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FallingDown

08-29-06, 04:34 PM

i juat got this from tivx, sorry if it has been posted already, i didnt see it before

on the 5101, tivx said...

The exact schedule is not set, but we hope we can release in this year. The main chip is 8623

(i assumed this chip is from Sigma)

i checked sigma for the 8623 and cannot find it there is an 8622 and an 8624 and as far as i can see DRM rights seems to be the main difference between that range and the 8630 series...

of course they didnt say sigma...i am just assuming it is sigma..

anyone else know anything different here?

the reason i ask is if the cpu is the same(ish), they must be changing (hardware wise) something else...or maybe i just need to get my tinfoil hat....

ajs6000

08-29-06, 05:55 PM

The EM8623L is the non-macrovision version of this chipset.

ajs6000

08-29-06, 06:00 PM

Sorry. I should have said the EM8623L is the non-macrovision version of the EM8622L chipset. It also runs at 200Mhz compared to 166Mhz of the current M5000A/U (EM8621L)

oferlaor

08-29-06, 06:22 PM

1.8.3 has a lot of freeze ups with the FTP protocol. It works, but certainly needs more code cleanup before it's fully usable.

FallingDown

08-30-06, 02:04 AM

Sorry. I should have said the EM8623L is the non-macrovision version of the EM8622L chipset. It also runs at 200Mhz compared to 166Mhz of the current M5000A/U (EM8621L)

excellent...the extra speed may make a few more things possible on the firmware front.

converse

08-30-06, 04:07 AM

1.8.3 has a lot of freeze ups with the FTP protocol. It works, but certainly needs more code cleanup before it's fully usable.

I transfered gigs and gigs with FTP/1.8.3, without freezes and with rather good speed (3.5 megs/sec).
With FTP software called Fetch (on OSX)

Meenenator

08-30-06, 05:30 AM

1.8.3 has a lot of freeze ups with the FTP protocol. It works, but certainly needs more code cleanup before it's fully usable.
I also get a lot of freezes when using 1.7.3 and trying to access NFS network drives.
My NAS (readynas) is mounted as V: (the media share) on XP, this in turn is NFS'ed using Netshare.
So I need to be very careful in initial access:
1. Power up PC,
2. Access V: from XP (to connect it somehow)
3. Power up Tvix
4. Access the NFS share

(At least thats the way it works ok, it could also be that if I do not access that particular Netshare share before I access it from the XP it might work)

Using different "boot-order" usually freezes the tvix. No idea why...
Then I have to reboot a few times, or maybe even stop the sharing in Netshare, and enable it again.

Ohh, I do wish they could hurry up with the dynamic NFS share they plan to implement...

oferlaor

08-30-06, 06:43 AM

the freezes I'm talking about is on the FTP protocol.

converse

08-30-06, 01:18 PM

well, that's what I had understood.

During FTP transferts to/from TVIX i have no freezes/downrates at all.
But tried only with files between 700Mb-1Gb

converse

08-30-06, 01:27 PM

BY the way maybe you all can help...

I had huge problems booting the M5000, it was booting until the main interface then freezes, saying FAILED on its LED. Only way to defreeze was ON/OFF. USB Volume mounting was fine though.
Anyway I made several consecutive safe firmware upgrades to official 1.7.3 then 1.8.3b, and then it seems to work now (I have occasionnaly the FAILED error but rarely). But after the upgrades it created some files in root disk...

In your opinion, what are these files, and can I delete them safely??

Files in red on the pic:

http://homepage.mac.com/nowall/tvixM5000.jpg

ziv_r

08-30-06, 01:47 PM

you can delete those files.
its system restore & recycle bin files created by your OS.

oferlaor

08-31-06, 03:23 AM

you should disable recycle bin and system restore for the TVIX drive. it will save you from having to delete these over and over again.

frosty_aw

08-31-06, 03:43 AM

[QUOTE=converse]BY the way maybe you all can help...

I had huge problems booting the M5000, it was booting until the main interface then freezes, saying FAILED on its LED. Only way to defreeze was ON/OFF.

QUOTE]

I have(had) the same problem. Only way to get away from was to do a cold reboot. Meaning power off/on switch on the back side. However, I haven't seen it lately, no clue why.
I contacted Tvix support about it and they thoughtI should replace unit, that it was a hardware problem. I doubt it though.

Meenenator

08-31-06, 05:05 AM

the freezes I'm talking about is on the FTP protocol.
Yes, I know...

Just added my personal experience regarding freezes. Have yet to flash to 1.8.3. Do not need FTP/internal drive since mainly all my media resides on a NAS.

However, it do seems like DVICo is working for us these days with numerous new firmwares with added functionallity/bug fixes the last months. That is a good sign.

I was also told that the dynamic mounts/shares are scheduled for october timeframe (hope I can write this even if it is was a reply from DVICo to me in the Q/A section of theirs). Let's hope they do not mind.
I have seen some negative replies in the VP section regarding people posting "personal" info from the developers. If this is improper please do tell me.

originalsnuffy

08-31-06, 10:41 AM

Could members here elaborate on how their NAS share is set-up? I hope to emulate what others have done. I don't want to expose the main PC to the internet by disabling the firewall.

I just got this box last night, and gave it a precursory test. In general, all went well. I just hooked it to the composite input on the front of a regular old tv (no component connection or digital audio connection yet).

I was suprised to see that is does not support wmv7 or wmv8; just wmv9.

Does anybody know if it plays any forms of quicktime? I know that Quicktime incorporates H.264; but does it also have also protocols?

I'll share more as I get going. I have the 1.73 firmware (I have the sense that the 1.8x version is not fully stable yet).

narius

08-31-06, 10:11 PM

Woohoo, i got my HD 5000A today!

I put a Western Digital 320G in it and everything works. HD TS files play perfectly ... it is amazing to see that.

I promptly returned the really inferior Dlink DSM520 (in fact, I use the money to get the Western Digital).

Now I am very happy :)

BTW, I upgrade to 1.7.3 .... FTP is NOT working on this version, right?

I am really dying for some way to put stuff on the TVIX without disconnect it and take it next to the computer and reconnect in USB mode.

jofa

09-01-06, 03:34 AM

Meenenator

09-01-06, 03:44 AM

[QUOTE=originalsnuffy]Could members here elaborate on how their NAS share is set-up? I hope to emulate what others have done. I don't want to expose the main PC to the internet by disabling the firewall.
QUOTE]

What do you need to know?
I have a ReadyNAS X6 (great product btw). The X6 can use both samba and NFS.
Until DVICo fixes the dynamic mount point (the hardcoded tvixhd1 share) I'm not able to fully use either the Tvix or the NAS to its full potensial without doing a LOT of copying. More on than further down.
I will not cover the Netshare program her, just the out of box functionality of the X6 and Tvix on Samba/NFS.
I have not opened anything in software firewall, except added the NAS and tvix as trusted Ip-adresses. On the router I have done nothing except to have static IP-adresses to each and one MAC adress.
I have further restricted access to the NAS to be only the IP-adresses I use for 3 PC's and the tvix.
The NAS is further set-up to use user-access, enabling me to specify who has read/write access etc.

As stated the tvix expects a tvixhd1 directory or share on the NAS. A directory on Samba and share for NFS.
Samba setup:
If I add a user "tvixhd1" user on the X6 (I'm running user access), I'm able to see the user's home directory on the NAS when using Samba on the tvix.

NFS setup:
If I add a "tvixhd1" share on X6, this is visible on the tvix when I use NFS on the tvix.

The main problem (for me) is that I'm currently using the default setup on the X6 which uses a "media" share. This is not viewable from the tvix, due to the hardcoding.

So in order to get access to my files I need to copy them to either the tvixhd1 home directory (for Samba) or the tvixhd1 share (for NFS). This is not an option for me... too much data to move (and since the X6 actually first moves the files back to the PC, and then back to the NAS, this is a long procedure).
So I'm eagerly awaiting for dynamic mounting point(s) :)

Playback from NAS using Samba or NFS has been very good.
I streamed some NASA space shuttle clips yesterday using NFS.
One 1080i.23Mbps.30fps.AC3.2.0 clip. Perfect.
One 720p.19Mbps.60fps.MP3 clip. Perfect.

Running those clips using first Samba to a PC(XP), and then NFS (using Netshare) to the tvix made the sound stutter a bit.
Haven't tried the same clips using Samba directly from the X6 yet, but the X6 is pretty good using samba. I measured more than 20MB/s when I benchmarked its performance when I first got it. So it should be more than enough for 23Mbps.
Maybe I will try it out tonight...

Haven't had any other performance problems other than that using other HD-clips. Well, except those damn DRM-clips ;) (they don't play at all)

Did this answered your questions?

converse

09-01-06, 04:08 AM

oferlaor > for your FTP problems, which kind of FTP setting do you use? active or passive mode (PASV)?

For me PASV is just fine. but maybe on PC you should try active...

ziv_r

09-01-06, 09:56 AM

im using win xp pro sp2 with EDIMAX 6114 router.
no switching enabled in the router.
my top speed is 1.25MB with the FTP clients FileZilla & CuteFTP 8 Professional.
The computer after restart with min utils in the background.

Can someone with win OS platform that achieve higher transfer rate can please explain how did he accomplished that?

DemonicDM

09-01-06, 10:03 AM

t0lik

09-02-06, 05:00 AM

togad

09-02-06, 07:48 AM

New Firmware v1.8.5 is out btw:
ftp://ftp.dvico.com/products/tvix/Firmware/m-5000/1.8.5/tvix_1.8.5_ntsc_eng.zip

also Netshare 1.0.6:
ftp://ftp.dvico.com/products/tvix/Firmware/m-5000/NetShare/TViX%20NetShare_1.06.exe

I didn't have a chance to try it yet.

http://www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/support/M5000Firmware.aspx

Support automatic TV type(vertical refresh rate) change according to the source frame rate
If you set NTSC/PAL automatic change, M5000 will check the frame rate and change the TV out vertical refresh frequency. Currently, M5000 will check AVI, WMV, MP4 and TS/TP files.
29.97/59.94 F/S will be changed to NTSC and 25/50 F/S will be changed to PAL
You can set this on only when you have multi-standard TV.

So near yet so far. Let's hope they add checking of .VOBs soon!

eleson

09-02-06, 08:31 AM

maxpop

09-02-06, 01:43 PM

awesome

JaniH

09-02-06, 03:52 PM

Support automatic TV type(vertical refresh rate) change according to the source frame rate
If you set NTSC/PAL automatic change, M5000 will check the frame rate and change the TV out vertical refresh frequency. Currently, M5000 will check AVI, WMV, MP4 and TS/TP files.
29.97/59.94 F/S will be changed to NTSC and 25/50 F/S will be changed to PAL
You can set this on only when you have multi-standard TV.I assume that files with 23.98fps are also output automatically at 60Hz?

Guys, notice also the note after the list of FW changes:

"Currently known main issue.
There is a one big known issue. If you play files from USB external device(HDD or ODD), you will see the freeze or it will stop sometimes. We know this is very critical issue, and we are working on this issue."

This was one of two problems I was having with my TViX, so it's great to know Dvico is on to this. Other problem is stuttering with some xvids, while other xvids play fine. No difference whether the file is played from USB HDD or internal HDD. I can play these files without stuttering from my computer. Anybody having the same problem?

originalsnuffy

09-02-06, 05:28 PM

Now that I have all my connections to the new Denon 3806 up and running, I am going to focus on the networking connection to the also new TVIX. I just went through a nice little system upgrade. Thank heavens for ebay where one can find new home for the perfectly good but slightly older toys that get replaced.

I think other people have noted this in older postings, but I have observed with the latest firmware (1.85) some issues.

First, I think on some of my XVIDs the dolby digital soundtrack is somehow just coming out in stereo not surround mode.

Second, on multiple movies the soundtrack is coming out silent, even though the original files can play back on the PC and can be transferred just fine to DVD. The common thread is that the files came from transferred dvds. For example, I dubbed from the Scientific Atlanta PVR to my DVD-Recorder, then transferred the files to the PC. The information shows "o channels" for the ac3 audio. Do you think somehow the files are corrupt; but my DVD player and PC don't care?

Anybody have any thoughts on these issues?

Second, as I believe was pointed out in some threads on terminator 2 wmv9, when playing wmv I have to convert to pcm. Which means the 5.1 soundtrack with wmv9 is lost. I suppose a wmv9 receiver would be able to take the signal digitally, if such a thing existing and if it was a feature I was willing to pay for.

It sure would be nice if wmv7 and 8 were supported besides wmv9.

Now I'm off to experiment with samba, ftp, and so on. I'll probably just connect to the router directly first, then experiment with some wireless if I can the basics to work in a wired environment. Meenenator gave some helpful hints which I appreciate very much, but I am really a novice at this stuff.

narius

09-02-06, 08:29 PM

Got 1.8.5 working this morning. So far it seems to be working correctly. Bitrate can drop to very very low (or even stopped) when I played HD TS files. However, this is still better than the USB mode which rendered the player unusable.

So far all the files I have are playing flawlessly. I have already set up a very long USB cable from my 5000 to the computers. I guess I will be using either that or FTP depending on whether I want to watch while upload.

One added advantage of USB is that I can directly unrar stuff I dl to 5000's internal drive while if I use FTP, I have to unrar to a HD local to the computer, than upload, which will cost me twice the time.

DCypher

09-03-06, 06:20 AM

Can the M5000 mount multiple NFS shares (multiple computers - each with tvixhd1 share)?

I have a share for my standard dvds on my main NAS (a linux box) and a share for TV recordings on my main PC (both shared via NFS). Right now, my Roku HD1000 mounts both and streams content from each perfectly, but it doesn't support dvix or mp4 :( Looking for a replacement...

frosty_aw

09-03-06, 09:34 AM

Yes, it can mount four shares, either SMB or NFS. At least in 1.7.3, haven't tried 1.8.5 yet.

TPeterson

09-03-06, 02:22 PM

Same 4-shares options in 1.8.5.

qz3fwd

09-03-06, 07:27 PM

Upgraded to 1.8.5 this afternoon-awesome :cool: . The FTP feature works perfectly. No more disconnecting the thing and moving from the bedroom to the office workstation to transfer files anymore! I use CuteFTP to test the connection and get 25-30 mbps throughput. (At least when my ReadyNAS is not busy PAR'ing or extracting GB rar's where it drops to about 15).

Meenenator

09-04-06, 03:15 AM

Damn, I'm away for a weekend and they release a new firmware... ;)

Well, at least I know what to do tonight.

Hopefully already playable files will be playable with new FW. I hate to test everything again.

I have seen that a few files indicate incorrect amount of audio channels. (it reports 2 ch when my receiver indicate 5 channels) (need to check using Gspot etc as well). Aslo noted that the framerate is not always shown either.
And... also noted that the length on some files are incorrect (I'm playing on the 5th minute, while the length was reported to be 3min for example)

I will report my findings to DVICo. Nothing major, I rather have them fixing the dynamic mounting points instead than using time on these small issues.

Like the new auto refresh rate feature. Nice work!

gt9450

09-04-06, 07:33 AM

Drew,

As we have seen, sites like engadget are not always entirely accurate. I think they confused many people when they stated:

"...the form factor’s been changed up somewhat so that it’s not really an enclosure anymore — it’s designed to take USB 2.0 external drives as well as flash drive, flash readers and digital cameras via USB host functionality."

This gave the impression that the TViX 5000 would not accept an internal hard drive. But from the pictures in this link, we can see the opposite is true:

http://www.technoa.co.kr/content/View.asp?pPageID=58603
What? No HDMI

originalsnuffy

09-04-06, 10:25 AM

As a proof of concept I have connected this unit with a Linksys wireless game adapter. I works just like a bridge on the wifi network, and I have been successful in doing a ftp file transfer using the seagull ftp. I find seagull hard to understand; so I might try some other ftp options.

I have not yet figured out how to use the nfs or samba connections to the ads nas or the d-link nas units that I have. So that is a future project. I do note how many other forum participants use ready nas, so that is something that could be considered.

I found a workaround for the broken audio issues. I took the mpeg files (and in one case the vob file) and re-rendered them. For the mpeg files, I used u-lead dvd movie factory 2, and for the vob I used nero. This brought back the audio. But it makes no sense why the tvix did not find the files in the first place.

Any new news on the 5101? The picture on the korean web sit looks the same as the 5000.

In general, I am becoming a better student of poking around the korean website. They do have some good tips of working with the unit buried here and there, but it is all rather disorganized.

Crivens

09-04-06, 11:27 AM

As a proof of concept I have connected this unit with a Linksys wireless game adapterSo you can use one of these adapters to fake a network to the Tvix, so it basically thinks there is a proper cable network when in actual fact it is really a wireless link? So how do you setup the adapter, do you have to plug it into a PC first?

