The official DVICO TViX M6500A Discussion - Page 11

anyone else experiencing out of sync audio when playing avi/divx/xvid/mkv files?

Not on files that have properly in-sync A/V encoded.

i find it hard to believe that every single video has out of sync a/v. this is even on DVD ISOs.

I find it hard to believe that only one TViX owner would notice such a problem if it were generic. I suggest that you examine your setup for another culprit.

I am hopefully receiving my 6500 in the next week or so. I chose mine without the hard drive as I have 9tbs of storage on my main pc that I have ripped my entire collection of 250 BR movies to. I have a 5ghz network set up which should provide sufficient bandwidth to stream. That said, what other things should I be aware of when I get this bad boy.

Is it possible to integrate movie covers into the GUI of the 6500?
Also, I can route this through my Onkyo NR-905 receiver correct?
I have everything connected via hdmi then hdmi out to my tv

thanks for any help or other suggestions to ensure maximum use of the 6500

Team,

After reading the forum, not sure i understand how to playback bluray disk.
It is possible to rip into a hard drive and then play. Fine.

Is it possible to access a bluray combo drive on a networked PC and play the movie directly from the drive woithout rip?

Thanks.

I don't think you can play protected content directly with the Tvix. However, AnyDVD is your friend...

I guess my point is you cant have it both ways. You cant be the top price and deliver a alpha product. I was ready to pull the trigger on a 6500 because i thought all the problems with the 4100 were due to looking ahead to the 6500. I agree that the 6500 is going to go through bumps on everything it is suppose to do. Though i also believe you release it when it can play iso's without a problem. avi/mpeg/xvid and so on are so dependant on how you encode them you will always have a problem. Right now to me this is not a $400 plus player. Its more in the $300 range.

Now you have to wonder what the timeline is for the next player. I would say by year end they will have another one out. We are still looking at 3-4 months of work on the currnet so its a june/july time for full functionality (maybe)

This is just me but i think you have to deliver on what is the norm. Players that dont overheat, play music, have no usb or network connection issues, play isos and ts files and most of avi/mpegs. This has to be solid. Everything else is cutting edge that will have to be worked on. No maybe its not all that bad and those who have the player feel it does the above without a problem. Maybe we just dont hear form them.

Chris--

You're over simplifying the problem. Zero percent of the network streamers play 100% of even DVD ISO files because there is no "standard" for creating any of them. ISO files are bane in Hollywood's eyes and they're continually adding new measures to defeat them. TS files come from a myriad of sources run by TV engineers who are still climbing a DTV learning curve and making many mistakes.

The M-6500A expands upon the wide variety of files that "mostly" play on TViX boxes and it adds the simplicity of SMB networking for HD file streaming. They're all going to get better but it's not as though they're useless as-is. Most owners (of all these players) are enjoying superb playback of their media right now (instead of posting to Fora such as this one).

That very true. If it works great you are not coming here to talk about it. I tend to disagree with you on the iso's. If you are able to make it past the backup point your iso is good. I have backed up all of my movies to my hard drive and they all play on the 4000 without a problem. Now some of my movies were hard to backup for various reasons as you mentioned. I have never had a disk i could not backup. The only problem i run into is a disk with scratches on it, which is the reason i back up.

Now i dont get into the HD stuff or even the avi's and what not. In this area there are way to many variables for error. Even when i have a solid way of encoding them with CCE they still turn out different each time. I dont think the 6500 is useless by any means, i just dont think "as is" is worth the price. However i still hold DVICO in high regards and i look forward to buying another one. I am just not sure if you get on the 6500 now or find a 4100 for a good price.

I love my 4000. Anytime i sit down and watch a iso it works.

Did you say banned?? I keep all my DVD backups in original dvd-9 isos for convenience - why would this be banned???

Ask 321 studios whether it is legal....

In short it is viewed as 'fair use' to make a backup of a DVD that you own. But it is illegal to crack the CSS protection on the DVD. So technically if you purchase a commercial DVD and you make a copy of it then you are doing something illegal.

Are the feds going to break down your door? - obviously not, they care about people who resell DVD's to make money or share them.

The studios do not like this because they would like you to purchase the DVD version, the electronic version, the ipod version,..... ........

Anyway this had nothing to do with this thread....

Tolax

No, I said "bane". Sheesh. Get a dictionary.

I used to think that too, before I learned greater respect for the stealthiness of Hollywood's antipiracy folks, having found out that one of the "perfectly good" ISO files I was complaining about suddenly played just fine when I used a newer version of that famous DVD archiving utility on the same source disk.

well thats kinda what i mean. You need to get past the backup point. Backup point is a good backup. You know whats funny about antipiracy is that it is not aimed at people on this forum. We are all so anal about the video processor and which $500 hdmi cable to use that we would ever buy a second rate copy! They do try and fool you, but hey they are my own dvds so i can spend all day getting them on my pc.

