At the point 1 (With one Cardreader and none HDMI Exit) can be also added the i-Joy Z9 FALCON. Is the one i have and, after lots of testings, i think it's the same.

I'm triying to make a custom firmware with the MovieCube Extender Utility. I've almost ended the website. When it is finished… Flash and test!

Some advices?

Thanks and sorry about my english! :-S

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5T2E1TXB

saludos

With kind regards

the link seems no longer available, is there any other place I can dowload it from? (It seems humanmedia.pl is not available as well)

Many thanks

ChiliBox MR3
FANTEC MM-HDRL

i'll add more if i i'll find it

maxonthecube wrote:
What you can do is to put the following in a file on the Cube, say
/usr/local/etc/dvdplayer_commands.txt:

C
copyfree 1
quit


Then, edit the file /usr/local/etc/rcS and change the following lines:
./RootApp DvdPlayer&
to:
cat /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer_commands.txt | ./RootApp DvdPlayer&
and:
./DvdPlayer&
to:
cat /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer_commands.txt | ./DvdPlayer&

Reboot the MC using the 'reboot' command and you should be done.

I'm still performing some tests, but I am pretty confident this is the
trick I was looking for to backup those old jammed VHS tapes. Up to now, it
is working flawlessly!

This worked exactly as described on my Kingwin as well and appears to have successfully disabled the malfeature.

Thank you

Thib

Is is possible to have an access to the UDF partition via telnet access? Which partition do I have to mount ?

In fact a bug appears on my harddisk, the movies I recorded and which are not exported on the fat 32 are lost… I'd like to recover them.

Thanks for your help

Thib

i own a OEM version of a player running the rtd1073 it's also running the 2.6.12 venus kernel.
it does not has an official firmware so flashing it is unsafe. luckily i have successfully cross compiled kernel modules for
the stock kernel I can now connect a webcam to the box.
my goal is to run opencv on the box, but first i need to get x11 or xorg running on the box and it seems
i am no where close to that. i am wishing that someone can already run xorg on the box already and pass us
the information on how.

1) Would the described methods for changing/enhancing the firmware work on a K120 as well ?

2) Can i use a WLAN USB Stick with the cube to get it into my network?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thx in advance

Ronny

i have formated my tevion hdd and dont find any firmware for it (i formated it back to fat, but it wont work …)

and the file links u posted dont exist anymore

so pls reupload a link or show me were i can get firmware for my stupid hdd ^^

okay, thx guys

Have tried the 2.1 and 2.08 firmware but on running they find the unit fine but on the install, when it asks about space allocations for the recording partitions and media partitions it has incorrect negative info which is put into the part.txt file. Tried to update these with both percentages and byte allocations etc and have tried USB installs with a number of options.

it either just stalls on the install or comes up with a 'install error, reboot required' and never completes.

Even tried running pc install, update part.txt file and allocated/formated the fat32 & NTFS partitions etc and seemed to get further along but then again failed.

Has anyone got a large disk such as this working and any tweaking required?

This seems to work. I was able to write a small file but not sure what happens with extended use. I will try to write a file greater than 4GB is size and see what happens

Partitions

For some reason this devices insists on creating both a Fat32 and NTFS partition. I'm not sure why.

Login

telnet to the box and log in as root with no password

Settings things at Startup

It seems that this device has a read-only root filesystem. I was not successful in Trying to mount it as read/write however I did find a few things:

The files in /usr/local/etc will persist across reboots.

/usr/local/etc/rcS is a startup script that can be edited. I changed mine to have this as the last line:

/usr/local/etc/startup &

This will run a new script in the background so it cannot stop the rcS script from finishing. This is a safety measure in case I add something the prevents the unit from finishing a boot or restarting.

My /usr/local/etc/startup script currently looks like this:

#sleep two minutes so I have time to log in and edit or delete this file if it causes problems on boot.
sleep 120
mkdir /tmp/hdd/volumes/smb
mkdir /tmp/hdd/volumes/smb/public
mkdir /tmp/hdd/volumes/smb/pubreadwrite
#run mount in background in case it hangs
mount //192.168.x.x/public /tmp/hdd/volumes/smb/public -t cifs -o username=Realtek_guest &
#seems to not like two mount commands running at the same time.
sleep 5
mount //192.168.x.x/pubreadwrite /tmp/hdd/volumes/smb/pubreadwrite -t cifs -o username=Realtek_guest &

This makes it so my SMB shares are always mounted and accessible on the same path has my drive.

