TP,- Not that I doubt your information, but what is the source of your information?

Terry spent the day with three of DVICO's engineers the other day.

Hi Kei,

Just to clarify, are you saying you expect to have the M4100SH for US release in May? That would be great news. Any projections on price yet? Also, when the 4100 is released will the 4000 be phased out, or will both be sold side by side for awhile?

Thanks,
Barry

The M4000P will stay on the market as a lower priced entry level unit, the M4100SH will cost about $70-80 more, although the final price has not been set as yet. The estimated release is end of April, so I stand by the early May ship date.....for now.

Terry spent the day with three of DVICO's engineers the other day.

Hmmm... Are you Terry's mouthpiece? Is Terry contractually obligated to not state where he gets his information (i.e., did he sign a NDA)? Is TPeterson an alias for Kei Clark? Is Terry the third DVICO engineer (a la The Third Man)? Why are you answering for another (seemingly unrelated) subscriber?

TP,- What's going on?

MR--

I am an HDTV hobbyist and beta tester, as you can easily see by looking at my posts here in the Forum. As such, I have a lot of "unseeming" relations and I may or may not find it convenient to share the sources of any particular datum that I may post. What you can trust that I won't do is to spread unfounded rumors--or guesses unless I label them as such. ;)

MR--

I am an HDTV hobbyist and beta tester, as you can easily see by looking at my posts here in the Forum. As such, I have a lot of "unseeming" relations and I may or may not find it convenient to share the sources of any particular datum that I may post. What you can trust that I won't do is to spread unfounded rumors--or guesses unless I label them as such. ;)

TP,- OK.

Please understand that I do not trust your mouthpiece (in this matter) and I believe that I should question their right to represent you (in this matter).

By the way, do the engineers know why their hardware doesn't support MPEG-1 audio (as their specifications state)?

Thanks.

Ms Clark,- Does the optional digital tuner for the M4100/5100SH include digital cable (QAM) support?

TP,- OK.

Please understand that I do not trust your mouthpiece (in this matter) and I believe that I should question their right to represent you (in this matter).
Thanks.

They why do you address me in you question? Sheesh.

MrReis;

I found your tone a bit harsh. This is a nice community here.

It is not hard to answer the QAM question. Just read the specs or go the TVIX website. It is pretty clear that these tuners will be ATSC only (for the US and other ATSC markets).

MrReis;

This is a nice community here....and in case it's not yet obvious, we don't appreciate personal attacks on our friends. I can say from several years' experiences that Kei does her level best to run a tight ship and keep even the pickiest customers happy. When glitches occur name calling is not a useful remedy.

Hi all,

I have an issue with my M-4000 and hope someone can provide some input. It deals with networking. I have been reading through this thread and seen refernce to "Network Problems" but can't find a difinative answer.

I am ripping dvd's to .iso using DVD shrink. If they are on the internal drive, everything works fine and plays great!

I have tried a several network connections and am having problems. I tried seting up an old PC as a sort of NAS using Netshare to access the PC. I have tried through two different routers (one a Linksys 10/100 and one a D-link 10/100/1000). All of this is a wired connection. I also now have a ReadyNas NV+. This I also connected through both routers. I have even connected straight to the NV+ with a cross over cable, bypassing the router. In ALL situations, I can connect to the NAS, browse the files, and play the .iso files, but in ALL situations, the file will play fine for maybe 60 sec. then start skipping/pausing/jumping/etc, making the video unwatchable. I have tried several different cat5 cables, and I am using NFS.

Is this a similar problem other people are having with "network problems"? Is this a hardware issue that I need to possibly exchange the 4000?

Thanks
Steve

I finally hooked up my 4000p into my system and would like to update the firmware. The unit has no internal disk and the instructions make it sound as if you are copying the latest firmware to the internal disk then opening that file within the units operating system. Is this correct? Can you update firmware without installing an internal hard disk?

Can you update firmware without installing an internal hard disk?Put the updated fw on a USB stick, plug that into the TViX, and open it from there.

TPeterson - Thanks, that's simple enough.

big deal, so they made a mistake. what did you expect... to get a free unit out of them? they apologized 10 times. get over it, you wasted a couple days tops. there are bigger issues around the globe than a website having a 1 day delay in updating inventory!!!





I had a very poor customer experience with Digital Connection over a M-4000P that I ordered from them on Tuesday March 6 (of this year) when their web site showed that the M4000 was IN STOCK. It showed the same thing the next day as well. It turned out it was NOT IN STOCK. Their excuse was that it want out of stock on Tuesday which is the day off of their employee who takes care of orders. Anyway, I cancelled my order with them and told them I would never recomend then to anyone. They had no problem wasting my time waiting for an order that would not ship for weeks.

I then purchansed a M4000 from Datoptic (http://www.datoptic.com/cgi-bin/web.cgi?product=M4000P&detail=yes) and got free shipping as well. More importantly, when they stated they had the product in stock it was IN STOCK.

... Here is my e-mail exchange with digital witch.

Dear MrReis,

Thank you again for your continued effort to resolve the issue.

I understand your complaint that we are at fault for the delay you have experienced in getting the TVIX. I don't disagree in general with every point you have listed below and fully apologize admitting our responsibility, there is absolutely no dispute as to the fact that we made an error. We want nothing more than the opportunity to do right and would have done everything in our power to make it so, unfortunately we were unable to do so as we had absolutely no inventory of the product you ordered.

The problem as you described is is Yukari's problem in that she relayed incorrect message to you when you contacted us. It is indeed her responsibility to update inventory status, albeit she was out the day before and apparently was not caught up yet, but one of her responsiblities are to notify customers of any problems we have with filling orders. I appreciate your defense of her, but I assure you that she was remiss in her responsibility and provided incorrect information to the reason for the delay. That being said, she is very conscientous and regrets the error which has no bearing on whether the website information was incorrect. She does not have a replacement on her days off nor does she have a manager, she has a partner that works hand in hand with her and they seem to have suffered from lack of communication.

We have already acknowedged that there was an error on our store and that we were at fault. We hear your complaint about what we did wrong, but I'm not sure what is it that you expect we can do to make this right considering the only option I can read from your correspondence so far is that we *SHOULD* have shipped your product on time? Again, I apologize to you for the delay and the incorrect information on our website.

Best Regards,
Customer Support
Digital Connection

-----Original Message-----
From: MrReis
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 5:00 PM

Subject: RE: The meaning of "In Stock" on your store's web site (Order # 41466)


K,- I'll try to make this simmple so you understand.

1. On Tuesday (and Wednesday) your web site showed that a product I was interested in was "In Stock."

2. I ordered the product from your store on Tuesday because I trusted that it was in stock.

3. In fact, the product was not in stock on Tuesday ... the information on the web site was incorrect.

4. I wasted my time ordeing an out of stock product from your web site.

5. Had I known your store did not have the product on Tuesday, then I would have tried other stores. -- DatOptic did have it in stock on Tuesday (and still does today).

6. **MY POINT** Had I ordered the product from DatOptic on Tuesday (rather than from Digital Connection) then I would have the product today (not next Monday). The delay is your fault.

Yes, Yukari made a mistake, but her mistake is your responsability. Your responsabilty is to make sure a process is in place that ensures correct product infromation is communicated to your customers by your reports and your web site. Yukari told me that "someone else" runs your web site for you, so misinformation on it is their fault and not hers or yours. -- If you succeed at something do you have the same attitude that it is not because of anyting that you have done and look for someone else to give the credit to?

Is there something that I did wrong when I ordered from you store? Should I have not trusted you web site and called up just to make sure the product was really in stock. Then should I have called again to make sure it was really in stock becuase your stock may have been depleted while I was on the telephone with Yukari's Tuesday replacement?

The comment and step that you did *NOT* make is more important than any comment or step that you did make. I would have much prefered to have *NO* information about the M4000 being in or out of stock rather than *INCORRECT* infomation. Then I would have continued my effort to find what I was looking for either by e-mailing or calling your store or other stores. If you can't keep important information on your web site up to day then perhaps you shouldn't display that information until you find a method that will ensure that it is correct. You stated that the M400 stock was depleted sometime on Tuesday but the web site wasn't updated until Wednesday night (actually it wasn't updated until early Thurdsay morning around the time you read my e-mail). Is two day old information what you concider to be "good enough" for a web based business?

- MrReis


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From: Digital Connection
Subject: RE: The meaning of "In Stock" on your store's web site (Order # 41466)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:43:42 -0800


Dear MrReis,

Glad that DataOptics was able to help you fill your order, we provide some of the product they carry including the TVIX.

I don't know why you got the impression that we felt your order was not important, it certainly is. Even though I realize that Yukari made a mistake and I can reprimand her for it, it still would not have resolve the issue of our being able to come up with a product we no longer had in inventory. She will certainly get a notice of her shortcomings in her position.

We stive to provie the most up to date information available, and we try to provide the kind of service you expect as much as we can. If you feel there was a comment made or a step we did not take to relay our efforts, we're all ears.


Best Regards,
Customer Support
Digital Connection

-----Original Message-----
From: MrReis
To: Digital Connection
Subject: RE: The meaning of "In Stock" on your store's web site (Order # 41466)


K,- My order (# 41446) has been cancelled (and I have received an e-mail to confirm that). Please do not fill my cancelled order.

I contacted DataOptic this morning and ordered a M4000P (they had 10 units in stock) as well as a FusionHD5 USB (also in stock) with free two-day shipping. I will recieve my order on Monday. If I had ordered these items from DataOptic on Tuseday rather than from Digial Connection, then I would have them in my position today. I used the incorrect information posted on your web site which you apparently don't think is importatnt to keep up to date to make my purchase decision. You don't even think it's important to inform your sales agent (Yukari) about what's in stock and what is not. That isn't her failure, it's her manager's failure.

If your business is so great that you afford to treat your customers the way you treated me, then good for you. You can be sure that if anyone ever askes me for a recomendation of who to buy a M4000P from I will not recomend Digial Connection.

- MrReis


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From: Digital Connection
To: MrReis
Subject: RE: The meaning of "In Stock" on your store's web site (Order # 41466)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 13:47:57 -0800

Dear MrReis,

First, my apologies for the inability to process your order, apparently we were right at the end of the inventory when the problem occured with your order. We listed the new ETA on our store site (the front page was corrected last night) on Tuesday as soon as it became apparent that we would not have enough stock that day to process all orders. I'm not sure what transpired between the time you spoke with Yukari to when she became aware that we were out of stock on the item, it appears to me that she was not aware of the situation as she does not work on Tuesdays (the day we ran out of stock). Unfortunately, we are working to get inventory in as quickly as possible, but having some difficulty with getting a definite shipping date for our next order. If we had any inventory left to process your order, we would do so as an priority but I don't have that option at the moment. We did not charge your card and will do our best to get your order processed, but you may want to check with TVIXUSA just in case they have stock of the M4000P.

Best Regards,
Customer Support
Digital Connection

-----Original Message-----
From: MrReis
To: Ditital Connection
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:37 PM

Subject: The meaning of "In Stock" on your store's web site (Order # 41466)


Ms Clark,- I was referred to you by Yukari in either you customer service or sales department.

I placed an order (#41466) for a M-4000P Media Player with a 250 GB hard drive yesterday via your store web site. Your web site's home page clearly showed (AND STILL SHOWS) in RED that the player is "In Stock." I placed my order based on the information. I called your sales department at 1-800-327-8049 as invited to by the order confirmation e-mail I received from your store because at 4:50 PM my order was still "Pending." I was connected to Yukari who stated that my order was "Pending" because the hard drive that I had ordered to be installed on the player was out of stock. I told Yukari to forget the hard drive and just ship the player. She said she would do that and send it via two day to make-up for the delay for the out of stock hard drive. I thanked her for that. 15 minutes later Yukari called be to tell me that the M-4000P player is out of stock and would not be in stock until March 27. When I reminder her that you web site shows that it is "In Stock" she said that some "other company" takes care of the web site. I guess she told me that because she thought I would understand that the incorrect information is not your responsibility. I very much know that it is your responsibility. You web site's home page still indicates that the player is "In Stock" (in red).

This has been one of my worst customer experiences that I have ever had. If I was your manager I think that I should be copied on this e-mail.

- MrReis

big deal, so they made a mistake. what did you expect... to get a free unit out of them? they apologized 10 times. get over it, you wasted a couple days tops. there are bigger issues around the globe than a website having a 1 day delay in updating inventory!!!

AA,- That's easy for you to say. I hope you have the same "Don't think twice, it's all right" attitude every time someone wastes your tiime.

Yeah, get over it cause it is what it is and they cannot do much for you now.
Please stop cluttering up this thread with rantings about not getting what you wanted. Cancel you order and go elsewhere. Sh*t happens. We all have ordered something and something happened where the order got screwed up. For gods sake, stop being a baby and move on.

Thank You

And by the way, I also ordered a 4000 from dc about the same time you did, selected expedited shipping so that I'd have it for the weekend, and later found out they were out of stock. I cancelled the order and will wait for the 4000SA+410 to come out hopefully this/next month.

Boo hoo. What, did you expect them to overnight a unit from Korea to your address?
Not much they can do about it other than apologize.

The following is DViCO's response about why the M4000 can not play HDV files (HDV video from a Sony HDV camcorder captured with Sony Vagas softeware).