Also does it offer any other advantages, such as increased wireless strength etc? And finally what sort of range are you getting, will it cover anywhere in a normal house for example? Oh, and what sort of transfer speeds are you getting over a 54g network?

Hmm, good news if this works. Real solution that works now rather than waiting for a FW update to Tvix to work with wireless dongles. Plus they may drop the idea, esp once the 5101 comes out (only have their comments about wireless at the minute).

Cheers

originalsnuffy

09-04-06, 08:53 PM

The Linksys game adapter was easy to set up. I left the switch on IN for infrastructure and plugged it in. That was it.

I purchased the Linksys wireless game adaptor at Best Buy for $50; and they applied my 12% off coupon. So it was cheap; plus Best Buy has 30 day return policy.

There is some software included but you only need it if you have protection keys or want to change the channel. But I run my network in the clear (my neighbors are sufficiently far away as to not be an issue).

I am doing a transfer right now with Seagull FTP, and the speed is around 500-600 kbps. I am sending a 1.8 gb file, and it will take about 52 minutes. So this is much slower than the USB connection, but of course I don't have to disconnect and move the device to add the file.

I placed this particular unit not far from the wireless repeater (also Linksys brand, as is my router). So I can not really comment on the distance questions.

Streaming mp3, wav, and windows media files so far seems fine. Higher resolution streams do not work as well; hi def becomes jerky and unworkable almost instantaneously, mpeg is not much better. So with this network; the choice is to stream lower bandwidth items and ftp the more data intensive information.

Now that I have a working network (limited as it may be) I now see that one can jump to the network connection, then choose from four networks.

So far I have not been successful getting a connection to either the D-Link or ADS NAS. The TVIX netshare program seems to work fine for streaming right off the PC.

Meenenator

09-05-06, 04:41 AM

Well, I flashed the unit with 1.8.5. It flashed like a charm :)

I did not experience any USB freezes using an external USB HD, so maybe I'm lucky. I then set up everything again wrt my network, resolution etc.

I also went ahead a did a few tests with the auto refresh rate feature. Looks like it is working ok.
My VP30 reported 50Hz for all 25fps media I tried. It also reported 60Hz for 23.976 and 29.997 media. All well to a certain degree.
I had a few troubles using a perticular HighDef movie, it didn't work initially when refresh rate set to auto. When I forced it to NTSC it did work. The weird part, is that the file worked after I changed it back to auto refresh rate. So it might be a little buggy.
Did not try the FTP since I only use network shares.
I also did a DVE calibration, using a ripped .ISO version of the DVE. It do looks like actual resolution is ok, not much overscan etc. (using DVI).
I had to change the brightness to +14, contrast to -2, and saturation to -21. Using those values I had a fairly good colour saturation, and fairly good control of the black/grey bars in DVE. Hopefully I did it correctly. Always been a little fuzzy the part with the black bars etc.
As far as I could tell it shows blacker-than-black, but my experience with DVE and those are limited.

Cheers,

M.

tdampier

09-05-06, 11:36 PM

Meenenator

09-06-06, 04:09 AM

Does anyone know if this is even planned by Tivx to support for UPNP? Most media players now support it. And this is kind of the missing link for me for the Tivx as a good media player. Also, the lack of support for a gui menu with cover art is a pain as well.

NFS support is way more complex to implement than UPNP so I am confused as to why people this has not been requested more?
Yeah I know... I would love Upnp as well. Esp. since I have a ReadyNas w/Upnp.
Can't say I have seen a roadmap saying Upnp will be implemented. We can only hope.
To bad really. That is the one thing I miss most just now, and until then I have to wait for the dynamic mounting point they say they will intrododuce soon (making it easier to access your own shares with your names on them)
If that works ok, I do not see the absolute need for upnp since I can get hold og most of my NAS-resisiding data.
But it sure would be nice if they could implement upnp.

A side comment: I see that Zensonic has changed name to Ziova, and are introducing two new models (one with dvd-drive, and one without). The suppported format list is huge (incl. ISO, IFO etc (no H264 though)). They have UPNP. Supposed to be introduced into Europe soon. I look forward to that.
More here: http://www.ziova.com/products.php

originalsnuffy

09-06-06, 09:53 AM

tdampier

09-06-06, 09:55 AM

See the problem with the current NFS mounting issue is there is not a lot of support for those that have multiple NAS appliances. I realise I can mount 4 NFS mounts but they appear as 4 different NAS appliances and I don't get a continuous list of DVD's.

I suppose splitting them by alphabetical and/or genre might work but again if you have a lot of say one type then this does not really work either.

How have other people solved this problem?

Also, how do people get around the issues with the lack of a good image menuing system and only using the file system. Seems like a step backwards to me. Has anyone developed a good gui menu front-end or does one of the media players integrate well with say DVD Profiler and give you auto recognition and download of cover art.

Yes I have been looking at Zensonic/Zovia but they have only now started beta support for ISO's :) Also, do they have had problems with their devices as well.

I would love to leverage my NAS apliances, I have 2 and will be looking to purchase more if I can get a solution put together. I would like to get rid of my DVD changers entirely if possible and go completely ISO image based. I know Kalaidescape without the 20k :)

Other suggestions are welcomed :)

tdampier

09-06-06, 10:02 AM

I thought they already supported ISO automount? Does this not work as listed in these forums?

Commitment for future UPNP would be a big plus and would make me purchase a unit. I also like the firmware update commitment I have seen from this product.

How would we send an email to them to start the process of the request?

NAS support via NFS I could sort of get by with but again I need some type of approach for a good menu system with images for this unit to work for the wife/kids :)

Crivens

09-06-06, 10:10 AM

How would we send an email to them to start the process of the request?Just post a question in the FAQ section of the Tvix website. They normally reply within a day or so. I've had one comment back saying I was the only person who asked for the request so dunno if it would be done, but it would go on the list anyway. If more people asked about it then it would go up in priority. Which reminds me, I asked for an outline colour for menu text (when tvix.jpg is too white) for easier reading. Hopefully more people have requested such a thing. Would be nice.

Cheers

ptwyzard

09-06-06, 08:54 PM

Meenenator

09-07-06, 03:52 AM

We should all send nice requests to TVIX/DVICO asking for the dynamic mounting and for UPNP.

I can't get the 5000 to speak to my NAS units, which has samba and nfs, except through the PC. I have a strong suspicion that UPNP or dynamic mounting will solve the problem, and the unit definitely can communicate at some level to the outside world.

I am happy with the direction support on this product continues to take. I was willing to buy a unit such as this now even while knowing about an impending upgraded unit only because of the strong firmware support. And knowledge that TVIX/DVICO usually needs about 6 months to get any new product up and running in a fairly solid fashion.

I recon I have read what type of NAS you have a few posts back, but can't remember it just now, but it is not the ReadyNas. Are you using some kind of user-access to your NAS, or are you running on a share-level?
Not sure that it matters much.
What I had to do for my Readynas to work with the TVix was to add a root-share named "tvixhd1". After input of the NAS'es IP-adress in the network setup on the tvix (NFS) it should work.
For Samba access I had to add a new user (tvixhd1 user) to the NAS.

But I hope everything will become better when the dynamic mount point comes.

Has DVICo said anything about UPNP at all? I recon this little unit has limited memory/processing power and adding upnp could be over the top for it.
Not sure how memory/cpu hungry upnp is.

Meenenator

09-07-06, 03:56 AM

Good evening.

Will the TVix HD M-5000U play videos stored on a NAS? I assume it provides a list of the videos and you would choose what to play? Will it play VOB files (my DVDs are ripped into one large VOB file each)?

Thanks.
Not sure what you mean here.
The tvix will play files stored on a NAS, using samba or NFS.
And yes it will play VOB files. Not sure if there is any limit size-wise on the VOBs.
Don't think so, since it can play very large .TS files etc.

jofa

09-07-06, 04:00 AM

Crivens

09-07-06, 04:41 AM

Yeah, hopefully they will go down the pre-processed thumbnail route. Either that or don't create the thumbnails every time. Only the first time (and store as a jpg) or on an option. Although I don't know about auto creation as it may not give a pic you want. Hopefully they will introduce pre-processed thumbnails as I can then integrate it into the application I'm making (see jofa's post) as I already plan to have an option where you can view the video in question and select a frame to use as cover art.

Cheers

originalsnuffy

09-08-06, 02:23 PM

I have decided to change my approach to networking with this device. I have decided to consolidate my backup strategy as part of this. For whatever reason, I don't think this device is going to work with my ADS-NAS or D-Link DSM-G600 NAS. So I am going to take the data off these devices; transfer the data to a fairly big WD external drive, and then sell the two BYO hard drive NAS devices (the ADS and the D-Link) on ebay. They both work; they just won't work with my proposed application.

Then I'll just use the TVIX utility which lets the TVIX stream off the PC and its attached devices. And use FTP to transfer files into the TVIX when needed. Or pull it from the stereo cabinet and use USB 2.0 to do disc cleanup.

The benefit it that I will not have to worry about which files are where, like I do now. And I will have less boxes kicking around. With the new drive I just bought, I have a total of five different backup boxes. I will bring this down to 2 or so.

Somebody recently posted a link to discussion forums for the TVIX on a divx related group. On this group, I found a comment that the 5101 is most likely expected later this year or early next year. As much as I alway want the latest and greatest toys, I'd rather have the 5000 up and running like it is now for the next few months.

tdampier

09-08-06, 05:37 PM

DVD play: Yes, the Tvix will play VOBs or ISO images stored on a NAS device. If you can connect with NFS instead of SMB you are less likely to get performance problems.

Regarding GUI and thumbnails there is too little processing power in the Tvix to create thumbs from the video file itself (according to Tvix. The unit would be too slow. One solution is to use DVD Profiler/Coellctor or what ever (I have made some tests with Ant Movie Catalogue) and create background images with cover art etc. I know of 2 applications aiming to solve this problem boing developed.
Have a look at this thread:
http://www.mpcclub.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9499

Or if someone has a lot of time and know XSLT (?) that person could use Ant Movie Catalogue, export in XML and create a XSL style sheet which then can be rendered into a 720 x 480 jpg.
I'll be happy to try it out :D
/J
/J

Doing it over UPNP would allow for some additional add-ins like Twonky, Tversity, ect.. to be leveraged adding additional functionality on a NAS device like the Infrant which I have and will be buying more :) So for example some add-ins for skins/gui, iso mounting, transcoding on the fly, etc...

Difficult to do that with a plain old NFS mount. As you mention the processing power on the TVIX would not allow for it.

Yes I have read your posts on the XSLT and so on and would recommend you look at the http://www.collectorz.com/ application as it uses gracenote, IMDB as well as lots of others it interfaces with for a more robust catalog. It also has apps for music, movies, books, comic books, games, mp3 and photo which is nice from an future direction standpoint.

I am a big DVD profiler user from way back but they have closed their platform, have little in plugins as well as no SDK as of yet. So I am thinking of changing. Great product but I am looking for something a little more upscale. The CollectorZ music collection has a plugin for a good player which actually integrates the player into it's database lookup functions. So you put in a CD it does lookup and populates both the MP3 tags meta data, images and the their catalog at the same time. With a built in ripper with plugins for some popular encoders. So it is plug, input into database, look up meta data and images, and rip with meta data all in one nice little process. Pretty sweet.

They also have a reporting function which contain templates. So what I thought I might do is to use that function with a tool I downloaded called Universal Document Converter which is basically a print driver that allows me to print to jpg :) I then opened in paintbrush and compressed the image.(313k) See file attached. Need to play around with template and compression but I think you get the idea. Other way is they do allow export to HTML, XML, Text and even IPOD so it I think it would be easy to build it out of HTML and put it in the directory. I assume that requires some programming skills I don't have ;) And also some changes to the firmware to support the association to the HTML page.

This approach I leverage someone elses tool which is already supported commercially and has most of the functions I need and I just print out the JPG files from my database. A kluge but better than out of the box ;)

They have an SDK so it could really be fully integrated over time if someone had the kills which is not me ;)

So I am considering using this type of approach as an interim solution.

ppl4world

09-08-06, 11:10 PM

Hi, quick question to all you TViX owners (as I'm wrestling with the question to become one too). How/Why did you choose the TVix than say the Rhapsody N35? Would you now consider the Z500?

Thanks for helping out!

Cheers

Peter

am1968

09-09-06, 06:06 AM

Can anyone with a Tvix let me know what an Xvid file with the following specs would look like when played on a 42" plasma with a resolution of 1024x768:

Video : XviD at 1024 kbps
Audio : MP3 131kbps 2ch 48khz
Aspect Ratio : 16:9
Resolution : 624x352
Frame Rate : 23.976024 fps

frosty_aw

09-09-06, 09:19 AM

I downgraded to 1.7.3 from 1.8.5 since my Tvix was crashing/freezing while playing DVD ISO's over NFS. Anyone else had that problem?

Andy69

09-09-06, 04:55 PM

What kind of speeds do you guys get with FTP transfer ? I'am getting arround 3 a 3.5MB/s so with some nice HD stuff it will take about 50 minutes :(

Is this normal ?

I'am using flashfxp.

TPeterson

09-09-06, 05:10 PM

Actually, that's at the high end of the expected speed. Good for you! :)

Andy69

09-10-06, 05:01 AM

Actually, that's at the high end of the expected speed. Good for you! :)

Ok hahah.

I got another question. I got a Dreambox (Digital Satellite Receiver) without a HD but in the software i can mount a drive (in the network), does anybody know if i can mount the tvix drive ? so that i can record onto the tvix.

Thx

Regards,
Andy

bobfought

09-10-06, 10:05 AM

I just got my TViX HD M-5000U Media Player last week and I love it with just one exception. TViX needs to add Windows WMV 7 and 8 support. There are programs out there to convert them but it’s a real pain.
Bob

VespaMan

09-10-06, 11:27 AM

Well, I flashed the unit with 1.8.5. It flashed like a charm :)

I also went ahead a did a few tests with the auto refresh rate feature.
I had a few troubles using a perticular HighDef movie, it didn't work initially when refresh rate set to auto. When I forced it to NTSC it did work. The weird part, is that the file worked after I changed it back to auto refresh rate. So it might be a little buggy.

Cheers,

M.

M. Maybe you had PAL and Auto prior to "forcing" NTSC ?

The intention is that unknown formats (not recognized as 25 or 30) will fall back to the selected format. ie if I have PAL and Auto, 40 fps material will play in "PAL mode" (50Hz).

TPeterson

09-10-06, 11:29 AM

does anybody know if i can mount the tvix drive ? so that i can record onto the tvix.You cannot.

TPeterson

09-10-06, 11:31 AM

TViX needs to add....There are no DVICO reps on this board. If you'd like them to hear you, post your suggestion on their website after logging into "My Q&A".

tdampier

09-10-06, 11:37 PM

There are no DVICO reps on this board. If you'd like them to hear you, post your suggestion on their website after logging into "My Q&A".

I have posted on their forum regarding UPNP future possible support. I think this would complete the product feature set and things like transcoding, and plugins would be a bonus if they supported UPNP servers like TwonkyVision, Tiversity, etc...

I find it odd that it is one of the few media servers that does not support some type of UPNP function :)

oferlaor

09-11-06, 02:47 AM

I definitely asked for UP&P a looooong time ago. They said they would consider it.

sansp00

09-11-06, 09:09 AM

I definitely asked for UP&P a looooong time ago. They said they would consider it.
I sent the question last week and they replied to me that is was NOT on the roadmap of the product :(
I replied and beg to reconsider. In my case, this would be the go/no go factor in buying this streamer. In the meantime, I have a broken Roku HD1000 in the mail waiting for replacement PSU as soon as I get it.

Patrick S.

tdampier

09-11-06, 09:34 AM

I sent the question last week and they replied to me that is was NOT on the roadmap of the product :(
I replied and beg to reconsider. In my case, this would be the go/no go factor in buying this streamer. In the meantime, I have a broken Roku HD1000 in the mail waiting for replacement PSU as soon as I get it.

Patrick S.

This is the reply I got from Tech Support :(

Hello Troy,

Thank you for the feedback. However, currently we do not have plan for UPnP. We are working on HDTV Tuner and other features. Anyway, I will put on the request list which is for my manager and engineers. This list is jsut for the review and not to do list, so I am not sure we will implement or not.

Thanks,
Eric

I can say if this does not change they will probably have a lot of people migrate to another platform. These devices will never be able to support transcoding at this price-point :( So for those of us who want an all-in one appliance there does not look like much hope in TVIX.

I am considering the Zensonic as they support UPNP. However, they do not support NFS which is better for streaming movies due to the overhead with SMB.

Maybe I will post a poll on who would like to get this support on TVIX and then send in results?

