Official OPPO BDP-95 Owner's Thread - Page 343

Yes, it's true. Whether it matters is a different subject: your projector is already upconverting if you send it a standard definition signal.

The FAQ has links to backup software: What are the alternatives to .iso files? Emphasis is on Blu-ray, but the utilities shown evolved from DVD backup versions and still include that capability.

-Bill

 

thanks

Well, I've come across my first playback issues with my BDP-95.

First is trying to play Skyfall from HDD - file plays fine on my PC, but all I get is the Oppo screen and then the only way to get out of that is to turn the player off (as if the whole unit has crashed, like a PC when it freezes).
When I connect the HDD to my TV (Samsung D8000 plasma) it also struggles, getting as far as the "loading" screen for about 20-30s before turning the whole TV off and back on again.

The file is mkv, with the following codec info;
Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (Part 10) (avc1)
Resolution: 1920 x 800
Frame Rate: 23.976215
Decoded Format: Planar 4:2:0 YUV

The other file which gets a little further? is a few episodes of Archer. I'll get as far as the file having loaded, but then I just get a blank screen (no audio).
Same codec info.


Anyone had similar issues/found a resolution?

1920 by 800 is a strange resolution - how did you end up with that? Could that be causing display probs?? Is a computer and computer screen more adaptable to odd resolutions than Oppos and TV's??

^^^^^^^
Is your tv screen capable of 24p? (Could this be relevant if answer is "NO"? Over to techies)

Did you rip this yourself (presumably from a blu-ray)? What software? Could you rip it again and set the ripper software to more conventional resolution settings, maybe also a different frame rate?

It's probably an mkv file of a 2.35:1 movie.
I am having similar issues with my recently bought 95.

Hello all,

I have what I hope to be a simple question. I was thinking of purchasing a brand new iPod classic and downloading as much Apple lossless encoded music to it as possible, so that it could act as a "makeshift" media server in my system.

Understanding that the DAC on the Oppo is the best in my system, and certainly better than anything that Apple provides, can I correctly assume that if I connect the iPod with a 30-pin-to-USB connector that I'll be able to leverage the DAC in the Oppo when playing songs from the iPod?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

Unfortunately no. The USB input on the 95 only knows how to read from things that act like hard drives, and even then only if the hard drives are formatted in a way the OPPO understands (e.g., FAT or NTFS formatting). Simply put, the iPOD connected that way does not look to the 95 like a hard drive it knows how to read.
--Bob

Also I do not believe the Oppo will play Apple file formats in case that is what gets put on the iPod.

Does anyone know if Oppo 95 can output both the XLR and single-ended stereo outputs at the same time?
Thanks

^ Yes, it can.
--Bob

A 1 TB portable usb drive is around 90 bucks. You'll have to convert from apple lossless. I use flac.

That's a pain!

 

I heard Oppo was working on making their hardware compatible with Apple!

One option that doesn't require a permanent file conversion would be a DLNA server that can transcode the ALAC files to WAV or FLAC during playback.
Where did you hear that? I've seen nothing that says Oppo is working on adding support for ALAC or for connecting any iThingies (TM) via the USB ports.

I had not heard that. They actually seem rather anti-apple.

I do not believe that is the case.

If you use chips that do not support the format, nothing can be done.

There are so many existing open source lossless formats and now it is easier to do on-the-fly conversion.
That may actually hurt its adoption.

I have read that some folks have converted their alac to flac and stored them on time-capsule.

- Rich

Has someone of you done OP Amp upgrade to Oppo 95 with burson or dexa modules ?

I found this information when doing extensive googling in a forum about Burson discrete audio HD OP-Amp upgrades and Oppo was listed also in links. Here the translation:
oppo bdp-95 , eastern electric minimax dac plus (minimax good as such already, but can be upgraded or bought as upgraded from the German dealer; Op Amps are in sockets)

[side note: - the burson opamps are more expensive than the dexa new class D opamps, that are " kicking well but maybe too analytic ones" check them also in case you might like them]

Burson information and what distortion factor is achieved:
http://bursonaudio.com/DIY_HD_Opamp.htm
- "The distortion is really 0.0007%. Burson just claims less than 0.001%. Not only is the distortion low, but the higher-order products the ones that sound bad are almost immeasurable..."
- as a benefit the Oppo XLR line performance could be improved and by changing all of them the HT analog OUTs also

