Renewal costs are $15 per year. It's currently at GoDaddy.

I'm an Australian resident

Running the site consist of coordinating with Tom King and the folks at nas-admin.org, who host the site on their servers.

-- Rod

The OpenWiz.org domain is coming up for renewal this month. I'm the current owner.

I'm happy to pay to renew the domain for a number of years, but I'm not in a position to run it. So I'm looking for someone to step up and be the new owner of the openwiz.org domain.

-- Rod

However, do people actually download source code from OpenWiz, or do they prefer to download the packages from BeyonwizSoftware? I expect you could count the number of people who download source code on one hand. Fully agree that 99.99% of people will prefer a binary. No problems hosting the binary...

I don't think that providing binary downloads for projects hosted at OpenWiz would be a problem as long as those binary releases are built from source code actually available through OpenWiz. It would be up to the individual project maintainers to prepare binary releases. That is the case for openw...

BTW, I can't run ProjectX since there's no sun-java-bin for Debian on armel (it's not an x86 linux box, it's a Marvell Orion-based little-endian ARM processor).

-- Rod

Otherwise, avidemux can do everything you want (including deinterlace/crop/scale/transcode) and has a command line version. The avidemux on Debian seems to always want to open the framebuffer (which the NAS box does not have). Do you have a sample command line which will work on a headless box? -- ...

What I want to know is how to make a new project on http://trac.openwiz.org/ . Perhaps it's some kind of pons asinorum . I've been wanting to put the getWizPnP source there for ages. Anyone who wants to add a project to openwiz.org, please just PM or email me. We give any developer full access to m...

I have a QNAP TS-409 Pro II NAS, which is running armel Debian Lenny with much the same set of packages available to anyone running Debian on a normal desktop Linux box. I use getWizPnP to transfer files automatically from the wiz hdd to the NAS (every night at 1am it moves anything in the 'Transfer...

Rod, do you know if the default busybox mount mounts nfs ok? I mount using the 1.10.2 busybox I compiled up for the Wiz, as I ticked on a few extra options for the mount that I don't know if the Beyonwiz guys put in. Yes, the mount I am using there is the stock Beyonwiz mount - I don't have scripts...

Once you've got telnet access to your wiz, you can do the following: $ mount -t nfs -o nolock server:/export/path /mnt/local/path Note that the '-o nolock' is what stops NFS looking for portmap (which isn't running on the wiz). I currently mount an nfs share onto /opt, and use it to install Optware ...

Yet, you are transferring the file to a peripheral. If it was a local hard drive, I would say it is copying if that transfer was to another internal hard drive, but to transfer a file to an external device is downloading/uploading. Using Download or Upload is also dependent on where the data reside...

Is a network update of the firmware an upload or a download to the BW? What about a (sneakernet) update using USB? I would download the firmware from the Beyonwiz korea web server to a disk somewhere which is shared on the network. If I'm making the Beyonwiz PVR get it from a network share, then th...

Excellent - I love doing things like this in Perl.

The slugimage tool which packs and unpacks NSLU2 firmware images is written in Perl:

http://svn.nslu2-linux.org/svnroot/slug ... /slugimage

-- Rod

I have imported the BWFWTools source code (all released versions) into an openwiz.org SVN repository at http://svn.openwiz.org/svnroot/bwfwtools/trunk The versions are tagged in: http://svn.openwiz.org/svnroot/bwfwtools/tags There is also a wiki and bug reporting facility at: http://trac.openwiz.org...

I've checked Eric's code into:

http://svn.openwiz.org/svnroot/wizremote/trunk/svctool/

Should it live in wizremote, or should we create a new svctool repository and trac?

-- Rod

I have imported the WizFX source code into an openwiz.org SVN repository at http://svn.openwiz.org/svnroot/wizfx/trunk There is also a wiki and bug reporting facility at: http://trac.openwiz.org/wizfx If anyone would like write access to this svn repository, just let me know. I hope that we can use ...

Having something survive a firmware upugrade can be a mixed blessing. Imagine if you install an application which has a bug in it which causes your machine to continually reboot. If you can't get rid of it with a firmware upgrade, then you're in a permanent reboot loop. Quite true! But that applies...

It also seems that /tmp/config will survive a firmware upgrade so once wizremote is in there's no need to hack the next release to get telnet in. This would also apply to an HDD install of wizremote Having something survive a firmware upugrade can be a mixed blessing. Imagine if you install an appl...

I found "installing development tools in linux" here: http://mg-350hd.pbwiki.com/Development to to provide a working compiler. Tony, Can you add a step-by-step of how to do this to the http://openwiz.org/wiki/Compiler_Toolchain page? Perhaps start a new section (use "==Section=="...

I'm not sure how he extracted it; the script I have allows it to be extracted from the data in the .wrp file. I never intended posting the symbol table listing; the script will give a way for extracting it for a range of kernels. It even works on 1.03.084 from back on 23 Jul 07. We just did "c...

It is great that Rod got this new site up and also working ! This is exactly something I tried to do in http://wiki.beyonwizsoftware.net/ but without luck (maybe you felt I am living too far away?). I think what was missing was the other software development infrastructure around it. A wiki for dev...

OpenWiz.org is designed to be run as a meritocracy. It is my intention to make sure that there are very few things that only I can do as far as managing and running the project goes. In line with this goal, I have given wiki Sysop rights to anyone that I recognise as a keen contributor to beyonwiz d...

janilxx wrote:Ok, how can I get you guys start writing this kind of information to wiki.beyonwizsoftware.net ?

I've added it to http://www.openwiz.org/wiki/Micomparam, linked from the relevant location in http://www.openwiz.org/wiki/Root_Filesystem.

-- Rod

I also have a perl script that takes the BW linux.bin, and delves around in it to work out the entry, data_start, data_end & bss_end BFLT header fields, creates the BFLT header and rewrites the linux.bin contents to commence so that the file location of the kernel is at the entry point. I reall...

I've created some wiki pages at: http://www.openwiz.org/wiki/Firmware_Layout http://www.openwiz.org/wiki/Root_Filesystem http://www.openwiz.org/wiki/Linux_Kernel_Info http://www.openwiz.org/wiki/Compiler_Toolchain Please feel free to collate the information there and then just post here with links t...

I've started documenting the contents of the root filesytem at http://www.openwiz.org/wiki/Root_Filesystem I've also added commentary detailing the boot sequence and functions of each of the proprietary binary utilities as I go. Feel free to add any public information that you have. Please don't inc...

A number of developers who have already released information and applications related to the Beyonwiz PVRs have banded together to start the OpenWiz.org project. One of the things that was disappointing about Topfield TAP development was that whilst some developers did release source code, the actua...

Some of you may remember me from early Topfield days (NSLU2, puppy, ftpd-topfield, optware, etc). I've just rang up Jai and ordered a DP-P1 and LiDiC :-) I've also created a #beyonwiz IRC channel on FreeNode for those of you who want to discuss third-party software development for the wiz. I'll be l...