Official OPPO BDP-105 Owner's Thread - Page 106

No, you don't lose anything - you should try dBPoweramp conversion on a few test folders - it works amazingly and the entire suite is a very handy toolset.

Unfortunately we only have three macs at home and no windows. I have a ex495 server running WHS. I can remote in to that and see if dbpoweramp can be run there.

I just rip to WAV and then batch converted them to FLAC.
All files have meta data and the album art is preserved.

Size on disk went from 653 MB to 246 MB.
The conversion took 17 seconds.

- Rich

+1

On my Harmony 880 -- may the programmers of it rot in Hell -- I had to add a 20 (twenty!) second delay before sending Input, because that's how long it takes for the BDP-105 to turn on and start reliably accepting remote commands. It's a nuisance if the Oppo was already on, but I don't think it's possible to make the Harmony take conditional actions.

Do you maintain the FAQ? If so, I don't think it's necessary to send Enter for this action. Just Input, then 7, is sufficient.

You could use quick-start mode to speed it up.
Otherwise, you can make another Activity for fast startup.

My Pronto is a PIA to program, but I get what I want

- Rich

I do but that is based on someone else's report. If you can confirm that Enter is not required I'll change it.

-Bill

Not required; I programmed "Input" "7" and it switches to the Coax Input.

Consider using dbPowerAmp's Asset UPnP as your DLNA music server. This is a rock solid audio server that will seamlessly transcode your Apple lossless files to LPCM which Oppo kit has been playing perfectly for many years. I use it for both my 83SE and the 105. Am no longer concerned about the original format of the file. In fact, I don't even know what the original format of the files is! Asset UPnP makes it a non-issue.

Styln

Is it capable of pushing content to the 105 as Renderer?

- Rich

There's no enter and you can just use your oppo remote without programming anything in order to check it.

How about this solution?

http://www.bubblesoftapps.com/bubbleupnpserver/

I've just started playing with this server adaptation so I can listen to my entire music library at work. Am really impressed by the software from the folks at BubbleSoft.

Am so very happy that Oppo implemented the full DLNA spec so we can use fantastic software products from dbPowerAmp, J River, and BubbleSoft. I hope this is a continuing trend where Oppo provides forward looking hardware with standards based drivers, leaving the Ease of Use to someone else. Just a fantastic and affordable combination!

Styln

Absolutely Rich! I use Asset UPnP as the server and BubbleSoft UPnP on my phone as the controller for hours & hours of enjoyable music browsing & listening. Rock solid simple to use combo.

Styln

Interesting but, since I want to push the files from jRiver, can I control jRiver remotely?  Also, how reliable is it for 24/192 and 5.1@24/96?  

 

Frankly, the complexity scares me and, as another has indicated, I can install jRiver in both homes at no additional cost.  

I've been doing pushing and iPad control with the squeezebox software for years wish they supported DMRs other then their own players but it does allow pulling to the Oppo. I hate switching software (something about being an old dog) but I'm more interested in pushing video at this point then just music. So far my success with JRiver and video have been mixed but I'm just getting start with it. It would nice if Oppo could build a better browser and scraping into the player itself too. Look at some of the front ends for all those cheap streamers some are very nice for the $$$.
Edited by obie_fl - 1/22/13 at 6:46pm

Kal I know they have some IOS remotes JRemote being the main one. Also I believe you can control the server from a web browser too. I haven't tried M/C but it should be a walk in the park compared to streaming BD video.

OK.  It is an option but not one that I need.  Thanks.

Please keep us posted. I run a headless Mac mini with amarra and i hate the delays from vmc/screen sharing. im waiting for the mac jriver where i can control from the ipad natively into the async usb. do you think there will be any issues with that?

any way to output from jriver directly to the async usb via iPad?

Ya, when I finally figured it out, I found you just need "Input" and the number, such as "6" for optical and it swithces inputs everytime. So, all you need is Input + Number. And yes, I need 20 seconds delay as well (15 is not enough). Makes the wife real happy too! I've had to trick my harmony a few times. Like if I watch a DVD last and turn off the system, the input stays on DVD. And when I come back the next day and want to watch TV it doesn't switch to TV even though it gets the command. So, to fix that, when when turning everything off I have the remote send a last commmand to set the input to the TV. Did this for all activies when I am turning off for the night and now my wife can watch TV without having to push the help button on answering questions when she comes back the next day.

