#WDTV we are working on the WD TV HD Media Player product update! Will get it out to everyone as soon as it’s ready.

Hey also said there was no word on the date of release.  Stay tuned for further updates on any releases!

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Detailed specifications and some photos of the new Western Digital media player were leaked earlier, but the price and release date were unknown. The price online retailers are expected to offer the new media player will probably be around 110 Euros.

It was thought the new media player would be named “WD-2 Live TV Media Player ‘, but the specs show the final name will be ” WD TV Live Media Player”. The ‘Live’ part in the product name refers to the addition of an ethernet port.

The source could not say when exactly the WD TV Live will be released in Europe, but the most likely month is October. Information on DTS-downmixing, DVD/BluRay-menu support or other much wanted functionalities isn’t available yet.

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 firmware versions. You must also have B-rad.cc’s Optware for WDTV package installed.

Tutorial:

part 1 – rtorrent

part 2 – lighttpd

part 3 – wtorrent

• Zydas 1201 (11b)
• Zydas 1211/1211b
• RaLink 2870
• RaLink rt73
• Atheros Otus

1. download brad.cc’s WDLXTV firmware
2. download zorander’s experimental pack (wireless-mod.app.bin) with drivers for these adpters and basic tools (iw*, wpa*)
3. copy to root dir of pen/hdd with firmware.
4. edit net.config in your root dir of firmware pen/hdd

if u have open acces point add

ifconfig $MDEV up
iwconfig $MDEV essid your_ap_name

for wep:

ifconfig $MDEV up
iwconfig $MDEV essid your_ap_name key "s:yourasciipass"

“s:” is used for ascii pass, if u think in hex you don’t have to use it ;>

for wpa we need wpa_supplicant tool.

1) in the root dir of your firmware pen/hdd make a file wpa_supplicant.conf:

ctrl_interface=/tmp/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="your_ap_name"
# uncomment next line if your ap doesn't broadcast ssid
#scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="yourpass"
}

this is just a basic setup, if u want more then wpa-psk, want to force specific encryption algo, etc read very well commented config example here

2) add to net.config

ifconfig $MDEV up
wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dwext -i$MDEV -c/boot/wpa_supplicant.conf

-Dwext should be fine for zydas, for my ralink i use -Dralink, for otus -Dotus should work.

other settings (dhcp, static ip) u can set like for wire usb lan.

after boot and some time u should have working wireless, if your chipset and vid/pid is supported.

Tutorial written by rezmus

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The thumbnail creator is still being worked on so if you find any bugs, let it know in the forums.

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