Basicly they are telling me that I should get over it and move on. I bought their product exactly because I wanted to play HDV captures. My captuers are not "out of spec," DVICO's product does not meet their own specifications. They are the ones who state that the M4000 will play HDV video, and when it cann't they say that my file is "out of spec" without even seeing the file. And by the way, they have other projects that prevent them from fixing the problems of their current products.

I hope you all buy the new product and find out that it doesn't work as advertized. It will kind of work, but not very well. And by the way, don't every complain about it, because this is a feel good forum.

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Hello David,

I am sorry about this. However, TVIX can play other regular files in same format without problem, it looks like the forat is out of spec. I know you can play files in your PC, but this is because lots of PC players can handle files not in spec. Also, currently, our engineers are working on other project including Tuner option and the next model. I don't think this will be looked by by engineers before these projectes are finished. Eventhough they check this probem, I am not sure it will be fixed or not.

Regards,
Eric

"They are the ones who state that the M4000 will play HDV video, and when it cann't they say that my file is "out of spec" without even seeing the file."
True, they should step up to the plate and "fix" the firmware to support HDV files as advertised on the webpage.

I am planning on buying one of these so I can access DiVX and unprotected MP3s w/o having my HTPC on all the time.

Looking at pictures of the 4000 and 4100 units, I see both type of USB connectors, one to hook up to the PC, the others to hookup external drives.

I have three questions:

1) My HTPC is close to where I am planning on keeping the streamer, can I keep it connected to my HTPC to assist loading new content? (In other words, can it still stream while connected to the HTPC via USB.)

2) I have a lot of content spread across 4 external USB drives. Can I hook up all 4 drives to the 4000 (or 4100) device via USB hub, or am I limited to two drives directly connected to the streamer?

3) Is it possible to specify the media type when connecting to network shares? In particular, I want to be able to specify pictures from one share, and audio from another. This way my album art does not get mixed into my photos. (I don't think it would be implemented, but same question for USB devices.)

-- Side note: The Tivo Desktop software allows me to specify the data type when sharing media, so it really is an implementation question.

Thanks in advance for your time and input.

I am planning on buying one of these so I can access DiVX and unprotected MP3s w/o having my HTPC on all the time.

I have three questions:

1) My HTPC is close to where I am planning on keeping the streamer, can I keep it connected to my HTPC to assist loading new content? (In other words, can it still stream while connected to the HTPC via USB.) Nope, when the USB port is active the M4000 is ONLY a USB drive (this is in the user manual).

2) I have a lot of content spread across 4 external USB drives. Can I hook up all 4 drives to the 4000 (or 4100) device via USB hub, or am I limited to two drives directly connected to the streamer? Again Nope. The M4000 does not detect USB hubs (I asked DViCO this same question).


-dr

Thanks for your reply.

I can understand there may be problems enumerating drives behind a hub, but given that challenge, I would think that they would spend a few dollars and add in the additional USB ports. (At least 4 ports, more preferred. ;))

As a side note, this is not unique to the Tivx streamers; the NetGear EVA8000 will not drives behind a hub - and won't see external drives with embedded hubs.

I know that I can swap out disks depending on what I plan on viewing, but my goal is to have everything at hand w/o running my computer 7/24. Hard drives in enclosures are much cheaper than a NAS solution, and in this case, the only place I need to access the data is via a streamer to my entertainment center.

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I'll duplicate this post in the feature request forum. The additional USB ports would be a strong factor in my purchase decision.

---cutting here, to save space--- sry ;)

2) I have a lot of content spread across 4 external USB drives. Can I hook up all 4 drives to the 4000 (or 4100) device via USB hub, or am I limited to two drives directly connected to the streamer?

3) Is it possible to specify the media type when connecting to network shares? In particular, I want to be able to specify pictures from one share, and audio from another. This way my album art does not get mixed into my photos. (I don't think it would be implemented, but same question for USB devices.)

Thanks in advance for your time and input.

I do think the 4100 could be able to supprt 4 drives, but not entirely sure (check the 4100/5100 thread or ask DVICO). The 4000 do not support 4 drives.

I do not think it is possible to specify media type when using network shares. At least I have never experienced it. What you could do is to use SFU or another NFS server and set up a share for each media type. When done, you can easily change between shares on the remote (button 1 thru 4). 1 for audio, 2 for pictures, 3 for movies etc...

M.

After many tries with AutoGK, I now have subtitles. Why does AutoGK need WinRAR. If I do not extract the sub file the M4000 locks up? Also can you stop the M4000 from always displaying subtitles at the start of play?

After realizing that the 4100 series wouldnt be out for a month or so, I deceided to order the 4000P as my needs call for something now, and not later.

So I found a place that had them in stock and ordered it.
I called today to do a follow up and was told that I was being shipped a 4000PA.

I looked at the tvix site, and besides having a tuner slot for future add-on, I dont see any differences.

Just wanted to ask the experts here if maybe you know something I dont know.

Is the 4000PA just as good or better or worse then the 4000P?

Thanks!

Rob

After realizing that the 4100 series wouldnt be out for a month or so, I deceided to order the 4000P as my needs call for something now, and not later.

So I found a place that had them in stock and ordered it.
I called today to do a follow up and was told that I was being shipped a 4000PA.

I looked at the tvix site, and besides having a tuner slot for future add-on, I dont see any differences.

Just wanted to ask the experts here if maybe you know something I dont know.

Is the 4000PA just as good or better or worse then the 4000P?

Thanks!

Rob

You might just be lucky... it could be the same HW, but with possibility to add a tuner in the future.
Send them (dvico) an email and ask them, I would think its the same HW/features/etc.

M.

After realizing that the 4100 series wouldnt be out for a month or so, I deceided to order the 4000P as my needs call for something now, and not later.

So I found a place that had them in stock and ordered it.
I called today to do a follow up and was told that I was being shipped a 4000PA.

I looked at the tvix site, and besides having a tuner slot for future add-on, I dont see any differences.

Just wanted to ask the experts here if maybe you know something I dont know.

Is the 4000PA just as good or better or worse then the 4000P?

Thanks!

Rob
Sweet, found some info on it:
http://www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/products/HDM4000.aspx

Has a pic of where the tuner goes in. It is really cool how it goes into the back. One thing I found very interesting is they said that the 4000 would not have PVR functionality and you would have to go to the 5000 but this web site says the 4000 does have PVR functionality. I am getting very excited about getting this prodcut.

Well... I dont know.

I dont see much talk about in this forum or any others.

I asked Divco the question about differences. So we'll see.

UPS should have it at my house tomorrow, so only time will tell.

I just hope it does everything I want it to do.
Or maybe its just a 4000P and the guy I spoke with was mistaken.


Rob

Well... I dont know.

I dont see much talk about in this forum or any others.

I asked Divco the question about differences. So we'll see.

UPS should have it at my house tomorrow, so only time will tell.

I just hope it does everything I want it to do.
Or maybe its just a 4000P and the guy I spoke with was mistaken.


Rob
Yo homes, did you not see the link I put up. Go to that link and it has links for both the 4000p and the 4000 pa with pics. You can clearly see that 4000pa has a slot to plug in the tuner and the 4000p is missing this spot. And that is the differance. Check it out!!! It is so cool!!!! I want one!!!! Now!!!!

4000 PA/SA Link:
http://www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/products/HDM4000.aspx

4000 P Link:
http://www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/products/HDM4000P.aspx

4000 PA/SA back pic:
http://www.tvix.co.kr/ENG/img/t430_m2.jpg

4000 P back pic:
http://www.tvix.co.kr/eng/img/rear-AV-illust.gif

As you can see from the pics a over the air HD Tuner spot has been added above the fan. DVI, USB connector, Coaxial, Optical S-Video connectors have all been moved from where they were on the 4000p. I would say they are very different boxes but in a good way. I think that add on tuner is huge!!!

Another thing I noticed between the two ad's is the 4000 pa/sa talks about an Optional Wireless LAN extension thru USB port. NICE!!!! Very NICE!!!!

Be glad you got the 4000pa over the 4000p.

You homes, did you not see the link I put up. Go to that link and it has links for both the 4000p and the 4000 pa with pics. You can clearly see that 4000pa has a slot to plug in the tuner and the 4000p is missing this spot. And that is the differance. Check it out!!! It is so cool!!!! I want one!!!! Now!!!!

4000 PA/SA Link:
http://www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/products/HDM4000.aspx

4000 P Link:
http://www.tvix.co.kr/Eng/products/HDM4000P.aspx

4000 PA/SA back pic:
http://www.tvix.co.kr/ENG/img/t430_m2.jpg

4000 P back pic:
http://www.tvix.co.kr/eng/img/rear-AV-illust.gif

As you can see from the pics a over the air HD Tuner spot has been added above the fan. DVI, USB connector, Coaxial, Optical S-Video connectors have all been moved from where they were on the 4000p. I would say they are very different boxes but in a good way. I think that add on tuner is huge!!!


I did indeed see your post and your link. The link just takes me to where I have admitted being before.
However, in MY post, I guess you did not see where I stated that I did not see much TALK about the 4000PM model. Perhaps my words have mislead you in some way.
To be more on the clear side, I was referring to the lack of discussion from actual users of the 4000PA model, as a forum search does not bring up any info.

I have seen the pics, and I have noticed the mention of the optional tuner.

However, my discussion is based on the internals and operations of the unit compared to the 4000P unit. My hopes as mentioned in my above posts are that they are the same.

I hope this clears up any confussion you may have.

Thanks
Rob

They have got to be the same internals and operations of the 4000p. They are not going to re-write a new firmware for this box and buy new components. That would be crazy for time, money, construction and testing. This box must have the same firmware as the 5000U and 4000P. I the only differance should be more functionality, not less.

I would also assume that the 4000p's would gain the wireless lan abilty with the newer firmware also, as the the only change between the two is the the added spot on the 4000pa to put in the HD Tuner. Other than that, the components should be exactly the same.

I would not worry about losing anything, they are only going to add stuff. Like wireless LAN and HD Tuner. So if the 4000P did everything you wanted, than the 4000PA will do everything you wanted too, and more. :)

And you are not going to see anything on the 4000PA as it just barely came out.

And you are not going to see anything on the 4000PA as it just barely came out.



I was wondering that same thing, I didnt see a release date on it, so I wasnt sure how long this unit has been around.

Thanks
Rob

I Just purchased a 4000p today as an upgrade to a tVisto. Some issues, but overall it works great, except I CANNOT Figure out how to change the audio language track on ISO files. Subtitles works great, but I can't change to Audio languages for the life of me.

My kids are bilingual, so I purchase every Disney movie in Chinese and rip them to ISO so they don't destroy them. They watch only Language 2 on the ISOs (Chinese) but I can't figure out what button to push to switch audio tracks? Can it be done?

Please Help!

Thom

Thom--

I find that pressing the MENU button gives access to the Languages submenu and then you can resume play where you were upon pressing MENU.

Does this thing remember where you are at. Say I am watching a show and half way thru I need to go somewhere. I stop it and my kids come in and watch a new show. Then a couple days later I come back and start watching my show, will it start back up at the same spot? My iPod does, so I would think this will too and this is a bigger, more powerful machine. At least I would hope it would but does anyone know? Thanks.

Does this thing remember where you are at. Say I am watching a show and half way thru I need to go somewhere. I stop it and my kids come in and watch a new show. Then a couple days later I come back and start watching my show, will it start back up at the same spot? My iPod does, so I would think this will too and this is a bigger, more powerful machine. At least I would hope it would but does anyone know? Thanks.

Well, you can use "bookmark". The tvix will remember the last 8 movies you stopped. When you press the bookmark button you can choose which one, and start off from you stopped the last time.

M.

Well, you can use "bookmark". The tvix will remember the last 8 movies you stopped. When you press the bookmark button you can choose which one, and start off from you stopped the last time.

M.

So far, this "feature" is one of the things that drives me crazy. Say, I am watching an ISO movie. Then stop. Then go into another movie, it starts the movie in the middle (about the same distance into the movie that I stopped the one before)--even though I didn't ever play it?

Does anyone know if there is something I'm doing wrong? I am using the latest firmware update--maybe that is my problem!

Thom--

I find that pressing the MENU button gives access to the Languages submenu and then you can resume play where you were upon pressing MENU.

Thanks, but it wouldn't work for me as I've removed all menus with Shrink. Figured it out, though, too easy. When you are playing a movie the audio button on the top is repurposed for setting the audio track in the iso. This works.

I am using the latest firmware and after bouncing around to a few ISO's, it now can't run any iso until I turn it off and back on again. Sometime two or three movies, each time there is nothing I can do until I reboot.

This, combined with the bug described above where it seems to remember where I was in the iso and starts any ISO at that point, is almost enough to have me return it.

Any ideas?

When you are playing a movie the audio button on the top is repurposed for setting the audio track in the iso.Thanks, I didn't know that.

I see what you mean about the bookmarking and ISO files. The only solution seems to be not to press bookmark while playing an ISO unless you intend to come back to the same one before turning the TViX off again. It does work with TP files, however.

I didn't know about the audio button either... goodie...

