I'm posting to try to quantify if my problems are common, and occurring to everyone. I've read the complete thread, and the 105 one too. My first big caveat is that I am running the Taiwanese firmware version 10XTW-77-0827, and the latest Android Mediacontrol app. When I purchased the player I got assurances that they would/could put the US firmware on it for me, BUT that only their staff could install it. I didn't want to send the player off, or shlep it around town, so I've been lazy in actually flashing the US firmware. I have done everything I personnaly could to the player however. I have tried every setting combination mentioned here, especially quick start etc. After 6 months of crap it's time to put it here, so others who are contemplating a purchase of this unit might have an idea of the downsides. I hope I'm just an anomaly, or it's a few lines of errant code in a backwater version of the firmware. I have no questions that software is hard to do well, and maybe at this price/sonic quality well crafted software is the trade off?
The unit is stellar sonically, but a softwre nightmare. I realise that noone else here will be running the Taiwan firmware, but lets just try to quantify if any of the issues I'm having are cropping up in the English speaking world.
Just to be clear on my architecture as mentioned in my signature, I run wired Ethernet from the Asus router to NAS and to the Oppo. There is a printer on the network, but it's wireless, and rarely on (it requires being started manually to work, it's not in standby "listening"). The Oppo and NAS are the only two static IP's on the network all 10 or so other devices get DHCP. I use the latest version of the Android app as my control interface on several different devices. I have about 2000 mostly .mkv video files in a relatively compact directory tree, and maybe 40,000 .mp3 and .flac files sorted by artist in each flac or mp3 folder on the NAS.
My issues:
1. The player becomes unresponsive to the Android app, or Oppo remote if ANY files are added or deleted from ANY DIRECTORY on my NAS. The single file (video or audio) I'm playing will usually finish fine (if it was the first played since start/restart performed), but then the nightmares start. If the player attempts to play the next video file in the cue it will jump to some random file, not the next in sequence. Eventually this file will get blocky, then lock, and all that will fix it is a reboot of the player. Music does the same sort of thing, but it will stay in the album folder and most of the time finish playing the songs sequentially, but eventually the music will stutter, and the device needs to be rebooted.
2. Every time I turn the TV on or off the sound will cut off. This has been mentioned before as an HDMI handshake issue, but is unacceptable any time, but when volume levels are loud it is a complete PITA and I worry about my downstream hifi gear.
3. Almost always after about three of four shows, or two or three albums (between 1-3 hours of play) the player will become unresponsive to app or remote, stutter and require a reboot.
4. As a corollary to 3, often the app will show "player disconnected" and once this happens I know the stuttering will come as will the crash, so a reboot is required as attempting to reconnect the app will hasten the crash.
5. Any pausing or fast forwarding of video will hasten the crash of the player significantly. Usually once this has been done in one video any attempt to play something else will end in tears and a crash.
So, does anyone encounter anything like the above?