- Illustration of example installation as video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=sQ4zuQR6QBQ
- tight installation location with jump wires:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cM3QXmk87U...riModded5A.jpg
- check also the pic from here: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/digital-source/222596-oppo-s-bdp105-discussions-upgrading-mods-4.html (post #37)

Does someone know Umberto who added the bursons to oppo 95 for further modding information to know what other mods are needed that the bursons "fit" to the board ?

edi1t:
the oppo 95 op amps:
http://www.laaudiofile.com/oppo_bdp95.html
" Each unbalanced (RCA) channel is driven with a LM4562 opamp.
The balanced (XLR) outputs use a fully differential audio amplifier LME49724 for maximum performance. "

Burson Direct Replacement For The Following Opamps:
Dual Op-amps: AD8066, AD8620, AD712, AD827, C4570, JRC4580, JRC5532, JRC5532D, JRC5534, LF353, LM4562 , LM833N, NE5532, NEC4520, NEC4570, NJM2068D, NJM2114, NJM2214D, NJM4558, NJM4558D, NJM4560, NJM5532, NJM4558P, OP275, OPA2132, OPA2134, OPA2604, RC4558D, RC4558P, TL052, TL072

Single Op-amps: NE5534, LT1122, OPA627, AD811, AD844, OPA604, AD8610,& etc.

edit2:
Burson :
1. All listing are for matched pair of opamps (2 units)
2. their single opamp can be use to upgrade LME49724.

http://www.ti.com/product/lme49724
Key Specifications for LME49724
■  Power Supply Voltage Range ±2.5V to ±18V
■  THD+N  (AV = 1, VOUT = 3VRMS, fIN = 1kHz)
 RL = 2kΩ 0.00003% (typ)
 RL = 600Ω 0.00003% (typ)
■  Input Noise Density 2.1nV/ √ ^Hz (typ)
■  Slew Rate ±18V/μs (typ)
■  Gain Bandwidth Product 50MHz (typ)
■  Open Loop Gain (RL = 600Ω) 125dB (typ)
■  Input Bias Current 60nA (typ)
■  Input Offset Voltage 0.2mV (typ)
■  DC Gain Linearity Error 0.000009%

=> check further opinions in DIY page #11
Edited by Tommy_HT - 3/7/13 at 10:43pm

Have you tried the diy BDP-95 thread? http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/digital-source/190033-upgrading-modding-new-oppos-bdp-93-bdp-95-a.html

Cheers to everyone!
I've owned oppo bdp-95 for over a year now and quite happy with its performance.
However, considering an upcoming upgrade to 105 there's an issue that has to be solved with the appreciation of AVSforums' community.

So, me and a couple of other folks have come up with an offset/overscan (call it whatever you like) bug. And the interesting part is that one of them owns an oppo-93 and the other one has CA BD-751. They do share the video MTK decoder though. I suppose, the firmware for CA is also provided by oppodigital (might be wrong).

The help I'm asking from you guys is to run a few tests, using AVSHD.709 'Sharpness and Overscan' pattern and/or Spears & Munsil's 'Image Cropping' pattern. For this test you absolutely must know how-to and disable all of the available TV's screen protection features which circulate and move the pixels around in order to prevent image retention, and set the screen to 'direct' ('Dot by Dot' in my instance of Pio, for example) resolution output mode.

So here we go... I'd appreciate you keeping to the form below which already has my results. Fill it up with yours, and lets compare! The '+' means test passed/all outer lines visible/no overscan-offset bug revealed...

