Mvix Wireless Hi-Definition Media Player (MX-760HD) - Page 15

Just got my MX-760HD and I'm loving it. The only problem I have is the only shared folder I can view on my Win XP Pro computer is my 'Shared Documents' folder. I've setup sharing on other folders and made their settings exactly like my 'Shared Documents' settings but I cannot see them from my 760. Does anyone know what is special about this folder and why I could view it but not any others?

Regards,
Randy

Nevermind, even though I had my Guest account enabled I did not add it to my folders Permissions. Problem fixed!

After using the 760 for a few weeks, I wanted to share my observations concerning my experiences with my units HD wired streaming performance.

Unfortunately I am not able to successfully stream most of my HD recordings over my wired network. I've been encountering erratic audio problems from the majority of my .ts/.mpg files. Fox 720p captures (House, Bones, 24, American Idol) are either hit or miss but mostly miss. A FOX .ts file will begin to play fine (both audio and video), then suddenly a few seconds in, the audio drops out completely. A quick reverse scan of the file for 2 seconds, followed by a resume play will bring the audio back for a couple of seconds to a minute only to have it drop out again. This has become a consistent occurrence.

Strangely, most of my ABC 720p captures play fine. It appears from examining the file information, that ABC's broadcast is at a lower bit rate and doesn't present the 760 with much difficulty playing over the network.

My info on FOX 720p .ts captures shows 1280X720 video bit rates between 15-17 Mbps and 6 channel audio bit rates of 448 Kbps @ 48 KHz. ABC captures indicate 1280X720 video bit rates of 13 Mbps and 6 channel audio bit rates of 384 Kbps @ 48 KHz. My 1080i captures from CBS, NBC and CW do not play well at all. Both the audio and video are stuttered across the network.

Olav speculated in his reply to my previous post, that he believes this problem has to do with the 760s bandwith limitations. The above file information comparison seems to reinforce his speculation. I HOPE this issue can and will be addressed in the next firmware update.

All the files, that are not able to be streamed, can be played from an external HDD connected to the 760. The playback performance from the external HDD is stellar. Output from component is very good and files play without hiccups. Long files, (11+ gigsX-Men 2 for example) can not play all the way through. I assume this has to do with the glitch in playing back files larger than 4 gigs.

It is frustrating to look at this unit and see it's potential but in it's present state it is bogged down with multiple performance inhibitors.

1.) The 760's inability to play while connected from the rear USB slave port to a PC should be addressed. This way, at least if network streaming is restricted, there will be an alternate means to access those files unable to be streamed. This will at least allow transferring and playing functions without having to have access to the rear of the unit to remove the USB cable.

2.) Not being able to consistently stream, via a wired network, common compliant HD media files, is a major flaw. This is the reason I purchased this unit. I do not care that much about .iso and .mp3 playback.

3.} The 760 handles DVD folders poorly as well. I cannot get the unit to read the .ifo file and I need to search out the proper .vob file to begin playback. This is another example of one of this units minor flaws that I've read is going to be addressed soon.

Network file transfer capability is going to be a big feature and I'm anxiously awaiting its release. I was hoping I wouldn't need to install an internal HDD to the 760 but with the current streaming limitations, I will be left with no alternative but to do so.

Hi all,

I've got a small question. In France, the MX-760 HD is not available but we have the equivalent called PeekBox distributed by Peekton.

Everything is similar but when I upgraded my PeekBOX 4 with the latest Firmware, some buttons on my remote control are different.

So my questions:

where I can find information about the remote control in the FW?

Is it possible to change reomte control settings ?

My goal, put the remote control settings of my PeekBox 4 in the FW 1.1.25. Like this I will have the latest FW but with my reomte control settings.

Thx for your help

Regarding some people's comments about not reading IFO files correctly, I've found, much by accident that if you try to play an IFO file and it gives you an error, just to try it again and it almost always works. I typically use the PLAY button to do this, not sure if it's any different that route.

Eric

Mvix Beta Firmware 1.1.26 has been released. Since it's beta, download and use at your own risk!

No file transfer support yet though...

And no fix for samba connectivity bug

Hi all,

Is there a special trick to get Mvix-760 to see my external USB HD? No matter what I try, it just doesn't show up!! I'm plugging into the upper USB 2.0 Host A-Type 2 port and powering up the 760, followed by a refresh. I can see the internal Disk and a network share I set up ok, but not my External USB disk (Which works perfectly well on my Windows box.) - Any thoughts?

