[C-200 BETA] Firmware 02-01-090904-19-POP-408 and Apps 02-01-090828-19-POP-408

[kiranos]

GREAT!

[cheaper_popcorn]

...false alarm about my network problems.

Failed to spot that the subnet mask on the C-200 was set to 255.255.0.0 instead of 255.255.255.0.

Everything is peachy now, sorry about the interruption, carry on...

[Michell]

When will the final firmware be released?

[HeartWare]

In 2016, probably...

However, the next firmware is scheduled to be released this week. May go into next week, however, if they encounter a problem in their internal testing.

[lundman]

Can the IR remote reception be disabled? I am using the RF remote, but the cross-over between Dune and A-100 remotes are annoying. When I push OK to play something, all three devices play whatever is selected.

[HeartWare]

Just don't connect the IR eye to your C-200 and use the RF remote instead.

[Michell]

(09-10-2009 10:48 AM)HeartWare Wrote:  In 2016, probably...

However, the next firmware is scheduled to be released this week. May go into next week, however, if they encounter a problem in their internal testing.

I belive you. Ok, hope the smb performance is better.

[oddball]

Werner.

I suspect that when you are releasing the first official

firmware to the C-200 ( i think it was this week ) it will be

some bugs/limits left in it. Then it would be nice if you in the

release notes also specify what's NOT solved/still suffer limits.

I think that if you do so it's going to be easier to spot new bugs

reported to the forum

[lundman]

The eye is for IR? I thought that was for RF

[oddball]

No, thats the antenna on the backside

[lundman]

What the, I thought that was for wifi!

[dc11ab]

No, there should be three holes for the mini-PCI wifi-antennas.

[cheaper_popcorn]

[Moved from the thread Network Speeds as they belong in this thread]

Testing notes from this BETA firmware:

Streaming over http is absolutely beautiful from my attempts (I've used Myihome).

Having fixed my initial SMB/workgroup issues (due entirely to my own failure to see that the subnet masks did not match across my network devices Big Grin) I am now going to test the playback of ISO, VIDEO_TS, mp3, MKV and BDMV over SMB.

After that, testing external sub/idx with XviD/AVI. The 5 ISOs I've tried over SMB (approx 5-10 minutes of playing time testing various remote commands) work just fine.

No stuttering of any kind, and subs and audio tracks are selectable via the remote, zooming is incremental (1% at a time).

Tried 3 VIDEO_TS as well, among them 2 that I had streaming problems with on the A-100 (one of these is slightly corrupt from copying between hard disks so it still has some macro blocking in places, but this is visible when playing it on a PC as well). They stream without stuttering on the C-200.

One problem I noticed - similarly to on the A-100, anamorphic widescreen DVDs (VIDEO_TS and ISO) are output with pillarboxing instead of filling up the screen with the 16:9 picture.

Got to take a break now but will be back with more results soon.

Xvid AVI with external sub/idx does not appear to play with this beta firmware. The AVI I tested had a VOBSUB subtitle with dual languages (eng/fre) - within a single set of sub/idx.

From testing, the external .sub/.idx is ignored, while the audio and video in the AVI plays as it should.

I did a bit of fiddling on the test file to see if I could do something about it.

Used the program AVIMuxGUI to remux the AVI into MKV (using the default settings of the program, except for changing the output to MKV [default is AVI]). The result was an MKV file which the C-200 would not play.

Despite this, I added that same non-playing MKV file to version 2.9.8 of mkvmerge GUI, and then added the .sub/.idx file, preserving both language tracks.

The result: The remuxed MKV file with embedded VOBSUB track plays exactly as it should, with both subtitle languages selectable by the remote.

Since these operations require no re-encoding, just remuxing, they are very quick; Once you have installed the remuxing software it will not take much more than 4-5 minutes to go from a standard XviD AVI with external sub/idx, to a playing MKV file with sub/idx inside and no quality degradation.


If this is repeatable with other AVI files, I will post the process in the tutorial subforum soon.

[kiranos]

(09-10-2009 01:12 PM)cheaper_popcorn Wrote:  [Moved from the thread Network Speeds as they belong in this thread]

Since these operations require no re-encoding, just remuxing, they are very quick; Once you have installed the remuxing software it will not take much more than 4-5 minutes to go from a standard XviD AVI with external sub/idx, to a playing MKV file with sub/idx inside and no quality degradation.


If this is repeatable with other AVI files, I will post the process in the tutorial subforum soon.

hm this should be fixed in the "retail" firmware right? as it states sub/idx support. a xvid with external sub/idx should be supported or have I gotten it wrong?

[spawn]

Yes, this will get fixed in one of the upcoming firmwares, I cannot promise it will be in the next one cause I dont know what Syabas has worked on in that one, but certainly yes it will be fixed at some point.