Official LG BD550/BD560/BD570/BD590 Owners Thread - Page 101

Hem, you might want to consider this a blessing and hold off on updating...
My BD570 updated the firmware without any issues yesterday Monday, but the really sad news is that I cannot see my MKV movies through DLNA anymore! I can only see AVIs and MP4s, WTF?
Anyone else experiencing this?

That does not work for my BD570. Often, the DLNA servers show up last in the list, after the CIFS shares.


I have not updated my BD570 with the most recent firmware - I attempted the update but it could not download, and after reading about the current troubles have decided to wait another week before attempting it again.


That is not possible. There are too many network interdependencies on those shared folders to change their names easily.

What I am interested in examining is whether I can restrict from the server side which IP addresses can share those folders. Since my BD570 has a fixed IP address on the network, if I can tell all the CIFS shares not to share with it, then the problem would be solved. Any pointers on a fast way to do this?

Just got the 550 today to go with my new PK550 plasma. A few questions: 1. Does the Netflix app display HD movies? I tried watching two last night that said HD. One definately did not look HD and the other did. There is no indicator like the Roku I have that shows whether it is HD. 2. Does the Youtube app play HD? 3. What setting do I need to pass digital audio to the TV and/or receiver? Will just the "pass through setting work? I got it working to the receiver but not through the TV. It sends auio to the TV but the audio coming out to the amp from the TV is not digital. Maybe it's the TV. Maybe I need better HDMI cable. (Standard cable from monoprice.com)

Thanks in advance for the replies.

What are you using to stream your files? The problem might be on that end.

Can anyone confirm if the LG BD570 or BD590 can fast forward 1.5x with audio like the PS3? Thanks!

I am using a Windows Home Server, which is a DLNA approved server. It was working fine the day before, and for the last 6 months, really, I could stream MKV until I updated the firmware on the BD570. They simply disappeared, and I am left with AVI and MP4...

That is why I suspect it's a change in the firmware, without change log from LG, it's hard to tell. Therefore I wanted to check with the other people on that list who updated their BD570, see if they experience that regression as well?

I don't use DNLA, I just read the files straight from the folder on my hard drive and things are working great. I just watched an MKV file streamed from my PC yesterday.

Take a look at this post from 11/17 about home media center from @DeAd MiKe187 http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showp...postcount=2722

It sounds like you might have the same issue.

Thanks! Looks like I'll have to convert my music library to a different format to make it work.
BT

I imported all the music in my zune library to the LGs harddrive which organizes your using gracenote and provides a surprisingly nice interface. I think you could add an external drive to the 570 and do the same thing with your itunes music.

The only problem there is no automated syncing, so if I add music to my Zune library, I need to remember to manually copy it to my LG's harddrive.

UIPDATE. It did eventually work after several more tries the next day. Took at least 7 attempts.

I reported in the past I had 3 usb drives that were dead after plugging them into the 590.
Still true, can't do anything in windows to reformat (in or out of usb case, XP & vista).
Any way to make a long story short "they all reformated in the 590 and worked so far with 30 gigs of data" All 1 tb drives. So I guess I can use them in the 590 as needed.
Must mean somehow the 590 locked them to it.
At least I can put more HD files on now

ive been through this thread til it about killed me, but still cant find for sure whether any of these LG players stream ISO files or not. ANyone?

thanks in advance,

They do not stream ISO files directly. You may be able to find a DLNA server that will transcode, but the LG units will not handle ISO files natively.

thanks. im surprised that no one has jumped on the iso thing yet, other than dedicated media streamers it seems.

the BD570 is Nero friendly right? I know their TVs are.

Yes. It even comes with a Nero CD.

Any update from the guy who lost his MKV files? I would really hate to hear that the last update took away MKV support or something. Can you play them off of a USB?

About Netflix HD, yes it will play HD, In the show or program info, it will list if its in HD, there is not any indicator to let you know your in HD, but you should be a able to see a pretty big difference if the content is done right. It seems the "HD" quality is very hit or miss with Netflix. Try out Stargate Atlantis series, I think it looks pretty darn good for Neflix HD, also a great show.

Youtube is not in HD, which is a bummer and why I really don't bother with it.

Maybe someone else can help you with the rest.

Agreed. I did notice that it gives you the opportunity to log in with your YouTube account. I wonder if you have your account set up to display videos in their highest quality by default, if the LG player will recognize that (once you are logged in) and play HD videos in HD.