I have to purchase something this week :(

originalsnuffy

09-11-06, 11:21 AM

TPeterson

09-11-06, 12:34 PM

The Z500 does support TS play. Currently, it doesn't support the ".tp" filename (you need to rename files with ".ts" extension) but that's supposed to be fixed in the next firmware update.

tdampier

09-11-06, 12:40 PM

I don't think the Zensonic Z500 unit support the .ts file format unless I am missing something. Is this the unit you are thinking of?

For me the ts file format is the key feature for the TVIX unit. I loaded up the hard drive with .ts files, which play back in hi def and pass on the dolby digital signals (both 2.0 and 5.1) with no problems.

As noted by others and myself, I wish the unit supported windows media 7 and 8.
Which programs do people use to convert these files with a minimum of transcoding artifacts?

I do like the networking utility that TVIX provides now. It lets one access the PC without turning off the firewall. And I also like the FTP capability. I discovered that Seagall is putting its config files into "my documents", and am now liking the free Seagull FTP much more than before.

I have temporarily given up on my cheapo Samba and NFS servers. I think that the ADS and D-Link units that I have are too slow to respond to the TVIX, so I can't get a good connection.

I have actually moved beyond monkeying with the machine and moved onto actually using it! As much as I love tinkering with the tech toys, it is more fund to find a complex device that generally does what you expect.

I don't get the whole .TS debate? It is basically MPEG2 right? Isn't that lossy encoding and you lose a lot of format. What tools do you use to do your conversions from DVD to .TS. Is it really better than streaming a DVD ISO image to an player output via DVI to a panel or projector upscaled at 720p or 1080i/1080p?

Or I assume you are capturing HDTV content and converting it to MPEG2 which would make use of the full HD digitial signal :) In which case I have not gone to HDTV yet I am waiting to purchase my first panel/projector with a tuner integrated. (or the TVIX tuner which I have not gotten specs on yet) I hate giving the cable company money for their proprietary closed desktop boxes :(

# Zensonic Video Formats Supported

* MPEG-1
* MPEG-2 MP@HL (720p and 1080i)
* MPEG-4 ASP@L5 (720p), such as XviD, 3ivx, HDX4 etc.
* WMV9 MP@ML (720p)
* Nero Digital™ up to (Main) Cinema Profile
* QuickTime™ .MP4 (MPEG-4 SP video with AAC audio)
* DVB/ATSC Transport Stream Support
* DVD ISO and IFO Parsing Support
* SRT, SSA and SMT subtitles

I don't have a unit yet but assume that since MPEG-2 format as listed that it should be supported. 1080i is good not sure what supports 1080p yet :)

Just a question but why is WM7/8 so important? Is it because they don't have DRM?

I don't really want a HD in my unit although the feature is nice. Zensonic offers this too. Not sure what it benefits unless their code caches the movie file to the local hard drive to prevent skipping in playback :) Which I have not heard that it does.

I have a couple Infrant NAS boxes which are good to use and will probably get a couple more. This allows me to stream quite readily and provides for a good solid platform. Cheaper units like you mention just are not capable as you noted. I am looking at a like 10TB digital movie collection :) My version of a Kailediscape for less than 30k :)

I am still planning a large purchase of equipment to redo my audio/video systems so getting ready to start buying however :)

My key thing to purchase a TVIX is UPNP support as I would like to leverage tools that add additional funcationality like transcoding on the fly etc..

originalsnuffy

09-11-06, 01:13 PM

I capture US domestic HDTV broadcasts using a DVICO card. It stores these on my computer as TS/TP files. So playing these back without making conversions should by definition provide a hi-def signal to the monitor.

Apparently the Zensonic can play these. But they would need to be streamed in the case of this unit. Some forum members have home networks and servers that can do this, so the Zensonic would be a good choice.

My network/system needs a hard drive resident in the playback unit to play these TS/TP files.

Yes, the underlying video stream is high bitrate mpeg2; but much higher than a DVD can hold. So to put the video onto DVD one has to reduce the bitrate to no more than 8mb/sec (at least as I understand it). And of course one needs to mux some audio onto that too.

TPeterson

09-11-06, 02:01 PM

# Zensonic Video Formats Supported

* MPEG-1
* MPEG-2 MP@HL (720p and 1080i)
* MPEG-4 ASP@L5 (720p), such as XviD, 3ivx, HDX4 etc.
* WMV9 MP@ML (720p)
* Nero Digital™ up to (Main) Cinema Profile
* QuickTime™ .MP4 (MPEG-4 SP video with AAC audio)
* DVB/ATSC Transport Stream Support
* DVD ISO and IFO Parsing Support
* SRT, SSA and SMT subtitlesThis is "TS", aka .ts, .tp, .trp, etc.

tdampier

09-11-06, 04:18 PM

This is "TS", aka .ts, .tp, .trp, etc.

Ah yes missed that :) I am not an HDTV'r yet so I am still learning.

I think that the problem I have is with a NAS there is no networked NFS support that is readily available to link multiple NAS appliances together to look like one big share. There is however SMB support of this via Microsoft DFS and SAMBA. So if I use this then the player has to defintely support SMB playback to access my rather large library of movies :)

Said that either unit will work but I believe they both have issues with SMB streaming of DVD ISOs. So I guess I will have to gamble and try to one and hope for the best :)

TPeterson

09-11-06, 04:22 PM

Actually, I think that both will stream SDTV (and DVD) content via SMB very well. They run into trouble only above about 10-Mbps data rates over SMB.

tdampier

09-11-06, 04:41 PM

Actually, I think that both will stream SDTV (and DVD) content via SMB very well. They run into trouble only above about 10-Mbps data rates over SMB.

yes were there is the rub as I want them to stream to like 4 players at once from the same NAS appliance and it would need to support like 40mb/sec it would seem to do that.

What solution would you recommend for HDTV streaming for one of these? Is NFS the only solution?

Thanks

TPeterson

09-11-06, 07:39 PM

I see no rub. SMB chokes at the receiving end, not at the server, to limit streaming to 10 Mbps. We know that PC-to-PC you can get far better than that even on 100-Mbps ethernet using SMB. So your NAS, if it's not a dog, could easily stream 4 SD feeds at once.

The TViX streams HDTV very well using NFS; and the Z500, using UPnP. If DViCo implements UPnP on the TViX, I expect that will also work well.

buick

09-11-06, 07:55 PM

Any idea's why my ISO files dont play? Just this unit today and have a server built with several ISO's on that play fine in my MG-35 but the tvix trys to load them and and just goes back to the folder screen, I havent been able to get it to see the network shared drives yet but still working with that. I have upgraded to the newest firmware so I dont think it is that. I used a program called folder2Iso to convert dvds. Any Ideas?

Thanks

originalsnuffy

09-11-06, 10:19 PM

buick

09-12-06, 07:50 AM

When playing some dvd iso files from the internal hard drive, on the first click I get a failed play. Then I click the same file again and it plays. So buick, perhaps just try clicking a second time and see what happens.

Tried that with no luck and even did a iso with dvdshrink and it acks like it is playing but just black screen, does the iso's need to be a TS folder in the iso? Thats the way I have it.

Crivens

09-12-06, 02:14 PM

Brilliant advice for those Linksys game adapters. Bit of mucking around and all is up and running with wireless on both machines. First test had a 500mb+ file FTPing (went back to DOS ftp just to get it going) in 254 secs. Thats 2273.83k a second apparently. Will do fine if you ask me. Definitely not the hour long effort to do 1gb by the look of it. Bet it depends on the link. Trying my 2nd TViX now which is further away.

Cheers

Crivens

09-12-06, 04:54 PM

Got about 1900k a sec for that one. Oh, and both were done while downloading 200k a sec on another machine (on a 10mbit cable connection) so the network must have been a bit stressed as it was. Overall most impressed.

Cheers

buick

09-12-06, 08:39 PM

teddystacker

09-12-06, 10:05 PM

Meenenator

09-13-06, 05:50 AM

Anyone comment what they are using to make there ISO's I have tried folder2iso and dvdshrink and not able to play them and my mg-35 plays them fine. I am trying to take riped dvds of the hardrive and make a ISO.
That is weird, I'm using dvdshrink and no issues what so ever with it.
Maybe you have some setting somewhere in shrink which is not good...?

I have also tried both .ISO and video_TS folder output from dvdshrink. No probs.
Also tried dvddecrypter to rip my DVDs onto HD, and then used DVDshrink to make ISO etc. (as well as removal/compression of extras/audiotrack etc). I have also used other program to completely remove extras (replace them with ~0k files), and then run them thru dvdshrink to make a much smaller DVD image on the HD.

Are you sure you are removing the region encoding and the encryption?
Try dvdencrypter and rip the files to harddrive, then use dvdshrink afterwards.

It should work...

buick

09-13-06, 08:29 AM

That is weird, I'm using dvdshrink and no issues what so ever with it.
Maybe you have some setting somewhere in shrink which is not good...?

I have also tried both .ISO and video_TS folder output from dvdshrink. No probs.
Also tried dvddecrypter to rip my DVDs onto HD, and then used DVDshrink to make ISO etc. (as well as removal/compression of extras/audiotrack etc). I have also used other program to completely remove extras (replace them with ~0k files), and then run them thru dvdshrink to make a much smaller DVD image on the HD.

Are you sure you are removing the region encoding and the encryption?
Try dvdencrypter and rip the files to harddrive, then use dvdshrink afterwards.

It should work...

Yea they are ripped dvds that I own that are compressed down to the hard drive. I did take just a compressed Video.TS folder and put on the Tvix drive and
played back fine , so it will play them okay and other formats with no problem. I cant see there would be any setting need to be done in the Tvix and I got the unit networked and does the same thing with iso's on the server. Darn strange.

ajs6000

09-13-06, 11:47 AM

Just watched a webcast of TVIX at the IFA. The guy interviewed stated that following the launch of the 5101 in Q4 2006 they will update the chipset again for a further new product in the summer 2007. This will support HDMI along with HDCP, DRM etc

BreyMaastricht

09-13-06, 03:27 PM

jofa

09-13-06, 03:45 PM

qz3fwd

09-13-06, 04:06 PM

The avi format is a container and you need to know which codec was used.
I second what jofa said. Download gspot and it will tell you everything you need to know. Is this possibly LOTR? Your tv is probably 720p (not interlaced) and so I would assume you have setup the tvix to output 720p to match the native panel resolution? Regardless, either the tvix or the tv scaler will convert 1080 signal to 720 if you have it set to output 1080.

originalsnuffy

09-13-06, 05:31 PM

When you say the file just does not play, I would look at the display on the TVIX device itself. Does it show the playback clock keeping time? If so, it is a display resolution issue. Otherwise, it probably is a codec issue.

Also, sometimes I have had to convert some mpeg files to dvd playback format to work on the TVIX. I hope your files do not need this conversion, as you would lose the resolution advantage.

I watched the video (link was posted in the digital media servers conference) from the IFA trade show. They said the 5101 would be out in Nov. or Dec.; and it would be a new board in the same size box as the 5000. With a new color.

They did demo the HDTV off the air receiver with some German broadcasts, which happened to be SD not HD.

There was some mention of future versions with DRM, etc.

TPeterson

09-13-06, 06:02 PM

...look at the display on the TVIX device itself. Does it show the playback clock keeping time? If so, it is a display resolution issue.T'ain't necesssarily so, Snuff. I have a pathological test file (with 1080i resolution) that plays fine until it hits an H2M commercial cut-point and then the video display goes dark and the VFD clock continues to run. This has nothing to do with codecs or resolution, but rather lack of graceful recovery from PCR discontinuities. (It's a problem with 3 out of 3 different Sigma Designs-based players that I have tested)

qz3fwd

09-13-06, 10:53 PM

"Also, sometimes I have had to convert some mpeg files to dvd playback format to work on the TVIX. I hope your files do not need this conversion, as you would lose the resolution advantage." You would only lose resolution if you down rez'ed the original mpeg file when you converted to dvd or used a crappy tool to re-encode. Did you start with a HD mpeg and shrink it down to dvd specifications?

Sometimes VideoReDo can fix things in the file using the quickstream fix feature.
Did you download the problem file off the net? If so, maybe it needed to be verified and repaired due to missing bits?

jofa

09-14-06, 02:24 AM

Sometimes VideoReDo can fix things in the file using the quickstream fix feature.
Did you download the problem file off the net? If so, maybe it needed to be verified and repaired due to missing bits?
mpeg2repair is another alternative.

/J

BreyMaastricht

09-14-06, 05:06 AM

Hi all !!

I am now owning the TVix for 1.5 month and this device is just great !!!
But I have some questions:

1) I have a AVI file that says 1080p and DTS in the title. But it just does NOT play !
I have a 32inch HD (720i) Philips LCD monitor and I thought that I should be able to display suchh a file throught the TVix on this display !! Am I wrong or not ??

2) The user-menu/interface of my TVix is not crystal clear on my screen. It looks a little blurry but when I play (HD) movies there is no problem at all: it shows me a beautiful picture ! Is this a setting on the device or is my monitor just unable to display the fonts of the menu, or is this normal ??
How is that possible ?? (I have the latest firmware 1.8.5)

Regards,
Brey (NL)

Okay guys, thanks for your reactions ! :)

I checked the following:

GSpot says:
- Codec: WMV3
- Name: Windows Media Video V9

TVixManager tells me:
Video Information:
- Codec(FourCC) : Windows 9 Media Player(?) (WMV3)
- Frame Rate : 23.976
- Bit Rate : 0
- Frame Size : 1,440 x 1,080 (1.33 : 1)
- Total Frames : 43,128
- B-VOP : NO
- S(GMC)-VOP : NO
- QPEL : NO
- Color Depth : 24
- Suggested Buffer Size : 470,962

So this is the reason why I cannot play this file: a codec that is NOT supported !
Is there a way to convert it to a format that my TVix can play without losing the high-def quality of the file ?

Futhermore, TVixManager gives the following errors at the High-Def 720p files I can play with the TVix:
* Cannot support more than pixels of width 800
* Cannot support more than 414720 pixels of width * height 1280x720
I think this is a mistake of TVixManager because playing these files is not a problem at all !!

But does anyone have an idea what the reason of my blurry user interface can be ?? Do all other owners of a TVix have a crystal clear user interface on their monitor ??
My symbols of the user interface look like the old DOS style symbols........

Regards,
Brey

TPeterson

09-14-06, 10:59 AM

The menu screens don't appear very sharp to me either. I suspect that they're done at a very low resolution.

Crivens

09-14-06, 11:13 AM

Both mine look fine on the menus through both normal TVs and two monitors through DVI. You didn't change the tvix.jpg wallpaper to something really bright or anything by any chance? Could cause things to look a bit blurry I guess.

I would set a support question with them. They are normally pretty quick.

Cheers

qz3fwd

09-14-06, 12:59 PM

GSpot says:
- Codec: WMV3
- Name: Windows Media Video V9

TVixManager tells me:
Video Information:
- Codec(FourCC) : Windows 9 Media Player(?) (WMV3)
- Frame Rate : 23.976
- Bit Rate : 0
- Frame Size : 1,440 x 1,080 (1.33 : 1)
- Total Frames : 43,128
- B-VOP : NO
- S(GMC)-VOP : NO
- QPEL : NO
- Color Depth : 24
- Suggested Buffer Size : 470,962

So this is the reason why I cannot play this file: a codec that is NOT supported !
Is there a way to convert it to a format that my TVix can play without losing the high-def quality of the file
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here are couple of thoughts.
1. WMV in an avi container is unusual. I have never seen this.
2. The tvix may assume only certain codec's when it sees the avi extension and wmv may not be on the list of assumed codecs.
3. Try renaming the file to wmv and see if it plays.
4. Is the wmv encrypted with DRM? Does it play on your PC?
5. WMV9 is a supported codec and I have not had any problems playing them unless they are locked down with DRM which requires a pc to get the license.
From the tvix page: "Format :.wmv9(no drm, do not support WMV9 Pro nor WMV9 Advanced profile), WMV HD(no drm), .avi, .mpg, .vob, .mp4, .asf, .tp, .trp"
See:http://www.tvix.co.kr/ENG/Products/HDM5000U.aspx
6. I would not rely on the tvix manager software.
7. Can you upload the beginning of the file for us to test for you? Say the first few hundred megabytes?

patja

09-14-06, 03:08 PM

I encode WMV to an avi container all the time. I use WMV for the video and just keep AC3 5.1 audio intact in the avi container using Virtualdubmod. Its a neat solution for OTA ATSC broadcasts that have AC3 5.1 audio.

cat6man

09-14-06, 04:08 PM

I'd prefer to have an auto output that detects 50Hz/60Hz and also uses the same output resolution as the source material.

hi ofer,

i'm making the rounds to check out various media players, still looking for 480i
over dvi or hdmi...........have you found one that works yet?

