Model:
AC Ryan ACR-PV73100 Playon!HD

Version:
v7.0.6 r3875

Release:
2010-04-29

Firmware History
New Features / Improvements / Bug Fixes

Version v7.0.6 r3875
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What's new in this release

1. Add new options in Setup/Video menu

- Plasma mode (Dark/Dim/Light)
- Screen size resolution
2. Add new optons in Setup/Network menu

- Login Control (for accessing via NeighbourWeb)
- Wireless Setup
- Press menu button to rename Profile Name
- WCN option (Windows Connect Now)
3. Add new menu language for Asian version

- Thai
4. Add new menu language for European version

- Slovenian
- Greek
5. Add new text encoding

- Arabic(CP1256)
6. Add Screen Saver timing selection (1 minute/2 minutes/5 minutes)
7. Add Subtitle default On/Off
8. Add menu for selecting Audio/Subtitle/Title/Chapter/DVD Menu

- Press MENU button during video playback to display navigation menu
9. Add frames seek function during video playback (video dependent)

- Press left or right button during video playback to jump to frames backward or forward.
10. Add Photo thumbnail function

- At Browser, filter by Photo and then navigate to the folder containing the media
11. Add auto preview the first image file in a folder when selected in Browser
12. Fix displaying of Chinese characters correctly when sorted by Music Artist in Media Library
13. Improved "Add the torrent" message appearing only when pressing the MENU button on a .torrent file
14. Improved skipping of music tracks by pressing the Previous or Next button

- During music playing, pressing Next button will play the next track or Previous button to play
previous track
15. Improved displaying of elapsed time/total time when playing an audio file

- During audio playing, press the INFO button to display details of the media

Note:
Copy install.img to the root directory of a USB flash drive and connect it to the USB host port of the player.
Enter the Setup menu, System, System Update, System Upgrade and Enter to confirm.
Please wait for the flashing to complete until the Playon! HD restarts by itself.
Do not power off the unit during the flashing process!

The HDMI connection may reset after updating the firmware and may go out of sync with your display.
Press the TV SYS button on the remote a few times to sync with a compatible display mode if this happen.
Once the display is back, we recommend setting to HDMI Auto in the video setup menu unless a manual mode is preferred.

This is it... and here is it...

Asian: http://www.acryan.com/downloads/PV73100/Firmware_PV73100_v7.06.r3875_Asian.zip
European: http://www.acryan.com/downloads/PV73100/Firmware_PV73100_v7.06.r3875_European.zip

The location to download the change log is over at this location:http://www.acryan.com/downloads/PV73100/Readme_v7.0.6_r3875.txt

Please also take note of the following bugs, which are bugs of Realtek SDK and has been escalated to them for a fix.

1. DVD navigation menu selection is misaligned.
2. File copy from internal HDD to external USB HDD appears to be completed but it is only partially copied.
3. Instability issues arising from using BT/SAMBA.
4. HDMI related issues with certain TV/Model.

Enjoy!

J.

Good to see it here, J. Deployed in the office already.

I understand that a new version will be released soon with YAMJ built-in? Please excuse me for asking this question as I am a little confused about all the various firmware releases.

Please note this firmware version doesn't contain YAMJ Module in it.

As there are some developments and tuning on-going for YAMJ 7th Release, as some compilation problems in this r3743 firmware version found. We are tuning it now with Dev team...

Hold your horse on that first.. For those who hopped over to 7th Release, you guys have to revert back to 6th Release first...

J.

P.S. at the same time we would attempt to clear those issue...

Thanks!

Hi

Installed, tried on a few files. Most OK, but one crashes it (on the previous firmware it ran fine - the last official one). I've tried a few times with this file and every time the player just grinds to a halt and nothing happens - all I can do is turn it off at the wall. Other .mkvs are OK though.

File details as follows:

Format : Matroska
File size : 8.07 GiB
Duration : 2h 41mn
Overall bit rate : 7 147 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2010-04-23 09:23:42
Writing application : mkvmerge v3.3.0 ('Language') built on Mar 24 2010 14:59:24
Writing library : libebml v0.8.0 + libmatroska v0.9.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@4.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 41mn
Bit rate : 6 500 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.294
Stream size : 7.19 GiB (89%)
Writing library : x264 core 93 r1542 5b86182
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / 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=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / wpredp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=6500 / 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
Language : English

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Format_Settings_ModeExtension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 2h 41mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 740 MiB (9%)
Title : English
Language : English

What's the difference with firm 3615

Thanks in advance.

does it need to format the harddrive? (i am running 2901)

Please also take note of the following bugs, which are bugs of Realtek SDK and has been escalated to them for a fix.
1. DVD navigation menu selection is misaligned.
2. File copy from internal HDD to external USB HDD appears to be completed but it is only partially copied.
3. Instability issues arising from using BT/SAMBA.
4. HDMI related issues with certain TV/Model.

Enough bugs to be an official on my opinionl... Same with 3615...

thx for the official guys, hope the bugs get sorted soon.

too bad though the 'slow/enter'(zoom picture/play movie) is broken in this one.
I know its not in the release-notes and unofficial but i rather liked this function and used it alot.