I'm not totally following you wrt ISO and bookmarks (no need to explain though).
As far as I know when playing an ISO file and stop it, it will return to the same time if you start it again, UNLESS you have started another ISO or IFO/VOB file in the meantime.
If you do stop it and want to play something else I would assume it will be stored in the bookmarks as any other movie. Note that I never press the bookmark button unless I want to start a specific bookmark. The tvix will store a bookmark everytime you stop a movie.

Latest firmware is 2.1.0, while latest beta firmware is 2.1.5_a5. I'm running latest beta, but haven't seen any noticable changes.

Note that I never press the bookmark button unless I want to start a specific bookmark. The tvix will store a bookmark everytime you stop a movie.


perhaps this is an RTFM question, but can those bookmarks be deleted at a later time or they follow an auto-rotate pattern i.e. will have a preset limit (e.g. 8) after which the first bookmark will be overwritten with the newer one, and so on?

I am using the latest firmware and after bouncing around to a few ISO's, it now can't run any iso until I turn it off and back on again. Sometime two or three movies, each time there is nothing I can do until I reboot.

This, combined with the bug described above where it seems to remember where I was in the iso and starts any ISO at that point, is almost enough to have me return it.

Any ideas?
Yes, this has been discussed before. Can't remember if it even was in this forum... However there was a bug concerning ISO bookmarks which supposedly is solved in latest firmware. From 2.1.0 release notes can be read:
ix. Fixed DVD bookmark problem.
a. Changed the way store DVD bookmark

Try and upgrade to 2.1.0. If you are already running it, well, I guess the bug wasn't properly solved.... :p
/J

I've read most posts here wondering a few things that I haven't seen mentioned.

first off had it for about 3 days and love it so far. not saying too much I know.

1.) Can you change AUDIO tracks while playing a DVD (file/folder structure or ISO) with a remote button? I can't find one?

2.) Has anyone had trouble when PHOTO slideshows don't show ALL the .jpg (s) in the folder? Mine are all named/numbered from my camera's mem-card., they start out fine, and after about 10 or so(guessing) it starts from the beginning again??

3.) I've noticed I can use a SAMBA connection to my PCs and NAS and play DVDs from a folder/file structure, but if I use ISO files they stutter... just ME?

4.) Has anyone tried or successfully used NetShare with Vista Ultimate? I can't seem to get it to work. (even turning FW off)


Thanks in advancve for any replies...

perhaps this is an RTFM question, but can those bookmarks be deleted at a later time or they follow an auto-rotate pattern i.e. will have a preset limit (e.g. 8) after which the first bookmark will be overwritten with the newer one, and so on?

As far as I know it is auto-rotate. After 8, it will overwrite the oldest bookmark.
I do not think you can delete them. But it could be something we might ask DVICO to implement maybe?

1.) Can you change AUDIO tracks while playing a DVD (file/folder structure or ISO) with a remote button? I can't find one?
2.) Has anyone had trouble when PHOTO slideshows don't show ALL the .jpg (s) in the folder? Mine are all named/numbered from my camera's mem-card., they start out fine, and after about 10 or so(guessing) it starts from the beginning again??
3.) I've noticed I can use a SAMBA connection to my PCs and NAS and play DVDs from a folder/file structure, but if I use ISO files they stutter... just ME?
4.) Has anyone tried or successfully used NetShare with Vista Ultimate? I can't seem to get it to work. (even turning FW off)


1. You might try using the "Audio" button (on the top) (haven't tried it myself yet)

2. Can't say I have, sound weird. If it was a bug, more users would have reported it.

3. SAMBA/CIFS is not the optimum transport for the tvix. Have you tried NFS? Much better! But it is weird that it's stutter only on .ISOs. Try using NFS from your NAS also.

4. Do not have Vista so I haven't tried. I have read that Allegro NFS server shall work with Vista so try it out (30 days trial) ($65 if you buy it). Just make sure that Netshare is not started, i.e. two NFS servers is not good... one at a time ;)

I've read most posts here wondering a few things that I haven't seen mentioned.

first off had it for about 3 days and love it so far. not saying too much I know.

1.) Can you change AUDIO tracks while playing a DVD (file/folder structure or ISO) with a remote button? I can't find one?

2.) Has anyone had trouble when PHOTO slideshows don't show ALL the .jpg (s) in the folder? Mine are all named/numbered from my camera's mem-card., they start out fine, and after about 10 or so(guessing) it starts from the beginning again??

3.) I've noticed I can use a SAMBA connection to my PCs and NAS and play DVDs from a folder/file structure, but if I use ISO files they stutter... just ME?

4.) Has anyone tried or successfully used NetShare with Vista Ultimate? I can't seem to get it to work. (even turning FW off)


Thanks in advancve for any replies...
1. Yes. You can press the...*drum roll*... Audio button! :D

2. Yes. If the pictures are too large. I have also noticed that sometimes some photos get their permissions changed. I'm susptecting some buggy imaging software I use, but haven't investigated further....

3. Generally Dvico mentions that NFS has better performance than Samba. Have you searched the 5000 thread? But that it should be different with directory structure than ISO files sounds new...

4. - (no clue)

/J

how are these things with regards to playing music without being connected to a display.. it has a reasonable sized LCD, sadly with a low resolution... how functional is this to let you pick albums to start playing and just play them. I like that it supports flac, and also that its capable of having big hdds in it (how big exactly? does it go up to 750gig, with the potential of doing 1TB with the new hitachi drive for example?

If this isn't particularly good at this task and anyone knows of a similar product more audio centric but still cheap, small, and 3.5" hdd based (with flac) i'd love to know.

Beyond this it does look like a nice box, for usage under the tv. There are limits to the divx/xvid profiles this device supports isn't there? are most files you come across and make not going to work on it, or is it more likely most will work fine.

I'm interested at the long time potential of a box that could do AVC/h264 files.. could they really get it to do 1080p in those formats, something my PC can't even manage at the moment.

how are these things with regards to playing music without being connected to a display.. it has a reasonable sized LCD, sadly with a low resolution... how functional is this to let you pick albums to start playing and just play them. I like that it supports flac, and also that its capable of having big hdds in it (how big exactly? does it go up to 750gig, with the potential of doing 1TB with the new hitachi drive for example?

If this isn't particularly good at this task and anyone knows of a similar product more audio centric but still cheap, small, and 3.5" hdd based (with flac) i'd love to know.

Beyond this it does look like a nice box, for usage under the tv. There are limits to the divx/xvid profiles this device supports isn't there? are most files you come across and make not going to work on it, or is it more likely most will work fine.

I'm interested at the long time potential of a box that could do AVC/h264 files.. could they really get it to do 1080p in those formats, something my PC can't even manage at the moment.

The display on the tvix can be used without a screen, but it is a bit cumbersome.

Size of HDD? Not sure how big they do support, but 750 should be doable. You might ask DVICO directly on their support page.

There are some limits on playback of Divx/Xvid, but I have come across only one file so far in which I had to re-encode it. One...
I think QPel and those are not supported.

If you are into H264 you should look at either LinkSys DP-1600 or the new 4100/5100 models from tvix.

I know H264 is another matter, but the LinkSys can do those up to 20Mbps (maybe more) (this has been tested: http://www.mpcclub.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum)

Sry for not being able to help you more.

M.

1. Yes. You can press the...*drum roll*... Audio button! :D

2. Yes. If the pictures are too large. I have also noticed that sometimes some photos get their permissions changed. I'm susptecting some buggy imaging software I use, but haven't investigated further....

3. Generally Dvico mentions that NFS has better performance than Samba. Have you searched the 5000 thread? But that it should be different with directory structure than ISO files sounds new...

4. - (no clue)

/J
I thought I tried that ... actually the first one I did try. I was getting the Director's cut track upon startup of the movie. I noticed that from time to time when I use DVD Shrink to just extract the MOVIE. I will try again. ???

I know about NFS vs SAMBA it was more a ? on the file/folders vs ISO

The PHOTO thing bothers me, I'll do some more tests to see if I can narrow it down.

1080 has been tough. Tried downloading 720 Divx and 1080 divix. the 720 worked fine and the 1080 stuttered and died. These were 1080 trailers on the divx website.

Sort of bummed. Also, haven't been able to get 1080 Quicktime footage working from iMovie. Tried several export methods--has anyone been successful?

One other big bug which is driving me crazy is bouncing in and out of ISO's --showing if off, of course :) eventually, after 3-4 times. it crashes and can't run any more without rebooting. Anyone else have trouble with this?

I am creating external subtitles with AutoGK. Is there any way to stop the M4000 from always showing subtitles at the start of play?

If the remote is misplaced or not working it seems subtitles can not be turned off. This would require mounting the M4000 hard drive on a computer and deleting or moving the subtitle files to stop them being always shown. Right?

Also AutoGK requires the sub file to be compressed with WinRAR. If I do not extract the sub file the M4000 locks up requiring a reboot. Is this normal?

Tried downloading 720 Divx and 1080 divix. the 720 worked fine and the 1080 stuttered and died....Also, haven't been able to get 1080 Quicktime footage working from iMovie.

One other big bug which is driving me crazy is bouncing in and out of ISO'sI think that the problem with ISO files has to do with the strange and invisible auto-bookmarking. Presumably this will get fixed in later firmware, but for now I would plan on not trying to watch more than a few before restarting the box.

How were you trying to play the Dvix files? From the internal HDD or over a (wired?) LAN connection?

ftp://ftp.dvico.com/Manual/TViX/wireless_network2.pdf

DIVCO released a new version of their "Using the Wireless Network" document on April 11, 2007 (yesterday!). There is only one single difference between the new version and the previous version -- the Belkin F5D7050 device is not included in their "list of compatible wireless devices." So on Tuesday I had a device the M4000 supported and today I do not.

I was wondering why I could not access a network drive from the M4000. What a waste of my time. What a bunch of bungling amateurs at DVICO.

1080 has been tough. Tried downloading 720 Divx and 1080 divix. the 720 worked fine and the 1080 stuttered and died. These were 1080 trailers on the divx website.

Sort of bummed. Also, haven't been able to get 1080 Quicktime footage working from iMovie. Tried several export methods--has anyone been successful?

One other big bug which is driving me crazy is bouncing in and out of ISO's --showing if off, of course :) eventually, after 3-4 times. it crashes and can't run any more without rebooting. Anyone else have trouble with this?

This is weird. I'm playing ISO (and .IFOs) all the time and lately have had no problems. (although I seldom play more than one pr. reboot, only when testing I try a few, and I might have came across your problem)
Same goes with 720p/1080i/1080p files. All good. I tried a few 25Mbps 1080p files and they are all good. This was .TS files though. But Xvid/Divx 1080p (haven't checked bitrate yet) played fine.
Are these files locally on the HDD or using LAN. If LAN is used do you use Samba/CIFS or NFS?

I am creating external subtitles with AutoGK. Is there any way to stop the M4000 from always showing subtitles at the start of play?

If the remote is misplaced or not working it seems subtitles can not be turned off. This would require mounting the M4000 hard drive on a computer and deleting or moving the subtitle files to stop them being always shown. Right?

Also AutoGK requires the sub file to be compressed with WinRAR. If I do not extract the sub file the M4000 locks up requiring a reboot. Is this normal?

I think you are right with your assumptions.
If you do not want to use subtitles (and you have misplaced your remote...) the only way to disable subtitle would be to remove them from the directory the movie is in, or rename it.

subtitles as .idx and .rar is no good. Need to reboot the unit as it locks up. You either has to unpack them or remove/disable them.

Thats my experience at least.

"Size of HDD? Not sure how big they do support, but 750 should be doable. You might ask DVICO directly on their support page."

I have a Seagate 750 in my most recently purchased 5000 without any problems.

This is weird. I tried a few 25Mbps 1080p files and they are all good. This was .TS files though. But Xvid/Divx 1080p (haven't checked bitrate yet) played fine.
Are these files locally on the HDD or using LAN. If LAN is used do you use Samba/CIFS or NFS?

No, they were located on the hard drive (haven't gotten the network working yet)

What I did was went to Stage 6 in the Divx website (I would paste a link, but it doesn't let me) and looked for a 1080 video trailer. I downloaded the IMax deep sea movie trailer. Maybe it was just my samples? Where do you get .TS files?

Does anyone have a recommendation of a relatively NAS that supports gigabit as well as a network protocall that will work properly running ISO's with the 4000? I find NAS's but they don't list the protocols they support.

Since I prefer ISOs for playback (multi-language, chaptering) I need gigabit because copying 6 gig files over 100mbit is just toooo slow.

When is someone going to invent a divx type extreme compression that supports retaining of full chapters and language tracks (not just subtitles)?

Recently, my tvix m4000 will not play back any content i record from NBC (using my fusion 5 lite). These files play back fine on my computer. I tried running them through VideoRedo - now the m4000 will play the video, but still no audio.

This is very strange. These are the first files that the M4000 has choked on.
I'm running the latest beta firmware, so I am going to revert back to the released version and try again, but was wondering if anyone else has had this problem?
Thanks,
Jeff

UPDATE: I just downgraded my firmware to the released version and tried these files again. No luck. I re-ran VideoRedo and output .ts files - these work. Go figure.

DCypher--

Is yours the Boston NBC station? They recently acknowledged having a problem with their encoder setup. If you're having the problem with brand-new recordings, I suggest that you contact the station to let them know that they're not yet out of the woods.

