Folks,
    please find attached my WizPlayer beta release 0.1 WizPlayer is designed to allow near real time viewing of programs on a Windows PC direct from a Beyonwiz device.

Please be aware this is a Beta - I have successfully used the program but I am just one person and so would appreciate some leeway re bugs etc. I will fix where I can but there are no guarantees as I don't want to create false expectations.

WizPlayer uses VLC - it was tested with 0.9.4 but I would recommend using 0.9.6 which has just been released. 

There are likely lots of small bugs but the program seems to work for me on either Vista SP 1 or XP SP 3. Heres are some I know of

   1. Don't know if will work with multiple BW as I only have one on which to test
   2. Fonts are sometimes too big on small screen resolutions (laptop)
   3. Don't know how it will handle radio recording
   4. Don't know if will work with next firmware that allows download from other directories
   5. VLC does not like some BW files - particularity heavily edited ones
   6. If your using WPA (Wireless) then downloads will still lock after 80 MB - same as WizFx as this is server side problem.
   7. Dont get too complex when setting the file location e.g. c:\movies is okay but c:\users ... dekstop may not work

Here's the how to file (after installing VLC and WizPlayer)

Instructions

Initially using the configuration panel
1. Set the file location - where files will be stored locally
2. Set your download (network) speed - used to calculate pre-cache
levels
3. Set Voice prompts (on or off) - used to give you verbal prompts on
the pre-cache progress
4. Use the Favorites button to add in IP addresses of Beyonwiz
devices - this should be used if you have trouble finding devices on
your network

To download and play a program
1. Click Search - will locate any active Beyonwiz devices and display
programs
2. Select your program noting the pre-cache details
3. Click "Download and Play" button
4. Wait for the pre-cachce to finish
5. Program should start - use VLC control to control program If a
download is stopped / fails and is then restarted it will commence
from where it left off

To Play a program already downloaded (after download and play
used)
1. Click "Play Local" button
2. Select the Program directory
3. Program should start - use VLC control to control program

To stop download or local file build
1. Click Stop Activity button
2. Wait for either the download / local file build to stop
3. Close the player (VLC) manually

To cleanup
1. Click the "cleanup" button
2. Use standard folder options to delete programs

Happy to take any comments / emails.

Have fun.

cheers

Nigel

PS - attached part 1 of 2 - Part 2 to follow.

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A set of Perl scripts for manipulating Beyonwiz firmware in various hopefully useful ways.

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Version: 0.2 (for earlier versions see attachments)
Author: prl

Contents of the zip:

• Makefile - Unix make file for install/uninstall/build documentation
• README.txt - some useful information about installing BWFWTools on Unix-like systems
• bw_rootfs - extract or update the root filesystem romfs image in an uncompressed Beyonwiz kernel
• bwhack - remotely enable and disable Beyonwiz "hacks"
• getksyms - extract the kernel module symbol table from an uncompressed Beyonwiz kernel
• gunzip_bflt - convert gzip-compressed bFLT executable files into uncompressed bFLT
• make_kernel_bflt - convert a Beyonwiz kernel image into a bFLT executable
• pack_wrp - pack a Beyonwiz firmware update file
• unpack_wrp - unpack a Beyonwiz firmware update file
• bw_patcher - all-in-one tool to automatically apply Beyonwiz firmware patches
• wrp_hdrs - print the header information in Beyonwiz .wrp firmware update files
• svcdat - print the contents of Beyonwiz C<svc.dat> (service scan configuration) files
• Beyonwiz::Kernel - Perl package of support routines for uncompressed Beyonwiz kernel images
• Beyonwiz::Hack - contains patcher modules to use with bw_patcher
• Beyonwiz::Hack::BackgroundChanger - change the background image used in the File Player and Setup screens
• Beyonwiz::Hack::BwhackSupport - Support for hacks that can be turned on and off remotely using bwhack
• Beyonwiz::Hack::PutFile - Put a single file into an existing directory in the firmware
• Beyonwiz::Hack::RemFile - Remove a file from the firmware
• Beyonwiz::Hack::Telnet - Enable the telnet daemon in the firmware (allows remote logins to the Beyonwiz using telnet)
• Beyonwiz::Hack::USBHackSupport - Allows hacks to be run from a USB stick or memory card
• make_doc.sh - Unix shell script to generate HTML and text documentation from embedded POD markup
• doc\ - Automatically generated documentation in plain text
• html\ - Automatically generated documentation in html (index in index.html)
• etc\ - Beyonwiz firmware patches that can be used in conjunction with Beyonwiz::Hack::USBHackSupport and Beyonwiz::Hack::BwhackSupport
• wiz_pack.exe, wiz_genromfs.exe & wiz_unpack.exe - compiled Cygwin and Windows binaries of some of Eric Fry's Wiz Firmware Tools. Used by some of the BWFWTools.
• gzip.exe - GNU gzip executable for Windows. Used by some of the BWFWTools.
• cygwin1.dll - Cygwin Linux emulation DLL. Used by wiz_pack.exe, wiz_genromfs.exe & wiz_unpack.exe on Windows. Not needed in other environments

