand this part:
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net.mounts example for above config

#
# Example net.mounts file to demonstrate auto-mounting
# of network shares

# Mount a NFS share

xmount 192.168.1.2:/Music Music nfs

# Notice that we no longer need to modprobe, nor create the directory.
# That is handled for us by xmount.

# Also note that if you store a net.mounts file in /conf/ then it will ALSO
# execute on startup.

Where do i type this?
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post #2271 of 2569
6/11/09 at 8:52pm
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Originally Posted by vanylapep View Post

I dont understand this part:

Where do i type this?

Open the net.mounts file with wordpad. There you will see the examples that are in that post. You just add a line to map to your share. Say your server ip is 10.1.1.1 and you created an NSF share named Movies on it, you would add the line: xmount 10.1.1.1:/Movies Movies nfs to that file. Any line in that file with # symbol is ignored, so dont add one to your line. Save it on your USB drive and when you go into your Video Folders on your WDTV, you should now see a link to upir share, Movies.
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post #2272 of 2569
6/12/09 at 1:20am
I tried to update my wdhd but the new firmware 1.02.7 can not be found on either usb stick (fat32) of wd elements 1t hard drive (i run the beta 1.02.4). The files are in the root. The stick of drive does load but nothing happens and i can not see firmware update at the settings..... What's up?
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post #2273 of 2569
6/12/09 at 1:24am
Hi Guys, I'm seeking help for my problem:

1) I'm using B-Rad WDLXTV 0.5.3.2 + Samba
2) I can see Windows shares via CIF on my PC and play 720p perfectly. 1080p plays well for some minutes, the start to jump
3) I bought a NAS (IcyBox IB-NAS4210-B), disk if formatted in ext2
4) I cas see Windows shares via CIF on the NAS, and play 720p well, as on my PC
5) I set-up NFS share on the same directory on the NAS and mounted without problems on the WDTV
6) I can see the NFS share (and files into it), from the WDTV, but all files play very bad. Even files with low resolution (640x480) plays for 5/6 seconds, than hangs, then play again for some second, then hangs, and so on.

NFS should be faster than CIF, not slower !! I've done some search on Internet, WD forums, but nobody seems to have this situation/problem; some people set up NFS shares, and then cannot see it, or see files inside it... but my problem is different...

What can it be ???
Please help
Thank you !!

Ginosergio
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post #2274 of 2569
6/12/09 at 4:44am
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Originally Posted by dohanotoha View Post

Hello

My WD TV Hd is connected to a 40" Samsung LCD (Series 7 ) via Hd cable

When I access the WD Audio/Video setting I notice many display resolution options . Which one is the best for my TV ?

When in doubt, select Auto.
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post #2275 of 2569
6/12/09 at 8:44am
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Originally Posted by mls15000 View Post

My server does not show in the Default Lan, yet it still works. My NSF services were disabled after the install, so I had to manually re-enable them and then start them. Then I mapped the user/group accounts. I shared out a folder and telneted into my WDTV to test the xmount commands and it just worked. Also verify your firewall ports (if your server hosting the files has one) are allowing traffic fro the WD to your server.

Since on both my PCs i can't see my server in Default LAN, may i ask you to detail how you found out the NFS service was disabled, and how you enabled it?

Thanks again!
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post #2276 of 2569
6/12/09 at 10:04am
hi ,

how do i switch back to older firmware ? i have now the 1.02.08 and want to switch back to 1.02.07 . the wd only finds newer firmware , but not older , so not sure how to do it ...

please hellllllllllllp ....

markus
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post #2277 of 2569
6/12/09 at 10:07am
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Originally Posted by mpfe View Post

I got my D-Link DWA-140 (RT2870 chipset) working with WPA2 on WDLXTV,
used the wireless-mod-wdlxtv.app.bin which is available at mediafire

