BD370/390 LG Blu-ray player Master/Owners thread - Page 151

720p and 1080i share almost the same bandwidth in a live feed...1080i has twice the amount of pixels at half the frame rate... but the codec, rather than the resolution, will have the most impact.

I was using my Airport Express running on G to stream recorded DirecTV 1080i MPEG4 from one DirecTV DVR to another.. you should give it a try..

1080p would be another issue.

Your BD390 can act as a USB master to access an USB harddisk/thumbdrive. And your mac can do the same. But USB master can't talk to master. That's why you can not play movie files by connecting a USB cable from your mac to bd390.

Your Yamaha doesn't have any preamp inputs (no 7.1 analog inputs). Your best bet is to use the SPDIF and set to SPDIF/Primary Pass-Thru still. It doesn't matter if you set the audio to 192KHZ or not, because the BD390 will not decode the audio. Instead it sends the full DTSMA/TrueHD stream to your receiver, which decodes the non-HD core part of the stream (DTS/DD in this case).

For you center channel problem, you can try DTS re-encode to see if that helps.

Got a BD 370 for christmas am loving the Netflix and YouTube but I am wondering. I got it to play MP3s and view pictures off of USB but is it possible to view videos as well on an American 370?

Uuumm... I thought Airport Express is based on 802.11g ...not N certified.

I'll look into it though

NM I just now noticed they upgraded it to 802.11 n

I am seeing something similar with a brand new BD390. Netflix shows a solid HD connection and plays fine. Vudu shows 1 bar in HD and HDX and constantly pauses playback. Any ideas? I have 5Mbp DSL so I don't expect highest quality HDX - but I would expect HD to be fine.

XBOX 360 (1080P) smooth streaming also works fine on this DSL connection and looks great

Ahhh makes sense. So I'd assume that due to the slower transfer rate of usb thumdrives getting a usb external hard drive would be the better way to go for streaming mkv files?

Wouldn't that depend on the USB drives? I know the SuperTalent USB flash drives I use get 25MB/s to 30MB/s(200mbs to 240mbs) transfer rates.

And that is a faster transfer rate than my WD Passport USB hard drive. Although the PAssport holds 500GB of data while the Supertalent USB flashdrive only holds 32GB.

That sounds right, I for some reason assumed the HD's would be faster. How fast would you need the USB flash drive to be for it to buffer the mkv file without any hiccups?

Hi,
I've given up ripping dvds with dvdDecrypter and DVDshrink, still unable to get the audio going (BD 390)... perfect image, no sound!

I'm know considering converting them into Divx, anyone has a suggestion for what setting/software to use to do this? Still mesmerizing how this player will not play VOBs correctly...

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

Can the 390 playback Canon HF20 camcorder video files?

If they're named .MTS, not directly.
Rename them to .m2ts, and it should play OK. Kind of a pain if playing back direct from the SDHC card (eg w/ USB reader) :-( but can work..

I can play back Panasonic and Sony and another Canon clip ok, w/ this trick...
but, fast-fwd/rewind doesn't typically work on user-produced/captured video files, use the Search bar.

If you can upload a small clip somewhere we can test to be sure.

OK thanks. I would go with HDMI but my Yamaha RX-V1400 receiver is a few years old and does not have HDMI. The V1400 is an excellent receiver and it was more practical for me to purchase a player with 7.1 analog than a new receiver of the same quality. BTW, the 7.1 analog works great on my setup.

i need help, got bd370 for x-mas got it all hooked up woorks great except i'm not getting hd sound. i have the bd going into yammy rxv465 that does true hd but not getting it, i've tried all different ways of settings in the 370,and direct and straight on the 465, shouldnt a light or something come on when its getting hd audio? what do i need to do? thanks for any help.

Try it with wired connection and see.... I'm not familiar with vudu

I am having the sync issues also, but it appears to be isolated to avi files only and to different degrees for each. Some just have a slight sync issues but others are more extreme. I have not decided if this is a deal breaker for me or not. I am considering the popcorn hour as an alternative.

First off... make sure that the disc you are playing defaults to TrueHD... some titles do not, and you must select it in the discs audio settings menu first.

Secondly, you need to have "Primary Pass Through" on..

What does the Yamaha say it is getting? Dolby Digital or Multichannel...

using star trek true hd is on, avr goes right to cinema dsp if i go to direct mode i only get l/r sound. i go into signal info on avr and it shows no bitrate sample and 3/2/0.0 instead of 3/2/0.1. ive tried every setting i can think of and not getting squat. i tried calling yamaha but of course thier closed, i just thought i would get some kind of light or something saying truehd or something.

Hi, got a LG390 yesterday and watching "The Searcher's" blu-ray disc I am noticing some serious lip sync issues. The LG390 was updated yesterday and has a September 2009 build date. Audio was checked using multichannel analog and coax. I have both connected at the same time, is that an issue? Or do I have a dreaded turkey on my hands? My receiver is a Integra DTR-7 circa 2000.

Yes, the receiver does have 5.1 analog inputs. But, if I use those inputs, how can I get HD sound if my receiver does not decode it? And, to make matters a bit more complicated, the Receiver is not in my primary theater room, and is only connected to a 3.1 speaker system (no rear speakers), so I am using the Yamaha's "virtual" sound fields to create surround sound effect.

Thanks much.

-Steve

Actually, it does have 5.1 analog inputs. Please see the reply I just posted to Eddie E's post. Does this information change your opinion on the best way to go?

Thank you!

-Steve

Inglourious Basterds, was the first BD movie I tried in my new 390.

I had two glitches occur repeatedly.

First of all, when left on pause for about 5 min, it would go into the screensaver. After pressing play, it would not come out of the screensaver and continue displaying the picture or produce sound. The front panel display showed that the movie was playing.

The other problem was intermittent. Sometimes, the title menu would not display the menu options. The front panel display showed MENU and the background was running it's normal loop, but navigation was not possible.

The only way I could finish the movie, was to re-boot and start over.

Do you have the latest firmware?

I just got one of these for Christmas and have had the same problems you mention. Hopefully the LG folks will come out with a new firmware that deals with these minor but annoying glitches.

Yes, I do.

On the info page does it say "PCM" or what?

If both SPDIF and HDMI audio are set to "Primary-Pass Through" you should try an connect the SPDIF and see if the Yamaha is receiving Dolby Digital...

If there is no bit-rate or sample rate on the display, and no codec listed, it really sounds like a Yamaha issue.. the player cannot remove the .1 from the codec, and if you don't see a sample rate, something is definitely wrong...

You should also change the HDMI output to PCM Multichannel and see what the Yamaha reports... if the player is doing the decoding, you should see PCM Multichannel, 3/2/0.1 and 48kHz on the Status screen...

Good luck...

You could try another player, but I highly suspect the Yamaha...

I have an LG BD390 I got for Christmas for the wife along with a Pioneer VSX-1019AH-K AVR to update my aging Pioneer VSX-515K and it all works beautiful for the most part. I got a copy of Inglorious Basterds to test out MKV file streaming on my network. I copied the file to my file share and can navigate to the share but the file does not show up on the screen??? So I copied it to a 16 GB. thumb drive and put that into the BD390 and again nothing???? Can open the thumb drive but the file does not show up. Am I missing something here or is this just a limitation of the player. This file is a 1080P MKV file and from what I understand others have been able to play MKV files directly on their BD390's. I have the latest firmware update as well. I was able to use ConvertXtoDVD to re-encode the MKV file to some other format and burned it to a DVD and it plays on the BD390 but the streaming stuff doesn't seem to work. Netflix works fine as well as Vudu. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Thanks!

I am using a wired connection