i hope they release a stable version rather than new-beta-version

I have mkv files newly downloaded from scene , which can't be played.(mkvtoolnix v4.2)
http://www.mpcclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24821

I have a rip of my very own copy of Avatar bluyray in mt2s format with DTS-HD MA audio only, that I can't play properly.

I see it's over 6 weeks ago since the PlayonHD Mini community saw a new firmware update. And the whole thing is a no go for me, and I am very dissapointed.

Everything looked so promising when I was in the market, and decided to go with PlayonHD Mini, and with such a good price. Almost to good to be true, BUT, it seems you get what you pay for.

Well, I'm seriuosly thinking, I shouldn't have purchased this player, and gone with something else. If the new firmware isn't out in a few days, I will use my rights and return it back to the dealer, Komplett.dk ( 14 day return policy).

I don't understand. I can play mkv files perfect with this firmware. I read on several forums that mkvtoolniks can give problems on many mediaplayers, so it's not a Playon!HD problem.
So try some other mkv files.

Try to rip your Bluray's with DTS, that is playing perfect.

I think this beta firmware is the best till now, better then the official 3582.
So I hope they Will fix the bugs in this beta 4312 and then make it an official firmware

Seems there is a new OFFICIAL firmware.

Edit 1: The beta seems to be much, much, much better (I still gonna try though )
Edit 2: I had no problems with the Official one but neather with the Beta..so I flash the latter

You mean r3582? This r4312 is much better!

Hmmmm,

IS there a new firmware or not ?

And new, I mean 2 weeks or so, not 2 years.

I guess, if there was, it would be mentioned on the forums. Still the newest firmware is this beta version (4312).

At the same time I wonder what happened to the AC Ryan crew, who was frequent contributor of all the news and now somehow almost all of the people went silent.

I imagine, most of the effort now is to put the new interface look into all the menus (last time we received new main screen), but this is only my thought and I would appreciate any feedback from the dev. team as to how things are going.

Does this beta fix the DTS hiss sound issue?

Yes DTS and other audio is playing fine with this firmware

Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Duration : 1h 55mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 6 592 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 40.0 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 536 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.401
Stream size : 5.36 GiB (77%)
Writing library : x264 core 104 r1703 cd21d05
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.20 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-6 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=0 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=6592 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.0

Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Muxing mode : Blu-ray
Duration : 1h 55mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 1.24 GiB (18%)

The Above File Will not play Audio I just get HISS

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@4.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 29mn
Bit rate : 8 974 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 040 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.180
Stream size : 5.48 GiB (84%)
Writing library : x264 core 104 r1698 c41b8f0
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=8974 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 29mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Stream size : 966 MiB (14%)

Text
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text

The Above file will play and my AMP switches to DTS on the front.


Whats confusing me is that the PS3 will play both files and display DTS audio on the amp.

So why will the PCM stream not play on the Playon?