I am one of the later group.. really desperate to have this feature.. I am unfortunately not LINUX knowledgeble enough to get this thing going based on the sources.

I just wanted to reemphesize, this is great stuff hoped for by many on wdtv..so please Elm continue development and issue a stable version or someone out there take over and continue this great work!!

Thank you and greetings
Tom

yes, if you adapt the URL it may work, there were some posts in the WDTV forum that some people did not see any YouTube movies, but I did not verify this. Maybe the proxy script has to be adapted to some change in the API of YouTube. But this is PHP and should be pretty easy to read and adapt.

To get the sources compiled for the WDTV you are best served with the WDTV development vmware image I posted (http://wdtv.elmarweber.org/index.php/category/wdtv/vmware). Read trough the post and tutorial in the wiki, there is some stuff explained. To get the youtube stuff compiled on the WDTV image simply check out the sources, or run “svn update” on the svn repository within the vmware to get the full sources.

There is a build script included that compiles the whole shebang for the WDTV, have a look at it.

The rest of your questions are best answered by looking through the sources, the wdtube sources are not documented (if at all, I don’t remember), but with basic understanding of a C like language you should be able to work through it. For any questions regarding FUSE / filesystem stuff please check out FUSE itself or take a look at the appletrailerfs sources, they are documented.

ciao,
elm

Nice IR module.

insmod eiri_dev.ko
mknod /dev/ir c 241 0

http://www.elmarweber.org/services/wdtube/query_video.php -> 404
You deleted the proxy script on Your web server ??
If i set up the proxy php script on my webserver and change the URL in youtube.c it should work again (for me) ??
How do i compile the stuff after downloading the SVN tarball (i’m aware with make and linux and x-compiling) ??
is there a doc available for the source structure ?
is the basic function (search and get list and start any entry from list ) working ??
is there a doc available how to emulate folder tree in the WDHD ??

thanks a lot, greetings peter (yes appleTrailers is very nice !)

Thank you so much for your help.

I have coded a simple script which is continuously ripping into a file called radio.mp3 for about 5 minutes and then rewrites the file. I run the command and a few minutes later I can start listening to the radio through the UI by browsing by Folder and going to Music/Radio/radio.mp3. While listening the file will get deleted (by the ripper) and will start with the next 5-minutes-loop. In the UI things run smoothly since the original file is buffered and you never notice the file no longer exists until you reach the end of the file (very important, the continuous loop option has to be enabled in the UI). This way I get a (sort of) continuous streaming.

Here the script (not perfect but works):

#!/opt/bin/bash

if [[ $# -lt 2 ]]; then
echo “Usage: stream.sh ”
exit
fi

if [[ -d /tmp/media/usb/Radio ]]; then
echo “Do Nothing”
else
echo “Creating dir…”
mkdir /tmp/media/usb/Radio
fi

if [[ $1 == "pop1" ]]; then
radio=http://scfire-ntc-aa07.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1074
elif [[ $1 == "pop2" ]]; then
radio=http://scfire-ntc-aa03.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1051
elif [[ $1 == "chill" ]]; then
radio=http://scfire-ntc-aa07.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1018
fi

rm -f /tmp/media/usb/Radio/*.mp3
rm -f /tmp/media/usb/Radio/*.cue

index=0
while [ $index -lt $2 ]
do
echo “Loop $index”

streamripper $radio -A -a /tmp/media/usb/Radio/radio.mp3 -l 300
rm -f /tmp/media/usb/Radio/*.mp3
rm -f /tmp/media/usb/Radio/*.cue

index=$[$index+1]
done

I have created a file in the root of my hard drive called stream.sh and I just call it through the terminal by running: /tmp/media/usb/USB1//stream.sh [pop01|pop02|chill]

I hope this is useful to somebody

if the shoutcast application doesn’t work for you, your only way is how you described it.
To get around the file size problem there is one shell based solution I came along while testing shoutcastfs: simply create a large dummy file and then let streamripper overwrite it, there was a command line switch that told streamripper to start overwriting the file while not truncating it, or something along the line.

The other way for you would be to take a look at shoutcastfs, sources see http://wdtvtools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wdtvtools/trunk/shoutcastfs/. There the filesystem simply reports a bogus file size while letting streamripper rip into a temp file.

For more details search the WDTV Forum, there was some discussion around it.

ciao,
elm

One of the most important features I intended to have when installing the WDLXTV firmware was online radio streaming but to my surprise it seems that nobody has it working yet :(

Does anybody of you knows how to have online radio in the WDTV?

I have been playing around having shoutcast reading mp3 files that streamripper is creating and got a sort-of-streaming working. The problem is that when I start playing the file it takes the current duration of the file and when the limit is reached it starts over, even though the file was growing in the meantime (beacuse the ripper continued to make it grow while listening). And so, despite the idea seem to be a good hack for it, in practice I would need to be ripping a radio station for some time, wait a good amount of time and start listening to it to avoid the “loop back” effect. But, if any of you likes this idea anyways, this is what I did:

ipkg install streamripper (you need to have opt.bin installed for the ipkg command)
streamripper -r -d
Exmaple: streamripper http://scfire-dtc-aa07.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1018 -r -d /tmp/media/usb/Streamripper/

That will start ripping the audio..
And then you navigate the folders with the remote control to Open “Streamripper” folder
And there you will see the file or files that streamripper is creating and are ready to be listened to.

I hope this works for somebody. This is far from being the ideal but is a little something at least…

Thanks for all your time and efforts. I still use the AppleTrailer app :)