Mvix Wireless Hi-Definition Media Player (MX-760HD) - Page 12

I was wondering if anyone knows is it actually possible to run the likes of firefox and azureus on uclinux (specifically on the 760hd)?

Is there something in the way that makes this impossible or is it just a matter of time?

Also if one of the hackers could send me just the necessary files to change the GUI I'll happily work on some new designs. Unlike firmware hacking this is something I can actually do

firefox and azureus is a mission impossible since there is no xwindow system. (correct me if im wrong)

you can use a small torrent app like ctorrent though. there are uclinux routers who have torrent functionality (ie asus wl 500).

maybe there is a browser. i know that my kiss dvdplayer (also arm) has a browser like interface for their html like sites.
but this needs some work i guess...

Another cool feature would be an integration with the Music Player Daemon.
I know: one day, maybe

@gregsmith
Here's the GUI images, sound files and Strings resource. You can find the screenshots in the manual if you don't have access yet to a player. Go nuts!

(The URLs are in my next post - I need to make one more post to get to the magic 5!)

Still can't get the Hard Drive to work - even when I create the device manually in the ROMFS it just removes it from the in-memory version...

$ mkdir -p dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0
$ cd dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0
$ mknod disk b 3 0
$ mknod part1 b 3 1

(Node type (3,0) is the entire drive attached to the master slot on IDE1, Node type (3,1) is the first partition on this drive - hence "disk" and "part1" (partition 1). These would normally be /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 in linux.)

I've given up and have ordered a new drive... Ah I needed to switch out the drives on my home server anyways... Suggestion to anyone - don't format your player's hard drive to ext3! You can't get it back! (I've tried a couple of things the Mvix support suggested, but it didn't work...)

Owen

@gregsmith
Here's those URLs:

http://www.foursevensix.com/MX-760HD-GUI.zip
http://www.mvixusa.com/download/manu...anual_Full.pdf

Thanks a lot! Will see what I can come up with.

Great! Although, I do not find the original gui ugly, a little pimpin' will do good for it.
Please keep in mind that the space available is limited. So, try to aim for the same size.

Cheers,
h

Yeah, I do actually quite like the GUI. The icons are great.

I'm really sick of blue everywhere but you can change the wallpaper in the settings (which I'm yet to try).

I still like to have a mess around and it'd be nice to have a slight variety of themes. Most of the original images are png-24s so sizes won't change much.

Is it option for code pages for divx subtitles in different languages possible? Thanks!

Hi all,
I seem destined never to use my player...

I replaced the Hard Drive that wasn't recognised, and that was all fine - I was able to copy files onto the drive and watch them - fantastic. Then I decided to fiddle with the Firmware a bit and guess what - the player won't load up any more! It just powers on, says LOADING... for about 20 seconds and then powers down.

So I'm trying to TFTP a firmware onto the player now.

I have reconfigured my home network to be 192.168.100.x, and set up a tftp server on 192.168.100.2. Hold down OK and Setup, and then power on. The player goes into EMERGENCY UPDATE mode with an ip of 192.168.100.3 and downloads the firmware (which must be called "romimg.emergency"). After it downloads the firmware (takes about 30 seconds), it then tries to verify it, and no matter what I use as the romimg.emergency file the verification fails. I've tried the complete .pkg firmware, I've tried the ROMFS in compressed and uncompressed format, I've tried all combinations of the two, but every one of them has failed verification.

Has anyone managed to flash their player via TFTP? Can you let me know what file you used?

Thanks!
Owen

I've read reviews of this device and supposedly there's a lot of problems with it, some of which have been fixed by a member here called "antivirus" using modified firmware which he created and I was wondering if there was a website where I could find information on the differences which makes his firmware better than the official firmware for this particular device...

I have been using my mx760hd for approx 1 month. I use it "as advertised". I have had little to no problems with both wireless and direct viewing from my supplied internal hard drive. Buy it and use it without user modification and you will love it.

I agree with this comment, I have had a 760HD for just over a month and with v1.1.17 of the firmware and it works fine. I will be glad when they release the new firmware with FTP support though. Does anyone know when this is due?

It as due the end of February and then was told the end of March. Hoping it is released this week.

Quick question. Does the current firmware allow the MX-760HD to see NAS devices on the network? If so can I assume this means that streaming VOB files from the NAS is a piece of cake?

Thanks!

-bradesp

So you are able to stream movies over a wireless network with no picture lag at all? What file format are you using VOB, ISO, DIVX.... and what wireless protocol.. B, G?

Hook us up man... everyone else is having issues streaming. That's why I bought this thing... what's the use if I gotta run wires.

I am able to stream iso wirelessly but I had to do a little rearranging to do it without lag. I am using wireless-N between my computer and router which the 760-HD is plugged into wired.

I've been searching through the online documentation to no avail...

