bhadams Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Anyone have any feelings about this? This has been out for a while, but I just came across it over the weekend. Western Digital provides the open source files, and I suppose someone who understands that kind of thing, may be able to extract what is necessary to write an ethernet driver. I don't know, for $99 I figure it sound like a pretty good alternative to what we have available. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 You'll need the new WD TV live for doing that, however the first gen did not have an Ethernet jack. Since it's so new, I don't know anyone that's written a driver for it or if it's possible.http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/10/12/new-western-digital-wd-tv-live-media-player-hits-best-buy/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhadams Posted October 12, 2009 Author Share Posted October 12, 2009 Ah, yes this is the one I saw at the Best Buy. Weird I didn't see it on Western Digital's site yet. Anyway, someone with some open source linux programming skills, etc, should look in to that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdmzmorgan Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Any driver for this yet? Selling on Amazon cheap....http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Network-ready-Player-WDBAAN0000NBK-NESN/dp/B002KKFP9Y/ref=pd_sim_e_3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms2bmw Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I have the 1st generation (no ethernet jack) and use a USB-to-Ethernet dongle in tandem with an "updated" firmware to get it to stream video from my network. Work pretty well but would be nice to have a driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akg4y Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Just a note on the WD TV Live for anyone thinking about it... I bought one and it was DOA.... did some research and apparently this is a common problem, and also can occur very early on even if it does work initially. In addition a firmware fix WD released bricked a bunch of WD Live TVs as well... I returned mine and am waiting until the reports of this issue start to decrease, right now there is definitely a QA or design issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piratemonkey Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Any driver for this yet? Selling on Amazon cheap....http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Network-ready-Player-WDBAAN0000NBK-NESN/dp/B002KKFP9Y/ref=pd_sim_e_3Love to know this as well.Good friend of mine just hooked his up and we tested against the EVA9150 and it seems this WD handles audio codecs better than the EVA and it seems there are patches to get the WD to stream True Dolby & DTS HD.Any luck out there yet with getting a network driver written? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bog Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 In the meantime, why not just create an IR driver?Can any of you with one of WD Live devices do a port scan against it and tell me what ports are listening? Maybe I can give you some tips on how an ethernet driver can be created. Could be easy if it's a DLNA server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bog Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 It appears the WD TV Live supports DLNA as a client for viewing content from a DLNA server. It doesn't appear to act as a DLNA server. As a result, there may be no way to retrieve a listing of content stored on the WD TV.An IR driver is all you may be able to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbell2034 Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Hey guys, I know this is an old post but I just bought the WD HD TV Live and I managed to create a custom IR driver. It's not too hard. If you need a copy then let me know. As always thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piratemonkey Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Hey guys, I know this is an old post but I just bought the WD HD TV Live and I managed to create a custom IR driver. It's not too hard. If you need a copy then let me know. As always thanks for the help.That's awesome!!What control does the IR driver you created give you?I have the EVA9150 currently but am getting more and more fed-up with it since I cannot get any audio via m2ts HD Dolby or DTS.I've seen a couple guys recently that get both HD audio codecs to work with the WD with m2ts files.My only allegiance right now with EVA is the fact it integrates with my C4 system nicely with coverart, etc.I'm assuming the WD does not and the IR driver would only control the basics of the remote correct?Hoping I'm wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhadams Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 This would only be a 1 way IR driver, so no coverart - navigator integration. The IR driver would be a nice start though, and from mbell2034 you can't go wrong. That guy's a freaking C4 legend. Good to see you here sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbell2034 Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 ha ha ha ha ha ha... shame on you buh-adams. You're right priatemonkey, just basic controls. If your files are mp4 video files and you have the metadata stored already then you will get cover art on the WD TV Live, but if not it's a total pain in the butt to get cover art (depending on how many movies you have). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringold Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I also have successfully programmed an ir driver for control4. It works great. It even plays .iso files!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piratemonkey Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 I also have successfully programmed an ir driver for control4. It works great. It even plays .iso files!!!!!that's great, do you have complete functionality between your WD & C4?did you change the firmware to get the WD to play iso files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringold Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 c4 remote completely controls wd hd tv live. The user interface is the wd hd tv live. Out of the box, the wd device plays .iso files. You have to use "network shares" for the .iso files to show up. Works great for me. I use it to view photos, and home videos. A bonus is that it plays ripped blurays or sd movies. Also nice addition is that it streams Pandora. All in all quite a value for $119 bucks! Also plays music files, but i use c4 hc300 for that. I purchased the wd hd live tv over the apple tv because it plays substantially more file formats without having to do any conversions.Will be happy to provide driver to anyone who wants, but really all I did was learn the codes using the hc300.as poster above alluded to, its a one way control type driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzz Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 do you get the lossless sound from the ripped BR's or is it the "core" track? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringold Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 not sure what u mean by lossless sound. U only get the movie. no menus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akg4y Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 It cant play anything that XBMC cant on the AppleTV can it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringold Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 not sure what you are asking, sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzz Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 not sure what u mean by lossless sound. U only get the movie. no menus.TrueHD and DTS-MA, lossless audio codecs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akg4y Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 not sure what you are asking, sorryI was just wondering if it can play any files that XBMC cant play... because as far as I can tell XBMC on the Apple TV has support for most every codec I use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringold Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 dont know much about apple tv. I looked online at the specs and it didnt look like it supported many file extensions other than itunes type extensions. Thats why I tried the wd device. So far the WD device has played every file type thrown its way. I was particularly looking for .avi support as this is my camcorder's format. It doesnt look like apple tv supports, but the wd definately does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsanf3 Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Hey guys, I know this is an old post but I just bought the WD HD TV Live and I managed to create a custom IR driver. It's not too hard. If you need a copy then let me know. As always thanks for the help.Will you put up a copy of the driver under the "File Library" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsanf3 Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Received my WD TV HD Live, works with C4 [iR], but the WD has an annoying problem of intermittently not connecting to my NAS shares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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