Does anyone have a recommendation of a relatively NAS that supports gigabit as well as a network protocall that will work properly running ISO's with the 4000? I find NAS's but they don't list the protocols they support.

Since I prefer ISOs for playback (multi-language, chaptering) I need gigabit because copying 6 gig files over 100mbit is just toooo slow.

When is someone going to invent a divx type extreme compression that supports retaining of full chapters and language tracks (not just subtitles)?

Infrant ReadyNas (http://infrant.com/) is one that will work excellent with the Tvix. Support both NFS and Samba/CIFS as well as GbLan. A bit pricey, but hell of a NAS. Many here are using them.

Look primarily for NFS when you look for NAS boxes, UPNP could also be nice in the future if you end up switching Streaming unit.

No, they were located on the hard drive (haven't gotten the network working yet)

What I did was went to Stage 6 in the Divx website (I would paste a link, but it doesn't let me) and looked for a 1080 video trailer. I downloaded the IMax deep sea movie trailer. Maybe it was just my samples? Where do you get .TS files?

I downloaded a few of these (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx) before and they play back fine also.
Try them out...

DCypher--

Is yours the Boston NBC station? They recently acknowledged having a problem with their encoder setup. If you're having the problem with brand-new recordings, I suggest that you contact the station to let them know that they're not yet out of the woods.

Ahhh... thanks.
Yes, it's boston, NBC

My older recordings work fine, but not the newer ones. In the meantime, i'm using videoRedo and was able to rewrite them (without commercials) to .ts files (and figured out how to make mpg work too by re-writing the audio stream).

Who do i contact to let them know about the issue?

Thanks!

Look on website for email address of customer services.

One thing that I really miss on the TVIX units is AUTO PAL/NTSC in DVD playback. Also, I hope they add an option to change the video from 1080i to 720p to 480p (etc.) depending on source material - i.e., video output on "AUTO"

Does anyone have any good replacements for the default Tvix wallpaper?

Also, does anyone know how to change the wallpaper that is shown when the unit first boots up? I know I can put tvix.jpg in the root but this doesn't change the background for the initial screen.

Thanks.

Does anyone have any good replacements for the default Tvix wallpaper?

Also, does anyone know how to change the wallpaper that is shown when the unit first boots up? I know I can put tvix.jpg in the root but this doesn't change the background for the initial screen.

Thanks.

Hi Johnny,

If you mean the wallpaper for when you hit the MOVIE folder, have you tried this program ? http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=801719 It's a nice way of changing things in the poor UI in TViX. Regarding the Initial screen I do not think it is possible ? Correct me someone if I'm wrong :p

Has anyone be able to rip and pay an DVD-HD content to their TViX ?

I can ripp the files but need an file conversion or player encoder to play ..?

(to RIP I use ANYDVD-HD does this task)

Hi Johnny,

If you mean the wallpaper for when you hit the MOVIE folder, have you tried this program ? http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=801719 It's a nice way of changing things in the poor UI in TViX. Regarding the Initial screen I do not think it is possible ? Correct me someone if I'm wrong :p

Thanks for the link. Yes, the UI is very poor. I was referring to the initial screen. I will check with Tvix and see what they say.

Has anyone be able to rip and pay an DVD-HD content to their TViX ?

I can ripp the files but need an file conversion or player encoder to play ..?

(to RIP I use ANYDVD-HD does this task)

I don't think the Tvix will play the evo files but I can't say for sure since I haven't tried it. I have been able to demux evo files into elementary streams and have the Tvix M-4000U play them. But this only works for those that use MPEG2 compression. If they use H264/AVC compression, the Tvix M-4000U won't play them. Maybe the upcoming M-4100SH/M-5100SH will be able to handle those with H264/AVC compression but we won't know for sure until late April/early May when those new units get released.

I recently asked Tvix how to do single frame advance on the M-4000U and they said to hit pause and then press the down arrow. Sure enough this does work and doesn't seem to be documented in the manual. The bad news is that it doesn't work with ISOs. I requested that Tvix add this feature for ISOs and they said they would add it to their "wish list." I'm not getting my hopes up but have any of you had your "wish list" features added to the firmware?

folks, if i am playing a .divx, .avi, .mpeg etc, and i press info, i get information such as resolution (e.g. 624*358), file type (.avi) etc on m4000. However, while playing .iso, the resolution information is not displayed (everything else is). Is this normal?

folks, if i am playing a .divx, .avi, .mpeg etc, and i press info, i get information such as resolution (e.g. 624*358), file type (.avi) etc on m4000. However, while playing .iso, the resolution information is not displayed (everything else is). Is this normal?
Uuuuh...sigh.... yes this is unfortunately "normal".
I've had many long mail conversations with Dvico regarding this :mad: :mad: :mad:

In early releases the video info was wrong. They stated that they improved it but it was still wrong, and then finally they removed it!
They also haven't implemented NTSC/PAL autoswitch for DVDs ISOs by some strange reason...

Please send them a mail so they see that more people are unsatisfied with this feature.
Good luck!
/J

They also haven't implemented NTSC/PAL autoswitch for DVDs ISOs by some strange reason...


Can you explain this some more? If I have "TV Standard" set to NTSC and "NTSC/PAL Auto Switch" set to Auto, what gets outputted when I play a PAL DVD ISO? Thanks.

Can you explain this some more? If I have "TV Standard" set to NTSC and "NTSC/PAL Auto Switch" set to Auto, what gets outputted when I play a PAL DVD ISO? Thanks.
NTSC, since they haven't implemented autoswitch for DVD....
But if you play an AVI, mpeg or other video file in "PAL" it will switch to PAL, and back to NTSC when you press Stop.

/J

Uuuuh...sigh.... yes this is unfortunately "normal".
I've had many long mail conversations with Dvico regarding this :mad: :mad: :mad:

In early releases the video info was wrong. They stated that they improved it but it was still wrong, and then finally they removed it!
They also haven't implemented NTSC/PAL autoswitch for DVDs ISOs by some strange reason...

Please send them a mail so they see that more people are unsatisfied with this feature.
Good luck!
/J

it is indeed frustrating behaviour since all my DVD collection is .iso based. I have submitted a question via Dvico's MyQ&A website. Jofa, Is there any other way to let them know this issue?

calvin--

That is an excellent way to let them know of your interests because it communicates with the engineers in charge of product development.

Yes, that is what I mean with "mail converstion". You write in My Q&A, and receives emails....

I'm curious to see if they will do anything at all with the 4000/5000 firmware now that they have new products...

/J

I think (and by think i actually mean aimlessly speculate) that they will may use the existing m4000/5000 firmware as base for 4100/5100 (even though the base chipset will be different). They cannot afford to loose all the work they've done to point to stabalize firmware.

I currently have my Tvix connected to a DLink DIR-635 Router via a hub. As long as the server and the hub are plugged into the router, everything works fine, if I plug the server into a different hub (or if there is more than one hub in the system between the Tvix and the server) then I can't stream anything and connection is bad. Everything was good until I decided to upgrade to a Gigabit router (DLink Dir 655). Now it doesn't matter where anything is plugged in, I can't stream video, music or pictures. Anybody know any tricks? I am temporarily using the old setup because it works.

Thanks

Dave

Hi, my name is Paul Valente. I work at TVIX Box and we sell the M-4000 units.

About your networking issue, can you tell us anything else about your network?

Are you using DHCP or static addresses? If DHCP, which machine is the DHCP server in both setups?

Anything else you can tell about the network setup will help.

Thanks,
Paul Valente
TVIX Box

Just a quick question here:

We have the new firmware for the 4000/5000 on our website for download (2.1.0). We also have the latest Netshare 1.08.

These came out a little while ago. The firmware has some improvements to the wireless networking ability of the player via a USB wireless LAN adapter.

Anyone have any feedback on the new firmware?

Especially wireless users . . . . if you have any info we'd love to hear it.

Thanks,
Paul
TVIX Box

The server has a static IP address, and the Tvix is DHCP using the DHCP server in the router. All conectons are wired Cat 5e.

I am using the Tvix netshare software for streaming.

Not much else to say.

Dave

I am assuming it is all on one subnet and that the TVIX is picking up an IP okay . . .

Are you able to ping the TVIX IP?

it is indeed frustrating behaviour since all my DVD collection is .iso based. I have submitted a question via Dvico's MyQ&A website. Jofa, Is there any other way to let them know this issue?

I submitted the bug too at MyQ&A website. I looked at the “Dvico TViX HD M-5000 Feature Request/Bug List” thread here at the forum and it seems this issue has been around for a long time so I doubt Tvix will actually fix it. They seem to not want to touch the code for the ISO functionality. I asked them if they could add DD or DTS to the onscreen text when pushing the Audio button (something like “DTS 5.1 EN”) but they told me to push the Info button to get the information. This seems like such an easy enhancement (they are obviously already pulling this information from the ISO for the Info button) and it would save folks like me the trouble of having to hit the Audio button and then the Info button to find a DTS track on a DVD ISO.

I currently own the 4k and it streams IFO and ISO dvd rips without problem from my NAS. I have one question though...

I have a HTPC running Vista premium which records ATSC and analog cable. At this point the 4k does not seem to recognize the file type of the recordings (mapped NFS share to My Recordings dir). Does this constitute a DRM issue? Unsupported file type? or Unsupported file extension (ms-dvr?) Any chance this might work in the future? Is there a current workaround?

I am assuming it is all on one subnet and that the TVIX is picking up an IP okay . . .

Are you able to ping the TVIX IP?


Everything pings fine. I think it is a matter of the connection speed. None of my home based stuff has the capability of telling what the connection speed is though.

Dave

Hello,

I made a folder on my M-4000 with all the movies for my kids. All with the artwork. Nice long job. The first time I show them, they were very happy. I said: One movie and to bed. One movie later, I was surprised, they managed to start the next movie. I shoooted at them "I said one movie..." sent them to bed and started to watch MY movie.... At the end, it jumped to the next one.... Poor kids, I had to apologies.

Now My question:
How to have the player play JUST ONE movie and at the end, go back to the menu ??

Thanks for your help

Martin

Hello,

any idea how to hide a file or a folder. I would like my kids to only see a playlist of movies and not the movies themselves.

Everything pings fine. I think it is a matter of the connection speed. None of my home based stuff has the capability of telling what the connection speed is though.

Dave

Hi dave. Have a go at this and see if you can't figure out your connection speed ;)

http://www.speedtest.net/

/Nik

Hello,

I made a folder on my M-4000 with all the movies for my kids. All with the artwork. Nice long job. The first time I show them, they were very happy. I said: One movie and to bed. One movie later, I was surprised, they managed to start the next movie. I shoooted at them "I said one movie..." sent them to bed and started to watch MY movie.... At the end, it jumped to the next one.... Poor kids, I had to apologies.

Now My question:
How to have the player play JUST ONE movie and at the end, go back to the menu ??

Thanks for your help

Martin

I am traveling so I have not had a chance to get back and test on a 4000 for you .. . but I tried this on a TVIX Box C-2000 Lite.

Here is how it works on the 2000 and you can try and see if this works on the 4000 in a similar or different way.

PLAY BUTTON

If you navigate through the files and then highlight one FILE and press PLAY > on the remote it will play then continue on to play the next file in the folder when the first is complete. When it has reached the end of the last file in the folder it will start to play the first file in the folder again, then proceed to the next, etc, continuously.

If you navigate and select one FOLDER and press PLAY > on the remote it will play all the files consecutively in folder and when finished with the last one it will move on to the next folder, ie "../next_folder/first_file" relative to the file it just finished playing. Not sure what it does when it reaches the last file in the last folder, as I have to many files on this box to practiacally test that . .

I also have not tested folder within folder behavior for now.

OK BUTTON

If you navigate through the files and then highlight one FILE and press OK on the remote it will play the highlighted file then STOP. (I think this is what the Fly-Tox is after . . .)

If you navigate and select one FOLDER press OK on the remote, it will merely execute the folder - that is it will display its contents on the screen. It will not "play" without further button presses.

Hope this helps. If, when I have a chance, someone has not yet answered this question I will try it on a 4000 and post.

Thanks,
Paul
TVIX Box Digital Multimedia Players (http://www.tvixbox.com)

If anyone is interested, I have a slightly used (3 months?) M4000 w/ 160 GB drive for sale... PM me if interested. Thanks.

...
PLAY BUTTON
...
OK BUTTON
...
Hope this helps. If, when I have a chance, someone has not yet answered this question I will try it on a 4000 and post.

Thanks,
Paul

Hello Paul and thanks for your answer. Unfortunately, on my remore (the one included with my 4000) Play Pause and OK are on the same button.

I just bought the tvix-4000.
I updated to the latest firmware, and I have a PAL HD LCD 16:9 tv (Philips pf5320) which supports 720p.
Everything is fine when I use the 480p resolution with the TVIX.
However, when I set the resolution in the TVIX to 720p or to 1080i, there is a black bar on the left side of my screen - it doesn't matter if i play a ripped dvd, or an AVI/MPG clip. Even the TVIX setup screen has a black bar on the left side.
I tried all the possible settings in the setup menu, but nothing fixes the problem.
What do I need to do to resolve this? The only reason I bought this device is so that I could watch HD content in true HD - and I can't.

