Just hooked the Player up. All NTSC and PAL DVD's play with no issue. The PAL DVD's that I own are all region free. I also played mp3's, jpg's, divx and avi files from a small usb 512mb jump drive. All the files played with no issue. I would think you can hook up an external usb drive and stream from it with no issues. I will try that over the weekend.I have also played divx files from both a cd and dvd with no issues.
The only bad thing is the files played the titles only show up with the first 7 or 8 letters only. The unit I bought came from Circuit City for 75.00, the unit has a Build date of April 2006.So far for what I need it for looks like a really sweet player. Just hooked the Player up. All NTSC and PAL DVD's play with no issue. The PAL DVD's that I own are all region free.
I also played mp3's, jpg's, divx and avi files from a small usb 512mb jump drive. All the files played with no issue. I would think you can hook up an external usb drive and stream from it with no issues. I will try that over the weekend.I have also played divx files from both a cd and dvd with no issues. The only bad thing is the files played the titles only show up with the first 7 or 8 letters only.
The unit I bought came from Circuit City for 75.00, the unit has a Build date of April 2006.So far for what I need it for looks like a really sweet player. Did you ever own the Philips DVP 642 and if so how do you think the Philips DVP 5960 compares?I had a DVP 642 and was thrilled that it could do DivX and XviD but normal DVD playback was subpar and it's ability to do PAL to NTSC (from a PAL DVD) was also very poor.BTW there is a region free hack for this if you look in the 'DVD Hacks' section of the website.Oh and last but not least. Any 'up conversion' for MPEG-4 files or is that only for MPEG-2 files?- John 'FulciLives' Coleman. Never owned the 642. The DVD seems fine I'm only playing it on a 27 inch TV. The PAL DVD looked fine no stuttering or ill effects at all. I'm also not sure about the Up Conversion. Drivers sony vaio vgn-nr360an.
If you have any test clips you need me to try send them to my email and I'll test them with my usb drive I have. When I had the DVP 642 I had a 27' TV and the PAL to NTSC looked very bad.
There was a huge amount of anti-alasing garbage due to poor resizing from PAL to NTSC. The image was 'smooth' in terms of frames per second though.Now I have a 51' 16x9 WS TV so something that looks bad on a 27' will look even worse LOLBTW the one thing I noticed with the DVP 642 is that (using the picture adjustments in the set up menu) the image was either way too dark or way too bright. Very annoying.Also gradient colors (including shadows) had a 'banding' effect instead of a 'smooth' gradient look.However the DVP-642 used a shit old ass chipset and my understanding is that the DVP 5960 uses a much newer and better chipset. So really there should be no comparrison.But I had to ask- John 'FulciLives' Coleman. I went out and picked up a DVP-5960 today, just to test the USB capabilities. It will not a read a portable USB hard drive. No matter if it is formatted with FAT.
However, it will read an Ipod or any other USB MP3 device. Basically, if Windows (My Computer) sees the device as a Hard Disk the 5960 will not read it, if Windows sees it as removable storage you are good to go. If anyone knows of a 2.5' enclosure that Windows will recognize as Removable Storage and not a Hard Disk, please post a link.For the Ipod test, it was a 30GB Video Ipod. I made a folder called DivX and put a movie in it and it played without a hitch. I did all of this through Windows Explorer, no need to get Itunes involved.For the portable Hard Drives, I used a 2.5' 30GB Fujitsu Drive with this enclosure I also used a 2.5' 100GB Samsung Drive with this enclosure.
I tried FAT32 and NTFS on both drives using FAT32FORMATTER from since you cannot format any drive larger than 32Gb with XP. I know, I saw that. But the manual also shows the remote as having a MUTE option when that has been replaced by the USB option. The manual also says you can only read JPG and MP3 from the USB device when in fact it will play AVIs from the USB.Take this device for exampleIt's labeled as a Portable Hard Drive when in fact it is a Portable Flash Drive. Windows would probably recognize this as Removable Storage and so would the 5960. It all really depends on what type of firmware is on the device and how it is recognized.
Headsup to prospective 5960 buyers. Circuit City now has this player for $69.99USD.
I just picked one up last Thu for $79.99. So I will be making a price match trip this week to pickup my 10 bux.My prelim reports are that this is a wonderful player. I have used a Lexar thumbdrive/card reader loaded with xd and sd memory and it worked great playing mp3, jpg and yes, divx(Xvid) files without a hitch. I wanted to use my Corsair Flash Voyager 1GB thumber but the player said device not supported. I can't figure that one out. If anyone has a clue please let me know.
