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05/04
04:06
D5 Media Server Hacks
A while back I created a program to allow me to
set network drives to be indexed with the D5 Media Server. It
allowed me to play my movies and MP3’s on a shared network drive on my
D2730. Well, “jnz†posted an even better solution over on
pvrblog. He disassembled the executable and found a few bits to
flip to add some functionality to D5MediaServer.exe. I’ve tried these out and they work well. If you are not comfortable in a hex editor, you can use my program. Here’s his post from pvrblog:
I’ve been poking around some more and I’ve found a couple places that can be patched. I’ll describe them here.
1)
Effect: Lets you drag and drop network files from Explorer
Search for: 83 F8 03 75 77
Change the last two bytes to: 90 90
2)
Effect: Makes network drives show up in the media import tab
Search for: 83 F8 03 74 05 83 F8 06
Change the last byte to: 04
3)
Effect: Unknown
Search for: 83 FF 03 75 E9
Change the last two bytes to: 90 90
I’m
not quite sure what #3 does. It seems to be some sort of sanity check
on requested files. If you can add files but can’t play them, you might
try #3 and see if it helps. I have mine working without having to use
#3 though.
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