List Of Online Services Available On Wd Tv Live?

Roydon Cerejo May 01, 2012 11:55:49 IST

The demand for media players are increasing, as they are now highly affordable and moreover are capable of playing full HD 1080p videos. But what you lot get from any media player is just basic playback of 5.1-channel audio, HD video and photos. If they are network-enabled, you can stream media content from the Internet, too. These include YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Flickr, Atmospheric condition, Radio and a few more. What you lot did not know is that some of these media players take the power to do much more than than conventional Hard disk drive media players by installing a tertiary-party firmware. Information technology is a like environment when y'all install DDWRT firmware on a regular wireless router and tap additional features and functions, such as loftier wireless power boost, span modes, repeater modes, Bittorrent, FTP service and much more.

Breath new life into that aging box

At present, Western Digital WDTV serial of media players can be flashed with open-source firmware called WDLXTV to tap a lot of features and enable the media actor to do more than what it is supposed to exercise. In this workshop, we shall show you lot how to flash the firmware of the WDTV alive HD media histrion with WDLXTV and enable additional features that you can utilize.

Here are some features that can be enabled using WDLXTV:

Bittorrent customer (rtorrent + rutorrent)
Usenet download customer (nzbget)
DAAP/Roku server (through mt-daapd)
NFS sharing (customer and server)
User-generated movie sheets
Apache web server
FTP server
SSH server
Streaming from online sources through third-party plugins, allows yous access to services such as Picasa, Grooveshark, Apple Trailers, and much more - over xxx plugins available at this fourth dimension
Shoutcast
YoutubeHD
Custom applications through app.bin or Optware, adding applications such as Asterisk, Mediatomb, etc...
WDTVExt, allowing custom plugins that tin can modify the functionality of the Tertiary party OSD themes
Custom wallpaper and screen saver paradigm
Customizable IR remote functions

Requirements:

A WDTV Live HD media role player
A 512 MB USB pen drive (minimum)
A desktop PC An internet connexion

Select the correct version

You first demand to download the latest firmware for your WDTV alive. Y'all may choose to flash it or update your WDTV from the Internet, but we shall not need it as we are going to install the WDLXTV firmware on it. Y'all might need the original firmware, in case you programme to re-flash it to the original firmware. You lot tin download the firmware from 'forum.wdlxtv.com' and information technology is available under the thread 'Lath index - General Information - Firmware Releases - WDTV Live'. The latest firmware, as of today is the 'one.05.04_V-WDLXTV-Live-0.5.1.1' version. Those who accept another version of the WDTV live tin also effort out this workshop, but will accept to find the right firmware from the forum website and check if it is compatible with your model type. There are 2 types of firmware for each histrion and each version. The 1 which mentions 'Wink' will flash the firmware permanently, while the one which states 'Not-flash' will boot from the USB pen drive and will not bear upon the original firmware in the player. Yous may try any one you wish. We shall show you the wink version. Download the wink version from the link on the forum or just click hither. The file is around 106 MB and is a null file. In one case y'all accept downloaded the file, extract the contents on your desktop in a new folder.

Update in progress

Now format a USB pen bulldoze using the FAT32 sectionalization arrangement. You can use any pen drive, which has a minimum space of 512 MB, if you are using the flash version. If you are using the non-flash version, we recommend at to the lowest degree a 1GB pen drive. One time done, simply re-create all the contents of the folder containing the firmware yous just downloaded to the root of the pen drive (don't brand any folders). After the firmware is now copied on the pen bulldoze, simply plug it into the WDTV Alive media player's USB port and switch on the power. (Restarting from the remote won't practise. You will have to switch off and switch on the power adapter). That's it. The media player will boot up and automatically detect the new firmware and inquire you if you want to install it. If you select to go alee, the device will reboot once and install the new firmware. It should take around 2 – v minutes. Afterwards rebooting once again, WDLXTV will be installed.