This instructable is showing how to use the power of the USB PORT of the computer or laptop instead of batteries.Lots of gadgets are made for the USB PORT nowadays, lamps, ventilators and small vacuum cleaners.Why don't you try to make something funny yourself, using the USB?This instructable very low tech, demanding your inventor and designer skills more than electronics. And no programming!We will take one of these gadgets as a starting point (they are very cheap, 1-2 euro's) and make something experimental out of it, demonstrating the paper button principle. It is like having a very superficial dream compared to working with programmable chips and sensors and complex wiring jobs.We use the principle of the paper button:( see this instructable: ). You need simple tools for this instructable.A screwdriver, scissors, a cutter, glue, tape, maybe a soldering device comes in handy too.for the button: paper, aluminum foil, and electrical wires.Paper is a rich material, there are a lot of different papers and quality of papers, for the buttons we use light pliable paper, but for a base you can use heavier more stiff papers. I like the Japanese papers very much, but also used paper, printed paper, paper with texture on it. Also the paper which has been in the sun, yellow is nice.
Paper is very much wabi-sabi for me.And we start with a gadget, but once you discover the principle, you can use old USB cables from a mouse, or whatever.What you don't need is batteries! After years of very big connectors, 24 or even 36 PINS, there was the USB connector.Small, nice, clean, design!This USB connector design, compared to these dinosaurs makes the USB mysterious, nearly holy. I never dared to open it up! But then you cut some deceased mouse and what do you see: actually the USB is just 4 wires:5Vdata+data-GNDBut this 'design' USB comes with a cost, if you want to connect a chip, or an Arduino, using the Serial PORT to the computer, you need an extra FTDI chip, where 'normally' you could use RX, TX PINS.How to hack the USB cable? Just cut it through!
We use a gadget of 2-3 euro's to start the experiment.A vacuum cleaner (well not really!), test it - if it works, blows, gives a bit of light. (makes noise!)open it up and get the parts out:a button/switcha motora LEDa circuitand the USB cableWith these things and the paper button, we start experimenting.The motor and the LED are normally running on 3V, the circuit inside the motor has small resistors diminishing the 5V (and the current) if you want to add LED's, be careful and add a resistor of between 300Ohms - 1K, this resistor will protect the LED's. Now the rest is up to your phantasy! Paper, cardboard, or other materials like fabrics can be used for inventing buttons, shapes, situations.We started making a simple button of paper. (using aluminum foil, glue and electrical wires)(Using fabric and foil, with a middle layer of neoprene with a hole in it you can make heavier buttons, e.g.
For under your shoes)Then we continued hiding the LED inside a paper folding. The surprise should be not only the light inside the paper, but also the simple text, only lighting up when you push the button. (If you prefer design typography you could think of using the laser cutter to get a good sharp regular balanced text.)See a switch of 'old' newspaper in a later step. The motor is this simple cheap on/off motor, which rotates very quickly. You need a gearbox to make it run more slowly.
But that is for the moment out of the scope of this experiment, since I want to work with the hacked parts of the USB vacuum cleaner only.The first experiment involved graphite drawn on paper, to make a sort of voltage divider. This is a two way button, there are three wires attached.The button has two positions, up or down. The middle part has a aluminum strip all over, and the upper and lower are small aluminum squares. The wires are at the back side.The middle one can be connected either to the left or the right wire.One is connected to the LED's and the other to the motor.A few seconds video to show the workings:then you have to imagine a useful way to arrange the LED's.and the VEN part.the article is about a philosopher, German, kind of difficult to read. (His text are difficult to translate because he is very much 'into' the inner workings of the German language, that is why for instance French translations (not to speak of English) loose 50% of the meaning and wordplay.). Quite true, the newspaper is in Dutch, and the writings of Heidegger are in German.
The paper button is made of an article about the 'outrage' of Farias in 1987. The article was hidden in my copy of 'Sein und Zeit', which I read in those days. Later on, my favorite text was 'Die Technik Und Die Kehre', which, although only 34 pages, took me 1.5 years to read and understand. And this text influenced me much. (To be able to understand it I needed to read a bunch of other texts of Heidegger, like 'Wass heisst Denken', 'Der Staz vom Grund'.
