Official LG BP620/520/420/320/220 Owners Thread - Page 8

thanks for the tip, I won't update the firmware!

Wondering if anyone knows which audio codec's the BP620 can see in a MKV file?

 

A mkv with a A_AAC codec with 6 channels is reported by the 620 as 3/2.1 channels.

3/2.1 is the same than 5.1

THANKS!!

 

I had no idea. After your reply I looked it up and it seems that Sony also reports 5.1 as 3/2.1.

Make sure the TV has the most current firmware, v3.70.03, issued 08/10/2011.
LG Support for the 47LD950.

If you bought that TV back in 2010, and haven't updated it, that might cause a compatibility issue.

Thanks guys. I went with the BP220 as well. So far so good.

Good evening folks. I just picked up a BP320 and I have a question I hope you can answer. I have the BP320 connected to an LG TV via HDMI, but who watches a movie through the TV speakers? My older Rotel receiver does not have HDMI. I connected the TV optical output to the Rotel but don't get 5.1 sound, some mish-mash of 2.1 or 3.1. I tried using the coax audio out, but can't seem to get anything to the Rotel, only to the TV via HDMI.
Can I get 5.1 to my receiver? It is capable of DD and DD DTS.

See page 29 of your manual. I would try bitstream in the audio setup for the player, as that seems to be the only way to get multichannel playback through the coax output to the rotel.

Just remember to hit the "info" button when playing back a disc, and choose the audio format appropriate to the rotel. Different discs will default to different audio formats, and you will often have to change it to the one you want.
Edited by farkem - 1/3/13 at 5:46am

Also keep in mind that many (most?) TV's will *not* passthru DD 5.1 back out like this.  Mine doesn't.  So I simply have an optical (or coax in the case of my 220) to my AVR and HDMI to my TV.  My receiver is old enough it doesn't have any HDMI.  Then on my universal remote when I switch to the BluRay device it runs a macro which changes the AVR input to that of the incoming BR and the TV input to the HDMI for the BR.

Edited by bonscott87 - 1/3/13 at 5:30am

This machine will play almost any region. See page 57 of the manual for area codes, i.e. GB is Great Britain (region 2), US is United States (region 1).
Only downside is you have to manually change each time you change to a disc with a different area code.

Code is changed in the Settings, see manual page 31. Password 0000 is easy to remember.

http://www.lg.com/uk/support-product/lg-BP620

Cheazz

Whoa, hold on there. Are you really saying that by changing the area code it changes the region of the player (LG BP620)? Does this just change the DVD side of things, or does it also change the Blu-Ray region support?

I've got an R2 DVD (I'm in Canada, so usually R1) so I'm going to change area code to GB, power cycle the device and see if it'll pick up the disk, I'm somewhat sceptical that it'll work though.

*edit*
Changed it to GB, could not play R2 DVD (Serenity) Saw a message stating "Check regional code" and it ejected the disk. Popped in R1, plays it no problem at all.
Edited by sharkusmarkus - 1/4/13 at 8:04am

Regarding the above, I fooled with the region setting a while back when trying to play a European Blu-Ray. I can't say for certain if this affects DVDs, but it certainly didn't enable foreign Blu-Ray playback.

Howdy!
I am new to the AVS Forums and was hoping someone could help me out here, since LG is not getting back to me on it. Anyhow, I picked up the BP620 and was hoping to upgrade to 3D with the Blu-Ray (and maybe the VUDU service for streaming 3D content). So, here's my problem, I have the Viewsonic PJD1533 projector which is 3D ready. When I got everything together (I do have everything hooked up with HDMI 1.4 cables) the Blu-Ray player gave me the "your player has not detected it is connected to a 3D enabled display". Great. So, I did some more research and found that I needed a 3D video processor anyways. So i picked up View Sonic's VP3D1 hoping it would fix the problem. No luck (the projector is connected to the processor via a HDMI 1.3 cable, upon instruction of the processor). Everything as far as software for the BP620 is up to date. Also, the option for 3D in the Display Menu is grayed out to 'On'. Can somebody please help me?!
Any help would be much obliged!
Thanks!
-Alex

I think it's actually Viewsonic you'll be wanting to contact.

it must be 1.4

I am not sure... Everything else seems to work with 3d (Xbox, and Verizon Fios set-top box...)