VER file

Locate the .ver file

Those who have the original firmware version 1.06.15 will take a minor problem. The device will non detect the WDLXTV firmware and zip will happen. This is considering the WDTVLX firmware version number 1.05.04 is older than the present original firmware version number 1.06.15. You will demand to cheat the media player, so that it thinks there is a new firmware bachelor and only and then will it install WDLXTV. To do this, plug the USB pen drive dorsum to your computer, open My Computer and browse to the USB pen bulldoze. In the pen drive, you will find a few files. Simply open the file 'wdtvlive.ver' in notepad and you lot shall find just a line 'VERSION='i.05.04_V.WDLXTV_LIVE-0.5.1.1'LOCATION='wdtvlive.bin' written there. Simply change the line to 'VERSION='two.05.04_V.WDLXTV_LIVE-0.5.ane.one'LOCATION='wdtvlive.bin' and save it. Now you can update the firmware of the WDTV without any problems as the media player volition sense a new version for the firmware and install it. Later the firmware is installed, you tin format the USB pen bulldoze and re-insert it into the USB port. The pen bulldoze will now be used for downloading add-ons in the adjacent stage.

Installing Add-ons and plug-ins
In one case you are washed installing the new firmware on the WDTV media player, you can start using it equally usual. But if you want more features, such as additional internet video and radio channels, file and torrent downloading options, services and such, you need to configure the WDLXTV to do and then. This involves downloading add-ons and plug-ins and configuring them appropriately. This process is adequately simple and needs an active Net connection.

Web front-end

Web front end-stop

Connect your WDTV media histrion to the network, which has an active Internet connection enabled, and it should be on the same network connected to your PC. Now open any Internet browser and type in the IP accost of the WDTV live. To know the IP address, you tin cheque it on your WDTV in the 'Settings – Network settings' section. Yous shall be asked for the username and password to configure the WDLXTV settings. Type in 'wdlxtv' (all lower case) as the username and password. The username and password is mentioned in the 'Readme' file in the firmware file you had downloaded before. You tin change this password once yous enter the configuration page.

Add-ons manager

Your configuration webpage will have icons on the height layer and device details on the bottom and left layer. These icons are Add together-ons Manager WDLXTV Config, Telnet Client, File manager and Remote. Click on the Add together-ons Manager icon and you shall be taken to a new webpage. Here yous can choose the services in the sections, such every bit Download, Editors, multimedia, Networking and other sections. Just choose the bulldoze (SDA1) from the drop downward list under the 'Country' column. Do this for all that you require and at the end of the page click 'Save and Apply'. The add together-ons will be downloaded to the pen bulldoze (SDA1) and will be applied. Subsequently this, click on the 'UMSP Plugins' tab and select the media channels you wish to add together to your device and finally click on the 'Save and Apply' button. One time done, y'all can reboot the devise and savour your newly added media channels. If you lot want to download torrents and files from HTTP servers, you tin can become back to the browser and hit the device's configuration webpage again.

Choose which plugin should be enabled

Choose which plug-in should exist enabled

Here you tin can go to the respective service, which is represented equally an icon on the main page and configure it. Y'all will need to plug-in a large USB storage drive to the WDTV media player in club to download files. In the configuration page, setup the location for download, feed in the torrent file or the download URL and begin downloading. Y'all can browse through many other services and features and use them as and when you crave.

Torrent client up and running

Notation: Nosotros are non responsible for any damage caused to your equipment due to this workshop procedure. Exercise this at your ain run a risk. We advise you to read up online for the pros and cons before attempting any of the following methods. Some might witness the username and countersign errors while configuring the WDTVLX configuring the device. The countersign tin can be reset by using telnet from windows. The commands are as follows:

Run these commands from the control prompt and printing enter at every line.

Telnet 192.168.30.thirty (Type in the IP address of the WDTV media player)
SU (login every bit a super user - no countersign required)
rm /conf/htpasswd
config_tool –due south
reboot

Once done, the WDTV media player will reboot and y'all tin login to the configuration webpage using the username and password 'wdlxtv'. For those who have queries or run into trouble at any stage, you can log on to the dissimilar forums where users and developers can help y'all. Some useful links for WDLXTV Live are given beneath.

WDLXTV
WDLXTV Forum
WDLXTV wiki
B-Rad

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