Web Server

The web server HTML and CGI scripts posted here seem to work but they disappear on a reboot. I might keep the files elsewhere and soft link /tmp/www on startup or maybe copy the files on startup. (I might also take a crack at translating them to English :-) )

That's all I have found for now since I've only had the device for 1 day. I have not tried the chroot environment yet but it looks interesting.

It seems that the NTFS partition is read only. What if I unmount the NTFS partion, make a fat32 partion on it and remount?

It looks like the mkdosfs command can do this.

Has anyone tried this?

Disregard. The device allows you to dedicate 100% of disk to fat32. Of course you are then limited to <4GB files but I can deal with that.

Here's a neat trick: you can send commands to the device using telnet on another linux machine line this:

1. This will output the time on the media player

(echo root; sleep 2 ; echo date ; sleep 2)| telnet 192.168.x.x

This thing uses a weird MAC address. 00:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

I'm thinking that this must be set in software and is probably the same address on every unit. That means you gotta separate these things via a IP gateway if you expect to use more than one at home. Two of them probably won't work on the same broadcast domain.

I have tried to change the MAC address using the "ifconfig hw ether" command but it doesn't seem to work.

So far I have seen that my Abigs D5 is very similar to Official Emtec firmware, just more outdated.
It runs on a 200Mhz MIPS 4KEc version 6.4 and has 64mb ram. The OS is 2.6.12.6-VENUS Linux kernel and it has uClibc-0.9.28.

There is a chance that your kernel doesn't have write support for NTFS.
Be careful and keep a backup of your data before writing to the NTFS partition.

What I'm mostly interested in is the RootApp and DvdPlayer applications that come with other firmwares, because mine has a few limitations and I would like to see if the other ones work.

Also if you know of any other applications that could be useful please let me know.

Frey Alfredsson

I have HMC 3902 where 2 patitions are already made. FAT 32 with r/w rights.
And NTFS with read only rights. How can i change this?
Does anyone have an idea?

br
Guenther

http://cgi.ebay.com/3-5-1TB-WIFI-HDD-Media-Player-TV-DVB-T-Recorder-HDMI_W0QQitemZ370238571692QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_AudioTVElectronics_Video_HomeCinemaSystems?hash=item5633f044ac&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177

I bought the following device and it appears that it is compatible ..

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http://kingwin.com/products/cate/media_player/km_31bk.asp
http://www.directcanada.com/products/productreview.cfm?sku=12420AC6790
===

I am at a lose, i have disabled the card readers in the computer as well when i try to update. This is two years in the making and still no luck, the place that outsources the units are in china and are very little help truthfully. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Im a lucky owner of a EeverTech1715.

While setting it up as a Samba Server i get an Errorfor this command:
mv ME1_init_deb.sh /usr/local/etc/

It says:
mv: uable to open "/usr/local/etc/ME1_init_deb.sh": Read-only file system

Until this point, all commands eaten correctly
How can I get rw-access to this directory
In some forums i read, that after a crash (and I had one) there is automatically read-only access.
I also read that i need to remount (mount -o remount,rw /usr/local/etc/ for example), but if so, what is the correct command/path?

I am using this description:
http://rtd1261.wikidot.com/samba-autostart

Greets Dave

P.s. early versions of Firmware had a parent control build in.

I've been asked to look at developing new s/w for a brand new rtd1262-based box (no brand names!) and have been looking at it for a few weeks now. Finally starting to gain a bit of traction.

After looking at the "install" procedure, I'm now concentrating on the Realtek "BIOS" to see how to dump in a new linux kernel, and maybe a jffs2 root instead of the squashfs non-writable thing that's in there now.