Hi, guys.

Anybody has a screenshot about a movie with srt/sub subtitle? I need special Central Europenan characters, like ő,ű :)

Thank you very much

I just bought the tvix-4000.
I updated to the latest firmware, and I have a PAL HD LCD 16:9 tv (Philips pf5320) which supports 720p.
Everything is fine when I use the 480p resolution with the TVIX.
However, when I set the resolution in the TVIX to 720p or to 1080i, there is a black bar on the left side of my screen - it doesn't matter if i play a ripped dvd, or an AVI/MPG clip. Even the TVIX setup screen has a black bar on the left side.
I tried all the possible settings in the setup menu, but nothing fixes the problem.
What do I need to do to resolve this? The only reason I bought this device is so that I could watch HD content in true HD - and I can't.

Same issue here, didn't upgrade my firmware though. Any solution to this other than going SD?

Hi, guys.

Anybody has a screenshot about a movie with srt/sub subtitle? I need special Central Europenan characters, like ő,ű :)

Thank you very much

Hi mate

Don't really know if I understand what you need -
Think tvix has problems with those. I am swedish and had to rename alot of music
containing å ä and ö letters.
If some uppdate has fixed this then I stand corrected ;)

Hi,

Thanks.

I would like to watch divx movies with Hungarian subtitles and some players have problems with special accented characters.

I just bought the tvix-4000....when I set the resolution in the TVIX to 720p or to 1080i, there is a black bar on the left side of my screenDid you try pressing the SCROLL button and then using the cursor buttons to shift the image?

Did you try pressing the SCROLL button and then using the cursor buttons to shift the image?I can't speak for the other fellow, but it doesn't quite solve the problem. The picture will move when you use the scroll, however the issue is still that part of the image is cropped or cut off. Eventually you have to come to a compromise between the left and right side, but I guess it's better than nothing. However while in the main TViX menus, the right side is still cropped with no chance of scrolling. While using the the wallpaper creator to create wallpapers for movies, the text is cut on the right side by a letter or two. I'll see by how many pixels later on. I'm using DVI --> HDMI at 720p. I'll try composite and see how it works out, but still quite disappointing.

In that case, you need to use the centering adjustments in your display device.

You may also need to adjust the display device's overscan if you're seeing the picture cut off, because if it doesn't fit that must mean that your display is re-scaling the frame to a larger size in order to produce the "usual" TV picture overscan.

In that case, you need to use the centering adjustments in your display device.

You may also need to adjust the display device's overscan if you're seeing the picture cut off, because if it doesn't fit that must mean that your display is re-scaling the frame to a larger size in order to produce the "usual" TV picture overscan.Yeah, unfortunately I started to think of overscan and eventually came to that conclusion. I remember it used to be a pain having to reconvert shows and resize them to adjust for overscan. At least someone else thinks so.

Another thing I was wondering, I was playing an ISO on an external HDD via USB and throughout the film there were moments where the picture turned black for a second and then resumed. Think of it as if you blinked your eyes...just like a second or so. Playing back the ISO hooked uo to my computer and it plays fine. Haven't had any issues so far. AVI files on the same external played flawlessly. Anyone else have this issue with ISO playback? I remember some issues from it, but I don't remember this sort of issue in particular. I guess I'll try ripping it again, but for now I can only conclude that USB Host may not be perfected.....at least in my case.

Overall though, great player and so far my 500GB is filled and my 200GB is starting to fill up. Mainly using for DVD ISOs, so that fills up fast. I'm very happy and pleased with the device. :)

My 4000 feeds it digital spdif signal into an Onkyo Integra Receiver. For reasons that I do not currently understand, when I play back a DTS "wav" file from DTS encoded music CDs, this receiver does not recognize the signal as DTS. I have a 5000 upstairs, and the Denon receiver has no problem recognizing the DTS signal.

Recently I discovered that I can make the Onkyo Integra Receiver recognize a DTS audio signal form the PC, by setting the AC3 filter settings to 14 bit padded.

Is there some way to do the equivalent with the 4000? Otherwise, any other ideas how to get the 4000 to "mate" with the Onkyo Integra for DTS audio?

I want to know can the 4000u play this file
http://orange.blender.org/download
the mp4 .avi version if it can't can the new 5000sh/4000sh ?

No, for MP4 you need the M4100 model.

I want to know can the 4000u play this file
http://orange.blender.org/download
the mp4 .avi version if it can't can the new 5000sh/4000sh ?

Mmmh? Looks like a nice short movie... (d/l now ;))

And as TPeterson said, you need the 41/5100sh model. So we non-sh users have to stick with the mpeg2/iso version ;)

update:
Damn: that was fast d/l! a shareratio of 0.040... LOL
Unsupported format "MP42" on the 5000 model, so no go...

ok then what software would I use to convert this to mpeg2? Free would be nice :D

ok then what software would I use to convert this to mpeg2? Free would be nice :D
Why don't you just d/l the mpeg2 version instead ;) (.iso type)

If you insist on re-encode it, you might try SUPER. It might work.

M.

Is this not possible? I get video files off the direct tivo in hd mpeg2.

also I can't find the .iso / mpeg2 version Link pls?

also I can't find the .iso / mpeg2 version Link pls?

Down in the page you posted... here they are anyway:
http://tribler.org/content/ED_movie_only_pal.iso.torrent (torrent)

http://video.blendertestbuilds.de/topdir/ED/movie_only_pal.iso (Germany)

http://dl.freecontrib.org/elephantdream/movie_only_pal.iso (France)

Is this not possible? I get video files off the direct tivo in hd mpeg2.

Everything is possible. The question is weather you want to spend all that time re-encoding.

A good starting point would be www.videohelp.com or www.doom9.org
They have some good guides, as well as links to tools etc.

M.

Down in the page you posted... here they are anyway:
http://tribler.org/content/ED_movie...pal.iso.torrent (torrent)

http://video.blendertestbuilds.de/t...ie_only_pal.iso (Germany)

http://dl.freecontrib.org/elephantd...ie_only_pal.iso (France)

will the pal .iso work on my ntsc (american) projector? :confused:

I know how you can find out....

I'll let y'all know if it works or not. :o

will the pal .iso work on my ntsc (american) projector? :confused:

The PJ is not the issue here. Its the tvix. Set it to PAL and your good to go. I don't think they have an auto PAL/NTSC on DVD yet, or do they.

It will play anyhow I recon, in your case it will prob. just do a NTSC from the PAL if you do not change your output.

In fact I run mine at NTSC all the time, with auto switch to PAL when I have some in that. And I'm living in PAL-Land ;)

Everything is possible. The question is weather you want to spend all that time re-encoding.

A good starting point would be www.videohelp.com or www.doom9.org
They have some good guides, as well as links to tools etc.

M.


I have done this, but can't get the audio to work ... not sure why? maybe DTS 5.1 is the problem...

The Video looks great, just no audio. All I use is TyTool 10r4

I have a public notice for all that does not come easily, but here goes.

We noticed a high number from the second shipment of TVIX M4000P units (not M4000PA) that were returned with burned out power supplies, and have been able to narrow it down to just one shipment.

We asked for and received replacement power boards and would like to recall all units out there for repair. It is a simple board replacement, so for those who are adept and comfortable with changing their own boards, we can arrange to send it to you with instructions.

We will start the process of contacting everyone next week, but if you know that your order was from this shipment likely purchased in February, please PM me or send an e-mail to us at DC.

I have done this, but can't get the audio to work ... not sure why? maybe DTS 5.1 is the problem...

The Video looks great, just no audio. All I use is TyTool 10r4
Are we still talking about re-encoding the 1080p video found on the webpage FLABOY mentioned? Or are we talking about the DVD .ISO file of the same file?

M.

Two silly questions.

One, is there any reason to think that the 4000 has challenges in USB mode? Specifically I had trouble moving files to another hard disc drive recently. It seemed like I had corruption issues that could not be fixed with chkdsk.

Second, is there a quick guide to putting disc icons into the folders? I have been using a text based approach (built in) for menu navigation, but figure I should move into the current century like most ofther members here.

Two silly questions.

One, is there any reason to think that the 4000 has challenges in USB mode? Specifically I had trouble moving files to another hard disc drive recently. It seemed like I had corruption issues that could not be fixed with chkdsk.

Second, is there a quick guide to putting disc icons into the folders? I have been using a text based approach (built in) for menu navigation, but figure I should move into the current century like most ofther members here.

have a 5000A which hasn't given me any trouble yet on the USB departement m8
but I was gonna ask, Can you do a "Defrag" of the 4000 (can one do that ?) if so
I would try that.
To your 2nd Question: put a .png or .jpg file called "folder.png" into the disc
folder. Make them 100*136 size they work the best. Then your good to go.
:cool:

Are we still talking about re-encoding the 1080p video found on the webpage FLABOY mentioned? Or are we talking about the DVD .ISO file of the same file?

M.

not re-encodeing ... no TyTool (TiVo extraction software) converts to Mpeg2 and plays fine on my AVelink2 Player perfectly very nice HD.

However no audio on the TViX ..

not re-encodeing ... no TyTool (TiVo extraction software) converts to Mpeg2 and plays fine on my AVelink2 Player perfectly very nice HD.

However no audio on the TViX ..


I have the same problem with some of my mpgs from my hr10-250. I reported it to Dvico, and sent some sample files in a several months ago however it has not been fixed for the 4000. The same files play fine on my 4100 so they did fix the problem just not in the 4000 code stream I guess.

Can anyone try these mpeg2's on their 4000. Or even 4100 as well:

http://rapidshare.com/files/35575940/sample6.ts.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/35582252/sample18.ts.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/35586460/sample22.ts.html
Most of my recordings will be MPEG2 .ts and i am thinking now that I should just get the 4000PA, save some money and skip the 4100 until a player come out with the Sigma 8634.

That is, if the 4000 plays these clips well....

I'm not using the detachable speakers on my HDTV anyway so I can use optical to my receiver and DVI to HDMI plug to the tv.

Thanks in advance,

John

Has anyone been able to get the TViX-4000 in the Sata Version. I have been looking around, but can't find any place that sells them? There still is going to be two versions right?

Vianna,

The Korean web site still lists the 4000 as having two versions. However, if I were a dealer, I would not stock either now that the 4100 is out. Depending on what country you live in, I'd find the dealer that is owned by Tvix or sells the most volume and find out what their situation is. In the U.S.; TVIX has what I believe is their own dealer in So Calif.; but Kei at Digital Connection is probably a higher volume dealer and would be a good source (I have purchased units from both places and been highly satisfied with both).

I have the same problem with some of my mpgs from my hr10-250. I reported it to Dvico, and sent some sample files in a several months ago however it has not been fixed for the 4000. The same files play fine on my 4100 so they did fix the problem just not in the 4000 code stream I guess.

I noticed yesterday; while uploading some files to my TVix I had some HD vobs that I made from some extracted recordings from my HR10-250 -- previously I only tried mpgs. So I uploaded them and to my pleasant surprise they WORKED! and with DD 5.1!

I love it... I have a Lara Croft Tomb Raider to watch in HD on my TVixHD!

so basically i'm a current appletv owner, bu ti have a plethora of 720p h.264 MKV video files that the appletv even over 100mbit just cannot handle. will the tvix 4100sh stream that video format/container? *note, i don't want to have a harddrive in this or any of the recommended digital media devices; i have a file server that i want to be able to stream all of my media from (preferably over .11n or 100/1000 wired). i don't i'll go any higher than 720p h.264 encoded files, MKV is my preferred container. of course, divx, xvid, h.264 mp4, and lastly mp3/aac streaming are also required. could any of you recommend this product for those needs?

sorry to threadjack if this is not the right question for this particular tvix thread.

thanks!

H.264 is not going to work on the 4000. You would need the 4100 or 5100.

I have created some MOV files that I need to convert and use on a TVIX 4000PA.

I have converted a small sample file as a test.

I converted it to 720P, 24 fps, Xvid encoded AVI with SUPERConvert. It is not working.

I wondered if anybody with a 4000PA with the latest firmware could try it on their player for me. It can be found at fntnpn.ntnvninxnbnonxn.ncnonmn (please remove the "n"s as that was the only way I could get the link in there) username tvixbox pass tvixbox filename newxvidheidi .

Anybody else have any advice on converting an converting to formats supported on the 4000?

So the Sigma chip cannot output 480i over HDMI/DVI.

How good is this chip at deinterlacing. Can I assume that setting the output to 480i via component into my DVDO iSCAN VP20 (with ABT de-interlacing card) will provide superior deinterlacing (on its way to scaling to 720p or 1080i)? The other option is 480p via DVI then scaling within the VP20.

So the Sigma chip cannot output 480i over HDMI/DVI.

How good is this chip at deinterlacing. Can I assume that setting the output to 480i via component into my DVDO iSCAN VP20 (with ABT de-interlacing card) will provide superior deinterlacing (on its way to scaling to 720p or 1080i)? The other option is 480p via DVI then scaling within the VP20.

No 480i on DVI/HDMI...
I have a VP30, and in its haydays I used component from my Tvix in order to get 480/576i thru the ABT102 card. Later on I moved to DVI-HDMI. It felt better, although I losted the 480i option.

