Official OPPO BDP-93 Owner's Thread - Page 64

Easiest would be to convert my AVCHD to the most common and convenient video format that I can play on DLNA, preferably HD. What do you recommend I convert to for streaming to the Oppo?

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+1. Since these are pre-lease players I am willing to ride out some of the minor annoyances I have come across knowing that I can return the player up to 30 days post general release whenever that day will come.


Willie

I have my Droid Incredible connected to the Oppo via USB and it works. I had to pull down the top menu and check "Mount as a drive" when I plugged it in vs. "Charge Only".

So far I can navigate through the folders, view my images, play my .mp3 files as well as my downloaded podcasts. Very cool!




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I just noticed with my External USB attached HDD attached to the Oppo 93, the list of picture folders/files and movies are not in alphabetical order. I hope there is a firmware fix to better manager your file directories. Has anyone else experienced this?

Sorry if this is a repeat of an existing known bug.

i agree. the file browser leaves a LOT to be desired...there are basically no options on how to view it...its oppos default and thats it...i hope they add some options for this.

No, I wasn't as I didn't even know about Oppo until the beginning of this year and then nabbed one. I'm excited to be part of it on the 93. I'm really just trying to help so Oppo has a place to see which receivers tend to have these audio issues since the ones they have don't seem to reproduce this issue inhouse and their response to me is that they don't see this problem. I love the product and am just trying to find a way to identify these issues to specific AVRs is all. I can see how some may look at it that way, but I think those folks are going to see it that way no matter what, just read this thread.

By the way, it's not really an audio drop out. I've really never had audio dropout issues with the Oppo players which do happen with my LG BD390. This is a specific cut off at the very beginning of a title, chapter, etc. that starts late after the video. Usually about 1.5-2 seconds after the video starts. So I don't hear the 20th Century Fox theme's opening drums when the feature begins. Once the audio kicks in, I can hit the previous chapter and start it again and it then it plays from the start.


No problem, I understand. The only reason is because the issue exists on the 83 and was never fixed. Assuming it can be fixed as it may legitimately be an AVR issue.

I hope that Oppo solves this problem ASAP and removes the restriction of having the folder named as "AVCHD"

That is the way it usually works with the PS3. With the Oppo the Droid goes into some debug mode and I never get to the mount stage.

I thought the AVCHD folder name was part of the spec. You need someone of telling if this subdirectory is meant to be AVCHD or just some assortment of files.

-Bill

Initially I was able to successfully connect (and utilize) a G-Tech 750GB external hard drive (NTFS format), via eSATA, to my Oppo BDP-93. At the time of this initial successful connection, the external hard drive had only a few files on it.

I subsequently added several hundred files to the subject hard drive and reconnected the drive to the Oppo. Unfortunately the Oppo no longer detected the subject drive when it contained several hundred files.

Do anyone have any thoughts or observations on this behavior?

Mine is working. I have the phone plugged into the USB extender cable that came with the 93 and that is plugged into the back of the 93. I don't use the front USB port since I have toddlers and they will break it off. Also, my Incredible is running firmware 2.2 (froyo).

How is yours connected?

Did Oppo indicate they intend to change/fix this in s future firmware when you emailed them?

What is the time frame that I can purchase an extended warranty for my 93? How many of you have purchased an extended warranty from Oppo?

Thanks!

USB to the front. I have original Droid running 2.2

I'll try the extender.

Make sure that on your phone under Settings->Applications->Development USB debugging is turned off (probably good to have all options under it turned off).

If you want to know for sure, you could download the VLC media player which is a free download and will play most all media types. If you have it, then you can just hover your mouse over a file and it will give you all the information about that file, including the codec, bit rate and bit depth as well as indicating whether it is lossy and what quality or lossless.

+1.

Another user here that hopes Oppo improves their rudimentary file browser. In fact I've now started contemplating returning the Oppo and going the NMT player + DVDO duo route (don't know why I didn't consider it earlier). A lot more money, but then it gives a lot more options too.

Watched second NFlix streaming HD movie, and it went well, with good PQ. Had a lockup though, and it took the player about 30 seconds to turn itself off, after a power button push. I loaded Netflix, realized Source Direct was still on, so I hit return and left Netflix. Cut 1080p on, then clicked the Netflix icon. Player froze on the Oppo screen.

