What are your two SHOWSTOPPER problems with your A110?

[Skippy]

(04-21-2009 10:48 PM)Face Wrote:  ... a list of peoples 2 main issues with their A110 - software/firmware wise...
Face

1) No Tiltle and Artist in internet Radio.
2) No playing mp3-folders (like play everything in this folder and Shuffle)

Good luck Face !

Skippy, The Netherlands

[dh2005]

Chris;

regarding your comments to enuffsaid - I think you flatter the NMT slightly to suggest that his rips aren't running because they're "poorly encoded crap". I've ripped around 800 DVDs, and ten or fifteen of them don't run. I've used the exact same ripping technique for these as all the others, and re-ripping them with the same and different ripping programs does nothing to resolve the situation.

Further evidence that it's an NMT issue is that firmware revisions make certain rips work that previously didn't, and certain others that used to work stop working. Every time I install new firmware, I need to run through ALL of my rips (which takes six or seven hours...) to see which ones have been knackered by the alleged 'upgrade'. The last release took out three of my discs without making any others work - there's usually a bit of 'give and take', but this time, there was only 'take'. Pain in the arse...

I've not checked through enuffsaid's files myself - so yes, maybe they are badly encoded, and you're right. But I suppose my point is, it's something commonly seized by NMT apologists when people say they can't get a file running - "oh, you must've encoded it badly" - but it isn't always so.

[enuffsaid]

(05-02-2009 04:54 PM)chris57 Wrote:  When you look at the specs it tells exactly what WMV files it plays.
BluRay menus cannot be supported due to licensing and java requirements.
If your AVI plays w/o sound then its a problem with the encode being out of xvid spec.
BluRay 1:1 rips look great with subs on my TV.
Network throughput is fine if a little slow. It makes no difference to video playback though as the chipset maxes at around the max bitrate for BD standards 50mb/s

The fact that you can play all sorts of poorly encoded crap through the excellent software media PC app called VLC on a powerful PC has NOTHING to do with a hardware player. Rather than just saying it doesnt do this or that, think, ask yourself why, and learn.

I have a Blu-Ray rip in m2ts format, and I can't seem to get the subs displayed. What am I doing wrong?

You're correct about the WMV specs. It has been brought to my attention in an older thread. At the time I failed to see the difference of a container and codecs and was obviously looking with my nose. :-)

I wouldn't call my PC powerful. But I wouldn't call everything that doesn't play on the PCH "poorly encoded crap" either.

However, I think you put it most aptly in the last part of your last sentence. When I bought the PCH I expected a media player, not a course on the various media formats and their respective codecs and all the nuances in the various codecs. 20 years ago I might have appreciated the challenge but now, as I've grown older, I just want stuff to work. :-)

Mind you, I'm not dissatisfied with my PCH. In fact I'm quite happy with it. I'm just a bit disappointed in how picky it can be with certain media formats. In general it's a great device. But I'm currently looking at a Asus EEE Box 208 to replace my PCH so I don't need to "think, ask myself why, and learn," but just watch. :-)

[dh2005]

You're not doing anything "wrong", re Blu-ray subtitles. They just don't work on the A-110!

I think you can mux subtitles into an .MKV, but you won't get them to display on a simple .M2TS.

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Oh, and, regarding your comments about just wanting to WATCH...!

Yeah, I feel the same way. But unfortunately, this is the bleeding edge of media streaming technology. It's still developing, and as such, it doesn't work sometimes. Joe Public certainly couldn't be fagged with all the necessary effort, but those of us who do make the effort are rewarded in spades. I think these things are great...

[ericelza]

just download the subs and put it in the same folder. Both the movie file and sub file should have the exact same name (except for the .mkv and .srt part offcourse) after that no more subs problems.

I would like to see my usenet functions working. It is now up to the point i can only watch movies. The internal disk seems to be completely blocked for writing.

[enuffsaid]

I don't have a problem with subs in MKV files; those work fine. I have a problem with subs not being played in 1:1 Blu-Ray rips.... The .M2TS files. So now Chris57 has got me curious on how he managed to display subs in 1:1 Blu-Ray rips.

[lundman]

Fire! Definitely a showstopper.

[dh2005]

Plague, also...


ericelza;

Really? Is it *that* simple?! I had no idea...

... are there sites from which subtitle tracks can be downloaded?


EDIT: I see that there are... okay, that's pleasing. Maybe I'll be able to get my Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage Blu-rays ripped, after all!

[chris57]

(05-03-2009 10:09 AM)enuffsaid Wrote:  I don't have a problem with subs in MKV files; those work fine. I have a problem with subs not being played in 1:1 Blu-Ray rips.... The .M2TS files. So now Chris57 has got me curious on how he managed to display subs in 1:1 Blu-Ray rips.

The post above yours tells you how. Put an srt file called the same in the same folder as the m2ts file.