(haven't gotten through this thread yet.....)

cheers

cat6man

09-14-06, 04:20 PM

I got a DVI-HDMI cable yesterday.
I have been running the last few days using a component cable with 480/576i output to a VP30/ABT102. The VP30 is feeding a Hitachi TX200 PJ using HDMI.
The quality have been ok, nothing exceptional. Much depend on the acutal source.
Have tried various resolutions, 480p/720p/1080i, but liked 480i output best. Use that for all SD mediafiles. When using 720p and 1080i I set the respective resolutions to match.

Ok, back to the DVI cable.
Wow.... a significant better picture IMHO. I tried 480p/720p/1080i. They all look good. 480p have a little edge on the others, using VP30 to scale to 720p. Maybe a little more detail using that configuration.
HD playback using 720p and 1080i is also good. Need to connect a laptop to the RGBHV input on the VP30 to see which is best.

So, going digital is certainly helping!
If they only could get rid of the hardcoded tvixhd1 thinghy ;)

interesting...i'm looking to do the same thing with a vp50 hopefully.
so, if i got this correct, you

1. preferred 480i => convert to 480p by tvix => dvi to vp30 combo => hdtv at 720p/1080i via hdmi
2. conclude that conversion to 480p via tvix on dvi is superior to 480i out via component.

what bit rate are your 480i sources? most of mine are captured with
PVR-USB2 tuners at 12mbps

cheers

cat6man

09-14-06, 04:32 PM

hi ofer,

i'm making the rounds to check out various media players, still looking for 480i
over dvi or hdmi...........have you found one that works yet?

(haven't gotten through this thread yet.....)

cheers

now i've caught up to the end...guess 480i is not available here either over dvi/hdmi

Exile

09-14-06, 06:46 PM

now i've caught up to the end...guess 480i is not available here either over dvi/hdmi

True but, in a response to a question from me, TVIX support said that it was technically possible but would only be implemented if there was sufficient demand. If you want this then I suggest you put in a request to TVIX.

Meenenator

09-15-06, 04:23 AM

interesting...i'm looking to do the same thing with a vp50 hopefully.
so, if i got this correct, you

1. preferred 480i => convert to 480p by tvix => dvi to vp30 combo => hdtv at 720p/1080i via hdmi
2. conclude that conversion to 480p via tvix on dvi is superior to 480i out via component.

what bit rate are your 480i sources? most of mine are captured with
PVR-USB2 tuners at 12mbps

cheers

Yes, you are assuming correctly.
I would prefer a 480i output from the Tvix on DVI port. Connect this output to VP30/ABT102 combo for the best possible de-interlacing, and as stated 720p to projector.

I also think that the DVI output was so much better than component, that I in fact are willing to bypass the de-interlacing of ABT102... says it all...

The tvix does a fairly good job with de-interlacing. I haven't ripped the bundled ABT102 DVD to an ISO yet, so I haven't tried all the various bad edits/etc on the DVD. Could be fun though...

What I do see on most of my material is that there is some kind of "halo" around people/sharp objects. Not sure what it is called. I see it on most xvids and DVDs, not sure I have seen it on 720p/1080i material yet. It is no "halo" when using my DVD player w/component.

A little digression:
I saw IMAX super speedway.HDTV.720p the other day. It seems like the racing car scene(with the stadium background) from the HQV/ABT102 DVD is taken from the IMAX movie. Fun... what is good is that I could not see any moire-effect on the stadium using the tvix. Could be because it was already a 720p clip.

Cross my fingers that enough tvix user wants the 480i DVI output that DVICo implements it...

Cheers!

M.

cat6man

09-15-06, 11:01 AM

it would be nice if they could do it.

i have to say i'm skeptical, after reading that the sigma chip has a timing
problem with 480i over hdmi, and also noting that in a couple of years, not
a single competing product using that family of chips has implemented 480i over hdmi/dvi either.....their developers may not have looked into it very carefully before responding to you, perhaps?

oferlaor

09-16-06, 12:47 PM

with regards to PAL/NTSC auto switch - TVIX with the latest firmware (1.8.5) works very well.

If they just fix the aspect ratio issues, things would go a lot smoother...

psychoticus

09-16-06, 11:12 PM

Hello everybody:)

I'm a new Tvix user, and i had the M-5000U for half a week now.
First my good experiences with the Tvix:

It almost plays everything I trow at it ( at least 96% of my mediafiles).
HDTV formated movies work and look great even though I only owns a 32" CRT TV.
The remote have a good range (compared to some of my others).
The cooling of the hardrive is very effective and silent.
It looks good;)
It is way better then my old Pc based media computer (though it could handle much more codecs).
USB works in normal USB parameters;)

Now to the "downs":

For a 100mbit networkconnection its rather slow i think, and i haven't been able to figure out what's the reason.
But some testing with different workloads on my TVIX suggest that the TVIX just don't have the processingpower to use all the bandwith.
Luckily It's enough for streaming, but its damn slow when moving files i think.

And that 96% figure I tossed in, doesent concern jpg pictures.
Almost all my thousands of my own taken digital photos (with different cameras) can't be shown on the tvix.

And what is this about only be able to share one folder on my PC named tvixhd1??
IT would be much more usefull to be able to share four folders on one computer then one folder on four computers. Not everyone can afford or even have room for that amount of hardware.

I have been "doing" computers for a long time, so of course i saw this "sharing problem" as a challenge;)

I created the "twixhd1 folder", then i created several maps in it named after my harddrives.
Then i used "start/run/diskmgmt.msc" to map the drives to the folders.

When i on the PC tested to browse in this map setup, and it worked like a charm;)

So I started up the TVIX and found the network and the tvix folder.
One of the mapped drives (a older 120gb drive) worked as it should, and i could browse everywhere and play everything.

The other harddrives i was not so lucky with:(
I could enter their root directory and browse "down" two levels in the filethree, but not further. And also those folders i saw seemed to be empty.
In the root though, i could see some mediafiles, but when trying to play them the tvix "said" the codec was wrong. So i copied that file over to the tvix and tryed again, and of course it played the file perfectly.

The drives that doesen't work in this way seems to be "extended partitions". And 200gb size.

Then i stumbled over another problem.
When you create a folder directly inside the tvixhd1 folder, i got similar problems as described above, if that folders name only contained capital letters. So that one i fixed easy.

So if anybody can tell me why this mapping problem occure I would be thankfull.

ziv_r

09-17-06, 12:25 AM

The menu screens don't appear very sharp to me either. I suspect that they're done at a very low resolution.

I had the same problem.
I changed the output from 1024x768 to 1080i and now the menus are crystal clear :)

BreyMaastricht

09-17-06, 04:58 AM

Breymaastricht says:
- Codec: WMV3
- Name: Windows Media Video V9

TVixManager tells me:
Video Information:
- Codec(FourCC) : Windows 9 Media Player(?) (WMV3)

So this is the reason why I cannot play this file: a codec that is NOT supported !
Is there a way to convert it to a format that my TVix can play without losing the high-def quality of the file
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GSpot says:
Here are couple of thoughts.
1. WMV in an avi container is unusual. I have never seen this.
2. The tvix may assume only certain codec's when it sees the avi extension and wmv may not be on the list of assumed codecs.
3. Try renaming the file to wmv and see if it plays.
4. Is the wmv encrypted with DRM? Does it play on your PC?
5. WMV9 is a supported codec and I have not had any problems playing them unless they are locked down with DRM which requires a pc to get the license.
From the tvix page: "Format :.wmv9(no drm, do not support WMV9 Pro nor WMV9 Advanced profile), WMV HD(no drm), .avi, .mpg, .vob, .mp4, .asf, .tp, .trp"
See: EDIT dvicos url.....
6. I would not rely on the tvix manager software.
7. Can you upload the beginning of the file for us to test for you? Say the first few hundred megabytes?

Okay GSPot,

The file concerned is a file I downloaded using ********** and it concerns an IMAX broadcast in HD. The file is called: IMAX.SPEED.WMV-HD.1080P.DTS.Fanxy at Silu.avi
When I try to play it on my TVix it just skips to the next movie and leaves this movie unplayed ! When I rename it to WMV the TVIX says:
- This file is not supported.
- Unsupported Video Codec: BAD_

The file plays on my PC without any problems so there is no DRM involved in this file.

Maybe there is somebody else who can figure out what the problem with this file is......
GSpot suggested to upload the first few hundereds mb's of this file, but I don't know how to split an AVI file and where to upload it.......

Thanks in advance, all the best from the Netherlands :rolleyes:

jofa

09-17-06, 06:55 AM

So where in the quoting did things go wrong? :)
GSpot is a program which you use to get information about codecs, resolution etc in a video file. "qz3fwd" suggested to upload parts of the file...
I suggest that You download GSpot and let it examine your video file to see if is an unsupported codec used. Or post the results of GSpot here and see if anyone can tell you why the file isn't playing.
/J

psychoticus

09-17-06, 08:17 AM

Okay GSPot,

The file concerned is a file I downloaded using ********** and it concerns an IMAX broadcast in HD. The file is called: IMAX.SPEED.WMV-HD.1080P.DTS.Fanxy at Silu.avi
When I try to play it on my TVix it just skips to the next movie and leaves this movie unplayed ! When I rename it to WMV the TVIX says:
- This file is not supported.
- Unsupported Video Codec: BAD_

The file plays on my PC without any problems so there is no DRM involved in this file.

Maybe there is somebody else who can figure out what the problem with this file is......
GSpot suggested to upload the first few hundereds mb's of this file, but I don't know how to split an AVI file and where to upload it.......

Thanks in advance, all the best from the Netherlands :rolleyes:

"Unsupported Video Codec: BAD_" i got when trying to play movie that was renderad in 1990x480 pixels with a 3IVX codec.

frosty_aw

09-17-06, 09:07 AM

I downgraded to 1.7.3 from 1.8.5 since my Tvix was crashing/freezing while playing DVD ISO's over NFS. Anyone else had that problem?

Just to calm anyone that are considering buying the Tvix.

Not good to have an IP-conflict while streaming ;-)

That was the cause of the above problem....

Andy69

09-17-06, 04:13 PM

Hi all,

Today i have build a NAS server with FreeNas, and it works great.

At this moment i only got 1 TVIX 5000 at home (next week ordering another 2) and streaming of MP3 / JPG and DVD ISO files are working great from the nas server with SAMBA (dont get NFS to work)

But is it also going to work when next week i got 3 tvix here at home and let say somebody is going to watch a DVD Iso in the living room and the other one is going to watch a DVD Iso in the masterbed room and somebody else is listening to music.

Anybody got some experience with this ? Is a nas server fast enought to do this ?

And when i want to watch a DVD iso in the living room and the same iso in the masterbed room is it possible ?

I hope somebody got some experience with a NAS server connected to a TVIX.

Anybody got NFS working with freenas and tvix ?

originalsnuffy

09-17-06, 04:59 PM

I have not been able to program the remote commands for the 5000 into my Denon 3806 programmable remote. I am wondering if the frequencies for this unit are non-standard.

Has anybody programmed the commands into the Denon 3806 remote; or had success with other remote brands?

TPeterson

09-17-06, 05:13 PM

I programmed them into a Harmony 659 without problems.

DVDwizard

09-17-06, 07:44 PM

Andy69

09-18-06, 02:34 AM

Andy69,

Unhappily the FreeNAS server doesn't let you change the name/path of the NFS share, so it is not recognized by the TVIX. I've found no way around it.

You can definitely watch the same movie from multiple devices. I've tested playing from five at once off my FreeNAS server and it works fine. (one TVIX, one Wired MasonIP, and three Macs.)

Thanks for the answer.

So lets hope that dvico will release some new firmware so we can choose our own directory path. But samba will do it for me now :)

psychoticus

09-18-06, 07:26 AM

Anyone that know if netgear SC101 will work with the tvix M-5000U?

DVDwizard

09-18-06, 08:42 AM

I don't think the SC101 will work as a server for the TVIX, since the Netgear needs special software installed on each client.

kraspor

09-18-06, 12:57 PM

After 1,5 month (somewhat, less or more) in repair i called my reseller (for the fifth time) wondering where my fan troubbled Tvix was. And today they gave me a new one since they didnt hear anything from the tvix factory?
But the strangest thing i got a version called 5000A and not 5000U as my old one.
Cant find the difference, but it has VMW HD ready on it, but that might not be different, my memory fails on me as you might understand thou to the long time away from my little streaming friend.
Do you think i can upgrade the firmware without harm?

******* EDIT *********
I couldnt install regurlar firmware, said it wasnt a proper firmware, wtf.
Any1else has this 5000A version? Whats the latest firmware?

psychoticus

09-18-06, 08:16 PM

I'm wondering, with firmware 1.8.5 you can connect 8 drives to the usb host??
didn't find any information about that on their site, maybe I'm blind;)

TPeterson

09-18-06, 08:43 PM

kraspor--

The U and A differ only in behavior of the power button, which you probably won't notice unless you have them side-by-side. They take exactly the same firmware, so your download must be corrupted.

originalsnuffy

09-19-06, 12:13 AM

Re: The netgear SC101. I fervently hope that you don't have the same experience as me. The zetera driver locked up my system and corrupted my hard drive so badly I had to reinstall windows xp, and in the process lost my registry. Consequently I had to reinstall almost all of my programs. Thank heavens I had backed up my data.

The SC101 went back to Amazon, less the restocking fee. Truly a scary bad experience.

zamzickles

09-19-06, 03:42 PM

Kraspor, are you sure that you UNZIPED the file before putting it on the Tvix

escon

09-20-06, 03:45 AM

Hello everybody:...............snip......
And that 96% figure I tossed in, doesent concern jpg pictures.
Almost all my thousands of my own taken digital photos (with different cameras) can't be shown on the tvix.
Did I read you right here? My main reason for getting this baby would be to send hig res jpegs to it (and have it output hig res as well). What kind of problems did/do you have?

jofa

09-20-06, 04:14 AM

Did I read you right here? My main reason for getting this baby would be to send hig res jpegs to it (and have it output hig res as well). What kind of problems did/do you have?
Don't know about others but it displays ALL of my pictures taken with a Canon PowerShot A95 (5 Mpixel) and outputs them in excellent quality.
I use 1080i over component.
But to get it mainly for pictures is probably a disappointment. It is rather slow in displaying pictures. The larger pic the slower.
You can do slideshows with some transition effects but as I understand it pictures have to reside in the same directory to be in a slideshow. (Please tell me I'm wrong and have missed something....)
There are no miniatures so finding pictures is rather difficult if you want to search for them.

If your main reason is pictures and you haven't bought one already I would wait for 5101 if I were you. It is supposed to have hardware JPEG decoding and should be much faster in picture handling.

/J

escon

09-20-06, 04:55 AM

Thanks for that Jofa - good and very pertinent feedback. Looks like I should definitely wait for the 5101. Ah well, what's another few months - the photos won't disappear in the meantime :D .

kraspor

09-20-06, 08:14 AM

Kraspor, are you sure that you UNZIPED the file before putting it on the Tvix

I wish that would be the case hehe

Anyway i succeeded installing new firmware, it was a corrupt FW file, nothing else.
FTP works flawless, now my Tvix is complete!

I just wish there was a way to make FAT32 out of my HDD without loosing my 300GB data ;), as it is now my files gets wierd when using Virtual PC windows on Mac to access it. (Current system NTFS)

psychoticus

09-20-06, 08:20 AM

Did I read you right here? My main reason for getting this baby would be to send hig res jpegs to it (and have it output hig res as well). What kind of problems did/do you have?

It just complains over the pictureformat, I havent had time to investigate further yet.
And when i scanned the files with the tvix manager it also said that the pictures was incompatible, so i suggest you download the tvix manager and try it out on your pictures. I know that there are some types of jpg files that not are supported by the tvix. I guess my cameras deliver that kind of jpg's. But im sure it is easy to convert the pictures so that the tvix can handle them. I just haven't had time for that yet;)

originalsnuffy

09-20-06, 09:02 AM

Do people here use the TVIX manager with their 5000s?

Does it do useful things?

I tried to install it, but had issues with installing it. The software would not recognize the 5000 as being attached for validation purposes.

Also, trial and error worked OK for figuring out what generally would play and what would not.

So I gave up on the TVIX manager software. (Similar to how I gave up on the ADS NAS and D-Link G600--found other ways to get things done that were much simpler).

Thank heavens for the TVIX netshare program 1.06 and Seagull FTP. Though at the end of the day I am happiest with just taking the unit to the PC and hooking it up with USB 2.0 to do the "heavy lifting" of file updating.

