[Erdem] is leading up the efforts to. Official Samsung firmware uses the Linux kernel, making it a familiar system to work with for many developers. So far they’ve implemented NFS and SAMBA for sharing files over the network, improved playback from USB devices, and unlocked the ability to use non-Samsung WiFi dongles.

In order to make changes to the system, you need to. The SamyGo team accomplished this by changing an official version of the firmware in a hex editor to start the telnet daemon at boot time. This altered firmware is then flashed using Samsung’s built in upgrade system.

Decke / drmdecrypt. DRM decrypting tool for Samsung TVs. Samsung has changed the encryption of the PVR recordings a few times so here is a. I Just Strapped a Windows Computer to My Face for the First Time. The future of Windows computers could soon be worn on your face.

Once telnet is enabled, non-official firmware can be manually flashed. We’d love to see this project expand to other TV Brands in the future.

In fact, we were looking for something like this back in June when we realized that our Sony Bravia runs a Linux kernel and can be updated via USB drive. Be careful if you want to try this out. We can only imagine the fallout after telling your significant other that you bricked a high-priced LCD. Posted in Tagged,,,, Post navigation. Ok, ok Re: Zeecue As a mythtv user w/several other media players collecting dust. I have got to say – native mythtv play back is very much worth it!

From my experience, nothing else comes close to a real mythtv front end. Not UPNP, not VLC, not even videos loaded directly on the HDD of some of these media boxes. I know, I have some of those media boxes. — This hack is really interesting – however, I see trying to understand the video hardware as being an almost insurmountable challenge. Mythtv uses a lot of graphic overlay.

If you can’t stick the menus and overlays onto the screen (in some cases on top of the video) it will make for an intolerable experience. Of course if, by some stroke of luck, they used a common video chip set, it could all just fall into place. That would be awesome.

Having put off buying a new TV – I would then have to seriously consider a Samsung. I hope I’m not totally offtopic here. I have an European Sony KDL-32V5500. It’s quite limited compared to its Japanese (as I know, they have a full web browser) and American (many Yahoo! Widgets) brothers, and I guess their (I mean the actual Bravia line’s) cores must be the same, probably ARM based.

Are there some hackers working on this firmware too? I have several decades of software hacking (currently I do this for living) and assembly coding (including ARMs) background. Maybe I could join a project, but so far the firmware is too crippled for me (heavily encoded chaos without headers and footers). Usb Piano Keyboard Program here.

I figured out these Bravias run special MontaVista Linuxes, firmwares are available here: parts of the sources (the GPL-ed libs) are available here: Unfortunately my TV isn’t listed on the second one yet. Mythtv frontend? I’d rather havea GOOD media center frontend like XBMC. Mythtv SUCKS horribly at media playback. It’s a great DVR, something that is impossible in a TV as it wont have tuner cards and storage.

Put XBMC in there, unfortunately most TV hardware does NOT have the horsepower to playback HD content or even decent quality SD content, nor enough storage to put in anything significant. The hacking is light playing at best, Boot a kernel from a 2 gig sd card and actually gain access to the data streams then I’ll be impressed. But 90% of the tv functions are NOT linux controlled. The Linux kernel is for the photo playback and very limited media playback.

None have the ability to even playback a xvid 720p video file. I believe the MARS explore was running VXWorks, not Linux.

But I see your point – remote bricking and unbricking. Let me just say – they were lucky as all get out – I was amazed after reading the details. — Isn’t XBMC the XBox media player? Boy, the last time I tried that I wasn’t very impressed. The graphics were nice – but that’s because it’s a game console. Guess I’ll have to try it again sometime.

No, wait – to get HD I’d have to buy into a x360. Isn’t that over $300? For that I can get a duel core PC w/plenty of HDD space and build a myth box. Drivers Nvidia Geforce 8500 Gt Ubuntu Iso. But here’s the x360 killer for me – the PC can have tuner cards in it. The X360 can’t.

Of course, if you like games that flips the argument the other way. No, certainly not. MPEG 2 transport stream? Why would you want to send a xvid file to the TV? HD TVs have chips to decode MPEG2 TS, which should be taken advantage of.