) Coming from the Dutch language (closely related to German, employing the same structure, but also quite distinct) I felt having both an advantage and a disadvantage regarding the understanding of the German of Heidegger. Indeed my making of Instructables is indirectly related to the impact of 'Die Technik Und Die Kehre' on my behavior. Heidegger situated 'Technik' (technology) directly in the domain of 'Kunst' (art) and being an artist, from that moment on, I zoomed in on technology.
In order for this TV to recognize and play videos from a USB stick, there are a few steps to follow:1. If there are subtitles, they must be hardcoded in the AVI file:file.avi -sub subtitles.srt -o hardsubs.avi -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=12002. Now, a few tricks: if the frame rate is not 24, the sound and images will get out of sync; we must also force a xvid tag in the file, otherwise the TV will not recognize it as playable:-vcodec copy -r 24 -vtag xvid -i hardsubs.avi recognizablefile.avi3. A) ffmpeg -i recognizablefile.avi -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 192 -f mp3 stereo.mp3b) ffmpeg -vcodec copy -an -vtag xvid -i recognizablefile.avi soundless.avic) ffmpeg -vcodec copy -ar 22050 -ab 32k -s 320x240 -i stereo.mp3 -i soundless.avi final.avi I think you can do these three steps in one step by copying the video and converting the audio. Ffmpeg -i recognizablefile.avi -vcodec copy -vtag xvid -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 192k final.aviIf 22.05 kHz, 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz audio are all accepted, then you don't have to specify the audio sampling rate, as ffmpeg will match the input on that.And I think you missed a 'k' in step a: -ab 192kAlso, you seem to be lowering the audio specs in step c for unknown reasons, as well as setting a lower frame size that will be ignored?
Erdem is leading up the efforts to. Official Samsung firmware uses the Linux kernel, making it a familiar system to work with for many developers. So far they’ve implemented NFS and SAMBA for sharing files over the network, improved playback from USB devices, and unlocked the ability to use non-Samsung WiFi dongles.In order to make changes to the system, you need to. The SamyGo team accomplished this by changing an official version of the firmware in a hex editor to start the telnet daemon at boot time.
Multifox apk android. This altered firmware is then flashed using Samsung’s built in upgrade system. Once telnet is enabled, non-official firmware can be manually flashed.We’d love to see this project expand to other TV Brands in the future. In fact, we were looking for something like this back in June when we realized that our Sony Bravia runs a Linux kernel and can be updated via USB drive. Be careful if you want to try this out. We can only imagine the fallout after telling your significant other that you bricked a high-priced LCD.Posted in Tagged, Post navigation. Ok, ok Re: ZeecueAs a mythtv user w/several other media players collecting dust.
I have got to say – native mythtv play back is very much worth it!From my experience, nothing else comes close to a real mythtv front end. Not UPNP, not VLC, not even videos loaded directly on the HDD of some of these media boxes. I know, I have some of those media boxes.—This hack is really interesting – however, I see trying to understand the video hardware as being an almost insurmountable challenge. Mythtv uses a lot of graphic overlay.
If you can’t stick the menus and overlays onto the screen (in some cases on top of the video) it will make for an intolerable experience.Of course if, by some stroke of luck, they used a common video chip set, it could all just fall into place. That would be awesome. Having put off buying a new TV – I would then have to seriously consider a Samsung. I hope I’m not totally offtopic here. I have an European Sony KDL-32V5500.
It’s quite limited compared to its Japanese (as I know, they have a full web browser) and American (many Yahoo! Widgets) brothers, and I guess their (I mean the actual Bravia line’s) cores must be the same, probably ARM based.Are there some hackers working on this firmware too? I have several decades of software hacking (currently I do this for living) and assembly coding (including ARMs) background. Maybe I could join a project, but so far the firmware is too crippled for me (heavily encoded chaos without headers and footers).I figured out these Bravias run special MontaVista Linuxes, firmwares are available here: parts of the sources (the GPL-ed libs) are available here: Unfortunately my TV isn’t listed on the second one yet.
Mythtv frontend? I’d rather havea GOOD media center frontend like XBMC. Mythtv SUCKS horribly at media playback. It’s a great DVR, something that is impossible in a TV as it wont have tuner cards and storage.Put XBMC in there, unfortunately most TV hardware does NOT have the horsepower to playback HD content or even decent quality SD content, nor enough storage to put in anything significant.