There are two ways one can achieve this. First is the trivial way, for example if the user hits the play button on the folder it tries to play it, if the internal directory structure doesnt match any it can throw a error message or navigate inside the folder. The second way would be to automatically determine if the directory structure matches a specific kind of disc structure and then play it else traverse inside, a second remote key could be used if the user just wants to navigate into the directory.

When I back up my discs I keep the named as what the title is. Just to play a title would require me to connect my drive to a computer rename the title and then connect the drive to player to play it. This is just a usability issue, which if solved would make it easier for the users.

I am new to using a media server and network and recently started using the JRiver Media Server. I finally was able to get the Oppo to see the server and was able to play some of my WMA music files, but I noticed that it transcodes them to MP3 over the network. Do all servers do this or can you select what file format you want audio files to be sent over your network? In my opinion, the transcoded WMA files did not sound as good as the same files played directly from the computer.

Scott,

I have the 83, not the 93, and we don't really use the network streaming much -- we have an AppleTV (and I just convert things we want to stream from the Mac to a format it can use), and we put digital files on a USB that anyone in the family can plug into the front and access. Obviously, the 83 doesn't have Netflix/Blockbuster streaming, so I can't help you there!

For Harmony use, I just use the soft button fields at the top. One of mine is labeled Blu-Ray Zoom for the Blu-Ray activity, and they all know to press that one until they get the size screen they want to watch. For resolution, I just leave the output always set to 1080p with 24fps enabled (not for DVD, although the 93 can't do that yet anyway). That way, no matter what the source, the output resolution is always as high as possible. This works great for all DVDs, BDs, and digital files I have tried. Sometimes the Oppo doesn't detect the aspect properly, but one button cycles through those just fine.

None of this is to say I wouldn't mind discrete codes, but I've learned to work around the ones that aren't present in a way that makes it easy on the family.

Thanks for checking that out!

Expendables Redbox rental played without error last night via HDMI 1 (bitstreaming) to my Pioneer SC-05, which is connected to a Pioneer PRO-111FD. I experimented with 1080p (audio lost sync with video) and source direct (all went well). With all my fiddling with navigation (pausing, rewinding, advancing), I lost audio once. Rebooting the receiver brought it back. Haven't tried any SACDs or DVD-As yet.

WMA lossless lossy is supported by the player and does not require transcoding, so this is a setup issue with your server.

-Bill

Or we could stick with the spec and you could put your AVCHD folders in subdirectories named for the title.

-Bill

If we had other players which did the parsing of the tree to detect the content, this would break the players that did things right. AFAIK the spec is not a published standard. It is something that Oppo or other players adopt to make their implementation easier. At the end of the day I advocate usability, which I think is the difference between something being good or great. Implementing the first method is trivial, it just exercises the "AVCHD" code path of the firmware when a key is pressed with a folder selected.

Bill: That is the way the media player came "out of the box'. I did not set it up to transcode the WMA's to Mp3, it just did that. However, as you may recall, apparently there is an issue with the Oppo not being able to play WMA's (confirmed by Oppo to me) at the moment, so I guess it would have to transcode these files to something the 93 can currently play. Hopefully, this issue will be shortly rectified and we can play 'em the way they come off the HD.

I suspect rectification will have to be on the server end. You might pursue this on the server support forums, or whatever they have.

I play WMA locally and over DLNA now. They are not transcoded to MP3. I'm using Twonky but I believe other servers work as well.

Standard WMA lossy only, not Pro, Lossless, or Voice.

-Bill

I have been trying to find out if my sony 55NX810 did 36bit deep color. I have posted in the forum for that tv but no response. Is there any other way that you all would recommend to me to find out if it did it. I gues I could just turn it on and see right?

I bought an extended warranty. I havent heard of others doing the same.

I contacted Oppo regarding the playback for backed up Blu-ray. They officially dont support the playback of the backups. But since they support AVCHD which requires the BDMV directory be nested inside "AVCHD" directory. I will not complain about usability now. Luckily in this world there exists symlinks. I guess I will just use symlinks to create a directory structure that works with Oppo and other players.