Can't really comment on its de-interlacing abilities, but it does it fairly well.

You know that the 4100/5100 is able to output 480/576i on its HDMI output?
That is one reason I'm looking into that one. Still on the fence though, as I have other Req. as well.

M.

Meenenator,

Thanks for the info. Since my wife has asked about getting a second TViX for the bedroom I might consider getting a 4100 or 5100 for the main viewing room & move the 4000 to the bedroom. I must say that the 480p output scaled to 1080i or 720p does look very good.

Hello,
I received my M-4000 a few days ago and like it very much.

I have several DTS (audio CDs) I would like to put on the hard drive. I have a few DTS demo disks (DVD format) that play back fine, but I would like to put the audio only DTS files on the drive.
To test it out, I have been playing with a DTS WAV file that I downloaded trying to get it to play on the M-4000. I have converted it to WMA and FLAC. Both of formats will "play" the digital hiss (just like when the DTS WAV is played on the computer). What is the easiest way to get the M-4000 to send an DTS signal out the digital audio jack that my receiver will recognize as a DTS stream? My reciever is a Yamaha RXV-2600.

Thanks,
Matt

The Tvix website http://www.tvix.co.kr answers many questions in the FAQ, and some more if you register under "My Q&A". The DTS question is by some reason only answered in My Q&A and not in the FAQ:

Hello,

If you want to play DTS WAV files, you must set the volume to 25 and set Output type for DTS to Digital so your recievers can decode it. If you does not have DTS, you can not listen DTS WAV files.

TVIX does not support analog output.

Yann told about this tip. Thank you Yann.

It works great on my M5000, but don't convert the DTS WAV files. Just play them!

I have asked them to also support the .dts file extension but have only got a "maybe" as answer.

/J

For what it is worth; I also play DTS audio-only files with my TVIX 5000. My upstairs denon has no problem with these wav files with DTS. However, my downstairs Onkyo Integra does not accept the same signals with the 4000 configured essentially the same way. My point is that the issue could well be the receiver no liking the format from the TVIX. I was able to resolve DTS playback from a HTPC with the Onkyo Integra by setting the AC3filter to 14bit padded mode.

Perhaps we need to ask DVICO/TVIX to look at creating a similar mode for future bios updates (of course now that they seem to treat the 4000 and 5000 as stable we may be pushing on string).

Thanks for the replies about DTS playback. My problem was user error. I had four versions of that file on my hard drive. 1. The original WAV, 2. A WMA version, 3. a FLAC version, and 4. a AAC (MP4) version. The FLACK and WMA gave me hiss. THe AAC said loading and gave a different sounding hiss. I thought the WAV version wasn't working at all because it didn't even give me hiss. However, the WAV file I downloaded had silence for about 10 seconds and then slowly faded in so it took about 20 seconds for me to hear anything at my volume setting. I didn't think it was working.

It seem like a shame to waste all that hard drive space on a WAV file that just contains compressed audio (DTS).

I will try ripping one of my DTS audio disks to WAVs and see how it goes.
Thanks,
Matt

Is anyone else having problems with skipping around in .ts files? I use MythTV to record over-the-air ATSC and use my M-4000P to play them. Playing and pausing consistently work well, but rewind, fast forward, skip and goto are really dicy. When rewinding these files, I've seen the Tvix lock up, skip large sections of the file, fast forward instead of rewinding, display the wrong timestamp, etc. This happens over both NFS and USB. I tried contacting Dvico tech support last week and never got a response. I'm currently on firmware 2.1.4A.

Edit: Heh. I just took another look at Dvico's firmware download page and see that the the list of changes in 2.2.0 has "Improved file compatibility". Somehow I missed that the first time around. I'll try upgrading the firmware to see if it helps.

Proper handling of FF/RW is an issue with all of the Sigma Designs-based streamers to date. I would not hold my breath for the fix.

Great. Well, at least I know it's not just me. Appreciate you following up.

How about this one: I'm trying to upgrade the firmware (without the expectation that it will solve my ff/rew problem). When I plug the Tvix into my XP laptop's USB port, the Tvix says "USB ON" but I don't see a new drive in explorer. The instructions claim that "Your system will recognize the TViX HD as an external hard drive." I also don't see a USB drive in the Device Manager. Has anyone encountered this problem?

I haven't seen that problem.

BTW, are you plugging the TViX in as an external USB HDD to copy the fwp file to the TViX internal HDD? You could alternatively copy the fwp to a USB flash drive and upgrade the fw directly from there after moving it to the TViX.

Great. Well, at least I know it's not just me. Appreciate you following up.

How about this one: I'm trying to upgrade the firmware (without the expectation that it will solve my ff/rew problem). When I plug the Tvix into my XP laptop's USB port, the Tvix says "USB ON" but I don't see a new drive in explorer. The instructions claim that "Your system will recognize the TViX HD as an external hard drive." I also don't see a USB drive in the Device Manager. Has anyone encountered this problem?
Hmm.......
I just have to ask: do you have an HDD installed in the Tvix?
You write in a post above "this happens over both NFS and USB" but never mentions playing from the internal drive or if the Tvix has a HDD or not. If there's no internal HDD in the Tvix then it will not show up as a new drive in XP.....
So if you don't have an internal HDD just put the fwp file on the USB of NFS drive where you have all your other files, and upgrade from there.

Sorry if this is the stupidest answer ever. If you "of course" has an internal HDD in the Tvix, then just ignore this post.
/J

Hmm....... I just have to ask: do you have an HDD installed in the Tvix?

No, this is not the stupidest question ever. Mine was. :D You're right, there is no hard disk in the Tvix. I guess in the age of iPods I just assumed that the thing had flash memory in it for firmware upgrades. Just blindly following the directions in the manual without thinking about what I'm doing. I'll see if I can upgrade the firmware by loading it from a USB drive. Thanks guys, sorry for the waste of space in this thread.

TVIXTester

I was looking at 4000 and 4100 once, and after digging I found out 4100 does not play a whole lots of H264, like MP4, MKV... in order to play I have to convert those clips. My though was I have to convert anyway why spend extra money, so i bough M4000PA, I could of wait to get M400SA (SATA HDD), but oh well! things happen

DATOptic one of DVICO distributor in US shows how to convert/merger VOB, TS, MKV... to XVID/DIVX in their forum and links to all freeware software to convert Video/Audio

I was able to convert MKV and other video streams to XVID/DIVX and maintain the DTS, AC 5.1...audio

Here is the step i do to convert MKV - base on Datoptic.com site

- Convert Video to XVID or DVIX with select bit rate
- Rip Audio from original stream
- Mux those back together

These new video stream play beautiful in my M4000PA.
BTW I never have V/A sync problem:-).. The software are readily download at this site

Hi,
I just got a 4000 and when I set the output to 720p or 1080i, the picture, including menus, shifts to the right? Does anyone know if there's a solution to this other than shifting the picture in my projector settings. That just doesn't seem optimal.

Also, if you have a tvix with a hard drive, can another tvix stream data from it? How would you set that up?

Thanks

Tim--

Use the SCROLL button on the TViX remote. (Push SCROLL and then use the arrow keys while "SCROLL MODE" is displayed on the screen)

Has anyone here had their 4000 units fail yet? Mine was powered off when it died. My wife was complaining about a horrible smell of burning electronics or plastics coming from our family room. It took some tracking down as my racks are pretty full, but I found that the TVix was fried. I run mine diskless BTW and it was purchased in late Feb.

Fortunately Digital Connection got me an RMA quickly. They seemed to indicate that this was a common mode of failure.

I pity the person that opens the box. The smell was just awful.

So now I wait. :(

Thanks TPeterson. I'll give that a try tonight.

kcgr, if your rack is so full do you think it might have overheated and then fried?

Tim--

Use the SCROLL button on the TViX remote. (Push SCROLL and then use the arrow keys while "SCROLL MODE" is displayed on the screen)

Well I tried SCROLL. Two problems

1) It only scrolls while a movies is playing so the TVIX menus are screwy still
2) The pictures starts to move to the left but goes under the black bar on the left. So it doesn't work. Also my projector (Panasonic PTAE900) appears to lose sync when the scroll button is hit. It's like the 4000 is sending out some screwing signal at 720p or 1080i.

Thanks TPeterson. I'll give that a try tonight.

kcgr, if your rack is so full do you think it might have overheated and then fried?


I do make sure my electronics have plenty of room to kick off heat and that the heat minimally affects the neighboring units.

I meant actually full in that there are several shelves that I had to check to narrow it down. Each shelf has plenty of breathing room, but I had to narrow the smell down to the family room then to the right rack then a specific shelf etc etc.

thanks for bringing that up though, I know many people that think they can just stack things without ventilation and the equipment won't care.

kcgr--

Sounds as though perhaps your 4000 was one that escaped having a faulty PSU replaced. I understand that there was a bad run of them, but that it was mostly fixed before the units shipped.

Well I tried SCROLL. Two problems

1) It only scrolls while a movies is playing so the TVIX menus are screwy still
2) The pictures starts to move to the left but goes under the black bar on the left. So it doesn't work. Also my projector (Panasonic PTAE900) appears to lose sync when the scroll button is hit. It's like the 4000 is sending out some screwing signal at 720p or 1080i.Yes, the scroll adjustment is only for fine tuning. If the menu itself is off screen, you either have a faulty TViX or your projector's centering is off base.

Yes, the scroll adjustment is only for fine tuning. If the menu itself is off screen, you either have a faulty TViX or your projector's centering is off base.

My projector has been fed several different 720p devices without a problem. My quess is that it's the TVIX.

Do you have another DVI-input display to test with the TViX? That would nail it perhaps.

Do you have another DVI-input display to test with the TViX? That would nail it perhaps.

Yes, I do. However, I'm not sure that would be the end of it. The panasonic might just be more sensitive to a good signal. But I'll give it a try.

Here is an unusual one (I think).


I tried hooking up both a 4000 and a 5000 to the same vista PC in order to transfer files. Basically the goals was to synchronize both machines.

Anyway, the vista machine was willing to communicate with either the 4000 or 5000, but not both at the same time. I ran chckdsk on both, and still had the problem. Basically, with one machine plugged in, it would not recognize the other. Said the USB driver had problems.

Or if I got both to be recognized, then when I tried to transfer files, the vista pc would report that the files were no longer in their original location...so no transfer possible.

Anybody run into this or something like this? Any work arounds?

I've got a 4000P on the way and was curious if it is possible for me to pre-populate the drive that I will use with it. I understand that it handles NTFS and FAT32 but I am curious if the unit first formats the drive or if I can simply pop in an NTFS drive with a specific tree structure for the unit to find various media types: Movies, Music, Pics, etc. without needing to copy the files over afterwards or change some configuration.

Thanks,

-Ford

Ford,

You can indeed add an already formatted hard disk into the TVIX. I highly recommend, however that it is formatted NTFS so that you don't suffer any file size limitations.

Kei;

Ever heard of a 4000 and 5000 not co-existing on the same PC? I can address the 4000 on the Vista PC; and the 5000; but if I have one running that I get a USB device error when I connect the second device.

Ford,

You can indeed add an already formatted hard disk into the TVIX. I highly recommend, however that it is formatted NTFS so that you don't suffer any file size limitations.

Is there a tree structure that the data needs to be in, does it scan the entire drive, or does the unit require configuration to point to the various media types?

Sorry to ask, but I downloaded the PDF manual and I didnt see it covered.

When I first set up the drive, I formatted it as one large NTFS volume. There were three basic folders; audio, video, and photos. You can populate the folders and subfolders pretty much as you want.

Do you have the TVIX connected by component or DVI? I use the DVI connection and have the same problem. The scroll helps a little, but everything is shifted over to the right.


Matt

Well I tried SCROLL. Two problems

1) It only scrolls while a movies is playing so the TVIX menus are screwy still
2) The pictures starts to move to the left but goes under the black bar on the left. So it doesn't work. Also my projector (Panasonic PTAE900) appears to lose sync when the scroll button is hit. It's like the 4000 is sending out some screwing signal at 720p or 1080i.

I have it connected using DVI. I've contacted DVICO about this. There first response came two to three weeks after I wrote and all they said was to use the scroll button (which as we know doesn't work). I wrote them back but have not received a response.

If you've checked your output device's centering and/or tried the TViX on a different display with the same result, did you contact your vendor about an RMA exchange?

The TVIX is shifted right on my plasma and my lcd rptv, both via DVI. When connected to component, everything is fine. I have to use DVI on my rptv since all of the component inputs are already used.

Matt

If you've checked your output device's centering and/or tried the TViX on a different display with the same result, did you contact your vendor about an RMA exchange?

I've tested it on a Toshiba plasma and 720p worked but 480p did not. Digital Connections thinks that if the 4000 had auto-edid (like the 4100) it would work. I'm not sure what auto-edid does though.

To me it seems like a synch problem because at 720p the screen occasionally goes black or it goes blue (which is my projectors default screen).

My guess is exchanging the unit won't help and DC didn't even recommend trying this. I'm hoping DVICO will have a solution but I might be SOL.

I'm still suspicious that it may be an individual-unit problem, especially if you're seeing problematic synching on two different displays. I've not seen many reports of this sort of thing on AVS Forum TViX threads, so it doesn't sound as if it's a generic problem.