Try reformatting the usb stick and reloading the video....The files may be corrupt.

hello guys,
I have the BP620 and i face the following problem : when i play .mp4 files via usb the image is not as smooth as it should be and the movement seems a little fake. I tried 24Hz/50Hz playback but saw no difference. However when i play the same movie from my tv (LG lm611s ) everything is fine. I have the latest firmware update both in my tv-bluray. Could it be a cable issue ?
Edited by tsakou - 1/9/13 at 10:24am

I am also having problems reading subtitles, but to me it seems that my BP620 doesn't recongnize them at all, from USB or DLNA. I checked everything, format of subtitles, settings nothing helps. Any ideas?

Baldeoran - what format are your films in?

I picked up a BP620 today to replace a Samsung C6900; the unit is connected to an LG LM7600 TV via a high speed HDMI cable. The pairing works great, puts out a very nice picture and all the network functions seem to work well so far. There is only one problem I've come across....

On my TV's input list which shows all the devices connected to it, the BP620 always shows as being turned on, even when it is powered off. Normally, when I turn on one of my devices, the TV recognizes that it has been powered up and presents a little pop-up screen which asks if I want to switch to that input. Because the TV thinks the BP620 is always on, I never get this option and must select it from the TV's input list; not a big deal but it does bug me that this device doesn't behave like every other one.

I've tried changing inputs, verified that there are no power options in the BP620's settings menus, and made sure that both the TV and BP620 have the latest firmware. I never ran into this problem with the old C6900 so I'm surprised that its cropping up now since both the TV and BluRay player are LG.

I was wondering if anyone has ever come across this problem or has any ideas. Thanks in advance.

Input content decides picture quality. So watching a ripped or encoded video depends entirely on the quality of the encode.

I get that, but as I say when I play the same movie from my TV's usb port the quality is better. I also noticed that the problem appears only in .mp4 files so i assume its a codec issue

I get that, but as I say when I play the same movie from my TV's usb port the quality is better. I also noticed that the problem appears only in .mp4 files so i assume its a codec issue

Is this dependent upon each Blu-ray disc itself? I just turned off the player midway through a movie, turned it back on, and it did not pick up where it left off. It went to the home screen, from where I went to play the disc again. It started at the beginning of the disc and forced me to watch the previews and legal jargon once again.

Edit: I just tried another movie that I have successfully resumed on my older LG player. I can't find anywhere in the settings that I would be able to set the player to boot straight into resuming a Blu-ray disc. Please help!
Edited by Jamaro85 - 1/17/13 at 7:56pm

Yes. It depends on how the individual disc was authored.

Is there anyway to move any of the premium apps to the main page? I just want to put the ones I uses most like NetFlix , Pandora, and utube.

Thx,

-Alan

I wish I knew, especially where you're a fellow Nova Scotian. Maybe you know something I don't in getting further use of 'My Youtube' I find I'm limited to just a short # of videos, and not all of the channels I subscribe to, I only subscribe to 4-5. It seems when I 1st handshake my youtube account to the player I have lots of features, then they disappear and I get a single large icon that says 'Subscriptions'.

Is there someway to get access to everything else?

If anyone sees this and helps out thanks big time.

(this was intended to be a response to RGS's post about there being a way to add favorites in Youtube on the BP 620 )

Those of you who want Amazon instant Video installed in the BP620 you better start complaining LOUD AND CLEAR to Amazon on why it does not come to an agreement with LG to get AIV on a future release of the player software.
The same issue exists with the BD570, a 2010 model.

As far as Divx is concerned, the player is to be 100% Divx compliant. That's how it was advertised and sold.
This is from the LG web site:

http://answers.lg.com/answers/7676/product/MD00002641/lg-electronics-bp620-questions-answers/questions.htm?page=5&sort=recentq


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BP620 divx certified

Will the BP620 blu-ray played play divx movies (either on DVD, USB or Streaming)

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Yes, the BP620 support DivX.

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Probably the codec, I've never been a fan of .mp4, my panasonic blue ray player didn't like them either (skipping, stuttering). I'd try to stick with .mkv