Crivens

09-20-06, 09:18 AM

originalsnuffy

09-20-06, 11:06 AM

TVIX manager was software released for other units (I think the 2000) that was supposed to scan videos to see if they are compatible with the TVIX and in some cases to repair the video files.

Meenenator

09-21-06, 04:30 AM

All of my jpgs show fine (Sony and Kodak cameras). Although when I was mucking around with FTP a jpg didn't work because I forgot to put it into binary mode (was in ascii mode). Worked with binary transfer.

TVIX Manager? What is that then? Is it server software or somesuch?

Cheers

I showing pictures on the Tvix taken with my Casio Exilim camera. 7.2Mpix no problems. A bit slow to show the pictures, but the quality is good. Would love to see thumbnails etc though... not the best pictureviewer (nor audioplayer).

M.

Crivens

09-21-06, 10:35 AM

Thing is they mention that thumbnails would slow it down too much (M5500 should do it I read somewhere). Hopefully they said this before they replied to my support email saying they were working on an idea like I suggested; basically create the thumbnails yourself (say a jpg with the same name as the avi and a set size eg. 50x50 pixels) and the Tvix can use these instead of processing a large image and scaling it. Failing that then do what Windows does and only update the thumbnails file when the Tvix first sees the file or when it is amended. Would be slower though, and how would you get a decent image? I mean the first frame is normally black, and a set point into the avi (say 2 minutes) may be anything. No, user thumbnail creation would be the fastest and best way of doing it if you ask me, especially if something could be built into this manager software to allow you to choose a thumbnail graphic or grab from a set point in the avi (and then auto send to internal HD).

Cheers

escon

09-21-06, 09:09 PM

I showing pictures on the Tvix taken with my Casio Exilim camera. 7.2Mpix no problems. A bit slow to show the pictures, but the quality is good. Would love to see thumbnails etc though... not the best pictureviewer (nor audioplayer).

M.
Is the bottleneck the link to the PC? I have a CAT5 100mbps link - is that what you have or is your link a wireless one? Is it faster if you have the pictures stored on the local (optional internal) hard disk? What is the file size - typically cameras reduce the pixel count by at least a factor of 4, even on high res modes, so a 7.2Mpix picture should be no more than about 2Mpix or 2Mbyte in size max. At 100mbps, that should only take about 0.2 seconds at 10 bits per byte (8bits + overhead of 2 bits/byte). Sorry for all these questions, but info on this beast wrt its performance on picture networking seems very scarce.

ptwyzard

09-21-06, 09:49 PM

Will the M-5000u play direclty from my NAS over my network?

Thanks.

Crivens

09-22-06, 03:20 AM

Meenenator

09-22-06, 03:37 AM

I would imagine the bottleneck is the CPU. I mean apparently the M5000 doesn't have hardware jpg decoding (apparently the 5101 will), so it has to work everything out with software basically. And it's CPU is less than 200mhz I believe. Even on my internal 7200rpm HD the Tvix takes a couple of seconds to show a 2 megapixel image. Although most of these media players use the same sigma chips, and the Tvix is one of only a handful that use the newer chips, so I seriously doubt many other non-PC device will show them much quicker.

Cheers
That was about the same answer I would have given...
It is not bad to view pictures from (the tvix...), but the lag is only noticable when you want to go thru the pictures manually. When doing a slideshow this is not noticable, since the tvix will load the next picture while the current is showing.
Can't imagine that an internal HD would make it much faster. Remember that is can do more than 23Mbps on HD material... a tiny 2MB sized 7.2Mpx picture should have no problems being loaded over a network.
My 2 cents this morning.

escon

09-22-06, 03:39 AM

Thanks Crivens. Thought as much. Again points to it being worthwhile waiting to see what the 5101 will do.

escon

09-22-06, 03:43 AM

.... When doing a slideshow this is not noticable, since the tvix will load the next picture while the current is showing.
Ah, that changes the "picture" somewhat for me. Need to rethink again then. Slideshows is what I am interested in mainly. I take it then, that the M5000 has built in slideshow software - are there many options available on it - like various ways to disolve between pictures?

Meenenator

09-22-06, 03:46 AM

Will the M-5000u play direclty from my NAS over my network?

Thanks.
It depends... what is you NAS?

If it can do NFS and Samba you should get it to work. I got a ReadyNas and it is working fine. There should be posts here about others have problems with their NAS'es (linksys and those...) (can't remember just now which ones, do a little search)

If you are all out of luck with a direct connection you could always use the Netshare program and "share" your NAS from a PC. Not as effective though, since you most probably would be doing Samba from NAS to PC, and NFS from PC to Tvix.
A clean NFS connection is best.

I tried a 1080i 16Mbps file the other day and it was not playing back without distortions using Samba to PC, and NFS from PC to Tvix. I have done a 1080i 23Mbps using direct NFS before. NO problems...

So a direct NFS is best for those HD-files. 720p is no problem using Samba, neither is less bitrate hungry 1080i files. 16Mbps was a bit much for it... been doing 10Mbps and that was ok I think...

Sorry for the lengthy post, you just got me going there for a while... could be too much coffee this foggy and slightly cold morning.

rajanshirin

09-22-06, 12:46 PM

Hi,

I purchased and received this player 2 days ago and I have not able to play my decrypted DVD backups in IFO format with great success. I have about 30 movies decrypted using DVD Decrypter and DVDFabExpress on the internal hard drive of the HD 5000U and I can only play about 2 of them sucessfully by selecting the VIDEO_TS.IFO file. For all the other VIDEO_TS.IFO files, when selected, the screen displays " Please wait" for about 5 seconds and then the folder containing the files is displayed again - no movie is played.

Please help with any suggestions. I posted a message to technical support yesterday, but have not received any replies yet.

Thanks.

DVDwizard

09-22-06, 01:07 PM

For all the other VIDEO_TS.IFO files, when selected, the screen displays " Please wait" for about 5 seconds and then the folder containing the files is displayed again - no movie is played.
I've seen this behaviour on some movies that are ripped improperly. I've been able to fix the problem by creating a disc image from 'bad' VIDEO_TS folder, mounting that image, then re-ripping it using my tool of choice (I'm on a Mac, so I use MacTheRipper, but this may work with your Windows tools too.)

Hope this makes sense.

originalsnuffy

09-22-06, 02:44 PM

With regard to the playback problem; have you tried repeating the procedure?
I have a few dvd files that need to be clicked on twice before they work.

TVIX responded to a few tech support questions I recently had. They are going to look into the problem of some files not properly playing audio.

A new firmware is expected in October that should address some of the network mounting issues we are having. I don't have full details, but perhaps some good news is coming.

The unit is not going to support windows media 7 and 8, ever. Just 9.

rajanshirin

09-22-06, 05:46 PM

jofa

09-24-06, 01:44 PM

Hi,
can someone give me exact instructions on how to encode a DVD or VOB-file using latest Divx Encoder v 6.2.1 or Dr Divx.
It seems like not matter what I do it just wont play on the Tvix. :mad:

My latest attempt is, according to GSpot:
divx 5.0 - which is strange since I use 6.2.1
AC3 sound
720 x 400 resolution, 25.000 fps.
BVOP and NVOP. No QPEL or GMC.

What I use is Divx setting "Home Theater". I've tried a few settings under the advanced tab, like more quality. MP3 sound instead, but still no luck.

So, please. An EXACT instruction on how to successfully encode my DVDs to Divx or anthing else that is compressed but still good, will be very appreciated.

Oh, and Tvix Manager says "unexpected error when scanning...". The file plays on the PC though....

Edit: Ok, so I finally found it out. I accidently included subtitles IN the actual divx file... :p
Anyway, any hints to good quality contra small size settings are still welcome.

Thank's
/Jofa

bobfought

09-24-06, 09:08 PM

Anyone have any information on the HD tuner for the 5000?
Where or if I can buy one yet?

It would be great if I could record from other inputs, Svideo, DVI, but yes I know most likely never.

TPeterson

09-24-06, 09:37 PM

The tuner is available in Korea, I believe. But it is not released for the U.S. market yet. (And, no, you won't be able to record from S-video, DVI, etc., with it)

dj01

09-26-06, 05:25 PM

I'm using my WinXP pro machine as an NFS sever with Netshare on a wired network. There is no hard drive in the 5000 and it has firmware 1.8.5. When playing mp3s it takes approximately 9-10 seconds to change songs. I have about 1500 songs in the mp3 folder. This time lag between songs is quite annoying. Is there a way to speed this up? I notice the time between songs is much shorter if there are only a few songs in the folder. However, I do not want to reorganize my files. On the same network I have an old Turtle Beach Audiotron that uses SMB sharing. The Audiotron can change songs faster than a real CD player. The point being that it is not a network/server problem. The delay resides in the TViX.

If the TViX could manage mp3s well, it would truly be a great media player for me. I have tried 3 other players and when in comes to playing DVDs stored as IFO/VOBs the TViX is hands down the most robust in duplicating the physical disc experience.

Also, are there any plans to support ID3v2 tags? Are there any plans to enable the selection of songs by artist, genre and other tag fields?

Thanks

Reem

09-26-06, 11:21 PM

I was wondering how well this sigma chip based Tvix can upscale normal dvd resolution up to HD resolutions?

There are many upscaling normal dvd players out there now, Oppo being a popular one. Can anybody tell me, does the sigma chip compare? Does upscaled dvd material look like 'almost-HD' with the Tvix?

Thanks.

originalsnuffy

09-27-06, 09:08 AM

Based on input from various people on this forum and other forums, I have purchased a logitech harmony 676 to control my system including the TVIX. If anybody here wants to share war stories about programming the Harmony I'd be interested. I was surprised that the Logitech menu system knew of the TVIX 5000, but did not seem to have any commands programmed in. Maybe somebody here knows how to access the commands? I've entered a few using the learning function.

I never really focused on this before, but I seem to have a 5000A. I gather there is little difference between the A and the U, perhaps just how the power function works?

With regards to the picture quality question for upscaling--
in general, I personally don't think any unit can make the resolution of a video source any more than what you start with. Whether your TV/display does the upconversion, the dvd player, your receiver, or the TVIX, the picture is what the picture is.

I think the unit has a fine picture, but it is not quite a crisp at my Denon 2900. But that is not what I expected from a $350 unit that does so much.

dj01

09-27-06, 06:04 PM

DVDwizard, thanks for your feedback. I'll try your suggestion. I have been using DVDFabExpress for ripping which I thought was a pretty good tool. I am not sure which ripper works best with the HD5000U.

I have used DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink (turn off compression) with good success. I am using network storage - not a drive in the 5000, but I don't see how that would matter. I see that you have tried DVD Decrypter. I just use the default settings and Decrypter worked well for me. I have occasionally had problems with DVD's I've authored from Nero but no problems with Adobe Premier Elements.

When I do have problems, I use one of two fixes. The first is basically what DVDwizard suggested. However, I just open the VIDEO_TS folder with DVD Shrink and have it make a backup. This method always works for me. The second, faster method, is to use FixVTS. This works about 3/4s of the time. If you disable the backup mode of FixVTS it is very fast.

Xstatic

09-28-06, 04:03 PM

HELP please with ReadyNAS access? Have tvixhd1 share with CIFS and NPS enabled. Have Bonjour and UpnP enabled, though I don't think it's required. Now, I've only had this a few weeks, but it WAS working! And now I can't get the ReadyNAS share anymore, and it takes a VERY long time to load. A share I have on another PC does still work thru Net Share.

I don't think I changed anything, but maybe. Any brilliant ideas PLEASE?

qz3fwd

09-28-06, 04:32 PM

If you use dynamic IP adresses, the Infrant may have somehow changed IP adresses and you may need to re-enter it in the setup page. This has happened to me several times and I will eventually change over to static addressing to solve this problem.

Xstatic

09-28-06, 06:31 PM

Meenenator

09-29-06, 03:44 AM

Brilliant my dear qz3fwd! And "Ack" sez I (and gives thump to side of head for good measure). Accidently turned off UPS when I was pulling CAT5 for that new tvix on the weekend, and reboot did indeed change the NAS IP. So, THANK YOU.
Good to hear that there are a few other ReadyNas/Tvix combo users out there!

Hope they will fix the tvixhd1 share thinghy soon though. At the moment I have a mixed bag. Use both tvixhd1 share for some media and Netshare for the "orginal" media share... (shared thru the XP-machine)

Anyone knows if they are to implement multiple shares from one PC using the Netshare program (for us having media residing over multiple partitions etc)?

Or are there other NFS server applications out there which will do that. Any ideas?
I must say I have been a bit lazy in that respect, and haven't done much searching.
I do not use CFS/Samba from my XP-machines, just NFS (samba from NAS to XP, NFS from Xp to Tvix). So an application which could share multiple partitions/folders etc onto the Tvix would be great.

Btw, needed to rebuild a disc on my Nas the other day. Some SMART errors was showing. Did a swap with a new disc, and the whole thing rebuild/resynced itself... love the NAS more and more...

M.

psychoticus

09-29-06, 06:34 PM

Hope they will fix the tvixhd1 share thinghy soon though. At the moment I have a mixed bag. Use both tvixhd1 share for some media and Netshare for the "orginal" media share... (shared thru the XP-machine)

Anyone knows if they are to implement multiple shares from one PC using the Netshare program (for us having media residing over multiple partitions etc)?

Or are there other NFS server applications out there which will do that. Any ideas?
I must say I have been a bit lazy in that respect, and haven't done much searching.
I do not use CFS/Samba from my XP-machines, just NFS (samba from NAS to XP, NFS from Xp to Tvix). So an application which could share multiple partitions/folders etc onto the Tvix would be great.

Have you tried to map different partitions to specific folders inside the "tvixhd1" on your computer?
To do this use: "start/run/diskmgmt.msc". A good tutorial is here:http://www.modzone.dk/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=278

To do this you shouldn't use netshare though. just plain normal networkshare in windows. This is what the DVICO guys say anyway, since netshare doesen't support sharing drives.

I have som problem with some drives when doing it, but it works perfectly on one of my harddrives. So at least now i can share two different partitions. DVICO support thinks it is something vrong with my computer.

So if you could try this, and then tell me if you succeeded I would be happy, since i have no other computer to test with.

Xstatic

09-29-06, 07:34 PM

Have you tried to map different partitions to specific folders inside the "tvixhd1" on your computer?

Well I tried shortcuts inside tvixhd1 on day one, and that's out. I just tried the above trick, and the share isn't root enough for disk management map to.

At least not fer me.

Xstatic

09-29-06, 07:46 PM

psychoticus

09-29-06, 10:42 PM

Well I tried shortcuts inside tvixhd1 on day one, and that's out. I just tried the above trick, and the share isn't root enough for disk management map to.

At least not fer me.

With that I guess you mean your different folders are arranged so that it is not usefull for you to share a whole partition?

But did it work? Could you browse the mapped partitions from the tvix?

originalsnuffy

09-29-06, 10:48 PM

Other than this forum, which forums have you found that discuss this unit?

There is one very helpful European DIVX board that discusses the TVIX in some depth, which Meenanator referred to earlier.

Is there any kind of forum on the TVIX website? I have noticed that there seem to be references to other people reading answers to my tech support questions, but I am not clear if this is a correct interpretation. If the posts can be read by other users, how are they accessed?

Also, it is pretty clear the the TVIX is compatible with the Ready NAS. I have seen one or two posts on DIVX board implying that the unit works with some of the Maxtor external network drives. But I am looking for a less expensive solution that the ReadyNAS. So lets keep sharing our success stories as they develop. (I do think that the issue is not just Samba and NFS; but also how quickly the units respond to requests from the network and begin streaming data).

psychoticus

09-29-06, 10:49 PM

NEW QUESTION ABOUT NOISE.

I asked you good people about system noise on the 5000U before purchasing, and many helpful replies assured me that noise was not an issue. And the unit is quiet, no question. At low speed you can barely hear it, and certainly you can't hear anything when something is playing.

Okay, call me anal, but I spend thousands on *silent* PCs, and more thousand on high end silent A/V, and more .. okay you get the idea. For *me* the low "ticking" of the foolish fan in the 5000 is too loud. So, once I'm sure the thing is working, I'm ready to ditch my warranty and cut the fan leads. I'm running diskless.

Any of you running fanless? I did read several success stories on the TViX forum. COMMENTS?