Many thanks!

btw Firmware v. 1.1.25

I have a web server running on my Mvix now, which makes it fairly easy to do remote backups of whatever is on the local storage. Almost got upload (PUT) working as well, but still a bit to go there. I'll see if I can find a suitable ftp server instead, as there are more upload clients for ftp than for http. As for now, there is a 2GB file size limit on this way of doing things though, so your DVDs will still be a problem.

You can have a quick look at the files on the Mvix if you point your browser at http://www.kolbu.com/mvix/way/
Note that the URL only works when my Mvix is running. I've also cordoned off a few select areas, typically external shares and a few /proc files that cause the server to hang if browsed. Not sure if I got all the /proc files tho, so don't expect too much.

Olav

Could we ask to some good guys how patch (rollback) the samba access as the previous firmware was?

I can't belive the samba access problem (using NAS) is not so important to deliver a new firmware quicly...

I'm not a USA customer and so, I can't write directly to MVIX.

Are there others people having the same problem ?

Thankyou

- Roberto

Unfortunately it seems that the bug is coded into the code and that's why it is cannot be fixed on linux kernel level, so there can't be hacked - if I understand well

You can open a ticket!
When you create a new ticket You have to choose the "non-US customer option"!
So please open a ticket in this way to force them to fix this, there are quite amount of user with this bug, so I can't believe this "non-awareness" as well...
Specially, that I think the only thing they would need to do is to change back the username with which 760HD is trying to connect to shares from "root" to "guest".
It would take about maximum 5 minutes development....

It is an other issue, that they should develop: to be able to fill in custom username/password to connect, not with this ridiculous "guest" thing.

I am really disappointed by this.....

Ok olympia, ticket sent.
I'm wondering why they have changed the login name.

new firmware out

** THIS FIRMWARE IS FOR Mvix MX-760HD model *
Mvix MX-760HD FIRMWARE v1.1.26 BETA

PLEASE READ BEFORE DOWNLOADING : This firmware is in BETA testing stage. Do not download if you are not interested in testing this firmware version. A final version will be released soon.

RELEASE NOTES

Fixed ISO add to "My List" problem
Fixed Aspect Ratio correction
Improved Wire/Wireless Streaming
Improved WPA (AES and TKIP) encryption
Added "-", "_" and space character to WPA encryption key
Fixed Hebrew Language font


--------------
downloadable on mvix homepage

regards

Horrible device. Had it for two days, upgraded the firmware twice. Couldn't ever get my .TS files to stream properly over a wired gigabit network. Playback was choppy and would not output digital 5.1.

Everything else worked fine (480p/720p XViD files, DVD & MPEG2).

Had to return the device for a refund. This product needs alot of work.

I had trouble using the play button with IFO files, however the enter button works just fine, takes you right to the dvd root menu.

Has anyone tried plugging in an external HD DVD or Blu Ray USB drive??????

Using Vista Home Premium and followed the
knowledgebase in MvixUSA

"How do I enable Windows Vista Basic file sharing for the MX-760HD?"

"How do I Configure Sharing and Discovery in Windows Vista Home Basic or Premium?"

I have shared a folder on my PC, can see the folder on the MX-760HD on the TV, but when trying to access the shared folder I got a message sayin "Access deny".
Although the folder is shared for "Everyone" on the PC.

Not usin the Vista firewall, since I use the firewall in my Linksys router
The firmware I use is v1.1.25

Pls help me.

Thanks in advance.

I placed the .sub and .idx file in the same directory as the .avi file. It plays fine with the subs displayed when using any video player on my computer. IT WILL NOT DISPLAY THE SUBTITLES WHEN WATCHING WITH MY MX760HD. So how do i get it to display the subtitles?

I had trouble with .sub as well, convert it to .srt, it is working at least.

Hi all,

I just received my mx-760hd yesterday and I must say I am very disappointed with it. I can not play .ts HD streams without constant freezing and audio dropouts. This happens even when I copy these files to the internal HD. I opened a ticket with technical support the content of which follows.