Another trick is if you are listening to CDs and using Pure Audio and then you want to watch a DVD. When you switch to that activity you'll only get the Oppo screen; no home screen. So, to fix that, I send the "Home" command as the last command to setup the activity for watching a DVD. The Harmony software is not intuitive at all, but works once you figure it out. These commands are using a Harmony 550. I may upgrade this year because the buttons on the 550 are getting futzy.
Edited by Pokey77 - 1/22/13 at 8:46pm

I haven't tried it as my JRiver server isn't located near my Oppo player, but it should work just fine. In JRiver, select the Oppo USB device for audio output. Then use JRemote on the iPad to control JRiver selecting the PC as the output device instead of selecting the Oppo.

Sure, dual J River servers makes sense for you, Kal. Plus, it's a good idea to have your music library duplicated off-site... so it's a two-fer

I haven't tried controlling J River server with BubbleSoft from work, but it would probably work as both these programs seem to follow the standards and are well implemented. My primary server is Asset UPnP and that is the server I used in conjunction with the BubbleSoft server, to stream my music collection over the internet to work.

Will the Bubblesoft server work for HD and MCH HD audio? Again I don't know, but it should as long as you have the bandwidth end to end. I just started experimenting with this yesterday and it worked just fine on stereo audio content. I don't have MCH at work so haven't tried it.

Guess my at work listening requirements are a bit different than yours

Styln

The Harmony will attempt to keep track of which devices are On/Off and will power up devices for new Activities only as needed.

That means you can set a Power On Delay in the Harmony's "device" configuration for the OPPO -- e.g., 20 seconds -- and it will avoid sending any new commands to the OPPO after Power ON until that delay has expired. (OTHER devices WILL get commands sent in the meantime.)

Thus if you switch from a Play Blu-ray Activity to a Watch TV Through OPPO Activity -- both of which use the OPPO -- the Harmony will know to leave the OPPO powered up and will NOT impose that Power On Delay before sending your Input changing commands to the OPPO.

With Quick Start set in the OPPO, you may not need as long a delay.
--Bob

Secrets of Home Theater (Chris Heinonen): Benchmark and Video Test-Bench Results Now Posted for BDP-103 and BDP-105

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/blu-ray-players-reviews/oppo-bdp-103-blu-ray-player/all-pages.html

Secrets of Home Theater previously published their review of the BDP-105, just before proclaiming it their "Product of the Year" for 2012. However that review focussed on audio. Since a companion review of the BDP-103 was already in process, and since the 103 and 105 share the same video and decoding architecture, the Secrets Benchmark Test results, and their test-bench results for video were deferred to that 103 review.

Which has now been posted.
--Bob

Has anyone seen a trade magazine review comparing the analog audio of the 105 to it's predecessor, the 95?

Probably not. My office system is simple and not linked to anything. OTOH, my two systems are in two different houses/states.

I will try this Rich. Thanks

1. Splashtop remote (real cheap for iPad, free for PC, free for Mac) allows you to control a Mac or PC from the iPad and will let you see the album art and the entrire media app interface for whatever media player software you decide to use.

2. All you need is a media player that's compatible with Apple Lossless (assume you mean ALAC) -- the media player will do the conversion to PCM when the files are played.

If you do want to convert to FLAC, Spesoft File Converter is a free application that converts ALAC to FLAC quickly. If you meant you used the AIFF format (essentially an uncompressed file format similar to WAV), you are wasting a lot of hard disc space. But Spesoft will convert AIFF to FLAC also, though it's not as fast as converting ALAC to FLAC. There is, indeed, no reason to re-rip anything. There are many media player software apps that will convert ALAC, FLAC or AIFF to PCM upon playback and send PCM to the Oppo... that's actually better since the Oppo doesn't have to expend any resources doing the conversion internally. PCM is the digital format music has to be in before it is converted to analog by the DACs. In fact some media player apps like JRiver Media Center PC (Mac version on the way, but not sure when) will also do file format conversions right from inside the app without you having to use an external file converter app.

Greetings- I am new to some of this stuff...I read that this unit has an internal DAC.
Does that mean I will not have to use an external DAC?