If you wanted the TV to decode any possible file you have on your NAS, that’s like saying, “I want my new phone to do EVERYTHING.” Phones were meant for communicating. Now they do everything, and the battery life sucks ass.

Next you’ll be seeing TVs do everything. Yeah, I really want my TV generating more heat than my actual computer. To each their own, I guess Oh, and linux is used for various tasks, such as the menu UI, controlling the chips and telling them all to do this or that through I2C. Having linux on the TV to playback media is not the point. It’s to control the hardware, like switching to different inputs. The program they coded to run in the linux environment watches the IR reciever, you hit the HDMI button, and it switches to HDMI (in the case of my TV, the program scans the HDMI inputs for an active signal and switches to it), and then tells the audio decoder to take input from the HDMI input.

Linux isn’t doing the decoding, and it is not doing the rendering (a dedicated chip does this), but it does control the hardware. @farthead, Mythtv does a good job playing videos when mythvideo is configured to display them in a list. That makes the videos show up as the directory structure on the drive, which is how I prefer it. Plus you can configure it to play the videos in an internal player or any number of external players such as vlc and mplayer. Either way the reason why I said a mythtv frontend would be neat is because you can have a computer acting as a backend with your tuners and hard drives somewhere else and with a network connection you can use all that from any frontend machine on the network.

But you already knew that so let me compliment you on your choice of names instead. @gomer pyle: It bypasses DRM. I’m sure people with money will buy it just like some did the x360 and make 3rd party vendors pissed at the unit manufacturer. Consumers don’t see this aspect of the electronics industry.

DRM exists to protect profit margins that keep companies in operation, which in turn pay tens of thousands of individuals thus fueling the economy, and giving funding to the next product line. A million dollars doesn’t go far when you have that many employees making 15k+ a year. Effect and affect are a nound and a verb with very close applications, I used it in the wrong context.boo hoo.

I wasn’t the one correcting grammar in the first place. I see mistakes all over this and every other site on the internet, and it has little affect on my understanding and day to day life. Also, English language isn’t the human default despite the census in your suburb. I’m going to go do other stuff now besides entertain lifeless internet trolls.

This is my last comment on this entry. @tj DRM is a failure all around. Time for a new business model. I stand by my statement that more people are likely to buy their product if it could be modified.

That means more sales of units. Adding peripherals shouldn’t have a 150% mark up. If a company wants to nickel and dime us all to death with minor upgrades.let that company die a slow death. Not everyone can afford an all in one box that does everythingthey have to buy things as they can afford them. Since you possess such a superior intellect, you probably can afford anything you want. The only reason I brought up only one of your mistakes was to point out that you too can be wrong.big deal.so can everyone else.

The difference is, I know that I don’t know everything whereas you seem to be far ahead of the rest of us. Get a grip and don’t be so arrogant. (climbs down from soapbox). If some one manages to hack in a new app that turns out to be popular then Samsung or any other manufacturer will be able to take the code and use it in their products.

That saves the manufacturer development time and money. It allows them to tap into more minds with a greater range of back grounds.

That is the power of open source. A really killer app would be getting calibration equipment talking to the firmware making calibration faster and easier. Go to local electronics store and rent some calibration gear go home, hook up, run calibration software on the laptop, take gear back to the store.

Give me that any day. What about routing audio through custom number crunchers? What about Jack, ladspa, gstreamer and stuff like that?

Or pulseaudio? Of course on stripped down versions of those! Wouldnt’t it be awesome to have several filters like noise reduction, custom equalizers, hum remover, reverbration, oscilloscop etc? What about Auto volume normalization for each equalizer frequency, so that you get crystal clear sound, even on crappy speakers?

What about running text to speech from the thumb drive? How about simple games like tetris? Backing up and restoring preferences from thumb drive? Cellphone text messaging like keyboard using remote? Overlaid calendar, clock. Synchronizing clock/calendar with some external source?

Fake TV OS crash would be awesome as April fool joke. Finally, I guess there will be a SamyGo Appstore one day!