Oh no, don't do that ffs. a couple of days ago i forgot the tvix on and sleeped for 4 hours. when i woke up and entered my living room i smelled burnt electronic.
the tvix was really really hot. I was luckyt though, the hard drive and the tvix survived it.
but i now it seems the fan only work in constant speed. luckily that is enogh for cooling that hard drive. so now im thinking about using the warranty... but i have to check the settings and stuff first.
Anyway, the chassi can't lead away the heat good enough without the fan. and electronics doesent like high heat under long periods to many times.

togad

09-30-06, 03:05 AM

Oh no, don't do that ffs. a couple of days ago i forgot the tvix on and sleeped for 4 hours. when i woke up and entered my living room i smelled burnt electronic.
the tvix was really really hot. I was luckyt though, the hard drive and the tvix survived it.
but i now it seems the fan only work in constant speed. luckily that is enogh for cooling that hard drive. so now im thinking about using the warranty... but i have to check the settings and stuff first.
Anyway, the chassi can't lead away the heat good enough without the fan. and electronics doesent like high heat under long periods to many times.
Xstatic is talking about running his TIVX diskless though - that will make a huge difference.

My TIVX is running diskless and is on 24/7 in a cupboard with virtually no airflow which also has about 5 power-bricks for other bits of kit in it, and doesn't even get warm. Sure - I have the fan running, but I'm pretty certain others here are successfully running their TIVX diskless without the fan.

realthing

09-30-06, 12:49 PM

hi all had my tvix for 3 months now and im quite happy but there are a few things i want

1.when listening to music you can only shuffle one folder can u do something to shange that?

2.when listening to music u cant leave the folder u are listening to this sux when partying and somebody wants to see what u got to play next

3 id like to connect more than 2 usb drives is there a way to do this (does it work if u connect a usb 1 to 4 hub,connector like u can on youre pc id love that

4, i really hope the do something so you can share more than one folder have 8 hardrives on my server all loaded but cant use with the tvix.

this forum is great solved alot of trouble in the begining no its just the fine tuning left

hope some one have an answer for me

dwouters

09-30-06, 09:11 PM

Hi, first of all thanks to everybody on this forum. I was reading a lot postings... purchased my Tvix about two weeks ago ... followed all the good advice... and my family and I love it! (I got even the FTP going)

However, I have a two issues:

1. I try to make slideshows. Like explained on the tvix website; I made a special directory, dropped my jpg's and mp3 in. I can click now on my mp3 or a jpeg file and one or the other is playing, but never both. What do I do wrong here?

2. When I zap through the DVD's of my kids, TVIX refused to play the fourth DVD I click. From now on, non of the DVD's are playing. I have to shut down the system and start up again. Does anybody had the same? (I downloaded the latest version)

Thanks for your input,

Dirk

rocklee

10-01-06, 12:22 AM

The 5000 doesn't play all my DVIs unfortunately (and in some videos I can't FFWD or RWD).

Not the most complete HD based player out there.

psychoticus

10-01-06, 12:35 AM

Paul_Ness_

10-01-06, 03:29 PM

Trying to determine if any of these Networked Media Players can support an external DVDROM drive connected over USB2.0? The manual for the DVICO TVIX-HD M-5000 says only hard drives and thumb drives are supported, but thought I'd ask if anyone could try to hook up a USB2.0 DVD drive to one, and plop a DVD in there to see if you can play it back that way?

Thanks in advance.

PS: am also checking on whether the MediaGate MG-35 can do this over in another post. I think the Rapsody N-35 can support it, but am trying to confirm that also. When I gather all this info I'll post it somewhere on AVSForum so if anyone else tries to put this same config together they can benefit from this info.

Paul_Ness_

10-01-06, 05:42 PM

One more question -- can you plug in a USB2.0 Hub into the back of the TVIX HD M-5000U so you can connect more than 2 USB2.0 Hard Drives? The FAQ on the TVIX website is not clear -- it says (at http://www.tvix.co.kr/ENG/FAQ/BeforeBuy.aspx?act=RD&id=63&pg=1)

"How many external hard drives may I use with a USB hub?

You may connect up to 2 external hard drives with the powered USB hub."

But I'm not sure if this means each USB hub can only have 2 drives or if the entire configuration can only have a maximum of 2 external hard drives?

Does anybody know or can anybody with one of these units try this?

Thanks in advance!

originalsnuffy

10-01-06, 06:20 PM

With regards to the USB hub, as far as I know you can only hook up two external USB drives.
When you do a jump command, you can see four entries on the top. The ones of the right are USB drives. By the way, be patient when you hook up a USB drive. It takes a bit to recognize the drive and get going.

So I gave up on the Denon 3806 remote for using the TVIX. It could not learn any TVIX commands.

I bought a logitech harmony. It definitely can learn the TVIX commands. But when I select the up or down command, it jumps about three. I know there are some delay settings that can be changed. Does anybody know what settings seem to work with the Logitech harmony series and the TVIX 5000?

Oh, by the way, I saw on the Hijack Divx Tvix forum that the 5101 is not expected until about Feb. Now people are starting to talk about the 5500, which picks up the H.264 and has a higher powered processor. Well, I am happy with the 5000 for now...

Dallas_Native

10-01-06, 08:14 PM

Well I tried shortcuts inside tvixhd1 on day one, and that's out. I just tried the above trick, and the share isn't root enough for disk management map to.

At least not fer me.

How I have my system set up:
My HTPC has two internal drives (C & D) and two external USB drives (E & F). I use BeyondTV to save recordings (HD and SD) to these individual drives in folders named VideosC, VideosD, VideosE, and VideosF (each folder in a different drive). On drive C, I also have a folder named Tvixhd1. Within that folder are sub-folders named VideosC, VideosD, VideosE and VideosF mapped to the actual folders in the four hard drives.
I mapped these folders to Tvixhd1 using junctions. I found a good solution for this at http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm ... a program called Junction Link Magic. It is very easy to use.
End result: My TVIX in the family room can see and play all the files on the four hard drives internal/external on my HTPC upstairs. Next will be to create PhotosC...PhotosF and MusicC...MusicF.

Caution: Obviously, don't map drive C's root to the Tvixhd1 folder within drive C. It will be recursive and will loop and loop and loop all the files. Guess how I found this out!

Hope this is helpful information.

Mike

tinhan

10-02-06, 02:03 AM

Trying to determine if any of these Networked Media Players can support an external DVDROM drive connected over USB2.0? The manual for the DVICO TVIX-HD M-5000 says only hard drives and thumb drives are supported, but thought I'd ask if anyone could try to hook up a USB2.0 DVD drive to one, and plop a DVD in there to see if you can play it back that way?

Thanks in advance

I have a samsung dvd-rom in an enclosure hooked through usb2, plays everything EXCEPT dvd's with copy protection(so pretty much everything storebought:(). Not to mention the usual usb glitches you get with the current firmware: freeze up, stutter...

Anyone have a stand alone nas drive(with NTFS format) hooked to the tvix? I'm hoping this will bypass the glitches I get with usb2 connected hard drives, networking my pc to the tvix is not an option sadly.

Thanks!

togad

10-02-06, 02:55 AM

With regards to the USB hub, as far as I know you can only hook up two external USB drives.
When you do a jump command, you can see four entries on the top. The ones of the right are USB drives. By the way, be patient when you hook up a USB drive. It takes a bit to recognize the drive and get going.

So I gave up on the Denon 3806 remote for using the TVIX. It could not learn any TVIX commands.

I bought a logitech harmony. It definitely can learn the TVIX commands. But when I select the up or down command, it jumps about three. I know there are some delay settings that can be changed. Does anybody know what settings seem to work with the Logitech harmony series and the TVIX 5000?

I had the same problem with my 885.

Off the top of my head, it's something like...

Go into the control software for the 885 and say you're having a problem controlling the 5000 - you'll then get asked a series of questions, one of which is "5000 is reacting too quickly/slowly to commands". You're then presented with a number from 1-5, and it will be set on 3. Simply change it to 1 and you're good to go.

Meenenator

10-02-06, 03:55 AM

I heard today from DVICO support that in next version of the firmware you should be able to share multiple folders when using ordinary windows sharing (i guess that means SAMBA). NFS/netshare will not support that.
Any idea if they are opening up for something else than the guest account?
Call me paranoid, but I do not want to use the guest account. It should be no problem for DVICo to enable user-selectable name to used for SAMBA.
I only use NFS/Netshare for that reason.

Meenenator

10-02-06, 04:24 AM

Have you tried to map different partitions to specific folders inside the "tvixhd1" on your computer?
To do this use: "start/run/diskmgmt.msc". A good tutorial is here:http://www.modzone.dk/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=278

To do this you shouldn't use netshare though. just plain normal networkshare in windows. This is what the DVICO guys say anyway, since netshare doesen't support sharing drives.

I have som problem with some drives when doing it, but it works perfectly on one of my harddrives. So at least now i can share two different partitions. DVICO support thinks it is something vrong with my computer.

So if you could try this, and then tell me if you succeeded I would be happy, since i have no other computer to test with.
Well, I did try it at one time a while ago. I was able to mount various partitions inside a tvixhd1 folder on C:. I then tried to open up for the guest account, but never did enough to actually get it to work. I do not have any intentions of opening up for a guest account just yet. I am primarily looking for a NFS only solution from my NAS (since most HD programs do not run smoothly enough using samba).
On a secondary level I also want to join multiple folders/partitions into a share which the Tvix can see and use, again most preferably NFS since that is working properly now. I have multiple partitions with media, so I'm looking for a simple way to join them. I will look into the latest suggestions here and try them out.

Maybe DVICo are also looking into ways of using specific user-names other than "guest" for samba sharing. Time will tell...

originalsnuffy

10-02-06, 10:23 AM

rajanshirin

10-02-06, 06:14 PM

Anybody compare the video quality for non-HD content out of the DVI port for this box versus other media players? In my personal experience , my ROKU Photobridge seems to play decrypted DVD content, out of the component outputs, at a much sharper resolution than the TVIX box out of the DVI port. My TVIX is configured for the 720p resolution. It seems like the upconversion capabilities of the ROKU box are much superior.

Comments or experiences vs other media players?

Nemesis3

10-02-06, 10:34 PM

Hey guys I didn't want to thread jack or go offtopic in this thread so I would be greatful if anyone wanted to weigh in on this thread:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/show...947#post8562947

Meenenator

10-03-06, 09:11 AM

This is the exact text of a message I received from Dvico on this point. Perhaps our experts here can tell me if this means anything good.

We are adding a new feature so you can change the mount point you want. With this, I think you can attach any device that support SAMBA share or NFS share. It will be release on Oct.
Doesn't tell me much. It is as always another "cryptic" message from the DVICo guys. I have had a few of them myself. Most of the time you get a tiny bite of the apple, but not all.

My "understanding" would be that this is another confirmation from them that they are indeed working on a "dynamical mounting point". No more tvixhd1 hardcoded shares etc.
I recon in order for it to work you need to input the correct name-share yourself into the tvix-unit. Today it only works with tvixhd1, but this is about to change it seems.
Its october... where is it? LOL...

I'm for one is highly awaiting this feature.

TPeterson

10-03-06, 10:41 AM

Don't look for it this week, as DViCo is closed for Korean Thanksgiving holiday.

originalsnuffy

10-03-06, 11:58 AM

HP Media Vault mv2010/mv2020 - which allows consumers to easily protect and share digital content across multiple PCs. With its user-friendly HP-designed interface, even the least technical family members can enjoy the same movie, photos, music or video by streaming the file from the Media Vault to different computers or networked TVs throughout the home. With a capacity that expands up to a staggering 1.2 terabytes, the Media Vault can store up to 500,000 photos, 16,000 hours of music or 340 hours of video.

I took a look at the HP website. It support UPNP. It has some kind of a license from Microsoft; but it is not obvious to me if it is a Windows machine under the covers.

One early review said it was a Linux machine. It was officially released on Sept. 29; Micro Center is already advertising it.

I would not be surprised that with some futzing might be a very nice media server for the 5000.

Scandic24

10-03-06, 02:31 PM

jofa

10-03-06, 03:41 PM

Dont know if this suggestion has been up before.
It would be nice if the TViX could stream web radio like iTunes or any other mediaplayer.
I have it hooked up to my surround system all the time and would really like to be able to just specify a web radio URL. The HW should be able to handle this...
I'll post this to DViCO...
Good! Do that. I've asked for Shoucast support and they've said that they will implement it. However, when I recently asked for the status of that feature they said it was "on hold" due to other features and bug fixes. The more people that asks for it the more likely we will get it I hope.

/J

Glen Graham

10-03-06, 07:53 PM

I need to copy them to either the tvixhd1 home directory (for Samba) or the tvixhd1 share (for NFS). This is not an option for me... too much data to move (and since the X6 actually first moves the files back to the PC, and then back to the NAS, this is a long procedure).

I know you posted this a long time ago (I am still "catching up" on this thread), but I have a ReadyNAS. You can go into the NAS backup scheduler, and create a "backup" job to back up the data from the media directory to the tvixhd1. That would be very speedy (no network traffic), according to pointers I've read on the Infrant website.

Nemesis3

10-04-06, 01:26 AM

Hey guys feedback from users from this thread caused me to go with a Tvix 5000. Special thanks to zhenerale for turning me onto media servers in the first place, qz3fwd for vouching for digial connection being a good company to do business with, and of course Crivens who has 3 of them and does a lot of my specifc usage and whom answered my questions about them.

Just wondering if there is there a thread for features coming soon according to tech support, and a wish list of features thread or should be kept in this thread?

"Coming features"
Move files to and from external hd/flash drive to Tvix 5000's internal HD..Sweetest!
Shoutcast..Sweet!

"Wishlist features"(not confirmed by tech support as future features but plausible features for the 5000)

Andy69

10-04-06, 03:04 AM

I got some strange things going on since some days with my tvix.

I have a Freenas server running with dvd iso files and als extracted dvd's / mp3 / photos / etc...

When i now playing a DVD (iso or extracted (using ifo file)) after some period of time (5 a 10 minutes) the divx will totaly freeze i can only press the on/off button and then it will reboot.

What can this be ?

I'am using firmware version 1.85

Question 2 : Is there a better software solution then Freenas ? So i can use NFS ?

Thx
Greetings Andy

Crivens

10-04-06, 03:14 AM

Just wondering if there is there a thread for features coming soon Well, I asked for thumbnails (pre-created ones will do like using tvix.jpg for wallpaper). They said they were already looking into that idea. Cross your fingers.

Out of interest, I have a small problem with NetShare. Basically I am using a 500gb drive on my backup PC which I use for sharing files with my Tvixs (and BLT). But NetShare only allows a browse option to find the location of the TvixHd1 folder. This is fine, but when my drives auto-allocate a drive letter this can sometimes be the wrong drive letter for NetShare. Is there any way to make it point at the drive name rather than the letter?

Cheers

Meenenator

10-04-06, 03:46 AM

I know you posted this a long time ago (I am still "catching up" on this thread), but I have a ReadyNAS. You can go into the NAS backup scheduler, and create a "backup" job to back up the data from the media directory to the tvixhd1. That would be very speedy (no network traffic), according to pointers I've read on the Infrant website.
Thanks for the feedback.
I know I probably can do a background backup onto the tvixhd1 share, but I do not like the idea of moving those files just for the sake of accessing them from the tvix.
I'll wait for the new firmware with the dynamic mounting point first and then decide.

Meenenator

10-04-06, 03:51 AM

Well, I asked for thumbnails (pre-created ones will do like using tvix.jpg for wallpaper). They said they were already looking into that idea. Cross your fingers.

Out of interest, I have a small problem with NetShare. Basically I am using a 500gb drive on my backup PC which I use for sharing files with my Tvixs (and BLT). But NetShare only allows a browse option to find the location of the TvixHd1 folder. This is fine, but when my drives auto-allocate a drive letter this can sometimes be the wrong drive letter for NetShare. Is there any way to make it point at the drive name rather than the letter?

Cheers
Crivens, is this a problem?
I have a lot of external drives(as well as a ReadyNas), and I only very very seldom need to change the driveletters on those. It did happen the other day that one of my PC's "forgot" the letters for some external discs, but it must be over a year since I had to do that.
No idea why it changed this time (well, I did play around with some registry cleaners etc, that could be the cause).
But, as I said it almost never happens.

Is it a big problem for you?
Or am I totally getting this post wrong? hehe...

Nemesis3

10-04-06, 04:15 AM

Ok updated then:

"Coming features"
Ability to move files to and from an external hd(s)/flash drive to Tvix 5000's internal HD.
Shoutcast
Thumbnails for photos and video.

Wishlist Features:
UPNP

Shot down features?:
Transfer files to the 5000 with it showing up as a shared netework drive (i.e being able to transfer files to and from it without ftp).

Crivens

10-04-06, 04:37 AM

Well I could change the external drives to try to have a spefic letter when plugged in (all set to automatic I believe) and that should sort it. It is mainly a problem because I have a few external drives that I use with the one machine, but I don't always have them on. Just thought there may be a way to point to a drive name rather than a letter. I know in work we are constantly changing links to be \\whatever\folder rather than G:\Folder just because 3rd party software tends to use the letter which can then screw us up on other machines. As it turns out we sort of gave up, and now have scripts running at boot up to map drives and shared network folders to standard drive letters across the network (about 1500 PCs globally). Now all software works. Might be an idea to implement the same idea.