[HDMI-1] Primary Output HDMI-1

Source/Output Mode Results

S&M [1080p]:  +
S&M [1080i]:  top -1 line
S&M [Source Direct]: bottom -1 line

AVSHD.709 [1080p] : +
AVSHD.709 [1080i]: top no white line
AVSHD.709 [Source Direct]: bottom no white line

[HDMI-1] Primary Output HDMI-2

Source/Output Mode Results

S&M [1080p] : +
S&M [1080i]  : top -1 line
S&M [Source Direct]: bottom no white line

AVSHD.709 [1080p] : +
AVSHD.709 [1080i]: top no white line
AVSHD.709 [Source Direct]: bottom no white line

[HDMI-1] Primary Output Analog

Source/Output Mode Results

S&M [1080p] : +
S&M [1080i]  : top -1 line; right -1 line
S&M [Source Direct]: N/A

AVSHD.709 [1080p] : +
AVSHD.709 [1080i]: top no white line; right no white line
AVSHD.709 [Source Direct]: N/A

[YPbPr] Primary Output Analog

Source/Output Mode Results

S&M [1080p] : bottom -1 line; right -2 lines
S&M [1080i]  : top -1 line; right -2 lines
S&M [Source Direct] : N/A

AVSHD.709 [1080p] : no bottom line; no right line
AVSHD.709 [1080i]: top no white line; right no white line
AVSHD.709 [Source Direct]: N/A


*AVSHD.709 -  Sharpness and Overscan Pattern.
**Spears&Munsil - Image Cropping Pattern


PS: The most valuable info is regarding 'Source Direct' mode via HDMI-1 when Mediatek chip is used on its own and 1080p/Auto with Qdeo engaged.

Maybe someone can help me with this.
I have an Oppo 95 and a Yamaha RX-A3000 receiver. I use the analog RCA outputs of the Oppo and run them to my Yamaha and listen to 2 channnel with Yamaha pure direct 2 channel analog mode. I just use the Yamaha as a preamp, the fromt speaker rca outputs feed a 2 channel amp and the dual center, surround, and rear surround rca outputs feed a 7 channel amp.
I have the Oppo hooked up 3 ways, one hdmi to the tv, one hdmi to the receiver, and the dedicated analog rcas to the receiver. I recently tried some experimenting where I hooked the dedicated analog rcas from the oppo directly to the 2 channel amp. I thought it sounded pretty good, oh and I of course controlled the volume with the oppo. I was woindering if this would work or if there is a way. I want to keep the oppo hooked up to the receiver via hdmi but instead of running the dedicated analogs of the oppo to the receiver, I want to hook the oppo dedicated analog via xlr to my 2 channel amp.
So when I want to just listen to analog 2 channel I wouldnt even have to turn on the reviver and yes my amp have xlrs. Now Im wondering if I want to watch a bluray movie, the oppo would be hooked up to receiver via hdmi 2. Will I have a problem because my amp is going to have the oppo hooked up in 2 ways, one way with the xlrs and the other way with the receivers rca preouts feeding the rcas on the amp. I think Im going to have a volume problem with the xlrs or would I still be able to do this and just feather the volume down with the variable volume contol on the oppo.
I hope I explained this right so someone can offer some advice.


Thanks
Edited by darcman - 3/13/13 at 6:16pm

Neuromancer,

I run via receiver with 'direct' mode enabled(Onkyo TX-NR3009). It also passes content through HDMI in standby mode. Both ways produce same results
The display is Pioneer KRP-500A with ISF mode, 'orbitter' disabled and 'dot by dot' mode

The other guys' Pioneer KRP TV has these issues on a Cambridge Audio 751BD. Not sure whether he ran it direct or with AVR, but must guess, most probably, in direct since he compared 2 HDMI outputs and HDMI-2 in 'Source Direct' had no issues.

And the third one ran those tests on an oppo BDP-93 with a Samsung plasma TV while having similar results.

darcman,

Why not just go pure XLR for stereo with RPA-1 and oppo direct connection?
And use IPS-1 for multichannel with Yamaha's pre-outs RCA.
For Multichannel listening simply turn off the RPA-1.
Edited by k00zmi4 - 3/14/13 at 4:46am

On the BDP-103 I see no cropping on any combination of [HDMI1 and 2] x [1080p, 1080i, Source Direct].

On the BDP-93 I see 1 pixel cropped at the bottom on HDMI1 with Source Direct. 1080p and 1080i are ok. I didn't cable up HDMI2.

Component shows cropping at right and bottom at 1080i. 1080p is not supported and 23.976hz is not defined for component so no Source Direct is possible.

This is all by direct connection to a Samsung UN46B8500.

