Samsung BD-C6500 Bluray Player------ - Page 51

Even after a couple of FW updates, the C6500 still seem to freeze up on BDs if you pause it long enough for it to bring up the screen saver. I had trouble over the weekend with both "Bad Teacher" and "Transformers DOTM". If you un-pause before the screen saver comes up, then it doesn't freeze up.

Ghpr13

That's the info I was looking for, thanks. I guess I'll just keep my fingers crossed for the next update

In my experience if the screen saver comes up, when paused, I just push menu. Then the movie comes back on, paused, and I am able to press play and it starts. Give it a try next time.

Thanks! I will try that.
Ghpr13

What do people do with the screensaver that comes up on BD's from Universal? There seems to be no way to resume play; I end up pressing STOP and having to reload.

Give it a try, seems to work for me.

I'm showing my pc icon on my bluray main screen , but how do I play pics or video from my media player to the tv ?? When I click on pics or vid on the BD, it says none are there. ????

What server software are you using on your PC? In any server software you have to add some shared folders containing video or photos or music. The Samsung PC Share Manager software is not so good because you have to manually refresh for it to pick up the content from newly-added folders, and it takes *forever*. You might want to try one of the better alternative servers, like Serviio.

Think I got it. I opened Windows Media Player, clicked on the stream tab, checked " allow stream to devices" Seems to work.

I have been using the miniDLNA software and it seems to work well with the C6500 and every other dlna compliant device i have. I have never tried the PC version as i use it on my Netgear Nas but i suspect it will work just as well. It is definately better than the samsung software.

The software is free and can be found here http://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/

i use my C6500 primarily as a streamer given that it never actually plays any bluray disks properly. :-)

That's odd on several fronts. We just finished a Band of Brothers marathon along with just about every other Blu-ray I have played in my C6500 with no problem at all. I have used the analog outs, Onkyo 603, and HDMI, Yamaha V765, for HD audio and it has worked great. The analog audio on the C6500 was better on my system than the Panasonic BD80 I had previously, plus the C6500 does Netflix. Speaking of Netflix as long as I take the disc out I have no problems there either. Is the C6500 perfect? No. Will it play a Blu-ray disc correctly? Yes.

I am starting to think I have a defective unit, or a really sensitive laser on mine. I did read someone who said to wash the disk in hot water to clean off any residue on the disk. When I inspect the disk they look perfectly clean, but I know I can't play Transformers 3 on it at all (get a disk can't be read error), my kids were watching the MIchael Jackson disk the other day and it started skipping and stopped playing. I also had similar issues with Planet Earth - Disk 2 where sometimes it will load and other times it will not. I had no problems playing the MJ and Planet Earth disk when I first got it, so either a firmware has messed up my player or the drive is failing on the unit.

I don't think it is under warrenty anymore, so it likley not worth getting it fixed.

I have a BD-C5900 but its apparently very similar to the BD-C6500, and the problem arose once I upgraded the firmare from 1001 to 1012 (the latest).

Thank you for figuring this out so specifically!! I was on the phone with Samsung for 2 hours and their idea was to "send me a new remote." I decided they were batsH*t and tracked the problem down myself by comparing all my OLD archived files, turns out - anything I had made in MKVToolNix (mkvmerge) since 4.*.* through the latest 5.0.1 would not seek. I also checked some scene X264 encodes from DIMENSION and noticed they were still using mkvmerge 3.1.0 so I reverted back to version 3.1.0, demuxed and remuxed some files and VOILA - THEY SEEK NOW.

The so called "enhancement: mkvmerge 4.0.0 will no longer put all clusters
into a meta seek element resulting in smaller file size" breaks seeking on these Samsung's.

I am very unhappy that the latest firmware would "break" seeking, but I am thankful that I can fix any files just by remuxing them with an older version (or by setting that "--clusters-in-meta-seek" flag, which I have not tested yet.)


The main reason I upgraded firmware was I was hoping for MKV Chapter support, but alas I still can't get chapters to work on either my BD-C5900 or my Samsung LED TV UN55C7000 series which is quite similar firmware.

On an unrelated note, the UN55C7000 TV could still play and seek the culprit MKV files - but it cannot read aspect ratio flags for the life of it, leading to anamorphic DVDs encoded to MKV to show up with black bars on each side.

Yes, I can confirm that the error message is shown when You try to give it an upgrade file previous to the current verison. I also tried burning it to CD, and loading it off the CD and that failed also. I also tried renaming the file to a later number and that told me the file data was corrupted ;p

So no, you cannot downgrade the firmware on these afaik.