My plasma monitor has a native resolution of 1366x768. Can the MX-760HD output that resolution over the DVI port or is it fixed at 1280x768 in 720p mode? I would be much obliged to anyone with the answer.

- Reuben

Update, I've now got all the important keys learned. Hit and miss to do it, I don't know what the trick is, I played with distance between the remotes, fresh batteries, dark room, nothing seems to improve the learning problem, you just have to spend a lot of time and try it again and again.

I'd love to hear if anyone understands why it's so difficult to learn the remote codes from the MX-760 remote.

I am using an G router located approx 40' away from the MX760HD. I have no problem with any format other than HD. Seems the bandwith for HD is greater than my G router can handle. I have totally stopped burning movies. I store them on my puter or on the internal hard drive of the Mx for later viewing.

Hi,

Any luck? I have seen that you updated the wiki entry. I never flashed it using tftp and now I am a bit worried. If that is not reliable then what is??

Hi haxplore,
TFTP works well once you have the right "romimg.emergency" file! I got it from MVix support and it's linked on the wiki.

One thing i found was that the TFTP wouldn't work over my WLAN. The player was wired, but the laptop with the TFTP server was wireless. I put ethereal/wireshark on the laptop but even though i could see the packets requesting the file, it wouldn't kick off the transfer until i wired the laptop into the network... Very odd - perhaps it was my wireless router (it's a buffalo).

anyway, I've broken the firmware again - trying to be too fancy, so i'll be flashing again tonight. Having a 3 month old baby is fantastic but you don't get as much time to tinker as you used to!
owen

Waiting for official NAS support firmware has been painful. However, i bought a USB 2.0 to IDE 2.5 or 3.5 and SATA cable with included 12V power adapter. Only costed about $15 and now I have a IDE DVD-rom drive hooked up so now I can watch all my DVDs and even easily swap my old 40G hd with all my mp3z on it quickly if need be. I currently have a 320 Gb in the mvix but thinking i may swap in the 40 gb until the NAS gets working to give me the portability. or just do a centralized NAS device that the mvix can play from.

Looks like they've posted v1.1.25 of their firmware. Haven't tried it yet, but I didn't see network transfer of files among the list of changes.

I have installed it.

CONS: STILL NO file transfer ... .... anybody knows when they plan to release it????

PROS: seems to be more stable, faster and now the wlan configures automaticaly....

Playback of .ISO files stopped working for me. Anyone else? I have over 200 .ISO's on my NAS that I can't play now!

.VOBs seem to work fine but still can't play from upper level folder (Title level or VIDEO_TS). I always get a "VIDEO_TS.IFO unrecognised file type" error.

I've dropped back to V1.1.17, I'm not expanding the .ISOs, I prefer that format as it's much cleaner IMHO.

I think that these guys missed the mark with this "upgrade", I was hoping for FTP and NAS with expanded features, not breaking what works already.

I see they now support Linux filesystems. I still wonder if when they eventually support NAS functionality if we will be required to use a filesystem other than NTFS. (Is there stable NTFS Write filesystem support for ucLinux?)

Looks like the update fixes some things that I had seen... the LCD and front panel button issues being 2.

Wonder if it has fixed SSID/password entry to allow spaces?

"Improved video output quality" Like maybe they fixed the horrid gamma, contrast and brightness problems?

Have to try it out tonight.

If I had to guess, I would say yes. Ext2 or 3 will probably be required. I don't think there is stable NTFS write support. Just poking around at the various firmwares it looks like BusyBox 1.0 is used for embeded command support. Luckily v1.0 supports telnetd that's where the telnet hack came from.

It seems right now, that the kernel is compiled with smbfs support, which enables mounting of windows shared file systems.

The good news is that later versions of BusyBox have samba support. This enables sharing the drive from the 760. So, it looks like the developers are on their way there.

I've never done any cross compiler work, but it might be easy enough just to compile a new version of of busybox?

X

There's a new community / forum site called http://www.mvixcommunity.com/ as well. We'd be happy to host a wiki for the Mvix community on our dedicated server so you can upload any hacks and not worry about the 10mb limit on PBwiki for free.

Hi xracers
I've been trying to build the toolchain for a week or so now - I don't know if you can build the toolchain that Sigma provided - it's missing several bits (intentionally) - including the linux config. I've tried to build another ARM cross compiler toolchain (http://www.schnozzle.org/~coldwell/toolchain/) and it didn't compile, but I've not yet checked into the reason.

One thing to note is that the compilers produce executables in ELF format whereas the MVix needs Binary Flat (bFLT) format. There is an included elf2flt convertor, but I think the elf executable needs to have been compiled with the -elf2flt flag enabled to allow this convertor to work. So basically you can't just take an existing ARM executable and run it on the MVix. I'll figure it out eventually!

If anyone has managed to get a toolchain working I'd be very interested to hear from you!