I added the following to the end of my net.config:
Code:
[ -e $AROOT/RT2870STA.dat ] && cp $AROOT/RT2870STA.dat /tmp
insmod $APATH/lib/modules/2.6.15-TvDock/rt2870sta.ko
ifconfig ra0 up
udhcpc -H wdtv -i ra0 -r 192.168.1.3
my RT2870STA.dat:
Code:
#The word of "Default" must not be removed
Default
CountryRegion=5
CountryRegionABand=7
CountryCode=DE
ChannelGeography=1
SSID=ssid
NetworkType=Infra
WirelessMode=7
Channel=0
BeaconPeriod=100
TxPower=100
BGProtection=0
TxPreamble=0
RTSThreshold=2347
FragThreshold=2346
TxBurst=1
PktAggregate=0
WmmCapable=1
AckPolicy=0;0;0;0
AuthMode=WPA2PSK
EncrypType=AES
WPAPSK=wpa_password
PSMode=CAM
AutoRoaming=0
RoamThreshold=70
APSDCapable=0
APSDAC=0;0;0;0
HT_RDG=1
HT_EXTCHA=0
HT_OpMode=1
HT_MpduDensity=4
HT_BW=1
HT_BADecline=0
HT_AutoBA=1
HT_BADecline=0
HT_AMSDU=0
HT_BAWinSize=64
HT_GI=1
HT_MCS=33
HT_MIMOPSMode=3
HT_DisallowTKIP=1
IEEE80211H=0
TGnWifiTest=0
WirelessEvent=0
CarrierDetect=0
AntDiversity=0
BeaconLostTime=4
I tried to set a static ip but nothing worked, so i'm staying with dhcp

just wondering why the speed doesn't get above 2,2MByte/s
does anyone know why that is?

Code:
# iwconfig
ra0       RT2870 Wireless  ESSID:"xxxxxx"  Nickname:"RT2870STA"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.462 GHz  Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx [3]
          Link Quality=100/100  Signal level:-47 dBm  Noise level:-71 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
Code:
# ifconfig
ra0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:125053 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24371 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:14832652 (14.1 MiB)  TX bytes:35454651 (33.8 MiB)

Hi m8,
I have a DIR-655 router and a DWA-140 to my WDHD TV.
My questions is now:
Witch files goes where i have now in my ROOT on my USB HDD: net.config, wpa_supplicant.conf, wireless-mod-wdlxtv.app.bin, opt.bin, i also use 1.02.07_B-RAD.CC_WDLXTV-0.5.3.2

But nothing wants to work, can you help me out here please?.

How can WD HD TV find the Fw to the DWA-140, dont they need the driver to work?

Looking forward for your answer
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post #2278 of 2569
6/12/09 at 4:10pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by mls15000 View Post

My server does not show in the Default Lan, yet it still works. My NSF services were disabled after the install, so I had to manually re-enable them and then start them. Then I mapped the user/group accounts. I shared out a folder and telneted into my WDTV to test the xmount commands and it just worked. Also verify your firewall ports (if your server hosting the files has one) are allowing traffic fro the WD to your server.

I followed pretty much everything in this post, except the firmware used part: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...php?p=16143566

Wish I could be more help, but I'm a windows guy and know very little unix/linux.

THANKS!!! It works. Even tho i dont see anything in default LAN, i'm still able to connect to the pc and read the files!!

But, i got a problem. I get the "reading from usb" message running forever, and i tried to eject the usb and it trying to eject forever...
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post #2279 of 2569
6/12/09 at 4:45pm
Oh oh.. now i lost some icons picture... and also, when i go to video->folder, the wdtv freeze.. i'm screwed..

Edit: Even more screwed now.. it doesnt even boot up (doesnt get past the splash screen).

Is there a way to fully reset this to factory settings?

Edit2: Now my wdtv doesn't detect any drives anymore

Edit3: Flashed with B-RAD and it works~!!!!!! Best day of my life!
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post #2280 of 2569
6/12/09 at 5:54pm
When i change shares, can i just edit the mount file or do i need to reflash? I just changed my shares, but the wdtv still shows the old share.. looks like it's hard stored in the marchine.

I managed to get the folder refreshed by doing a system reset.

Only problem i have now is that 1080p aren't playing smoothly and are really lagging (1080p w/ ac3 audio).
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