"I recently received the mx-760hd and am very disapointed in this product. I purchased it spicifically to play .ts high definition streams which stream at about 15 - 17mbps. Because of the large file size (average 7-10 gig) I opted to install an internal hard drive in the unit and play it from the drive and not stream across the network. The result when playing it from the internal hard drive is constant picture freezing and audio dropouts. I've searched the many forums including the AVSforum and it seems no one can play these .TS streams. It seems that everyone that has tried has the same problems. I do know it is not a spicific problem with my unit or my setup. I find it odd that you would sell a product that you advertize as able to play high defination .TS streams when in fact the product does not. I've tried playing the streams with both the originally shipped firmware 1.1.17 and the beta firmware 1.1.26 and the results are the same.

The big question is, Are your engineers looking into this problem and when will you have a solution."

Lets see what there responce is.

Hi all,

Just spotted this PVR addon from tvix - http://www.kjglobal.co.uk/acatalog/T530.html

I really hope that mvix follow suit and produce an addon for the 760hd!!

I just ordered the Mvix (MX-760HD) from Newegg. I'm wondering since it is running Linux, does the drive need to be Formatted to FAT32. Is there some type of utility needed to format to FAT32 (320GB Drive) or does the MViX unit format the drive itselft?

FAT32, or ext3 in you have a recent firmware image. The actual formatting is explained in the manual and basically involves attaching the Mvix to a PC through USB and formatting the drive using normal Windows tools.

Olav

I've made a firmware image with working ftpd support, based on the 1.1.26 final firmware available on the Korean Unicorn website. Absolutely no idea on the differences between the 1.1.26 beta and the final, as I do not speak Korean. You can grab it at http://www.kolbu.com/mvix/mvix-1.1.26-olav.pkg

Username/password for both ftp and telnet login is root/olav. Most of the directory structure is read only, this being firmware, so to upload you need an internal hard drive. This typically gets mounted on /tmp/ide/part1, so you need to cd there before you can put files using ftp.

Update: Turns out the ftp server falls over if you transfer more than a couple of KB to it. So it's useless for now, but I'll see what I can do.

The firmware also starts a web server on your Mvix, just for the fun of it.

Absolutely no warranties, use at your own risk. See http://www.kolbu.com/mvix-mx-760hd-m...mvix-mx-760hd/ for help if you manage to brick your player.

Olav

Thanks for the info.

Pardon if I am asking something obvious but can the mvix HD be shared so I can sopy files to it from my PC? Since I am interested mainly in hidef playback and for now wireless isn't handling it well and wired network isn't an option for my setup...

Hi Zvi7799
Unfortunately there's no nice way of sharing the mvix drive on the network just yet, but we and the mvix team are working on it! You can install some community firmware that has ftp access but it's still a bit flaky at the moment.

http://www.mvixcommunity.com/showtop...?tid/142/tp/2/

Owen

I'm curious... on your ftp test setup, how is your drive formatted? Ext3, FAT32 or NTFS?

Interesting news for Mac users with a MVIX: NTFS Write support has finally become available so that we can write directly to the MVIX. Dunno how much I trust it yet, I think I'll let it bake for a bit before I try it.

http://shadowofged.blogspot.com/2007...-mac-os-x.html

Hi Squished Squirre,
I reformatted my HD to ext3 once v1.1.25 came out, so that's how I can use ftp. I think FAT would also be read-write but I haven't tried it (maybe someone could confirm/deny?)

The NTFS write support for Mac will allow you to copy files to the HD using the USB connection. It won't allow the actual player to write to NTFS.

They must be working on integrating NTFS write support into the firmware at the moment - it's the only thing I can think of that would be slowing down the release of official FTP or Samba firmware... because many of the existing owners would have all their content on NTFS format disks, they can't really turn around and expect everyone to reformat to ext3 (losing all the content) to support Samba.

Owen

I had it in my head that 1.1.25 had the beginnings of NTFS write support, so I was curious if that was the reason the ftpd was crapping out. I should have assumed you would have reformatted to ext3.

I know the MacFUSE NTFS driver has nothing to do with your project, I was just shocked that the whole userspace MacFUSE thing had somehow slipped past me, especially the part about write support in the current versions (and the caching patches to make performance useable.)

I wonder if mvix needs to read up on the caching patches needed to get performance that doesn't... well... suck.

I agree, I think they are holding NAS up because they shot themselves in the foot for allowing NTFS to begin with. Sounds like some manager who didn't know a filesystem from a toilet brush demanded it because it was hip, not knowing that it would cause all kinds of headaches later.

I guess I can't complain. I formatted NTFS because my first attempt at FAT32 cratered for some reason, and I assumed it was due to improper FAT32 large volume support in the original (December) firmware.