No, @stile is not the only person. Infact it has been observed by others as well. At first I thought it concerned only the Transport Stream container when the fps was not detected (stated as 0fps), but now have to say that all my recent playbacks exhibit an approximate 100ms audio lag. No matter which container or compression. For most of the people such a delay might be unnoticable. Just to be clear I am talking about firmware v1.1.41. The _same_ files when were played with v1.1.39 were _perfectly_ in sync.

Now you lost me. I thought I had a "good backup" because the archiving utility said that it was OK...but it wasn't, because it wouldn't play...the newer version of the archiver also said it was OK...and it was.

This is why I say that one can't automatically blame the player for not playing all ISO files, because they never will.

Ah! Now that is useful information. Thanks. Can you send DViCo a sample of such a file for their analysis to fix this problem?

You know i had one of those once. Very wierd that it went through ok and i was skipping all over the place. Sometimes you do have to try different software, but for me thats not to common. I do test each one after i am done.

Anime MKV
I'm ordering the 6500A mainly to watch anime which can be found mostly in .mkv format along with .h264 . Has anyone watched various anime in this format and had success most of the time?. I realize none of these devices are ready for prime time yet (still waiting for each new firmware release of my rapsody n35) but watching in mkv format has been but a dream till now..

W

I watch Anime in MVK format on my 6500. It works great depending on how the file was encoded. The only files I have problems with are files that use vorbis audio encoding. Unfortently, these files play but the audio does not work. I'm hoping that TVIX will support vorbis audio soon. It's supposed to be on their list of features to add. I know it is on PopcornHour's list.

So I do have a little problem right now. I just received my new M6500-A and connected it via HDMI to my Onkyo 605... Now the video is working fine, but I don't get ANY audio. I activated "HDMI Audio" and tried several settings regarding audio analog or digital and so one... nothing is working. My Onkyo is configured correctly... Does anyone have an idea why I don't get any sound?

yoyo--

Did you try connecting audio separately to the Onkyo? What other HDMI w/audio devices have you tested with your receiver to verifiy that it's working properly? Have you tried connecting the M-6500A directly to your DTV to see if audio then works to confirm that the TViX isn't broken?

@TPeterson:

Yep, right know the tvix is connected via coax to the receiver and sound is working now... a ps3 is connected only via hdmi, so the receiver has no failure... I'm using a beamer for video, so there is no DTV to test the device. Do you think, the device may be broken?

Yes, that's a good question. If you get no audio on all file types from TViX, but do get audio on the same HDMI input with another device it would strongly indicate something's wrong with the TViX, since we know that at least some HDMI audio does work on the M-6500A.

But if you get audio on some files and not others the problem is with the firmware.

Well I have tested severeal *.mkvs with mp3, aac, etc. in it. Also mp3s won't work... My Onkyo says "No Signal" on its display... I've updated to the newest beta firmware but the problem is still there...
Well I'll try another HDMI-cable

edit:
sound is working on my fathers tv via hdmi... so there has to be a configuration mistake in my onkyo

Tom or Kei-

Could one of you download and try a test file on a 4100 and 6100 played via various inputs (10/100, USB, SATA). See next post as this is my third and I can not add a url yet. If there is a better location to post samples, please let me know.

If it works for you, I will abandon my EVA8000 and get either the 4100 or 6100.

Thanks in advance.

Please test this on a 4100 and 6100. This clip and everything else I record pounds the Netgear EVA8000 into the ground (stutter, crash, reboot).

Thanks for your help.

I wonder whether anyone in this thread is successfully using the M6500A as photo viewer. I have all my photo's from the last few years on a NAS, SMB shared.

The directory names start with the date taken, followed by some explanation, such as:

2005-04-21 In-laws arrive
2005-04-29 My Wedding
2005-04-30 Visit Amsterdam

etc...

Within each directory there are a number of pictures, all ending on .JPG. They are almost exclusively taken with the same camera (a Canon Ixus 700).

1) When I view pictures in a directory, every 2nd or 3rd picture will be refused with some incompatibility notice ("not supported").

2) When a picture actually is displayed on my TV, I only get the upper left corner. The picture is never downscaled to the plasma's resolution (Panasonic 42PV60 - 768x1024 or something alike).

3) When the last picture in the directory has been displayed, the viewer does not forward to the next directory. This is actually an inconvenience.

Questions:

Why are some of my JPG files not supported?
Why do I only get parts of my photo's instead of the whole thing (be it downscaled)?
Why can't I set the viewer so that it will not step forward to the next picture if I don't want it?
Why can't I set the viewer so it will automatically select the next directory when the last picture in a directory has been displayed?

Note: My M6500A is HDMI connected to an Onkyo 705 which is HDMI connected to my Panny. I am using firmware 1.1.41.