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3/1/13 at 9:37pm
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post #6152 of 6184
3/10/13 at 9:30am
How to find the elapsed time and time remaining for any iso file?? Can't seem to find the button anywhere, The best i could find is the timeseek one, to find out how far i am into the movie.
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post #6153 of 6184
3/10/13 at 12:14pm
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Originally Posted by csrini1 View Post

How to find the elapsed time and time remaining for any iso file?? Can't seem to find the button anywhere, The best i could find is the timeseek one, to find out how far i am into the movie.

Prett sure Time Seek is it.
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post #6154 of 6184
3/10/13 at 2:47pm
Hi Csrini,
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How to find the elapsed time and time remaining for any iso file?? Can't seem to find the button anywhere, The best i could find is the timeseek one, to find out how far i am into the movie.
If you are talking about a Blu-Ray, then Charlie's answer is correct, as far as I know. But if you are talking about a DVD, then you can push the "Popup Menu" button, and you will get the current time, the total time, the current chapter and the total number of chapters, as well as the progress-graphic. For Blu-Rays, the "Popup Menu" button does whatever was authored on the disc.
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post #6155 of 6184
3/11/13 at 8:36am
ok thanks. I have another question, when I connect external drives directly into ntv550, via front and back usb ports and go to folders, it says front usb1, front usb2, back usb1 back usb2 etc, depending on how many drives are connected. Is there anyway to get ntv550 show the actual drive name rather than front usb1/2/3.
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post #6156 of 6184
3/19/13 at 5:30am
I'm in the process of converting all my movie only BD-ISOs to MKV. I noticed last night that when playing Brave and Finding Nemo in MKV, that in each of these titles, that the audio would just stop playing. If I rewind a little, the audio starts up again and plays just fine.

Both of these are TrueHD 7.1.

I also played Enchanted which is TrueHD 5.1, and I didn't hear any problems while scanning through the movie.

The ISOs of the problem titles both play without issue.

Has anyone else experienced similar behavior?
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post #6157 of 6184
3/19/13 at 9:53am
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I'm in the process of converting all my movie only BD-ISOs to MKV. I noticed last night that when playing Brave and Finding Nemo in MKV, that in each of these titles, that the audio would just stop playing. If I rewind a little, the audio starts up again and plays just fine.

Both of these are TrueHD 7.1.

I also played Enchanted which is TrueHD 5.1, and I didn't hear any problems while scanning through the movie.

The ISOs of the problem titles both play without issue.

Has anyone else experienced similar behavior?

How do you have your HDMI Audio Output set on the 550, LPCM or Bitstream?

I have experienced problems with letting the 550 do the decoding so I use Bitstream.
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post #6158 of 6184
3/19/13 at 10:35am
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Originally Posted by RDHolmes View Post

How do you have your HDMI Audio Output set on the 550, LPCM or Bitstream?

I have experienced problems with letting the 550 do the decoding so I use Bitstream.

I have it set to bitstream, it does work as TrueHD lights up on AVR, but then all of a sudden (at the same point), the light goes off on the AVR, and I won't get any audio until I rewind. If I skip chapter forward, audio will begin again, but if I skip back to the previous chapter, audio will resume and then stop again at the same point. It's very odd.
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post #6159 of 6184
3/20/13 at 10:31am
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I have it set to bitstream, it does work as TrueHD lights up on AVR, but then all of a sudden (at the same point), the light goes off on the AVR, and I won't get any audio until I rewind. If I skip chapter forward, audio will begin again, but if I skip back to the previous chapter, audio will resume and then stop again at the same point. It's very odd.
you can do delete this mkv file and recode again?
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post #6160 of 6184
3/21/13 at 8:27am
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you can do delete this mkv file and recode again?

I can, but I think something else is the issue, as I changed the player to decode TrueHD and send PCM and it played fine through the trouble scene.
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post #6161 of 6184
3/23/13 at 9:56am
Looking for a 65 inch Sony? How much and when?
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post #6162 of 6184
3/23/13 at 9:56am
Where is the best price on this to check
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post #6163 of 6184
3/23/13 at 5:46pm
http://amzn.to/13XUqSG
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post #6164 of 6184
3/25/13 at 10:35pm
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http://amzn.to/13XUqSG

Amazon says 300 model is newer for 1/2 price?
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post #6165 of 6184
3/25/13 at 10:51pm
Hi Zoro,

Yes, the 300 is newer and it is cheaper. But it is also a different type of device.

The 300 is more of an Internet streamer, like Roku. It gives you access to a lot of Internet content, but it is not very good at playing local content. It cannot handle DVD or Blu-Ray menus, like the 550 can.

The 550 is more of a local content streamer. It does not have the Internet content that the 300 has, but can play almost anything you can store locally, including copies of DVD's and Blu-Ray disks.
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post #6166 of 6184
3/26/13 at 6:30pm
I'm specifically looking for a device to play local DLNA media - DVD and BluRay with pass-through of most audio formats (allowing the AV processor to decode). Is this an accurate evaluation of the NeoTV 550??

Thanks for any info!
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post #6167 of 6184
3/27/13 at 4:03pm
you don't need to use DLNA to play most media on the 550. You can just setup a network share and have it play them directly off the network share.
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post #6168 of 6184
3/27/13 at 4:48pm
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Originally Posted by thetoad View Post

you don't need to use DLNA to play most media on the 550. You can just setup a network share and have it play them directly off the network share.

Thank you! Gradually sorting this out...there's so many different directions I've followed with searches on 'network media servers', network media players', 'network BluRay storage', etc, etc. I now have AnyDVDHD (which it appears I will definitely need), CloneDVD (which I think I need if I need to store as .iso) and MyMovies which it appears I do not need....Thank goodness for trial downloads...