Thanks. I'll send them a note and see what they say.

Hello,
I am looking at getting the M-4000PA. My questions are with the TV tuner. If I hook up my basic cable to it should pull down the NTSC channels and the unlocked ATSC channels, correct? Then I can use the item as a DVR for SD and HD channels?

more of a question that I can curious about is... did anyone find a way to play commercial DVDs from an external DVD drive. I know why they put the blocks on there so people won't recorded HD movies and sell them but this product promotes ripping of dvds. you wanna talk about a gray line (I know its not illegal to back-up your personal DVDs). This unit would be a Outstanding if it could play DVDs from an external drive. Then it would be perfect media center in my opinion! Please let me know. Thank you for your time.

The tuner is digital OTA only, so it won't do either of the things you mentioned.

You can play any DVD in an external drive that doesn't have CSS copy protection. (Good luck finding one) OTOH, you can play DVDs over LAN that are in PC DVD drives as long as you have an on-the-fly unscrambling program, such as AnyDVD or DVD43, installed.

oh no! There goes my hopes and dreams. So the tuner that I can buy for one of these units are only good for Over the air (Antenna) channels. That is a waste of time for most of us because the HD TVs have them built it. We want the DVR feature because our cable company is ripping us off for their DVR.

The HTPC software are only good for OTA channels too. So my only option here is the Sony DHG-HDD series or a Tivo. Yay for monthly fees! so I guess I have to face the facts and I can't be cheap anymore. It is truly a sad day for me.

But I would like to thank you for helping me!

There are other (all PC-based) tuner options available for digital cable (aka QAM) tuning/recording. See the threads in the HTPC AVS Forum section on HD HomeRun, FusionHDTV, MyHD, and AutumnWave, for examples.

There are other (all PC-based) tuner options available for digital cable (aka QAM) tuning/recording. See the threads in the HTPC AVS Forum section on HD HomeRun, FusionHDTV, MyHD, and AutumnWave, for examples.

Thank you for this tip. I own the MyHD and FusionHDTV. Both are great products but the Media center software packages that are out do not support Cable TV just the Over the Air. I will look into the other ones you listed. Thank you for your time!

Your problem is Media Center then, not MyHD and FusionHDTV--both of which support digital cable just fine. ;)

EDIT: BTW, they're both supported by the CW_EPG "DVR" scheduling program that uses almost free program data from Schedules Direct.

Your problem is Media Center then, not MyHD and FusionHDTV--both of which support digital cable just fine. ;)

EDIT: BTW, they're both supported by the CW_EPG "DVR" scheduling program that uses almost free program data from Schedules Direct.

Yes I love the cards they both work great but none of the software packages out there support clear QAM through cable. I can do it with the HDHomeRun. I am not crazy about another box sitting around. Thank you for your help!

Yes I love the cards they both work great but none of the software packages out there support clear QAM through cable.That is incorrect. The native apps for both Fusion and MyHD support clear QAM and you can use the Schedules Direct (http://www.schedulesdirect.org/) EPG data with CW_EPG (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=659993) or Record_This (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=591195) to obtain TiVo-like PVR features with them.

Hey!

Am i the only one in the whole universe which uses the tvix in this way??

* Having all the movies on the tvix HD
(for easy movement once in a month between job, home, travelling, boat, car, aso)

* Occationally want to watch a movie on one of the the computers (WITHOUT disconnecting it EVERYDAY with its 7 tight connections from the livingroom or sometimes just because my wife or son uses it, or wife is asleep and dont wanna disturb her (sleeping close to the livingroom). The reasons are many)

* Before watching, want to see the beginning of the movie, dont wait 5-8mins for a ftp download...then watch another.. 5-8mins to dl... i dont want to download anything and then erase! I want to see the movie from the tvix!

So.. I need a samba server on the tvix to be able to share files and skip ftp transfering. OR. a ftp program that simulates file sharing and makes it possible to watch before the full movie has been copied and then auto erases it without me knowing that i have duplicated data :) OR. a program that mirrors all the movies/data between tvix and one of my servers in the basement. But.. so easy.. whyyyy nooot a samba server. GaaaaaH!... Ok. Im in control again. Sorry. :)
//Mattias (Gahn)

I recently purchased a TViX M-4000U to watch videos over my network. So far I have been very happy with it's performance.

Recently I've started watching more high definition shows and discovered I can't fast forward or skip forward. When I try, the video actually goes BACKWARD 15 seconds or so.

I don't have any problems with standard definition shows. All files are standard MPG2 with AC3 audio. The only difference is the resolution and bitrate of the HD shows.

Has anyone else experienced this, and is there a solution?

Thanks,

Anthony

Has anyone else experienced this, and is there a solution?Yes and, evidently, no. New firmware may solve it eventually, but it's not been fast in coming.

Have you tried to fix the files with MPEG2Repair?
That has solved such issues for me. Not on ALL files with problems though, but on most.

/J

I recently purchased a TViX M-4000U to watch videos over my network. So far I have been very happy with it's performance.

Recently I've started watching more high definition shows and discovered I can't fast forward or skip forward. When I try, the video actually goes BACKWARD 15 seconds or so.

I don't have any problems with standard definition shows. All files are standard MPG2 with AC3 audio. The only difference is the resolution and bitrate of the HD shows.

Has anyone else experienced this, and is there a solution?

Thanks,

Anthony

I have got this problem but in reverse. If I use record a tv show using the
t430 tv tuner and miss a what someone says or go to far forward during the adverts and then use the backward skip button, it just keeps going 15 secs forward. I have also found that if I want to rewind something the slowest rewind speed I have is x8 which is not very helpful.
Lets hope that they decide to bring out some new fw soon to sort out these problems and the problems with epg on the tv tuner.

> Have you tried to fix the files with MPEG2Repair?

I've tried a number of repairs, MPEG2Repair, VideoRedo, etc. Sometimes it helps, most of the time it has no effect or makes it worse.

> Lets hope that they decide to bring out some new fw soon

I contacted Dvico about the problem and they just sent this response:

"Most of this problem comes from the edited stream. This is because TVIX can not detect the total length of the files. We are trying to improve this problem, so please wait for our next firmware which I believe we can release in Oct or Nov."

At least it sounds like they are working on it...

Anthony

how much longer do you think they will work on fw for the 4000? I mean the 4100 is the next generation. I would think they would end it soon.

Is frame by frame advance supported on the 4000 for playback of DVDs stored as vobs?

how much longer do you think they will work on fw for the 4000? I mean the 4100 is the next generation. I would think they would end it soon.

Dvico has only released one new 4000 firmware since the 4100 came out (2.2.0) and it contained mostly fixes for the tuner. The firmware is pretty mature as it is so I don't see Dvico making any major changes or enhancements to it.

Could someone give a detailed review of how frame by frame works on the 4000 for mpeg2 source? Ideally it would work with ISO images but in another thread it was stated that this was not a feature. So that leaves the possibility that it works for dvds stored as vobs or direct playback of a single vob file.

Could someone give a detailed review of how frame by frame works on the 4000 for mpeg2 source? Ideally it would work with ISO images but in another thread it was stated that this was not a feature. So that leaves the possibility that it works for dvds stored as vobs or direct playback of a single vob file.

Push the pause button and then the down button. On the 4000, it works for all files except DVD ISOs. On the 4100, it works for all files including DVD ISOs.

Is frame by frame advance supported on the 4000 for playback of DVDs stored as vobs?

Yes, it works on raw vobs. It won't work on DVD ISOs though. If you want it to work on DVD ISOs, you will have to get the 4100.

The TVIX is shifted right on my plasma and my lcd rptv, both via DVI. When connected to component, everything is fine. I have to use DVI on my rptv since all of the component inputs are already used.



Are there any 4000 owners out there using DVI that don't have the problem mentioned above?

Zapster,

I'm using the DVI video and optical audio outputs from my M-4000 to connect to my 42" Samsung plasma TV. The picture is great and I haven't noticed any shifting problems.

Anthony

Putting the DVI/HDMI from a 4000 or 5000 through a receiver can result in some unwanted "artifacts" at higher resolutions.

Probably a key reason why I will eventually pick up a 4100 or 6500 or whatever. Except that my 4000 is still pretty new and pretty stable.

so here is a question i have not seen answered. what is the startup time for a dvd iso? Say from ethernet connection, and internal hard drive? Is there a buffer wait?

so here is a question i have not seen answered. what is the startup time for a dvd iso? Say from ethernet connection, and internal hard drive? Is there a buffer wait?


about 5-8 secs before it starts playing... via internal drive

It's not too much different from the network, although I never use that option, as it stutters on me, even though I have a very fast network. I can stream my HD TiVo (S3) recording from one TiVo to the other without a hic-cup.

Hi8--

I use DViCo's NFS server Netshare for streaming and see no stuttering with either DVD ISO or HDTV TS files.

I find that the stuttering for me depends on the NAS. I went through two before I found one that works great on NFS. I have a gigabit network, but that should not make a difference for the TVIX.

...and the one that's working for you, Matt, is...?

Hey all,

I have been slowly putting my dvd's on the hard drive. I use a file server to store everything. Something i noticed last night while watching a movie was a wierd screen wash. Its hard to explain, it was not a stutter where the screen freezes but a quick wash of the screen. I rr the play back to where it happened and it did not do it again. Has anyone seen anything like this?

I know its not the tv since i had never seen it before. Any help?

Are there any new NAS options (hopefully lower cost) that people have been using successfully? Most of the NAS options that seemed to work about 6 months ago cost about 2-4x the Tvix itself.

Sorry for taking so long to respond. I am using a SANS DIGITAL MN2L (about $200.) I have it set for NFS and it works great. No studdering with DVD ISOs, HD TS or AVI files. I popped in two 500GB SATA drives and have 1TB of space. Total cost $400.

http://www.sansdigital.com/mobilenas/mn2l.html

Matt,

This unit looks cool. Yeah, 4 hour waits are really too much!

thanks!

Matt--

Yes, thanks for the lead. Does this unit have a setting to power itself down, wholly or in part, after a period of inactivity? Or does it just run full bore (70W?) continuously?

The fan runs full speed; unfortunately there is no option for hard drive shutdown/sleepmode. That would be nice for hard drive longevity and decreased sound levels. I keep mine in a closet, so sound is not an issue.

My first NAS, the Synology 101G had this feature, but it did not support NFS and was only a single drive. The other NAS I tried was a ZyXEL NSA-220, similar features to the MN2L, dual drive, 65w, but the NFS did not work at all with the M-4000. Their support staff was of no use; they only support their branded DLNA media server.

Matt

The reviews for the San Digital unit on new egg were not very positive. Many complaints about noise and reliability.

A shame, because having 2 TB for "cheap" would be cool.

Thanks for the confirmation of my fears. I already have one NAS (Dlink DSM-G600) that sits unused most of the time because I can't stand having its noisy fan going constantly. I don't understand why designers of "home" NAS products have such a blind spot about that problem. ("Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?")

There are only 4 reviews and the only negative comment is for noise. That one sounded like a bad unit. No one mentions reliability.

Where does everyone keep their NAS units? I like to hide all of my Routers, cable modems, NAS unit and other network stuff in a closet that has all of my cable & cat5 wiring.

You can hide it from your ears in the basement, but not from your electric meter. ;)

I am unable to use the pal firmware update 2.20 (claims its not a valid fwd file, despite repeating the downloads), only the ntsc one seems to work. I set all settings to default but nothing changes.

I've used the ntsc firmware, but what differences are there between the ntsc and pal firmware, and will they make any real difference?

This problem never happen when I upgraded an older firmware, but I've already formatted the HD.

Sorry for taking so long to respond. I am using a SANS DIGITAL MN2L (about $200.) I have it set for NFS and it works great. No studdering with DVD ISOs, HD TS or AVI files. I popped in two 500GB SATA drives and have 1TB of space. Total cost $400.

http://www.sansdigital.com/mobilenas/mn2l.html

Matt;

I just bought one and also dropped in a couple of 500gig drives.. so far I like it.

How did you configure for NFS -- I keep getting a error connecting to disk.

I setup my Sans Digital as static IP: 192.168.1.8
NFS enabled with the subnet allowed : 192.168.1.0 / 255.255.255.0
under the share 'video' do I need any specific user/group accounts enabled?

on the TViX - i set the

NFS fast
server : video
IP : 192.168.1.8

can't get it working? I can get it to work via SAMBA but I don't want to use that.

thanks for any help...

'lo all,

I have had the Tvix M-4000PA for a few months now, but lately it is performing not as good as before.
It stutters a lot with SMB, NFS is even worse (1 frame per sec or so?).
The cause could be that I moved my Synology NAS to the attic, and there are now 2 switches between the Syno and the Tvix. This used to be one. Also 1 switch is 10/100/1000, the other 10/100.
It's connected like this:
NAS -> 1000mbit -> 100mbit(also router) -> Tvix

Another cause could be cable length, in total around 50 meters between the 2 devices. This used to be 35-40.

Now if I connect the NAS directly to the 100mbit switch/router all works fine. But that means my file transfers between NAS and PC (also on the 1000mbit) take twice as long.

Is it really the 15 extra meters of cable, or is using too many (different) switches the problem? Or did I overlook something?

