About
What is WDLXTV?
WDLXTV is a homebrew firmware developed by the community for the WDTV line of products from Western Digital. Its goal is to add a lot of new features on top of what is already provided by WD, such as movie sheets, Bittorrent, streaming from external online sources, and a lot more.
Compatibility
Supported devices are:
- WDTV Gen 1 (Model number WDAVN00BN, WDAVP00BE, WDAVN00BS, WDAVP00BS, WDAVP00BP)
- WDTV Gen 2 (Model number WDBABF0000NBK)
- WDTV Live (Model number WDBAAN0000NBK, WDBAAP0000NBK)
- WDTV Live Plus (Model number WDBABX0000NBK, WDBREC0000NBK, WDBG3A0000NBK)
Not supported devices are:
- WDTV Mini (Model number WDBAAL0000NBK)
- WDTV Live Hub (Model number WDBABZ0010BBK, WDBACA0010BBK)
- WDTV Live Streaming (aka Gen 3) (Model number WDBHG70000NBK, WDBGXT0000NBK)
- Why are these devices unsupported? Are there plans to support them?
Authors
WDLXTV is developed by a small team of volunteers:
- b-rad – Lead developer / Project maintainer / Designer
- recliq – Programming / Project maintainer
- RMerlin – Webend WDLXTV Configurator & Webend Management
- zoster – UMSP media server
- Shunte & mad_ady – UMSP plugin management
- PsychoTHC – Webend Button Icons
- Pennhaven – logos
- Bovirus – localization manager
Additional contributors:
- rezmus, pibos, MR_Miyagi, derlinuxer, psychodad, thespecialist
- Themers: eM82, PsychoTHC, Juliojs, lilibabe, KAD
- ReMARKable – SVN server donation
- KroetKroet – day to day pain in the *ss 🙂
Features
These are some of the new features that WDLXTV adds to the WDTV platform:
- Bittorrent client (rtorrent + rutorrent)
- Usenet download client (nzbget)
- DAAP/Roku server (through mt-daapd)
- NFS sharing (client and server)
- User-generated movie sheets
- Apache web server
- FTP server
- SSH server
- Streaming from online sources through third-party plugins, allows you access to services such as Picasa, Grooveshark, Apple Trailers, and much more – over 30 plugins available at this time
- Shoutcast
- YoutubeHD (WD only allows for SD content)
- Custom applications through app.bin or Optware, adding applications such as Asterisk, Mediatomb, etc…
- WDTVExt, allowing custom plugins that can alter the functionality of the OSD (BaseFW 1.02 ONLY)
- Third party OSD themes
- Custom wallpaper and screen saver image
- Customizable IR remote functions
- …and a lot more
Release information
- Difference between firmware formats: Normal [flash] and EXT3-Boot [non-flash]
- Difference between BaseFW (1.01, 1.02, etc…)
- Differences between kernels
- README
- Check the Changelog