Cheers

originalsnuffy

10-04-06, 12:46 PM

Question 1--moving files around

I am not clear whether TVIX/DVICO has agreed to simplify transferring files to/from an external disc drive. IF they have, that would be great.

Does anybody know if you can remove files using the FTP process? I know you can add them (well really send them!) to the TVIX.

I hooked up my notebook to the drive in the stereo cabinet, and then hooked up my external hard drive and the TVIX to the notebook. The idea was to simplify file maintenance; I didn't want to disconnect the TVIX and drag it to the main computer.

Only one problem....for some reason the various NTFS drives would not give the notebook permissions to delete some of the files on the TVIX! Anybody know why this would happen and how to fix it.

When I gave up and took the TVIX to the main computer, there was no problem moving/deleting the files.

Question 2--hi def content sources

So now I am wondering....I "tape" my HD material from unencrypted sources; primarily PBS hi-def. Where else to people get hi-def material for the machine? I am so frustrated that I can't play Terminator 2 in WMVHD due to all the protection.
Funny; I own the disc...so you would think I should be able to PLAY it. Silly me.

I am not looking for links to copyrighted material. I am more interested in how people get their licensed or purchased content onto the machine. For example, if you subscribed to HBO Hi-Def; how would you get it to the machine. That kind of thing. (In other words, I am not interested in grabbing content from grey sources). I suppose the answer varies from content provider to content provider and from country to country. So I would be interested in various people's experiences.

Glen Graham

10-04-06, 06:16 PM

Question about using the 5000 for playing music...

Can you access playlists or songs and see them on the display, or does the TV have to be on?

I am wanting one for my home theater, where I currently have an AudioTron to play my vast MP3 collection. I do NOT want to have to turn on my projector just to select one of perhaps 20 playlists...

Can they easily be selected using only the TVIX display? (only 7 characters!)

TPeterson

10-04-06, 06:34 PM

The TViX shows the name of the currently selected item on its VFD and scrolls it if it's longer than the VFD can show all at once.

KAXKID

10-04-06, 07:23 PM

...
Does anybody know if you can remove files using the FTP process? I know you can add them (well really send them!) to the TVIX.
...

yes, using ws_ftp95 le, (pretty old version) i can delete, rename etc.

Crivens

10-05-06, 03:10 AM

simplify transferring files to/from an external disc driveIn a response support email they told me they are working on a method to transfer files from an external USB drive to the Tvix without any other devices. They did not say if it would work the other way around.

remove files using the FTP processI use CuteFTP and it works fine for removing, renaming etc.

if you subscribed to HBO Hi-Def; how would you get it to the machineThere is a HD tuner/ recorder device that I believe sits under the M5000. I think it only exists in Korea at the minute but apparently they are working on a US version (and hopefully a European version).

Cheers

Meenenator

10-05-06, 03:36 AM

Snipp...

I am so frustrated that I can't play Terminator 2 in WMVHD due to all the protection.
Funny; I own the disc...so you would think I should be able to PLAY it. Silly me.

I am not looking for links to copyrighted material. I am more interested in how people get their licensed or purchased content onto the machine. For example, if you subscribed to HBO Hi-Def; how would you get it to the machine. That kind of thing. (In other words, I am not interested in grabbing content from grey sources). I suppose the answer varies from content provider to content provider and from country to country. So I would be interested in various people's experiences.
So still no go on the T2 extreme?
Hmm? Have you tried removing the DRM? If that is the problem.
There are a few programs out there (can't remember from the top of my head this morning). I successfully removed DRM on a few trailers which was unable to play on the tvix. Now they are all go ;)
It is a pity though, DRM on trailers...

All this DRM is a shame... When will the users revolt aganist this protective measures restricting playback only on a single dedicated device...?
It not the general protective measure, its the playback issue.

In fact (here in Scandinavia) a few government based organisations are persuing Apple for their Itunes songs (to make them playable on all mediaplayers). Didn't France to something as well?

(ok, sorry for doing all this DRM crap... lets keep it technical and tvix)

psychoticus

10-05-06, 06:43 AM

Any idea if they are opening up for something else than the guest account?
Call me paranoid, but I do not want to use the guest account. It should be no problem for DVICo to enable user-selectable name to used for SAMBA.
I only use NFS/Netshare for that reason.

I have no clue about that. We have to see when the new firmware is released i guess;)

Nemesis3

10-05-06, 06:50 AM

Once again updated thanks to Crivens for the clarification:

Coming features is features that someone has spoken with tech support about( or they posted on website/forums) and received a reply that it is coming soon. Wishlist features are features user would like to see and of course shot down features are features requested and the reply was "no plans to do so at this time." Newly added to the list. Bug fixes and speed tweaks. Speed tweaks are of course of lowest priority unless it severly impacts use as I think most users usually prefer new features or fixing bugs, to eekeing out every absolute ounce of performance via speed tweaks etc and of course that limit may have alread been reached due to hardware limitations.

Just curious has anyone actually experienced the bug mentioned?

Coming features:
The ability to move files from an external hd(s)/flash drive to Tvix 5000's internal HD.
Shoutcast.
Thumbnails for photos and video.

Wishlist Features:
UPNP
The ability to move files from the Tvix 5000's internal HD to an external hd(s)/flash drive.

Bug fixes:
In reference to firmware 1.8.5 "This version has problem to play files from USB external device, so if you play most files from USB device, we recomend not to use this version."

Speed tweaks:
Faster ftp/file transferring
Faster picture opening.

Shot down features:
Transfer files to the 5000 via it showing up as a shared network drive (i.e being able to transfer files to and from it without ftp).

psychoticus

10-05-06, 07:27 AM

How I have my system set up:
My HTPC has two internal drives (C & D) and two external USB drives (E & F). I use BeyondTV to save recordings (HD and SD) to these individual drives in folders named VideosC, VideosD, VideosE, and VideosF (each folder in a different drive). On drive C, I also have a folder named Tvixhd1. Within that folder are sub-folders named VideosC, VideosD, VideosE and VideosF mapped to the actual folders in the four hard drives.
I mapped these folders to Tvixhd1 using junctions. I found a good solution for this at http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm ... a program called Junction Link Magic. It is very easy to use.
End result: My TVIX in the family room can see and play all the files on the four hard drives internal/external on my HTPC upstairs. Next will be to create PhotosC...PhotosF and MusicC...MusicF.

Caution: Obviously, don't map drive C's root to the Tvixhd1 folder within drive C. It will be recursive and will loop and loop and loop all the files. Guess how I found this out!

Hope this is helpful information.

Mike

A very good application indeed;)
But of course it didnt work for me:(
I got the same problem i had when trying to map my drives.
It work perfectly in windows, and i can brows trough my tvixhd1 map and reach all my other drives..... but the tvix just can't see it. DVICO suggest it is something wrong with my computer.. but what it is no one seems to know...and i really hate do reinstall everyting:( help someone:)

Kaizen28

10-05-06, 09:44 AM

Hi

Can someone recommend where to buy one of these? I don't see them on the TViX USA online store for some reason.

Thanks

Nemesis3

10-05-06, 01:47 PM

Hi

Can someone recommend where to buy one of these? I don't see them on the TViX USA online store for some reason.

Thanks

I just got through trying to purchase through:
http://www.digitalconnection.com/products/video/tvixm5000.asp
Unfortunately there were out of stock till mid October and told me a Korean holiday is going on. Canceling my order was really easy and they were very quick to repond. Unlike a lot of places they had not charged my card, since they hadn't shipped anything. This was impressive, as a lot of places charge your debit/credit card and then tell you they are out of stock. So then I tried:

http://www.onlybestrated.com
They are also "On order (ETA 10 days)", I think I literally got the last one.
So far my experiences with dealing with both places has been great, onlybestrated shipping the product the same day even though it was late in the day. Also I e-mailed them to ask what processing OOS meant and they told me that my unit had already shipped(all same day). I will give feedback once I have received unit etc as I know a huge concern for me is who to do business with online and these forums are a great way to share buying experiences and finding out about the good dealers. Which also helps since a lot of the Dvico sellers don't have a lot of resellerratings feedback yet.

BTW: Kei Clark of digital connection, is a member of avsforums, and used to post in this thread, not sure if any of the other US retailers have reps present or not.

Hope that helped Kaizen28.

Just curious does anyone know if Tvixusa ever carried the 5000 after that posted statement about waiting for a hardware change?

Ewong

10-05-06, 02:34 PM

New beta firmware 1.9.0 is now available to download here:

http://www.tvix.co.kr/tvix_1.9.0_ntsc_eng.zip

http://www.tvix.co.kr/tvix_1.9.0_ntsc_kor.zip

Crivens

10-05-06, 03:23 PM

Cool. Not up on main site yet though. Are these beta or have they just not updated the web page yet?

Whats in the new firmware?

Cheers

Nemesis3

10-05-06, 03:27 PM

My sentiments exactly Crivens. Though onlybestrated ships with the latest firmware preinstalled, I am somehow doubting this is on here heh. Which to me says a lot in the time I could order and get a unit to me a new firmware release occured. Lets hope it deals with some of the features requested, as I haven't really saw a lot of people complaining about bugs even the specific one mentioned on the webpage.

Edit: Link here if you Korean is up to par:
http://www.tvix.co.kr/KOR/boards/Default.aspx?act=RD&id=246&pg=1

originalsnuffy

10-05-06, 03:49 PM

Nemesis--

Have you emailed the TVIX branch in Calif?

They were pretty easy to deal with when I bought my machine.

I purchased a DVICO hi def card from Digital Connections and liked that experience too. They have a return policy, I don't think the TVIX in Calif. will take returns.

But along with my Denon 3806; the 5000 is definitely one of my better purchases of the year (within the context of stereos and computers). Plus fiddling with all of the capabilities of the machine is a hobby in its own right :)

Nemesis3

10-05-06, 03:58 PM

Not sure I follow(it happens heh), why would I e-mail TVIX branch in Calif? (BTW do you mean Tivxusa as I think Digital Connections is also in cali) So far I am impressed with both companies I have did business with. I think maybe you thought I was complaining when I said"Though onlybestrated ships with the latest firmware preinstalled, I am somehow doubting this is on there heh. Which to me says a lot in the time I could order and get a unit to me a new firmware release occured." I meant, but perhaps poorly conveyed, that I was impressed that though my order shipped the same say I placed it in the time I will have actually got my unit a new firmware had been released. A company doing firmware releases often is saw as a good sign by me, especially when they actually tackle the requests the users are making for the product.

On a sidenote, I think the requests we make and the features/fixes that is pounded out from that will simply be things included in the next unit they sell(along with keeping this unit selling well) and thus is selling points for that unit and thus everyone benefits from firmware updates. Not to mention it gives the company a good perspective to future buyers who hope that product will also get the updates it needs.

Nemesis--

Have you emailed the TVIX branch in Calif?

They were pretty easy to deal with when I bought my machine.

I purchased a DVICO hi def card from Digital Connections and liked that experience too. They have a return policy, I don't think the TVIX in Calif. will take returns.

But along with my Denon 3806; the 5000 is definitely one of my better purchases of the year (within the context of stereos and computers). Plus fiddling with all of the capabilities of the machine is a hobby in its own right :)

thompa74

10-05-06, 04:03 PM

hi there
have a question regarding winamp and playlists: Do I have to install the programme winamp on the tvix, or just open the programme when connected to lan and choose songs on the tvix disk to a playlist and save it then???

originalsnuffy

10-05-06, 04:06 PM

Nemesis--

On a swedish site linked from the hi-jack divx TVIX forum (I think Crivens and Menenator turned me on to this one), there is a new 4000 unit. It is more rectangular, but otherwise looks like a 5000. Might be a lower price point. Perhaps Dvico is getting ready to roll to the 5101 faster than we all thought.

I'm sure other site members will have more to say on this.

I do not remember what firmware the TVIX people sent the machine with. I agree that it is pretty cool to have a vendor update the machine for you.

Updating the firmware is really easy on this machine though. But as you pointed out (I just took a look) the unit is not showing on the TVIX USA web site anyway.

Now I'm thinking I will wait for the 5500; then put the 5000 on the downstairs video system. These toys are dangerous...

Nemesis3

10-05-06, 05:32 PM

Babelfish taking a stab at the above firmware:

[ Common knowledge ] 1.9.0 Beta came out. It supports the EPG finally...

How are you..
It waited long. Harvest Moon Day about below Maj it added the EPG the new reel li cu, it became. Regret but became the beta even in this time and it threw away.. The field to do eagerly and certainly with proper form the place where it is well the bedspread which does not become to inside October in order to raise, it will endeavor. To substitution this time plentifully there is a new function.

The detailed contents refers to the lower part link..

http: //www.tvix.co.kr/Kor/boards/BetaTest.aspx? act=RD&id=574&pg=1

Joyful Harvest Moon Day send...

When I followed the link there was no text, probably have to be logged in.

TKO

10-05-06, 08:11 PM

After browsing this thread I still cannot determine if the 5000 will definately play ISO images.

Can someone verify it will play my DVD's that I've ripped using DVD Decrypter + AnyDVD? (Yes I'd rather have them in ISO format than IFO.)

Thanks.

Ewong

10-05-06, 11:54 PM

I seldom play IFO from 5000.

All my Decryptered DVD is in ISO format from DVD Decrypter or DVDshrink.

With DVD Decrypter, I will keep all the menu index and extra bonus. However, it use up a lot of storage space.

With DVD Shrink, I will remove all the menu and extra bonus without any compression to maintain the best picture quality.

In most case, ISO Image from DVD Shrink would be less buggy than ISO image from Decrypter since DVD Shrink will rebuild the ISO Image.

maxpop

10-06-06, 03:12 AM

what is new in FW 1.9.0???

Crivens

10-06-06, 03:44 AM

Will install the latest FW tonight. I'm betting it sorts out the USB problem. Hopefully a couple of the requested items too (c'mon pre-generated thumbnails and copying from USB drive!).

Oh, and Nemesis, here is another request to add to your list. I basically just asked them if they could add an option when you store a text file in the same directory as a video file. Then when you press the information button it will also show the contents of this file. That way you can add extra info about the film/ program. Can't do without my Sky+ functionality.... Hmmm, if they actually do what I asked then you would end up with a video file (eg. starwars.avi), an information file (starwars.txt), and a pre-generated thumbnail file (starwars.jpg). That would be nice.

Cheers

Meenenator

10-06-06, 04:30 AM

Damn,
I keep checking the firmware page for new uploads every day. And the one day I don't do it... a new firmware... maybe I should check more seldom? LOL.

Anyway, will try it out tonight/weekend.

M.

lilian69

10-06-06, 09:51 AM

Hi everybody,

I saw somewhere (difference 5000A and 5000U) :
"U - does not have a standby button on the top.
or possibly has it but you don't need to push it to power on after setting the main power switch to 1.
A - has a standby switch on the top which also needs to be pushed in order to start the unit after setting the main power switch to 1."

but in all cases (U or A) is it possible to switch OFF (stand by) and ON only with the remote control ?

Thank you.

Crivens

10-06-06, 10:11 AM

U does have a standby button on top, the difference is that when you switch it on using the "master" switch on the side then it will boot up without pressing anything else. A apparently will not boot up until you then press a standby button on the top or remote.

Yes, at least with my "U"'s then the remote control will put it into and out of standby.

Oh, and a question from me. With the FTP functionality you have to boot the Tvix up before it will work, but is there a command or something to get it to wake up rather than using a standby button? Seriously doubt it though as you normally need the FTP daemon software running to intercept the FTP requests.

Cheers

Nemesis3

10-06-06, 07:26 PM

As I noted before on the firmware the title was "It supports the EPG finally..."... no clue what this means as electronic program guide doesn't really fit eh?

Coming features:
The ability to move files from an external hd(s)/flash drive to Tvix 5000's internal HD.
Shoutcast.
Thumbnails for photos and video.

Wishlist Features:
UPNP
The ability to move files from the Tvix 5000's internal HD to an external hd(s)/flash drive.
An option when you store a text file in the same directory as a video file and then when you press the information button it will also show the contents of this file.

Bug fixes:
In reference to firmware 1.8.5 "This version has problem to play files from USB external device, so if you play most files from USB device, we recomend not to use this version."

Speed tweaks:
Faster ftp/file transferring
Faster picture opening.

Shot down features:
Transfer files to the 5000 via it showing up as a shared network drive (i.e being able to transfer files to and from it without ftp).

BreyMaastricht

10-07-06, 03:25 AM

Hello everybody,
I am going to try it again....

