New section for the new WDTV Live

[mcmanuf]

Hi.

It seems a new WDTV live has been released with N wifi build in.
But maybe the firmware is encrypted as the WDTV Hub, so maybe we wont be able to get wdlxtv on it;(

Anyways its 99$

http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdus/en_US/pd/productID.237609800/parid.13092400/catid.13742300/categoryID.57123700

Does anyone know if there is a difference bewteen the NTSC and PAL version.
I don't recall the old WDTV's stating weather they were PAL or NTSC versions?

[-miniME-]

hi

not encrypted but squashfs instead of cramfs - so basically hackable !

the hub has cramfs as the live has and has some more wifi drivers:
------------------------8<-------------------
# ls hub/lib/modules/
2.6.22.19-29-4 ath_htc_hst.ko rt2870sta.ko
8192cu.ko ath_rate_atheros.ko rt3070sta.ko
8712u.ko ath_usbdrv.ko rt3572sta.ko
adf.ko em8xxx.ko scsi_wait_scan.ko
arusb_lnx.ko fctrl.ko sigmablock.ko
asf.ko i2c_hal.ko thermal_g751.ko
ath_dev.ko irkernel.ko ufsd.ko
ath_dfs.ko llad.ko umac.ko
ath_hal.ko pgdrv.ko wdtv_rv_microp.ko
ath_hif_usb.ko proc_pipe.ko
------------------------>8-------------------

ciao

[RMerlin]

Part of it are in a separate encrypted partition, such as the main dmaosd process that provides the OSD and its functionality. So in essence, this device is even more locked down than the Live Hub.

[-miniME-]

how a dmaosd gets updated then ?

seems that the sdk contains the dmaosd (for livegen3 - did not check hub so far) - hidden inside alpha.tar.gz

ciao

[RMerlin]

how a dmaosd gets updated then ?

seems that the sdk contains the dmaosd (for livegen3 - did not check hub so far) - hidden inside alpha.tar.gz

ciao

It's a cut-down version. It has no online service except maybe one or two.

Updates are done the same way as the kernel - through an encrypted .fff file.