Here is a strange one. I am using the TViX Netshare program on my PC to serve my 4000 and 5000. The network is Linksys powerline. I can get a great hi def stream of .tp files from the PC. But when I play DVD files from the PC, I get stutters and the like. The files are in video_ts folders, with iso and vob and the like file structures.

Any ideas why the theoretically lower bitrate material should have a harder time in playback than the higher bitrate files?

fan noise question: I had to send mine back for a fried circuit board and the one I got as a replacement has a fan that is loud. Is there a way to slow it down or quiet it down?

any suggestions before I call Digital Connection?

edit: nevermind I looked right over the setting ..... "FAN SPEED" sorry for the waste of bandwidth.

Here is a strange one. I am using the TViX Netshare program on my PC to serve my 4000 and 5000. The network is Linksys powerline. I can get a great hi def stream of .tp files from the PC. But when I play DVD files from the PC, I get stutters and the like. The files are in video_ts folders, with iso and vob and the like file structures.

Any ideas why the theoretically lower bitrate material should have a harder time in playback than the higher bitrate files?

How are your ripping your dvds? This is a huge factor in playback. I tried a few differnet programs with variable results.

Hey question for you, can you stream both the 4000 and 5000 at the same time?

Chris;

The DVD files are stored in regular iso format. I don't think there is anything special about how they were transferred to the hard drive. Guess I'll just go back to copying the files directly to the hard disc in the 5000 and 4000 for DVD file formats.


No, I have not tried running both the 4000 and 5000 simultaneously. The only person in the house who uses the units is me. And as the Firesign Theater points out, "how can you be in two places at once when you are really no place at all?"

Personally I use DVDShrink or DVDDecrypter for ripping my DVDs. If I want to really make an effort I open the ripped DVD in DVDRebuilder and remove the stuff I do not want, including menu-buttons, extras, trailers etc. It do takes a little while to get the hang of it, but worth the effort.
I now can make an exact copy of the movie but only keep the audio I want etc. and hence save space on the HDD.

Both the first tools will rip to a ISO if you choose so.
I use DVDShrink less and less as it has limited capability in removing unwanted material (extras and trailers).

i second meenenators comments. I tried nero and the isos would never play or play shaddy.

Hey all,

Needle in the haystack! Any reason a XVID would stutter every 20 seconds? Does not affect audio or picture other then the quick stutter... Very irritating

Hey all,

Needle in the haystack! Any reason a XVID would stutter every 20 seconds? Does not affect audio or picture other then the quick stutter... Very irritating

Deactivate B-VOPs when encoding your videos with XVID.

hey all,

question for you. I have a file server with 6 hard drives. I mount different folders in the tvixhd1 using xp and junctionlink magic. All the files show up on tvix in one location. I have now run out of room. The easy thing to do is add a external usb hd enclosure, though i have a 2nd pc qith 7 open hd bays.

What i want to do is link pc2 with pc1. Now i know i can map a network drive to pc1 though tvix does not see it. I dont really want to enter a second ip in tvix becasue that affects the wife factor.

junctionlink sees drives on the network though when you try and link it, it just drops a shortcut in the tvix folder. Is there a way to mount a mapped hard drive to make it a local drive?? I feel like i am missing a step.

wow not to many people in here anymore!

I have another question. I have noticed on my lcd tv that the right side of the screen has a lighter tint of white. i believe it is coming from the Tvix because i can adjust the pic settings to a 4x3 and the whiteness is contained to the pic. I am running comp cables.

Has anyone else seen this?

wow not to many people in here anymore!

I have another question. I have noticed on my lcd tv that the right side of the screen has a lighter tint of white. i believe it is coming from the Tvix because i can adjust the pic settings to a 4x3 and the whiteness is contained to the pic. I am running comp cables.

Has anyone else seen this?

Does this happen with all of your video file types?

Do you mean composite cables? I've never used that output on my M-5000! Why would you be looking critically at such a setup? If you're talking about YPbPr, I haven't noticed any lateral black level shift or change in contrast here. But I've only rarely used other than the DVI output, which certainly has no such issues.

Oh, now I see Kei's question too, which is very good--what sorts of files give you that symptom?

Is there any way to change the desired audio language for dvd playback?

No matter what language I select in the tvix setup. The jukebox ALWAYS uses english as default desired audio language for dvd playback.

Is there any way to change the desired audio language for dvd playback?

No matter what language I select in the tvix setup. The jukebox ALWAYS uses english as default desired audio language for dvd playback.

http://www.tvix.co.kr/eng/faq/FAQM5000U.aspx?act=RD&id=124&pg=0&CATID=3&SCATID=2

no i am talking YPbPr. Its on iso files. there is a 2 inch wide stripe from top to bottom. You can see it more on dark scenes. I have the lcd set to native and i see it on all my isos.

What is strange is that i have a setting for 4:3 hd which shrinks the picture to a 4:3. Now the stripe goes with the picture. If that makes sense. 16:9 its on the upper right down to the bottom. 4:3 its the same only 4:3 so this would tell me that its coming from the source not the display.

How long is the video cable run? Can you try a different cable and/or a shorter run? If that doesn't change it, I suspect that there's a problem with the TViX' video output circuit and it's then time to talk about an RMA with your dealer.

the cable run is 3 or 6 feet. I do have an extra cable that i will try. Hey Kei i bought it from you back in october! I will also try and take a photo of it to post here.

http://www.tvix.co.kr/eng/faq/FAQM5000U.aspx?act=RD&id=124&pg=0&CATID=3&SCATID=2

Thanks but these settings are correct. Tvix still uses english as preferred lang. for dvd playback.

I've had a M-4000 for a year or two now, and while it generally works well, there's one problem that is very frustrutrating.

I generally only watch MPEG2 videos, most of which are recorded on a Hauppauge HVR-1600 tuner, but some are home videos also. In most cases they play fine, but every so often a file will refuse to play and just shows a pixelated pink screen instead. I've checked the file with every tool I have on the PC and there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the file. They always play fine on the PC. Usually I can get the file to play on the M-4000 by trimming off a second or two from the start of the file in VideoRedo, and resaving.

I'm using the current 2.2.7 firmware. I tried the older 2.1 firmware and it had no problems playing the same "pink screen" videos. Unfortunately, that firmware would not output audio for my HD recordings with AC3 audio, and would not outut video for some of my DivX. So I reinstalled 2.2.7.

Has anyone else encountered this? I don't get the impression Dvico is going to update the firmware, so is there any way to fix my files so they'll play without trimming frames from the start?

Thanks,

Anthony

Hi all,

This is my first post and after reading for a while I could not find an answer to my question.

I own a Dvico 4000 and I am going to buy a new tv, probably a sony 40w4500 ( I currently own a 29" old sony crt). I am using the dvico to watch downloaded movies .avi with a resolution of 640x480. My question is, will the contents be rescale to a full-hd properly, will the quality be good or should I buy the 6500A?

Do you know if its better a 37" or a 40" for these rescaling. I don´t want to have a bad quality on those films. Any suggestions on the TV's for a distance of 2.5 meters?

Many thanks to all

MallorcaVIP

mallorcavip,

My M-4000P is connected to my 42" Samsung plasma using a DVI to HDMI cable and an optical cable for audio. I use 720p as the video output setting on the M-4000P and digital output for all audio formats (my receiver decodes all the formats).

Obviously, HD material looks better on the 42" plasma, whether it be 1280x720, 1440x1080, or full 1920x1080. But I also watch a lot of 720x480 SD material from analog TV stations and ripped DVD's and it still looks and scales nicely. Not as nice as HD, of course, but you can't make up picture that isn't there. The only downside is the black bars on each side of the 4:3 material, but that's easy to live with.

I think I have a few 640x480 music videos and those look decent as well.

Anthony

I am about to put the 4000 and 5000 back on to the network in ftp mode. If I recall, every so often this corrupt the hard drive directory.

Can somebody remind me the tool in XP that one should use to get things up and running again if this happens?

Thanks.

Run CHKDSK <x>: /F (where <x> is your TViX' drive letter) either from a CMD window or via Properties of Windows Explorer (where you effect the "/F" part by checking the box to "automatically fix file system errors" for which you need to close the MSWE window to that drive first)

Thank you TPeterson.

Say...If I recall there was a firmware 2.27. My 4000 and 5000 are still at 2.20. I have a vague recollection that 2.2.7 did not do anything beyond add some recording capability.

Is that correct?

The reason I ask....I have always had a love/hate thing going with the GOTO command section. The device often freezes when I use this command.

Just wondering if that was improved in the latest firmware revision.

I don't recall. I do know that trick play generally has issues even in the latest firmwares on all of the Sigma Designs-based players that I've seen (from DViCo and elsewhere). But I don't think that it actually got worse with any updates on the M-5000.

My powerline ethernet system decided to start working again....so I have been fooling a bit with network streaming of video.

The Tvix units can see the first share in netshare, but not the others that I set up. Is this typical? In other words, I told it to share a folder call audio, then one call video, but it only "sees" the audio share.

Also, any tips on streaming from a D-Link DNS 321 unit? The unit has FTP and upnp capabilities, which I tried enabling. Still, no luck getting any feeds from this NAS like unit.

I did the simple stuff like getting the ip address correct (hey, you have to be able to do that to "talk" to the PC!)....but no joy otherwise.

As many of you know...with networking I am somewhere in between a newbie and an advanced user...but usually get there with brute force!

Thanks.

The Tvix units can see the first share in netshare, but not the others that I set up. Is this typical? In other words, I told it to share a folder call audio, then one call video, but it only "sees" the audio share.

If all shares are on the same PC, and you can access the first share, it would seem the network connections are working properly.

Are you using the current version of Netshare that allows you to share four different folders?

Each share should show up as a little box just to the right of the "Network" icon at the top of the M4000 screen. Press the "left" keypad key on your remote, then select the network icon. You can then use the up/down keypad keys to switch between the different shares.

Anthony

Yes, I am running Netshare 2.1.0.1., the most recent version. But only the first share shows up. Each box on the menu is associated with a different FTP or Samba network connection. I tried putting the same FTP code generated by netshare in a few of these, but they all still point at the first shared folder.

Snuff, I don't have a 4000, but I wonder if you're going about this the right way. Netshare's 4 folder shares are named "tvixhdN", where N ranges from 1 to 4. If you want to access the second folder from a given Netshare set you would then enter "tvixhd2" into the share name field on the TViX' network setup dialog that's pointed to that PC's IP address. Is that what you are doing and it's not working? It does work that way on the M-6500A, as I just confirmed for myself.

TPeterson;

Your logic seems correct. I did not set it up this way. Will try it and will report back. Bet you are correct.

Any thoughts on how to connect to the D-Link NAS anybody?

Snuff, the TViX doesn't support streaming from UPnP or FTP servers, so you need to establish an SMB share with the D-Link device. On my D-Link GSM-D600 this works exactly the same as when sharing from a PC. You need to enter the D-Link's IP address and the name of the top-level share that it exposes to the LAN. Then you should be able to browse its folders from the TViX. (At least this is the way it works on the M-6500A. I expect that the M-4000 has essentially the same setup)

TPeterson;

You are right, the issue was the naming convention with TVIXHD1,2,etc.

The DNS-321 can be shared using Samba, looking for "Volume_1".

hello

I want to know if I can connect to my tvix 4000 by internet ?

Because I managed to connect from my local network but not outside (internet).


what I want, is to connect from my work on my TViX 4000 is at home. Is it possible?

Thanks for your help et and sorry for my poor english...

Filoudoporto

Filoudoporto--

You need to set up your home router to expose the TViX to the Internet to access it from the WAN side. I'm pretty sure that this is possible, although I'm not sure that it's a good idea.

The only way to access it is via FTP using a port forward from your router (same as what TPeterson said). It has been a while since I plugged in one of these units but my memory is telling me there is no way to change the ftp user/password pair from the default, do don't do this if you have anything you don't want the whole world to see on there.

If there is anything of a private nature you should go with a different solution - VPN or simply put the data on a different machine that can be secured properly.

Hi,
I've just tried to change the hard disk of my M4000-P.
Here is my problem : i can see the box when connected through usb to my computer, and all my files. But when connected to the tv, the Tvix is unable to see the file :confused:...
Got the latest firmware 2.2.7, hard disk ntfs, single master, folders names ok.
New hard disk is a 500 Go western digital caviar blue.
Someone's here got an idea for me ?
Thanks guys,

Loïc

I take it that you formatted the HDD in a PC. What is the cluster size? I don't know what, if any, limits TViX puts on that parameter, but if you made non-default clusters that would be my first guess as the problem source. Next would be the MBR--is it standard?

Formatted in a pc yes. Is there another option ? Is it possible to format the drive "through"(?) the Tvix to avoid any cluster or partition size problem ?
I'm ready to format it again if needeed
Thanks TPeterson

Effectively, no. Unlike some devices that have formatting routines built in, the TViX HDD is always formatted via another OS, be it Mack, Windows, or Linux. But you can do the job with the HDD inside the TViX, via the host USB connection. I'm not sure that this would avoid the problem that you're seeing if you were to choose the same formatting parameters, but if you use Windows and leave everything at the default values you should be OK.

Ok, i will try this again
But found another thread on this forum
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=778342
that is possibly quit annoying. Seems that this box have some trouble with WD Hard Disk.