The hacking is light playing at best, Boot a kernel from a 2 gig sd card and actually gain access to the data streams then I’ll be impressed.but 90% of the tv functions are NOT linux controlled. The Linux kernel is for the photo playback and very limited media playback. None have the ability to even playback a xvid 720p video file. I believe the MARS explore was running VXWorks, not Linux. But I see your point – remote bricking and unbricking. Let me just say – they were lucky as all get out – I was amazed after reading the details.—Isn’t XBMC the XBox media player? Boy, the last time I tried that I wasn’t very impressed.
The graphics were nice – but that’s because it’s a game console. Guess I’ll have to try it again sometime.
No, wait – to get HD I’d have to buy into a x360. Isn’t that over $300? For that I can get a duel core PC w/plenty of HDD space and build a myth box. But here’s the x360 killer for me – the PC can have tuner cards in it.
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The X360 can’t. Of course, if you like games that flips the argument the other way. No, certainly not. MPEG 2 transport stream? Why would you want to send a xvid file to the TV? HD TVs have chips to decode MPEG2 TS, which should be taken advantage of. If you wanted the TV to decode any possible file you have on your NAS, that’s like saying, “I want my new phone to do EVERYTHING.” Phones were meant for communicating.
Now they do everything, and the battery life sucks ass.Next you’ll be seeing TVs do everything. Yeah, I really want my TV generating more heat than my actual computer. To each their own, I guessOh, and linux is used for various tasks, such as the menu UI, controlling the chips and telling them all to do this or that through I2C. Having linux on the TV to playback media is not the point.
It’s to control the hardware, like switching to different inputs. The program they coded to run in the linux environment watches the IR reciever, you hit the HDMI button, and it switches to HDMI (in the case of my TV, the program scans the HDMI inputs for an active signal and switches to it), and then tells the audio decoder to take input from the HDMI input. Linux isn’t doing the decoding, and it is not doing the rendering (a dedicated chip does this), but it does control the hardware. @farthead, Mythtv does a good job playing videos when mythvideo is configured to display them in a list.
That makes the videos show up as the directory structure on the drive, which is how I prefer it. Plus you can configure it to play the videos in an internal player or any number of external players such as vlc and mplayer. Either way the reason why I said a mythtv frontend would be neat is because you can have a computer acting as a backend with your tuners and hard drives somewhere else and with a network connection you can use all that from any frontend machine on the network.But you already knew that so let me compliment you on your choice of names instead. @gomer pyle: It bypasses DRM. I’m sure people with money will buy it just like some did the x360 and make 3rd party vendors pissed at the unit manufacturer.Consumers don’t see this aspect of the electronics industry. DRM exists to protect profit margins that keep companies in operation, which in turn pay tens of thousands of individuals thus fueling the economy, and giving funding to the next product line.
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A million dollars doesn’t go far when you have that many employees making 15k+ a year.effect and affect are a nound and a verb with very close applications, I used it in the wrong context.boo hoo. I wasn’t the one correcting grammar in the first place. I see mistakes all over this and every other site on the internet, and it has little affect on my understanding and day to day life. Also, English language isn’t the human default despite the census in your suburb.I’m going to go do other stuff now besides entertain lifeless internet trolls. This is my last comment on this entry. @tjDRM is a failure all around. Time for a new business model.
I stand by my statement that more people are likely to buy their product if it could be modified. That means more sales of units. Adding peripherals shouldn’t have a 150% mark up.
If a company wants to nickel and dime us all to death with minor upgrades.let that company die a slow death.Not everyone can afford an all in one box that does everythingthey have to buy things as they can afford them.Since you possess such a superior intellect, you probably can afford anything you want. The only reason I brought up only one of your mistakes was to point out that you too can be wrong.big deal.so can everyone else. The difference is, I know that I don’t know everything whereas you seem to be far ahead of the rest of us. Get a grip and don’t be so arrogant. (climbs down from soapbox). If some one manages to hack in a new app that turns out to be popular then Samsung or any other manufacturer will be able to take the code and use it in their products. That saves the manufacturer development time and money.
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It allows them to tap into more minds with a greater range of back grounds. That is the power of open source.A really killer app would be getting calibration equipment talking to the firmware making calibration faster and easier.Go to local electronics store and rent some calibration gear go home, hook up, run calibration software on the laptop, take gear back to the store. Give me that any day. What about routing audio through custom number crunchers? What about Jack, ladspa, gstreamer and stuff like that? Or pulseaudio?Of course on stripped down versions of those!