manual ?, differences to original firmware ?

[qubit23dogs toccesezhengfushi huctle]

Dear WDTV Gurus,

I just tested my new WD TV Live with the original software.
I am pretty upset with the following restriction on Youtube:
"This video is restricted by the video content owner and is not
available on TV connected devices".
I hope this is removed with the alternative firmware.

I have some questions to the alternative Firmware:
* is it based ob the original firmware with some enhancements or is it totally different ?
* is there any description what I can do with the alternative firmware ?
I dont understand what I can do with all the interesting listed features
like bittorrent, webserver, NZB, SSH, FTP ...
Does that mean you can run a webserver on this box ?
* is it possible to move back to the original software in case of problems ?
* what is the following site about ? http://b-rad.cc/

regards, L

[RMerlin]

Almost all the answers are on the Wiki.

[Rider]

I installed the latest original FW on my WDTV Live, and found a Webserver running at Port 8008:

$ telnet wdtv 8008
Trying 192.168.2.3...
Connected to wdtv.
Escape character is '^]'.

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Alphanetworks,Inc.
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:38:04 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache,no-store
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: close

Nothing to browse, but I found it interesting. Any ideas?

[RMerlin]

I installed the latest original FW on my WDTV Live, and found a Webserver running at Port 8008:

$ telnet wdtv 8008
Trying 192.168.2.3...
Connected to wdtv.
Escape character is '^]'.

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Alphanetworks,Inc.
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:38:04 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache,no-store
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: close

Nothing to browse, but I found it interesting. Any ideas?

Might be the uPNP interface. Try typing this over telnet, to see what it returns:

Code: Select all

GET /


[Rider]

telnet wdtv 8008
Trying 192.168.2.3...
Connected to wdtv.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Alphanetworks,Inc.
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:41:07 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache,no-store
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: close

Connection closed by foreign host.

Nothing really interesting.....