I downloaded the following movie: IMAX.SPEED.WMV-HD.1080P.DTS of size 1906MB
But my TVix does not play it at all ! It just skips to the next movie.
After some investigation I found the following:

TVIXManager says:
WMV3, 1440x1080, 23.98Hz, DTS, 2audio, 754 Kbps(CBR)
Message: WMV3 Video Codec not supported.
Cannot support more than 800 pixels of width.
Cannot support more than 414.720 pixels of width*height.

GSpot says:
Video: Codec: WMV3, Name: Windows Media Video V9
Audio: 0x2000(AC3 dolby Laboratories Inc) AC3, Info: 48000Hz 448 kb/s total (5.1 chans)

So I would say the TVix should be able to play it, but maybe some of you guys think different about this statement ??
Can anyone help ??

Threeother small questions:
1) And is there any special application to cut and save high definition videos in the same or maybe another format ?? Or can you just use the 'conventional' software packages ??

2) changing the background of the user interface is a cool thing to do, but only usefull while playing MP3's. But then the icons of the network and USB storage places just ruins the beautiful image.
I think hiding those icons in the top of the screen is a good thing while playing MP3's......some comments ?

3) The user interface is still not crystal clear on my screen. It looks like a low resoltion image on my PC. But all the movies SD and HD I play look great.
I use the 720i video output, but how can this be possible ?? I heard of one other person on this forum who had the same problem.....

Bye for now & all the best from the Netherlands,
Brey

Meenenator

10-07-06, 06:29 AM

Anyway, will try it out tonight/weekend.

M.
Quoting myself here... LOL

Anyway, just flashed to 1.90. And so far I have found that they have indeed implemented dynamic mounting points!!
I will look for new features as I go.

I managed to get the dynamic mounting point to work (DMP for short).
I tried it on a NAS (and only a NAS so far). In order to get it to work you need to add a tvixhd1 user and PW tvixhd1. As soon as I did that both Samba and NFS worked like a charm.
The share you like to access is added using the typical SMS (mobilephone). Input is easy and supports letters(capital and small), numbers and some special letters.
Will maybe try using the DMP on my PCs, but I recon you also here need to add the tvixhd1 user (and PW).
I wonder if they would add selectable usernames/Pw in the future firmwares (sound easier, since you do need to add a new user into your windows environment)

Oh, and it seems that network timeouts are fixed (it used th freeze when accessing non-existent network drives. Now it times out with an error). Great!

To sum up. My tvix has now added its value at least TEN times. It is now working as I hoped with direct access to my media library. Suberb!
(I will wait a few days until I start nagging about mp3 playback... LOL).
To all who wants these features, get it, flash it, enjoy it!

M.

Meenenator

10-07-06, 09:22 AM

Well, as previously stated the DMP works.
Still not usable with samba and high bitrate HD. NFS works alright.

I have been trying for the last hours or so to get my shared partitions/folders to work.
I have gotten only so far that I in fact can see the shared partition. I.e. I can see the folder structure under my shared D: (share name is not D: if you wondered). O can also see movies under the same share.
No go on the movies.... The content of the folders are also empty.

So, until further I would assume that this function was not fully implemented yet.

Anyone else had any luck with this?

Anyway, FW1.90 is a great step forward. Looks more stable (have yet to reboot due to freezes etc)

Update:
Ok, played around somemore. This time with photo and music.
Not sure that this is the finished product, since I experience some instability here.
Either way, photos seems ok. Nothing new, although more unstable. Had to reboot a few times.
Music however, things have changed. They have implemented covers...
Well, in a fashion that it takes the photos within your album folder and shows it in a sideshow fashin, ending with the last one. No need to have a special name or anything. Looks ok. A bit unstable (crashes everytime I select a specific album folder, it tries to load the jpg but crashes. It's the only crash though).

Will keep you posted if I find more... but its a beta... ;)

M.

Crivens

10-07-06, 09:43 AM

And is there any special application to cut and save high definition videos in the same or maybe another format I use XiliSoft's Video converter software. Works a treat for anything that wouldn't play on the Tvix. I also own WinAviVideoConverter which takes advantage of my dual core system (uses 80% rather then 40% of total CPU) to encode DivX, but I found I was getting lip sync problems. XiliSoft does the job (as well as a DVD ripper which I also have and recommend) well and apparently will support dual core in the future.

Oh, and I use Virtual Dub to get rid of the adverts when I grab stuff from satallite. It took me a while to find it, but there is an option to output to a new file using the same sound and video codecs of the original file. Encoding then takes like a minute for a 45 minute program rather than the 20 minutes or so to totally re-encode. It's also identical to the original in quality rather than introducing new compression and artifacts on something that has already been compressed. Basically I use a DVD burner to take from the satalitte box (built in HD but no way of extracting digitally), then use Xilisoft's DVD ripper to turn into a DivX file, then Virtual Dub to get rid of the adverts making sure I use the direct stream copy mode for audio and video. No problems.

Cheers

Crivens

10-07-06, 09:53 AM

Someone translated the Korean explanation of 1.9.0. Apart from an amusing underdeveloped genitalia section (honestly!) and lots of stuff about the EPG there was this:-
File list ICON mode support 1. It makes the empty file which is icon.tvix in the folder and it puts. 2. The reporter it makes the .jpg extension file of the name which is identical with the file which it does in ICON modes and it puts. (Example) makes case movie.jpg which is movie.avi and Holy s**t. Does this mean thumbnails? It's sort of what I requested, but does it work? Someone said they tried it but it didn't work, but perhaps there is an exact size that only works, like 720x480 with tvix.jpg? I have to rip apart my server PC and replace lots of components this afternoon, anyone else want to have a go? Please..... :)

Cheers

Meenenator

10-07-06, 10:04 AM

Someone translated the Korean explanation of 1.9.0. Apart from an amusing underdeveloped genitalia section (honestly!) and lots of stuff about the EPG there was this:-
Holy s**t. Does this mean thumbnails? It's sort of what I requested, but does it work? Someone said they tried it but it didn't work, but perhaps there is an exact size that only works, like 720x480 with tvix.jpg? I have to rip apart my server PC and replace lots of components this afternoon, anyone else want to have a go? Please..... :)

Cheers
How can I help?

I can try to run a few movies from the NAS with tvixhd1 write-access. Do not have an internal drive in the tvix either.

But as mentioned they are at least doing something with thumbnails (playback of music with jpeg background (normally a jpeg cover).

Crivens

10-07-06, 10:14 AM

Note that I just upgraded and all my settings were wiped including network and tv type (was 16:9).

Couldn't get the movie.jpg working. Used an example like StarWars.avi and StarWars.jpg but it didn't show as the icon, just as usual with the jpg file in the menu list. I'm betting it will be an exact icon size. Eg. 50x50 like I suggested. This would match tvix.jpg which has to be exactly 720x480 to work. Just wait for their documentation online.

Cheers

Nemesis3

10-07-06, 11:37 AM

Meenenator

10-07-06, 12:25 PM

Sounds like 1.9.0 has moved in the right direction if nothing else.

-Meenenatorj just curios about(my unit hasn't arrived yet):
"I will wait a few days until I start nagging about mp3 playback... LOL"

Something I can add to the list?
Hehe... its more in the direction that everything was so perfect that I didn't want to spoil the good time I had.

Mp3 playback as most of you know is not the best. It works, yes, but in a crude way... too crude for my likings (but then again I seldom listen to music, so who am I to complain). I'm happy today since I now for the first time can access all of my NAS directly (no PC in the loop) using NFS (and samba).
First time ever!

But its beta, at least for the cover jpgs during musc, and samba access into shared folder(s) on a PC.

An interesting update. I'm happy. I'll have a beer to celebrate ;)

originalsnuffy

10-07-06, 12:28 PM

G'Day all.

Thanks for the pointer that FTP programs can in fact delete files on the TVIX. Just a simple mouse click in fact. I do not know how I missed something so obvious.

The FTP on the TVIX seems to time-out on long file transfers (over 2 gb). Is this a size issue or a time issue? Can the time outs for FTP be adjusted?

To all participants in this forum, I say thanks. We all help each other out with our cool toys.

By the way, if this 4000 unit exists, doing the math it should be about $75 less than the 5000 based on adjusting for the relative currency differences. Somebody here did not like the round shape of the 5000, so again if it exists the 4000 should do the job. Personally, I like the rounded shape. It fits "just so" into a narrow space in the hifi cabinet.

Since I am rambling on, how would the feature to allow transfers to/from the attached usb unit work. Would it be controlled from an external PC?

DVDwizard

10-07-06, 01:06 PM

FYI,

Thanks to the 1.9.0 firmware update, you can now specify the name of the NFS mountpoint to use, so FreeNAS servers can now be used in NFS mode.

Mike

Andy69

10-07-06, 01:11 PM

FYI,

Thanks to the 1.9.0 firmware update, you can now specify the name of the NFS mountpoint to use, so FreeNAS servers can now be used in NFS mode.

Mike

I flashed it yesterday and it works great with freenas in NFS mode :) even HD files are now streaming from the freenas straight to the tvix.

I'am realy happy with the new firmware, now they must make a little bit more stable and put internet radio in it and my tvix cant be better then :)

Crivens

10-07-06, 01:28 PM

how would the feature to allow transfers to/from the attached usb unit workThey said it would not require a PC. I assume then that a button (say info) will give information about if you want to copy.

No-one had any success with thumbnails for avi's? Although we haven't got confirmation that this firmware provides this. Could just be messed up translation.

Cheers

TPeterson

10-07-06, 01:36 PM

The FTP on the TVIX seems to time-out on long file transfers (over 2 gb). Is this a size issue or a time issue? Can the time outs for FTP be adjusted?Are you using Windows Explorer as your FTP client? That evidently has a bug and cannot handle multi GB files. Use one of the free alternatives, such as SmartFTP or the others mentioned here, to avoid that problem.

ajs6000

10-07-06, 06:39 PM

Thumbnails for .iso files works fine. Although the wallpaper and all other types of files in the folder do not appear after switching on this feature.

Simply create a file called icon.tvix in the folder with the .iso file and then name the relevant .jpg art work the same name as the .iso file.

I used the following command line to create the icon.tvix file:
fsutil file createnew icon.tvix 1

The folder will therefore contain for example:

The Apartment (1960).ISO
The Apartment (1960).jpg
icon.tvix

This was all guess work so I hope there are some other features when we see the documentation!

Crivens

10-07-06, 08:19 PM

Ang on, so whats the tvix file for? Just to say "I want to use icons in this folder"? Slightly daft, but guess it's liveable. But then you can't have a tvix.jpg wallpaper? That isn't great though. I mean surely they should keep the tvix.jpg functionality but just forget about doing icons for video files called Tvix. That would work.

Does it just replace the standard icon for video (ie. really small), or do they look bigger? You know, something more like a DVD cover selection screen.

Cheers

theaxledentaldj

10-07-06, 09:59 PM

I just tried it on my Enemy of the State folder which has RAW DVD files in it. I put the medium size (from amazon) enemy of the state. jpg and made another enemy of the state .jpg into icon. tvix and the VTS files all changed to mid sized Reel of Film Icons with a mid sized yellow Folder with an Up arror (Up Folder) in my Enemy of the State folder. WOW!
Now if it would only work another way... because I don't want to see a whole bunch of REEL icons. I have to move over to them and it lists what the icon is. But it won't play the movie now unless I put it back the way it was and remove those two files I added.

Crivens

10-08-06, 06:05 AM

Yeah, got it working for an avi file. Noticed though that folders cannot get an icon mapped (unless is different method). Bit annoying as you can't see the folder name until you highlight it.

I sent a support email. Basically asked how to use icons for folders, how to use tvix.jpg for wallpaper in a thumbnail folder, and what the icon sizes are on the screen (otherwise wasted processing for resizing). Hopefully they have different methods or will fix in the next FW.

Cheers

Pengwyn

10-08-06, 07:46 AM

Are you using Windows Explorer as your FTP client? That evidently has a bug and cannot handle multi GB files. Use one of the free alternatives, such as SmartFTP or the others mentioned here, to avoid that problem.

I am using the registered version of CuteFTP pro, so I think this should work...
But I also get the timeout... :confused:
Looks like sumfin's up with the HD 5000 instead...

Peng

Crivens

10-08-06, 09:21 AM

Report it to Tvix support. Might not be a timeout if it happens at 2gb for the both of you, but perhaps a file size limit. Is the internal HD formatted to FAT32 or NTFS? Could be a limitation there if using FAT32.

Cheers

psychoticus

10-08-06, 01:02 PM

New beta firmware 1.9.0 is now available to download here:

http://www.tvix.co.kr/tvix_1.9.0_ntsc_eng.zip

http://www.tvix.co.kr/tvix_1.9.0_ntsc_kor.zip

But I want a PAL version.....;)

originalsnuffy

10-08-06, 03:08 PM

My 5000 is formatted for NTFS. This is on the only format to choose for hi def files, which as we all know are quite large.

I am experimenting with smart FTP (had been using seagull ftp). I do like the way smart FTP lets you store the ftp password (six digit number). Seagull FTP requires that the number be input each time.

On a separate topic, it looks like a number of the firmware features for 1.90 are aimed at the new hi-def recording attachment.

Crivens

10-08-06, 05:57 PM

Nemesis, you can add to your list 60hz output for PAL as a request. Basically when playing an NTSC file you get very slight juddering especially on camera pans. It's almost not even noticeable unless you really look for it, but would be nice to eliminate. It is because NTSC files output at 60hz and PAL works at 50hz. Tvix does a *far* better job than my BLT and it is so very nearly smooth, but not quite. If I output in NTSC mode then I get a slight green tinge to everything (common problem with this sort of thing). But if there was a 60hz output option for PAL then hopefully that would get rid of both problems.

Cheers

originalsnuffy

10-08-06, 06:27 PM

I am now experimenting with playlists. Typically is use musicmatch jukebox and itunes to create playlists. My m3u playlists from musicmatch did not seem to work on the TVIX. Can somebody talk me though how they create playlists.

Also; how do you get music and photos to play at the same time?

Nemesis3

10-08-06, 11:41 PM

Coming features:
1. The ability to move files from an external hd(s)/flash drive to Tvix 5000's internal HD.

2. Shoutcast.

3. Thumbnails for photos and video.

Wishlist Features:
1. UPNP

2. The ability to move files from the Tvix 5000's internal HD to an external hd(s)/flash drive.

3. An option when you store a text file in the same directory as a video file and then when you press the information button it will also show the contents of this file.

4. 60hz output for PAL.

Bug fixes:
1. In reference to firmware 1.8.5 "This version has problem to play files from USB external device, so if you play most files from USB device, we recomend not to use this version."

2. Improved MP3 playback.

Speed tweaks:
1. Faster ftp/file transferring

2. Faster picture opening.

Shot down features:
1. Transfer files to the 5000 via it showing up as a shared network drive (i.e being able to transfer files to and from it without ftp).

TPeterson

10-08-06, 11:56 PM

Don't hold your breath for much faster FTP transfers. The M-5000 ethernet port is only 100 Mbps and the current FTP speed is up to about 30 Mbps depending upon your LAN setup. A factor of two might be possible, but would be hard to get reliably.

Scandic24

10-09-06, 02:15 AM

Latest on Shoutcast support:
"We do have a plan to support Internet Radio(shoutcast only), but the schedule is not set for this. I will push our developers. ;-)"

Crivens

10-09-06, 03:39 AM

Nemesis, unless you are keeping that list for FW 1.8.5 (because 1.9.0 is not actually mentioned on the web page yet), then thumbnails work in version 1.9.0. But I put in a bug report that you cannot use wallpapers and thumbnails at the same time. Plus I requested that folders be able to get a thumbnail too (can't see how with current FW) as icons don't show the name underneath until you highlight them.

Cheers

Crivens

10-09-06, 04:02 AM

Got some answers. God they are fast...

Regarding information from a text file:-
Thank you for the idea. However, currently we do not have plan for this
features. Anyway I will report this to our engineer for their reference.Well, it was only an idea. Just thought it would be a nice touch and probably fairly easy to implement on a quiet friday afternoon :)

Regarding my thumbnail questions:-
I have read lots of posting on AVSForum. ;-) You found the 1.9.0 which is beta version and released on Korea only.

1. I will check with my engineers. Thank you for the feedback and idea.

2. The size is 100 * 136. and the maxmum supported size 720 * 480.

3. I will check about this issue.Thought it might be beta. Interesting they read here. :) The 1st answer is about definable icons for folders. Hopefully they will do it. 2nd is on size of icon. Will now convert all to 100x136... 3rd answer is about wallpapers not working when using thumbnails.

All in all good stuff.

Cheers