Wonder if this keyboard for there TV's would work?
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Keyboa.../dp/B005GYG0OU

I'm having a probelm with subtitles and DNLA. I have all srt files with same name as the video, but for some files, random files, they dont work. That same file in a USB drive works well on the player, anyone has a ideia?

After more research returning this for the Vizio VBR122 with qwerty keyboard on back of remote, not buying a $100 keyboard....rubbish i tell you!

sadly the current FW still has no chapter support also mkv-container embedded subtitles (subs that were muxed into the mkv-file) won't be displayed - only external. however multiple audio tracks work and anamorphic videos can be displayed with the correct AR if you switch the Fullscreen Button on your remote from Mode1 to Mode2 (streched to fullscreen) on the BR-Player not the TV. But I think there's also an option for that in the TV Menu (at least with newer Samsung TV's) - either where you can configure the options for various sources or in the tools menu.

upgraded to new Firmware 1024. No change in mkv-seeking.

to summarize: every mkv muxed with mkvmerge up to v3.4.0 seeks fine, since v4.4.0 up to the current v5.0.1 you'll have to use the command line parameter '--clusters-in-meta-seek' to make 'em seek again.

I was hoping the new firmware (1024) would bring Dolby Digital 5.1 to Netflix. Nope.

Do you think this unit will ever get the new Smart HUb thing samsung is loading in the new blue ray players?

Also can you have 2 different blue ray players using 1 account on netflix? can they access netflix at the same time?

Is anyone still having problems with the C6500 not playing after pausing the player when watching a BD? If I am away long enough that the Samsung's screensaver comes up, then when I press play, the BD comes back up at the place I had paused it, but the player will not play, rewind, fast-forward, nothing...I have to press Stop and hope that the BD offers resume play at the point i paused at.

This problem happened to me twice last night when I was watching the BD of the new X-Men movie.

If the screensaver doesn't have time to come up, then I never have a problem with the BD playing when Play is hit.

This is very frustrating

Ghpr13

Have you tried pressing menu first then play as I suggested before?

Anyone using PlayON with this device?

bguzman,
I will try that next time it happens. I don't know why, but for some reason I didn't catch that in your previous post (senior moment???). Thank you for stating it again.

Ghpr13

Does anyone know how to replace the apps on the home page? Specifically I joined MOG and would like to replace the "samsung help app", or the Hulu Plus app on the home page with the MOG app.

I'm having a minor sound problem with my BD-C6500. I have a 5.1 active speakers connected via analog output and my Sharp LCD TV connected via HDMI cable. I have another set of speakers connected to the LCD TV (only 2.1 speakers, wich I'm using when watching news, etc. - not movies through Blu-ray player). When I play Blu-ray discs, everything is fine, sound is coming only from the 5.1 speakers connected via analog. But when I play 2 channel audio files or even mkv containers with 5.1 audio stream in it, the 2.1 speakers connected to my tv start to play along with the 5.1 set and the audio is desynchronized on these two sets - 2.1 set is playing rightly synchronized with the picture, and 5.1 set is playing with a tiny delay. This creates echo, which i certainly don§t like. I know, I can just turn my 2.1 speakers off, but that's not the righ solution, I want the 5.1 sound tu be synchronized correctly with the picture, as is the case when I play the Blu-ray discs. Anyone of you knows what might cause the problem? (Some sort of setting in my TV perhaps?)
Secondly, I have one more question about the audio DTS Neo:6 setting. When I turn it on to the Music/Cinema mode, does this affect only audio files which only have 2 channels? I'd like to have this turned on when I play my music CDs (I just prefer the sound coming from all the speakers, not just the front two), but I don't want it to affect (and somehow re-encode) the 5.1 streams of my movies. I assume, if that would be the case, I'd have to manually turn the DTS NEO:6 on only when I'm playing my music CDs. I also assume the player can recognize it and use it only to 2 channel audio streams, But I'd like to know whether anyone knows this fact for sure.

You can't get rid of the useless help app.

Why are you connecting your 5.1 speaker system via analog out from the player? You will not get 5.1 audio from that setup. At most you will only get Dolby Surround, i.e., left, center, right and mono rear. You want 5.1 audio, you'll need to use the optical output from the player or TV.

Decoding delays will be different. There is nothing that you can do about that.

I can't agree with you. The speaker system is connected through subwoofer via 6 RCA cables to the analog outputs of the player (2 fronts, 2 rear, center, woofer). As the sound is decoded in the Blu-ray player to PCM, I believe, it is sent to the analog output already sorted - if you know, what I mean. The sound is not remixed again in the subwoofer, it is only amplified there. Or am I wrong?