Official LG BD550/BD560/BD570/BD590 Owners Thread - Page 192

Its like climbing a mountain because its there and maybe a pot of gold on top or maybe not

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How come i still only have the youtube, picasso and weather programs on my 570C? i have the new update and still some mkv and avi sound does not work? Works fine on the computer but not player?

Only the US players have the other features like netflix, mlb.tv ... regarding mkv, avi, well there's nothing you can do, the player is quite picky on format and it all depends how the particular mkv has been encoded. There's too many factors to take into account.

Perhaps because this one was in response to an issue with a particular title. Personally--and call me crazy--but I do like to be able to play all of my BRs.

Personally--and call me crazy--but I do like ALL the functions to work correctly more than ONE BD title to be able to play (which ALL titles I am interested in/played have done so readily).

BTW, WHICH "particular title" are you referring to?

The Evil Dead. Anchor Bay I believe.

Successfully updated to 360C yesterday afternoon (middle of the day, no problem). It didn't take very long either. The only thing that I have been able to test is Netflix lip sync issue. As I reported with the previous update, Weeds on Netflix Instant still shows lip sync issues. Not as bad, but still there.
I haven't watched any BRs or DVDs to see if there are any other issues present.
Has anyone checked the 24 vs 60 fps issue with any of the recent updates?

And thus the reason for my initial question.

So apparently updating still is not in the future for me and my 570. FW .323 still seems to be the winner.

The issue could belong to Netflix, not WD. After updating the firmware yesterday, episode 20 of Flash Forward has an audio sync problem. However episode 21 does not, nor did a couple of other Netflix programs I tried. I reported the trouble to Netflix.

Valid, but as my LE5400 tv doesn't exhibit the same issue, I'm leaning toward the fw.

I'm with you, Splicer. Sticking with 323C also.

I updated my 590 2 days ago and watched 2 streaming movies. I was passing through the audio into PLII and I thought the audio sucked. Since the LG was not descrambling the audio I guess it is with netflix. I do have the LG set at 48K on the audio sampling and DRC off. I tried to switch to sterio instead of surround but that did not help.. I did play a Blu Ray disk and the LG selected DTS Master and the sound was great.

Anyone having trouble with playing MKV files since the update?
The update may or may not have anything to do with my problem.
I hit play on a file and the screen freezes on the blue background (doesn't show the file list anymore).
I hold the power button down to reset it.

is there any way to get TrueHD audio in an mkv container to work for my bd570? i read an earlier post that it should work, but it doesn't for me. can someone recommend me software to transcode TrueHD to DTS-HD?

This machine is making me pull my hair out.

After the previous update my 570 locks up and crashes to power off when trying to play any MKV.

It has now randomly stopped seeing my wireless network. I can't even get a connection manually. When I re-scan it picked up a neighbors......once. To reiterate, the wireless worked after the previous update. Nothing has changed- it just stopped working randomly.

Any ideas?


Another question, I am using WPA/WPA2 Personal encryption on my Airport Extreme- what does that equate to on their rather cryptic setup screen?

I intend to use my Denon AVR 1909 to perform the upscaling as I believe it can do a better job, so how do I turn off the upscaling by the bd570?

Any help appreciated.


Btw, I'm also trying to figure out how to turn off the same on my LG 50PK950.

Just use component connection as upconversion is disabled thru component. There is no way to turn it off using HDMI. But honestly, you won't see any difference. The 570 does an excellent job of upscaling. And your TV will convert whatever it gets to its native resolution anyway.

What version are you at?

As far as I know, those lossless formats are only supported when using Blu-ray discs, not when playing back files via USB or DLNA.

My previous Panasonic TV and Denon dvd player had those options... would be good to have the flexibility to do that cos I read some reviews that didn't like the upconversion abilities of the bd570.. anyway looks like there's nothing I can do about that except as you suggested. Thanks alot for the help.

mkvs with dts-hd audio work, i've tried it myself, but i guess there's no way to play an mkv with trueHD, for some reason. the only thing i could do with the trueHD is to passthrough the 640kbps ac3 only and mux that with the video. i haven't tested it though on a receiver that decodes trueHD, so i cant say for sure that it wouldn't work.

main ver: Bd.8.31.348.c
servo ver: H80602 (h08san)

You are not running the latest version of the main software. BD.8.31.348.C is not recommended due to the drop out after DVD chapter change bug and perhaps other issues.