I have a 550 on order so hopefully I'll soon have a functional setup to start enjoying!!
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post #6169 of 6184
3/27/13 at 7:34pm
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Originally Posted by wyliec2 View Post

I'm specifically looking for a device to play local DLNA media - DVD and BluRay with pass-through of most audio formats (allowing the AV processor to decode). Is this an accurate evaluation of the NeoTV 550??

Thanks for any info!

Yes, including full BD ISO menu, which is not very common, also BDMV folder
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post #6170 of 6184
3/28/13 at 1:24am
The 550 isn't perfect (far from it), but for my needs of wanting to store my optical collection on a NAS, it seems the best bang for the buck. the main issue i've seen is that my blu-ray "1:1" rips don't always work, I blame this more on the tool though as getting a different rip with a different set of modified jar files (but with the same exact decode of the m2ts files with the actual video content) work fine. I've seen similar results with powerdvd / total media theater to believe its simply complicated to always rip correctly (as opposed to DVDs which are simple).

I've also noticed a problem with some mkv's where it seems to "buffer" the file a bit, so one doesn't see the first few seconds of the video, but after that it plays fine.
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post #6171 of 6184
3/28/13 at 5:21am
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Originally Posted by thetoad View Post

The 550 isn't perfect (far from it), but for my needs of wanting to store my optical collection on a NAS, it seems the best bang for the buck. the main issue i've seen is that my blu-ray "1:1" rips don't always work, I blame this more on the tool though as getting a different rip with a different set of modified jar files (but with the same exact decode of the m2ts files with the actual video content) work fine. I've seen similar results with powerdvd / total media theater to believe its simply complicated to always rip correctly (as opposed to DVDs which are simple).

I've also noticed a problem with some mkv's where it seems to "buffer" the file a bit, so one doesn't see the first few seconds of the video, but after that it plays fine.

On my experience these last few months with the NTV 550, many times it won't play an ISO I have over the network. It does a much better job with the ISO from an attached USB drive. The same ISOs though will play flawlessly over the network on my PCH C200.

Fortunately I mainly use the NTV550 for local ISO playback when I take it with me to my GFs house. It's too inconsistent for me to use for playback over my network.
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post #6172 of 6184
3/28/13 at 8:35am
hmm, feel like we are flipping threads here. smile.gif

I have a home built NAS (relatively lower power x86 ubuntu linux box) that sits behind a couch. I share to the 550 over smb via samba and have never had an issue that I'd attribute to that. how are you serving up files over the network?
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post #6173 of 6184
3/28/13 at 11:04am
I use a WHS and a couple of unRAIDs. The NTV550 is the only media player I have an issue with any BD ISOs over my network. I use both NFS and SAMBA for all my shares.
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post #6174 of 6184
3/28/13 at 12:25pm
the only clue I have is that perhaps it has to do with the neotv 550's gigabit ethernet problem (presumambly thats what you have). it needs a switch with flow control enabled, but I assume you know that already.
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post #6175 of 6184
3/28/13 at 1:57pm
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Originally Posted by thetoad View Post

the only clue I have is that perhaps it has to do with the neotv 550's gigabit ethernet problem (presumambly thats what you have). it needs a switch with flow control enabled, but I assume you know that already.

Then maybe that is the issue. I'll need to throw it on a 100BT switch.
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post #6176 of 6184
3/28/13 at 2:04pm
http://forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=66114

this amongst other threads describes an issue.

my gigabit switch is a relatively dumb consumer switch but it support it.
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post #6177 of 6184
3/28/13 at 7:34pm
I have no problems with well over 90% of my isos. samba gigabit network.
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post #6178 of 6184
3/30/13 at 5:55pm
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Originally Posted by MarkHotchkiss View Post

Hi Zoro,

Yes, the 300 is newer and it is cheaper. But it is also a different type of device.

The 300 is more of an Internet streamer, like Roku. It gives you access to a lot of Internet content, but it is not very good at playing local content. It cannot handle DVD or Blu-Ray menus, like the 550 can.

The 550 is more of a local content streamer. It does not have the Internet content that the 300 has, but can play almost anything you can store locally, including copies of DVD's and Blu-Ray disks.

Thanks Bro! Now I feel better;)
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post #6179 of 6184
5/13/13 at 3:24pm
OK, I'm frustrated now ))
Friend lend me NTV 550 before he was out of country and I absolutely love it, does everything I need, I mean plays my content from network shares and from external HDD, that's it.
And price was nice (80$ on amazon) but now when I need to buy it (because my friend returns from his journey) prices gone mad, 229$ on amazon.....I mean WTF? ((

Does anyone recommend cheap alternative?
Or does NTV 550 have a successor? My guess is it will be cheaper, because the only clue I have for that price is that NTV 550 is dropped by netgear and there are not so many left on market.

Any ideas what to buy for around 100$?

Thanks
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post #6180 of 6184
5/13/13 at 3:51pm
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Originally Posted by gizmik View Post

OK, I'm frustrated now ))
Friend lend me NTV 550 before he was out of country and I absolutely love it, does everything I need, I mean plays my content from network shares and from external HDD, that's it.
And price was nice (80$ on amazon) but now when I need to buy it (because my friend returns from his journey) prices gone mad, 229$ on amazon.....I mean WTF? ((

Does anyone recommend cheap alternative?
Or does NTV 550 have a successor? My guess is it will be cheaper, because the only clue I have for that price is that NTV 550 is dropped by netgear and there are not so many left on market.

Any ideas what to buy for around 100$?

Thanks

if you are playing local content only and dont need some of the streaming services. you have the popbox v8, wdtv, dune 303tv, then from there you get into mede8er 600x for 199$ pch a400 for 250$ dune bas3d around the same price.
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