Official OPPO BDP-95 Owner's Thread - Page 207

Originally Posted by neutron77

Foobar (with Upnp plugin) --> DLNA (wired ethernet) ---> OPPO is very reliable and can handle flac/wav perfectly.

Question: when you HDMI from your laptop to the receiver, does your laptop downsample before sending over HDMI? if you use foobar for this, you need to add and configure the WASAPI output support to ensure the HDMI exactly streams the original wav format.

Originally Posted by Lotus00

Is this necessary for any connection whether its HDMI or not when playing through foobar? Do you know if media monkey does this too? Thank u

Originally Posted by neutron77

Yet MORE marks for the 95
And regarding ultra-low frequency response, let's not forget that in a few years, with full inner-ear reconstruction and bio-engineering, we will have ears which can ACTUALLY hear down to 1 Hz .. wiiiiiiiish ~ woooosh!

Originally Posted by neutron77

This isn't a big deal but I noticed that USB playback does not support QUAD wav files (it skips over them, at least the ones I tried). Stereo, 5.1 and 7.1 of course playback properly.

Originally Posted by Lotus00

Do you prefer USB playback to DLNA?

Originally Posted by Bob Pariseau

You might try setting the player to output RGB Video Level instead of YCbCr 4:4:4. If you see no quality difference then that's a simple workaround which may keep your display happier as regards the HDMI handshake.

Also, if the problem goes away when you set the player to 1080i (not 1080p) with Deep Color OFF, then that suggests a bandwidth problem which can often be fixed by upgrading your HDMI cables. If you have an AVR in the middle, then the HDMI cables on either side if it could be the culprit.
--Bob

Originally Posted by lordvader


Hi.

So I spent a bit of time this weekend going through all the possible settings, and no matter what I chose, the player would still startup with the pink screen (I tried all the YUV and RGB options, plus all the HDMI black levels).
HDMI2 didn't have any of those issues.
What I did notice though, was that when I get the pink screen, the "HDMI1" icon on the player is not lit up.

Again, powering off the player, then on again, will show everything as normal.

I'm at a loss, cause once it's working, it's fantastic, and I really hope its not an issue with the player, 'cause having to send it back to Oppo will leave me without it, and then I'll be sad

Originally Posted by ksubrama

Did you try switching the HDMI cables between 1 and 2?

Originally Posted by lordvader


Physically unplugging and replugging the cable is fine. It's just on that initial powerup.

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

I've only seen this occur with DTS files. The DTS specifications require that the player use the number of channels the DownMix is set to when the player is decoding, and not the number of channels the original source material is.

So if the source file is DTS 5.1, and the DownMix is set to 7.1, then the player will output a 7.1 signal over the analog outputs.

As far as I know, the player only supports 5.1 WAV, and not 7.1. It is possible that the incompatibility with your soundtrack is causing the player to do incorrect speaker matrixing.

Originally Posted by lordvader

Physically unplugging and replugging the cable is fine. It's just on that initial powerup.

Originally Posted by neutron77

For those who are only interested in STEREO audio playback, there are 3 choices: dedicated stereo outs, XLR outs and MC FL/FR which are available simultaneously.

Originally Posted by Lotus00

Not really sure and did not follow up but something is going on with certain hdmi cables and copyright protection built into certain blu-ray discs (??). I'm not quite sure but am interested to know what is going on. Thought I would share and this just happened a couple of weeks ago.

Originally Posted by neutron77

For those who are only interested in STEREO audio playback, there are 3 choices: dedicated stereo outs, XLR outs and MC FL/FR which are available simultaneously. But wait, what about those other 2 unused analog MC channel pairs (SL/SR and SBL/SBR). One interesting capability (not presently available) would be to electronically switch the FL/FR stereo content to SL/SR or SBL/SBR if you have a complex situation with several amplifiers say and don't want to manually switch cables. I dont know if the chipset design would allow this in firmware.
However another interesting possibility is to start with a stereo wav file (say) and then create a 7.1 wav file with content in the SL/SR and SBL/SBR channels that is identical to the FL/FR (the content of C and LFE channels doesn't matter if the speakers are set at LARGE). This is easy to do.

Result: 5 simultaneious outputs with the identical stereo content:
Dedicated Stereo FL/FR
XLR FL/FR
MC FL/FR
MC SL/SR
MC SBL/SBR

Originally Posted by lordvader

Hi.

So I spent a bit of time this weekend going through all the possible settings, and no matter what I chose, the player would still startup with the pink screen

Originally Posted by BIG ED

Are you only talking analog?
Cause there's a lot more than 3 stereo outs.
2 HDMI
+
2 Digital [coax & optical]

There are seven ways too get two channel audio out of the 95.

Originally Posted by Lotus00

I just tried to play video_TS files from my USB drive thats connected to back of the oppo. It comes up blank, it shows the video ts folder but not the files. These play fine from computer directly through the receiver but dont like that because the receiver dacs are inferior to the oppos. I powered down oppo and unlugged the drive and still nothing. Its a new western digital drive. Cool, one more thing to tweak

Originally Posted by wmcclain

The player does not recognize VIDEO_TS directory structure as such, but it should see and play individual VOB files. Make sure you are using the Video section of the browser, not Photos or Music.

-Bill

Originally Posted by wmcclain

As a diagnostic, have you tried varying the order each device is powered on? For example: display first, player last?

Are you going through a switch or receiver? When you have a pink screen, does switching off of HDMI1 and then back again have any affect?

-Bill

Originally Posted by lordvader

So I had another play.
Order doesn't matter. I always have the display on first, but player first doesn't make a difference either, as does switching inputs.

I did notice that I don't get the pink screen if I switch inputs while the oppo is still saying "hello" (so I have a 2-3 second window).

as does switching inputs.

Originally Posted by cwt

You havent confirmed yet as asked by Bill and Bob afaik whether this is direct to the display and not passthroughed an avr ?
wouldnt expect so unless the implication is switching in an avr?

If possible I would borrow another 1080p/24 source player and see if the samsung plays nicely with its edid if you havent allready..

Originally Posted by Bob Pariseau

The OPPO powers up in RGB and then loads and switches to your choice of video settings. It sounds like your display is having trouble making the switch.

Set Video Setup > Primary Output to the HDMI output you have going to the display.

Set Resolution to 1080i.

Set HDMI > Color Space to RGB Video Level for the output going to the display.

Set HDMI > Deep Color OFF for the output going to the display.

NOTE: HDMI 1 is the connector towards the middle of the back panel. Check you are using the output you think you are using.

Set HDMI Audio LPCM.

Set Device Setup > HDMI CEC OFF.

Set 3D Mode OFF.

Set 1080p/24 OFF.

All if these settings are intended to simplify the handshake.

Now go to your display and look at the settings for the HDMI input you are using. Look for a setting that controls the expected input data format (color space). That should be set to Auto -- not to some explicit choice such as RGB.

If you also have HDMI from the AVR to the TV, disconnect that for this test.

If your TV supports HDMI CEC control functions, turn that off.

Test to see if things are working properly. If not, you'll likely need to call OPPO tech support to continue diagnosing this.

If things are working properly, then restore your preferred setup one item at a time until you find the culprit.
--Bob