NICE! Thanks. My LED LG TV came with the CD too. I already have Nero on my computer and running smoothly. Is also VERY easy to use.

No. 323.c sees my MKVs through WMP12 DLNA just fine. Any chance that MKVs somehow got un-associated with your media server?

I'm playing a 720p mkv anime video file and the bluray player is filling in the whole screen when there should be the black borders on top and bottom, thus cutting off part of the video. It also cuts off part of the subtitles.

I've tried changing the resolution (720p / 1080i / 1080p) without any sucess. I can zoom in, but it won't let me zoom out.

Anyone know how to fix this?
I have a Samsung DLP TV and the LG BD570
Thanks!!

That sounds like too much to be overscan... But I will ask anyway. Is your TV set to 1:1 pixel mode? As in, have you made sure that there is no overscan going on?

I played around with the 550 (AUS) today and it's pretty average, it played 2 out of 3 mkv's, all divx and jpegs, connecting via composite looks terrible, under HDMI the menu looks better and makes videos looks a little better but all of the divxs looked heavily compressed, playing them via the HTPC/XBMC look heaps better, not sure what process XBMC use to make them look better but LG needs to pinch their idea, one of the MKVs seems to stutter/freeze every few frames and it looked interlaced with jaggies. Looks like Dad will have to wait another few more years yet.

Thanks! That does suck about YouTube not being HD.

I am not using WMP12, I am using Windows Home Server, a NAS with built in DLNA...
Will try again tonight after rebooting everything...

My 2 tb drive just came in so I am about to upgrade the drive in my LG590 and then burn all my BDs to MKVs and put them on the new harddrive. I plan on ripping them all at full or very high quality with the TrueHD or DTS-MA audio streams.

Before I get started, I want avoid some aggravation and make sure I am have a better BD conversion method then I am using now. The problem is I have a patchwork system I got somewhat working for creating these files, but more than half the time after several hours of ripping and converting I get a file that has one problem or another.

Can someone point me to a tried and true tutorial on how to back up BDs to MKV files to either full or slightly compressed quality that works well for you? There are "how tos" all over the web and it seems each one uses a different set of software tools and steps.

I just received a Lg BD 590 as an early Christmas present. I have to read how to set it up and I intend to hook it up through my Denon 2309CI AV through HDMI. Do I need to go to LG and update the firmware out of the box?

My internet connection is only Road Runner lite. How fast do I need to increase the capability?

This is my first Blue Ray.

How do you adjust the overscan on a Samsung DLP? I looked in the display settings of the TV and didn't see anything. From what I know its 1:1. I also have a HTPC hooked up to the TV and it looks fine.

where do I get the firmware updates for this

Hi all,

Just got my BD570 last night (first BR player) and hooked it up to a Vizio 1080p LCD panel with a HDMI cable. Set-up was a breeze. Hooked up to my home Wi-Fi network very easily, and installed the latest firmware (.323). The firmware installation took a couple of tries, after it aborted the first time. Set the player to output 1080p to the TV.

Youtube, VuDu, Pandora and Netflix work fine so far. I don't own any Blu-ray discs yet, but put in one of my daughter's Harry Potter DVDs (Half-Blood Prince, I think). The DVD loads very fast, much faster than my geriatric Toshiba, so I'm impressed.

Problems: With my old Toshiba, I don't remember seeing the "black bars" at the top and bottom. IOW, the picture filled the whole screen. With the BD570, I get the black bars regardless of how I try to output the picture (1080i, 1080p, Full, and one other option I forget). I didn't try any other DVD as it was running late, but will try that tonight and see if it's a DVD-specific issue. Any pointers on how I can avoid this? Picture quality otherwise is absolutely fantastic. I can't wait to see a real Blu-Ray! This didn't happen when I expanded YouTube videos, but did happen with a preview of a VuDu HDx movie.

I made a half-hearted attempt to connect to my PC over the wireless network, but it wouldn't recognize the user name and password supplied. I'm running a Windows Vista machine. I remember some mention of this issue in this thread, and will search for the solution. Worst case, I'll try loading the Nero software to see if that works.

One other minor hiccup was that after I first entered my WiFi network info, it said it was connected to the network, but -not- to the internet. It was a little weird, as YouTube worked, but Pandora didn't. I was also able to d/l the firmware update. After the update was installed, it hooked up to the internet just fine and Pandora worked as well. Not sure if this will repeat, but it seemed to have fixed itself...

Thanks all for the help.
BT [No, I haven't even opened the manual yet! RTFM is on my to-do list for tonight]