Here's a guide:-
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/i...ptional.29

That is how I watch subtitles with my BD rips.

If you have a preferred or different way then say so.

(05-03-2009 01:07 AM)dh2005 Wrote:  Chris;

regarding your comments to enuffsaid - I think you flatter the NMT slightly to suggest that his rips aren't running because they're "poorly encoded crap". I've ripped around 800 DVDs, and ten or fifteen of them don't run. I've used the exact same ripping technique for these as all the others, and re-ripping them with the same and different ripping programs does nothing to resolve the situation.

I was responding to AVI's without sound etc, he did not mention DVD rips at all and I was not referring to DVD rips.

[evilcartman]

1. WMV v8 v7 2-3 support. I know I know. But you asked..... Us older folk have craploads of video that wont playi on the thing.

2. Better navigation and speed. (show screens faster, particularly media sources, auto chapter like every 5 minutes or so, auto play the next vid by name, date, etc, shuffle option, make playlists, read meta tags and select and play based on that. I guess some of that is YAMJ like ehl? But I should ike to not need another computer (besides the nmt) to have to be on and support all these things) I have a WD HDTV and man that thing is FAST. If you coud combine the best features of both.... The NMT does a lot better job of handling movies out of the high@4.1 spec though.

[dh2005]

Yes, Chris. I understand. To clarify my point - just because something's not working doesn't make it poorly encoded crap.

When I first started posting around here with problem files people would say to me, "well, you must've ripped it badly", and that was rubbish. And it was infuriating being told that it was my fault, when I knew that it wasn't.

If you read enuffsaid's post immediately below mine, you'll see that he read your post in a very similar manner to me - as a general comment about the sole determinant of whether files run on the NMT as being user-error re encoding. Sometimes that's exactly right, but sometimes it's a cheap excuse to shut someone up.

Not that I'm suggesting you would ever do that, and I wasn't actually taking you personally to task over it. But I come across it every so often, and it seemed worthy of mention.

Hope that clarifies things. No offence intended.

[enuffsaid]

(05-03-2009 01:45 PM)chris57 Wrote:  The post above yours tells you how. Put an srt file called the same in the same folder as the m2ts file.

Here's a guide:-
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/i...ptional.29

That is how I watch subtitles with my BD rips.

If you have a preferred or different way then say so.

Hi Chris, I thought "the post above" was referring to MKV files "(except for the .mkv and .srt part offcourse)". Ericelza's post didn't make it clear that he was referring to M2TS files, to me at least. I didn't know that the SRT files work with M2TS files as well. So I've learned another thing today. Thanks for explaining that, Chris. My preferred way would still be that the PCH displayed the embedded subs in the M2TS files. But for now this is good enough for me.

Also I can now confirm that WMV9 indeed (as advertised) work nicely on the PCH. I had captured a WMV stream and had to use TMPGEnc XPress to convert it to MPG first and then use MS Windows Media Encoder 9 to put it into WMV9 format. The file played fine and I can skip 30 seconds using the Directional Pad. I'd still like to see the older WMV formats supported as well, like Evilcartman said. For some reason I couldn't go straight from WMV? to WMV9 using Media Encoder 9. It process would hang about half way.

[spawn]

Older WMV formats are not supported because these are proprietary MS formats with no official standardisation - official standardisation allowing developers like sigma to program their hardware decoders to these standards did not come untill wmv9

The fact that Microsofts own Media encoder software wasnt even able to properly read your WMV? capture really is the best example of the issue.
How can anyone expect the PCH using a hardware decoder to be able to understand such capture if Microsoft software cant even do it. After all they designed the format and programmed the software you try to use for the conversion.

Without knowing anything about your capture - it would most likely seem that the capture software simply created a non standard wmv file.

Quote:Mind you, I'm not dissatisfied with my PCH. In fact I'm quite happy with it. I'm just a bit disappointed in how picky it can be with certain media formats. In general it's a great device. But I'm currently looking at a Asus EEE Box 208 to replace my PCH so I don't need to "think, ask myself why, and learn," but just watch. :-)

Good luck - I assure you you will need to "think, ask myself why, and learn," alot with that device to - and you will run into a sleeve of other problems you werent expecting, like trying to get hardware decoding to work for the files you want to play, or get it to output correct 24p, or get it to autoswitch outputs based on source like the pch (oh wait, no this is it cant do) or..........
It will have some advantages over the PCH (and some disadvantages) just dont be fooled by commercial hype into thinking this will be a no brainer plugnplay device where you "just watch" - but go for it, it will certainly be a fun experience

[lundman]

Compared to xbmc, I think the community have found their own solutions to a lot of things (rar streaming, jukebox scraping, etc) but the one thing still lacking in PCH, is being able to play music, return to the gui and browse around for more music to queue.

I believe MPD will add this ability.

Very few bits missing now.

[spawn]

I agree lundman - the music part is propably the most lacking bit of the NMT currently