You should install BD.8.31.355.c, which is available for download from lg.com or BD.8.31.360.c, which is only available via direct download using the player's update function as of this writing.

Ok, the latest update did fix the wireless, thanks. Strange it went out randomly though, after working for a while on the previous firmware.


One thing it did not fix was the stuttering on Children of Men. The disc is still unplayable.

BD Live is turned off.


*update*

And MKV's still lock up and crash the player

I can't get this to work for some odd reason. I think I downloaded it on my USB, then I connected to the BD590 once the main page was up on the BD player.

It did read the USB, but gave me three choices, Movie, Music, or Photo. I chose any one of the three (all three), but the file was empty, according to the BD590. Once I connected back on the laptop, I could see the files.

What should I do now? Still no Wi/Fi access since the last firmware upgrade request.

Did you unzip the downloaded files into the root of your USB drive?

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I think I'm going to have to join those who say AVOID the network updates ...

I had an earlier than I would expect firmware version for my recently bought 570 for its manufacture date of April 2011. My first experiences were rather horrible. Clouding any issues like DLNA and playback was a problem with dual layer disks that ended up needing a parts replacement. I used a network update to 356.c to make sure I was getting through on the network. When that did nothing to fix the dual layer problem I took it to the shop resulting in a fully satisfying fix. Then as I was exploring along with my home media via DLNA project 360.c came along. I decided I'd go on to that rather than leave issues to whether the next firmware would be different. In the midst of all this from purchase through 360.c playback on my burned (single layer) BD's was good but playback on my one burned BD DL and one burned BD-RE was awful.

At 360.c I was able to use Media Center DLNA as before but suddenly could no longer use Nero MH4 due to persistent network errors. I guess I am glad they don't replace the f/w on the web site right away as I rolled back to 356.c. The flahing took minutes compared to the 1 hour plus after the 6 hours of downloading for the network updates. I'll be more careful to collect my own set of website downloads as we go along in the future (I an not in the USA region).

Back at 356.c the same suddenly occurring Nero MH network errors were still there - not solved. I reloaded the Nero software and all is fine with it again. I suspect my loading and removal testing of a Nero Kwik style network 'sync-up' at an uncertain point in the timeline was the cause of the Nero MH4 problems.

And behold. Now, except for minor glitches my BD-DL and BD-RE disks are playing back perfectly, 5 days already. On the static BD-DL disk playback only skips, drops or whatever at two specific points now, consistently. On the BD-RE playback is now either perfect or maybe at 1 or 2 points different with every time the BD-RE is re-wriiten. I suspect burning irregularities are my only cause of playback problems now, and ratty network firmware updates are suspect.

HDMI Audio is not an issue for me yet as I am going only to stereo/PCM 2 to my HDTV and Trinitron for now.

I'm still working on my home media project and may have something to add on all these format things later.

Though I know that many users have downloaded the BD.8.31.360.C software update directly through their players over the last week or so, that update is now available for download at the LG.com US site for installation via USB or disc as well.

I have included a copy of LG's release notes for this update below:

"Firmware update for BD550/BD570/BD590
1. The new firmware will improve belows
1) the performance of BD-LIVE
2) the performance home key and Netcast key during canal playing.
3) the performance when set the language as french during 'Harry Potter' playing.

2. Countermeasure : Update to newest firmware

3. Firmware Version : BD.8.31.360.C

4. Upgrade instruction is refer to the "BD500's Upgrade Instruction.pdf" file"

Does the quality of the translation give you a warm an fuzzy feeling about the firmware?

Can anyone interpret the following?

"2) the performance home key and Netcast key during canal playing."

What is canal playing?