Despite the small version jump this release contains a bunch of new cool features. There is lot of new eye candy due to more thumbnails and also updates to the WDTV OSD. A real auto update mode is added and some long awaited options have been added. Screenshots of the new features are at the end of the article. See the following list for more details.

For the impatient: Download WDTV application image

• auto update improvements / fixes
  • added: movie posters and OSD files are downloaded on the fly (they were excluded from autoupdate until now)
  • fixed: when auto update failed during startup appletrailerfs did not start
  • fixed: on WDTV auto update was skipped while the filesystem was running
  • fixed: HTTP error codes were not handled correctly
• WDTV OSD (see screenshots)
  • added thumbnails to all folders and trailers
    • this will make navigation in thumbnail mode easier
  • added support for OSD mod in thumbnail mode
  • added IMDB rating to OSD screens
  • added 3D effect to movie poster display
• WDTV general
  • a user config file was added to allow users to specify custom options
    • take a look at appletrailerfs.conf.txt and edit it
    • you can simply hide trailers of a specific resolution or change how trailers are sorted
  • log files are created on boot USB stick if it is writeable
    • this will make debugging easier
  • fixed: folder names with special character’s where not supported correctly
• added: option to specify auto update interval (–update-interval=SECONDS)
• added: option to disable auto update (–update-interval=0)
• added: timecode is added to log messages
• fixed: database file contained obsolete fields

Thanks go to rezmus for the OSD layouts and cgreenle for the genre icons (they can be found in original at http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=32317).

The WDTV application image is available at http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=259619&filename=appletrailerfs-0.3.1-beta-wdtv.zip.
As always, to use this you need ext3-boot or WDLXTV and you must copy all files from the downloaded ZIP file to your USB boot stick.
If you don’t want to use the GUI modifications just delete the file appletrailerfs.app.event from your USB boot stick.

All project files can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=259619.

For future developments and time frames have a look at the roadmap.

Homepage: http://appletrailerfs.elmarweber.org
SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/appletrailerfs