-Bill

I found that I had issues of overscanning between my oppo 93, panasonic gt25 and my onkyo rc270. I would get overscan on HDMI 2 going through the receiver. I never had any issues with HDMI 1.
I found that the using the oppo 24P would create this problem when I was using the video processor from the receiver. if I turned it off then it was fine. I used the opening logo from ghost in the shell 2.0. there should be a complete square and I would get only a half of one with thetop and left side missing.
I have used the HD basics and also the disney wow overscanning to show what was missing.
your news is interesting never the less. because i have talked with oppo, onkyo and panasonic about this matter.


Jacob

Bill, Jacob, thank you guys for your feedback! I really appreciate it. It's nice to see people care for the AV equipment they own and paid for. Great job, thanx!!!

This info means a lot to me and should be useful to other folks imo.

I noticed, most users don't bother/care on this issue, since I basically got no feedback at my local oppo dedicated forum, and here, at AVSf I was into a slightly more inspiring feedback and discussion.

Anyway, glad to hear 103 has no such issues with cropping. I assume it has an upgraded MTK chip, an 8580 maybe... So different software implementation is most probable.
I also have info the new CA752BD is doing fine on this topic also (oh, and it officially boasts the 8580)) Nah!!! Just received feedback with 1080i on 752BD Left Side Line Missing at HDMI-1 output!!!!


I still hope we get more user reviews on this, since oppodigital support I contacted via email earlier claimed no such issues are present on any of their models.

C'mon, oppo fans! It's a 5-10min test:) Sorry, any Cambridge Audio owners are more than welcome also!
Edited by k00zmi4 - 3/14/13 at 11:45pm

New "Public Beta" firmware is out. See the BDP-93 thread for details.
--Bob

Anyone here uses the analog out for movies? I already compared the dedicated analog out for music with that of HDMI & to me the analog sounded a lot better. A lot more "balanced" so to speak. That is how I will listen to music now on.

However for movies its a different story. Until yesterday I had only watched on HDMI since I didn't have 6 rca cables to connect so I was waiting for the cables to arrive. Yesterday they arrived & I promptly hooked them up. Luckily in my receiver I was able to do a sort of "A-B" transition while watching a movie. HDMI & then multi channel in & vice versa.

Once again analog sounded a lot more balanced, not bright, channel separation was very clear & the musical soundtracks sounded fantastic. Bass sucked. I had to increase the sub level a few notches in the sound setup of the Oppo. My receiver does NOT convert analog in to digital. It passes analog in without any processing. So i know the receiver is not adding any of its own noise. The roll offs were very smooth.

HDMI on the other hand sounded a lot more "sharp"? For instance when in Air Force 1 when the goons on the plane first load up their guns & insert the magazine into the chamber, the whole click-clack sounded very bright & attention grabbing. Channel separation was OK compared to analog. Bass amangement was handled by the receiver & it was perfect. I did have to notch it down a bit. personal preference. The roll offs here sounded OK.

What set HDMI apart from the analog was its authority. At moderate volumes I could get full engaging sound. For analog, I had to turn up the volume a bit compared to HDMI. I am using an Emotiva XPA5 for amplification so I know I am definitely not short on amp power. (200WPC x 5) And even then the sound is not that engaging? Dialog quality was the same on both formats.

Is this how its supposed to be? Opinions?

Granted I just spent time on one movie, I am going to try a few more later this evening.

^^^
You would have to volume match to properly compare the two.
Dialog Normalization can adjust the volume quite a bit so it could add say 7 DB.

If you can see a number +N on your preamp/receiver, then try turning the volume up appropriately on the 95 and see what you think.

- Rich

The volume on the Oppo is set to "fixed" or 100%. IS that what you were referring to?

It's kind of difficult to provide any advice without more details. What receiver are you using? Does it have room correction? If so, which type (Audyssey XT, Audyssey XT32, Anthem's ARC, Pioneer's MCAAC, etc.) and do you have it turned on? As Rich suggested, do you have any functionality such as dialog normalization turned on?

The bottom line is that you're not comparing analog vs HDMI. You're comparing the DAC implementation in the Oppo with the DAC implementation (plus any additional processing) in your receiver. Also, you can't assume that since your receiver doesn't re-digitize analog inputs it isn't altering the sound at all as it's possible for analog bypass to screw things up.