And after that little job I'll have to start seriously looking at decrypting key parts of the DvdPlayer app. With 2.6 million lines of MIPS assembler, I'm calling on AI help to sort out what was part of the C library or other "uninteresting" stuff (since the thing was statically linked and then had all symbols and debug stuff removed), and what actually makes the thing go.

So far the "strings" extracted show quite a bit is done using the old Linux standby of calls to system("…"). :)

If anyone is playing with or interested in a similar box, feel free to contact me either here or on the email.

So far the only thing of any use is the linux code. It has the "venus" drivers for the vid/audio codecs (+ a few other housekeeping things).

The first step is to try to compile it. My first attempt with a v4 GNU gcc brought up lots of errors. When these were fixed, the result was bigger than the space in the /dev/mtdblock/0 would allow.

So I went back to gcc 3.4.4 (mipsel-linux, of course). It ended up smaller than the linux already in the flash. But I noticed the default .config makes all the dvb code modules instead of builtins. So I checked "y" instead of "m" for all that stuff and recompiled.

Now the resulting linux is only 10% smaller than the flash version. I don't know why the diff now. A comparison of all the extracted strings from the new linux and the old one shows almost all the code is now in there. But I'm taking my time before I try to blow the flash with the new linux.

I also managed to locate the Realtek BIOS up in /dev/mtdblock/4. You need to activate the serial console (on the left-hand 4-pin connector) before this makes sense. Type 2 carriage returns after powerup and you're in something that behaves a bit like U-Boot, but itsn't quite as clean. :)

It's been suggested I blow away the existing linux and root (write-protected squashfs) and put in a uboot, linux and root. But I don't think it's going to be so easy.

VSFTP is way faster than the FTP already found here, so well worth checking out. I did SSH at the request of somebody else. It works well as a telnet replacement, but is much slower for file transfer.

Do you know any tool which can do this? And especially any tool which can use GPU power to do it.

Thank you again!! <3

I own a Emtec Movie Cube R700 and I would like to know any way to view HD movies. I've downloaded few movies on MKV format, but the firmware doesn't play it. I've tried to change it to .avi files but the codecs didn't change (codecs AVC or HDsomenumbers) so I can't still play it. Do you got any clues about what can I do?

Thank you so much!

I am sure that I am using the 'wq' parameter (without quotes) and the file is writed to Resource folder. After that, again open .ini file with vi and I see the change done.

Then, turn off EMTEC, and after that, wait 10-15secs, I turn on and the Movie Cube picture appears (bootscreen picture) and the blue leds are "fixed" and nothing happens (no Guide, no setup, etc… also no Net).

I've seen another guy in the MHDWorld forums having a blackscreen issue and it's the same like mine. Maybe 2.0.9up changes something more or maybe my 2007 Movie Cube R 500Gb does not leave make this thing.

Also, to know, 2.0.9up has Samba by default. I can edit smb.conf on /usr/lib directly and my windows lists the Net resources. :D (no reboot of Movie Cube needed).

EDIT:

To know, before 2.0.9up I had 0.9.14 firmware. I don't know if it is needed to apply another firmware previous to go up directly with 2.0.9up.

After searching for a firmware for my old Movie Cube R 500Gb (HW model: RTD 1261, older from 2007) and not found it on emtec website, I've seen that the updated firmware 2.0.9up for R100 model is compatible and it works like a charm. So, I've updated the Movie Cube.

After that, I've seen this web to do some useful "things" to this toy.

The first think that I've tried to do is to change the predefined desktop but without success. This are my steps:

1. telnet with PuTTy and root acces. This is ok. I've see the mounted partitions and folders.
2. access to /usr/local/bin/Resources and edit with vi "swconfig.ini" file
3. change with vi "sustom_id = 1" parameter to 2, 3 or 6 ("sustom_id = 6", for example)
4. exit Putty.
5. turn off movie cube.

After this "little" change, I can not do ANYTHING with movie cube. It gets hanged (turns on but no Guide menu nor other options; also the "blue LEDs" are always on). The only thing to recover it is re-installing again the firmware 2.0.9up (no Wired LAN access with telnet either).

Any suggestion of what I am doing wrong?

Regards.

PD: Good work with so useful discussion!!!