Hacking the WD TV live

[ghostbuster]

Anyone hacked their WD TV live

Looks quite cool

http://forum.wdlxtv.com/viewforum.php?f=8

 

[ghostbuster]

Extra features

Features included in WDLXTV-Live/Plus:

•Movie Sheets
•UMSP media streaming server (grooveshark, shoutcast, cartoon network, daily motion, stageview, vimeo, etc)
•psychodad’s autoframerate/resolution switching (1.02.21 based firmwares only)
•thespecialists WMAPro audio support (1.02.21 based firmwares only)
•external dvd drive capability with commercial dvd support
•Web Server
•Perl and PHP
•rtorrent Bittorrent client w/ rutorrent web interface
•nzbget NZB downloader w/ web interface
•SSH server
•Telnet server
•FTP server
•NFS share mounting in local folders and Network Shares
•sshfs for mounting a remote server as a local directory
•curlftpfs for mounting remote FTP server as a local directory
•unionfs for consolidation of multiple directories/locations/servers/etc as one entity
•ffmpeg & mediainfo
•patched samba configuration for better detection of Windows shares
•user customizable background & screen saver images (3 backgrounds to choose from)
•extra subtitle size options of 44, 48, 50, 56, 60, 64, 68, 72, 76, & 80
•selectable 4/8/10/12/21 video thumb view (see Changelog)
•selectable 4/6/8 file list view (see Changelog)
•sleectable 10/15 photo/music thumb view (see Changelog)
•ext2 & ext3 filesystem support ** (un)officially supported now **
•device hotplugging
•all media (including network shares & optical devices) can be viewed in ‘All Videos’
•USB Hub support
•mounting of app bin packs (if available) at boot, for plugNplay addtional functionality
•mounting of OSD overlay (if available) at boot, for full theming
•user customizable init.d scripts for full os customization
•emergency flash recovery
•many, many additional system binaries and related tools for power users.
•probably more I’m leaving off…

http://wdlxtv.com/wdlxtv-live/

 

[ghostbuster]

But this applies to the latest gen

http://forum.wdlxtv.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=7663&start=0&hilit=gen3

 

[bstarkey]

Let me know how it goes, just received mine today.

 

[ghostbuster]

dont think il do it as it screws up the wifi on the Gen 3 unfortunately

 

[cenredash]

Yeah, I don't think this firmware will work well on the new. I wanted it for MovieSheets ... and it worked, but was a pain. Could have just got me a new one which does that anyway.

This updated might work though:
http://b-rad.cc/1340/homebrew-firmware-wdtv-live-smp-gen3/#more-1340

 

[techead]

soz might be a stupid question but do any of these customs have a web browser built in???