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Unofficial Firmware features

  • Network support playback from CIFS/SAMBA/Windows Shares or NFS(recommended for 720p/ required for 1080p)
  • DVD-ROM playback (ext3-boot, DVDmod, & WDLXTV firmwares)
  • Rapidshare batch downloading
  • Over 800 new applications really easy install with ipkg package manager
    for example asterix, torrent-client, wget, mysql, php, ssh, screen, icq, perl, python and more

ext3-boot firmware family (maintainer Zorander)

  • Booting from USBkey providing read write user space for more application
  • Adding USB network adapter support and option play from network Windows share and NFS shares
  • If you have problem upgrade from USBkey or if upgrading failed from USBHDD try USBKey and use FAT16/FAT32 filesystem
    you can use for
  • This release is still under development and some releases couldnt be stable but adding latest application and features.

ext3-boot-releases

WDLXTV firmware family (maintainer b-rad.cc)

  • Permanent flash into WDTV dont need USB-HDD/KEY plugged in WDTV
  • Adds CD/DVD support for external optical drives
  • Adds support for ext2 and ext3 partitions, with hotplugging
  • usb ethernet support (ext3-boot supported devices)
  • NFS share mounting
  • pureFTP server
  • telnet server
  • app.bin loading
  • osd overlay loading
  • WDTV Optware loading

http://b-rad.cc/wdlxtv

DVDmod firmware family (maintainer b-rad.cc)

  • Permanent flash into WDTV dont need USB-HDD/KEY plugged in WDTV
  • Adds CD/DVD support for external optical drives
  • Adds support for ext2, ext3, xfs, and reiser partitions if they are connected at boot
  • This release is for end-users who dont need USBnetwork support and dont want have plugged USBmedia into USB port

DVDmod-releases

WDTV Official Firmware releases


WDTV_FW_1_01_02 (latest)


  • fixing minor issues and fixing major issue upgrading from large USB HDD

WDTV_FW_1_01_01 only short major features


  • Added .MKV chapter selection for video playback for MKV with chapter support
  • Added embedded subtitle display in .MKV files
  • Added .MTS .TP .TS file extension support
  • Added sequential .M2TS file playback function
  • Added additional subtitle support (SMI, SUB, ASS, SSA)
  • Added subtitle encoding support for the following: Western Europe (ISO), Traditional Chinese (Big5), Simplified Chinese (GB18030), Japanese (Shift-JIS),
    Korean (EUC-KR), Cyrillic (Windows-1251), Cyrillic (KOI8-R), Greek (ISO); previously only UTF-8 was supported
  • Added 1080p 24hz support
  • Added jump feature to the remote: While fast forwarding or reversing, if the “Next” or “Prev” buttons are pressed, video will jump 10 minutes in the respective direction

WDTV_FW_1_00_01 fixed version


  • factory default firmware without .TS .SRT .SSA .SUB support

Flashing process

  • Upgrading and Downgrading aka Reverting is same process for all firmwares. Only follow this how-to.
  1. Use USB FLASH KEY from 64mb upto 2GB. I recommend upto 2GB but you could also use bigger ones but they using different adressing model
    this could be issue for some models.
  2. Format the USB FLASH key to FAT16 or FAT32 filesystem don't be lazzy and DON'T use NFTS for this case 1)
    use USB FORMATER 2)or any others formatting tools.
  3. Go to WDTV menu System→About there is version notice it you will need this number later.
  4. Unpack firmware package to USB FLASH KEY to root directory there have to be 2 files WDTV.BIN and WDTV.VER.
  5. Open with notepad or any textplain3) editor and change version in WDTV.VER to higher then you have in WDTV now if you dont change this new firmware will not detected as new one.Save the file.
  6. De-attach all USB devices from WDTV unplug power supply wait 5-10sec plug-in USB prepared USB FLASH KEY and plug-in power supply.
  7. Wait and dont reboot WDTV durring flashing process


Good Luck

  • If you have problem upgrade from USBkey or if upgrading failed from USBHDD try USBKey and use FAT16/FAT32 filesystem
    you can use for formating process this USB FORMATER


1) We know NTFS is working but many issues are related to NTFS read/write operations WDTV is using linux and NTFS driver isn't so stable like under Windows its was reverse engennered!
2) Link to USB Formater tiny virus free application is located under how-to
3) MS WORD or WORDPAD isn't very good options or use SAVE AS DOS textfiles
 
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