Sorry for saying this, but it is a bad thing that only ONE person knows about the status of development.
(Eugene in this case)

When he is away on business, or gets sick, there is no status of development at all, and customers can ask all they want, but won't get a satisfying answer untill E is back.

Seems like E is the head developer, so the other developers (if any) can't do anything without the feedback from E

Very bad situation

Hi "J"

I am posting this here as it doesn't concern playback over the network. I hope that's okay.

I have been moaning about stutter on playback of most movies in recent firmware, but not over the network, this is from the internal hard drive.

I understand the high bitrate side of things and that makes sense. However, I have recently discovered something. I have two movies that have two soundtracks, Spanish and English. Both have the Spanish soundtrack as the first. Now, Casino Royale stutters really badly if the Spanish Audio track is playing but, when I switch to English, the stutter stops! Woohoo! No Stutter! (I don't speak Spanish, I am English).

The other movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, starts with the Spanish audio, but it isn't noticeable until a few minutes into the film as there is no dialogue at first. It plays smoothly with no stutter. When switching to the English soundtrack it stutters! It is the reverse of Casino Royale.

It would appear that the audio side of things may affect the video side.

The info for the movies:

General
Casino Royale 1080p.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 12.8 GiB
Duration : 2h 24mn
Overall bit rate : 12.7 Mbps
Movie name : Shadowlord
Encoded date : UTC 2008-02-24 01:53:47
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.1.0 ('Another Place To Fall') built on Aug 19 2007 13:40:07
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Cover : Yes

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 8 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@5.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 24mn
Bit rate : 10.5 Mbps
Nominal bit rate : 10.7 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 800 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.284
Stream size : 10.5 GiB (83%)
Title : Casino Royale (007)
Writing library : x264 core 54 svn-635M
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-4:-4 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=6 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=4,6 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=2 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=10718 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / zones / aq=1:0.3:15.0
Language : English

Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 2h 24mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Video delay : 33ms
Stream size : 462 MiB (4%)
Title : Español AC3 5.1
Language : Spanish

Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2h 24mn
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
Resolution : 24 bits
Stream size : 1.52 GiB (12%)
Title : Inglés DTS 5.1
Language : English

Text #1
ID : 4
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Title : Español
Language : Spanish

Text #2
ID : 5
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Title : Inglés
Language : English




General
Raiders Of The Lost Ark.mkv
Format : Matroska
File size : 8.29 GiB
Duration : 1h 50mn
Overall bit rate : 10.7 Mbps
Movie name : Indiana Jones, En Busca del Arca Perdida [1080p HDTV x264-DUAL][Grupo HD-Spain.com].mkv
Encoded date : UTC 2008-05-08 12:04:11
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.1.0 ('Another Place To Fall') built on Aug 19 2007 13:40:07
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1

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 : 1h 50mn
Bit rate : 9 607 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 808 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Original frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.248
Stream size : 7.43 GiB (90%)
Writing library : x264 core 59 r830M 5ca01b3
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-2:-2 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / me-prepass=0 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=6,2 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / mbaff=0 / fgo=10 / bframes=4 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=9607 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.15 / aq=2:1.00
Language : English

Audio #1
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1h 50mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 354 MiB (4%)
Title : Ac3 Español Dhez
Language : Spanish

Audio #2
ID : 3
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1h 50mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 354 MiB (4%)
Title : Ac3 Ingles
Language : English


I hope this info is useful to you.

Cheers.

A.V.

Hi AlienVisitor,

Thanks for the info. Documented it down...

Any more info, please let me know as the list will be forwarded to him by this Saturday Night.

J.

In case someone forgot it I want to remind you that when you are in the file browser and you press the next button you jump 6 files ahead and when you press for example 2 and 1 you jump to file number 21

I amongst others are experiencing problems with HDMI output through AV-Receivers on Plasma or TFT displays. Every reboot or power-on the videosetting is reset to NTSC, HDMI Auto is greyed out and i have to set the resolution manually. It would be most helpfull that you implement a lock-videosetting option in the next iteration of the firmware. As setting it manually works it should be quite easy to achieve this and you would make me and others very happy. If it's not possible let us know cause i than can return my unit to the dealer (but i really, really don't want to do that!!)

Testing results: when using infrastructure network connections, file download is 99 out of 100 times not completed. Using p2p gives much better results (using Samba). Loading files from a NTFS formatted 2,5" drive via USB is extremely slow (8 min/1000Mb.) Compared to normal USB speeds that's really bad. Also Mac OS HFS is still not supported... that's the one other thing my WD-HD did better than the PlayonHD (the other thing being able to lock the video-setting). Last thing: the system doesn't "memorize" the latest choice in the Media Library, that would be very handy in my opinion, resume not working neither?

Only prob I found, and dit not had with older firmware, is that my POHD sometimes hangs with filetransfer from win7 to the HDD of the POHD. Sometimes it goes to a sort of reboot (blue screen on tv) when opening a file on the HDD. The problems I have looks to be connected to eachother.

+1
thanks rorshah

I went back to r2901, because i can't use the "Menu" button anymore to go back to the DVD menu.

I really want to use r3615.
Does anyone know a workaround to go back to the DVD menu while playing. because the "Menu" button is now used for the audio, sub, chapter menu

When we get x.v.color (xvYCC) mode support back like in old firmwares? Please its a very useful thing when watching movies on LCD panels.

The last two days, when watching files from USB the message: "HDD plugged out" came up. I had to pull the power plug out to get it back again.

Now, when watching files from HDD the message: 'IO Error' comes up and the picture freezes.

Trying to install official firmware to see if that fix the problem.

*Update*

After I was about to install firmware 2901 the player faded black. I restarted it (had to unplug the power chord) then I changed the firmware. After re-installment, my HDD files were gone. Had restart it (unplugging power-chord) to see my files again.

Now working as normal with 2901, but I'm not installing any BETA - Test ware or whatever again before its official. Any chance of loosing all my files is to risky!

P.s. Please keep the picture views of folders in the future releases. One request though, make the view of the picture bigger (e.g. half of the screen instead of inside the box)