Only extensively tested on Cygwin & Mac OS X. Some testing on Windows. Will probably work on Linux and other Unix variants.

WARNING: bw_rootfs, pack_wrp and bw_patcher can all easily create an unbootable system.

Release notes
bw_patcher: new tool
svcdat: new tool
getksyms: fails gracefully on firmware versions 01.05.269 beta and later, which don't have a kernel symbol table for module loading.
wrp_headers: Print out system ids in the same way that they appear on the Beyonwiz.
bw_rootfs: prints more information about free space in the firmware, updating code a bit more robust

In several tools, the way that sub-tools are called has been changed to avoid possible problems with shell quoting, and a bug in Cygwin Perl 5.10.0 IO::Uncompress::Gunzip::gunzip() has bee worked around.

Bugs:
pack_wrp cannot delete one of its temporary files on Windows. A warning is pinted, and the file can be deleted manually.

WARNING

Using user extensions or hacks may make your Beyonwiz unable to operate correctly, or even start. Some modifications are known to interfere with the correct functioning of the Beyonwiz.

If your Beyonwiz cannot start after you load modified firmware, you may need to use the procedures in the NOTICE - How to recover from FW update failure procedure on the Beyonwiz forum.  It's not known whether that procedure will fix all failures due to user modifications or "hacks".

If you run modified firmware on your Beyonwiz, and have problems with its operation, try to reproduce any problems you do have on a Beyonwiz running unmodified firmware, or at least mention the modifications you use when reporting the problem to Beyonwiz support
or on the Beyonwiz Forum. Beyonwiz support may not be able to assist if you are running anything other than unmodified firmware from Beyonwiz.  Forum contributers may be able to be more flexible, but they will need to know what modifications you have made.

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Win32 firmware unpacking and repacking tools. Instructions, source and GPL licence included.

Currently supports the Australian DP-S1, DP-P1 and DP-H1.

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Version: 20081108
Authors: Eric Fry, prl

Version 20081108 release notes:

• Added README.txt describing how to build and install
• Fixed bug in wiz_unpack that was mangling the names of '.' and '..' directory names. Added -q option for less verbose and distracting output
• In wiz_pack, added support for DP-P2 and Finnish Beyonwizes. Change the order of the system ID code so that it's the same as in the Beyonwiz Firmware Information. Allow the use of ' ' or '-' as byte separators in the system ID code for readability (in scripts, etc).
• genromfs now exits with an error if the input directory doesn't exist.
• In svctool, fixed the code so gcc stops whinging
• In Makefile & Makefile.win32, did some tidying-up, added PREFIX to allow the installation directory to be specified easily, ensure that installed binaries have read/execute permission to everyone. Added new Makefile.osx for OS X builds.

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