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peterjcat

The PCH A-110 can pass through all the HD codecs in M2TS but can't read Blu-ray ISOs as yet. A new one will be announced any day now and I wouldn't be surprised if it had full Blu-ray support with menus etc. We'll know soon enough.

peterjcat

Basically, and unfortunately, under Australian law you are wrong. There's copyright in the phone book, there's copyright in TV listings. I agree that it's a bit of a stretch from the basic principles of copyright law but there you go.

peterjcat

You're not missing anything, and well done for finding the workaround! This is a bug that was introduced in the most recent firmware update and should be fixed when the next firmware comes around (any day now).

peterjcat

According to the ad: (if it can be believed, and correcting the poor grammar, which doesn't speak well for its quality), "it converts DRM using a process which records original files when they play and saves the recordings in unprotected digital format". So it does not defeat DRM by decry...

peterjcat

The iTunes DRM on audio allows you to burn a limited number of copies to CD. Does the movie DRM allow something similar? No it doesn't. And the software linked to above doesn't deal with the Apple DRM ("FairPlay"). At the moment there is no way around it, apart from the software mmorrisse...

peterjcat

TV shows from the iTunes store come heavily wrapped in DRM so you won't be able to play them on the Beyonwiz or even transcode them. As Vortical says, you can only play the videos on a device that is capable of dealing with the DRM, either a Mac/PC or one of Apple's dedicated playback devices.

peterjcat

prl wrote:I can't replicate peterjcat's problem with this. I'm running 1.05.247. Perhaps it's an SMB server difference?

Could be. I'm using a QNAP NAS which may be doing something weird with the share. Strangely, the DP-P1 sorts the same directory into alphabetical order with no problems.

peterjcat

tonymy01 wrote:It could be where they appear in the FAT table also...

Yes, very likely -- I suppose that files would tend to appear in the FAT table in the order they were added to a directory?

peterjcat

I also recently got a new HDD for my media sharing and the copy of my old stuff may have rearranged the order. I actually think this could be what's happened, PRL. I just moved all the files to a new directory (using mv *.* to make sure it moved alphabetically) and they now show up alphabetically o...

peterjcat

I know this is already on the buglist, but I just wanted to voice my frustration about this issue! I've got about 200 movie files in a "Movies" folder on my NAS that the DP-H1 can now play perfectly (since the file player update) but it's extremely difficult to find the one that I want sin...

peterjcat

Incidentally, Vuze is turning into one great big copyright violation; I hope they weren't thinking of floating on the stock market or anything... :lol: I thought Vuze started out as one great big copyright violation, and was trying to go straight... but we all know how that one always works out.

peterjcat

Well, I can see a perfectly good explanation for the observed Beyonwiz behaviour. The Beyonwiz code extracts the individual streams and feeds the H.264 data into the Sigma Designs decoder engine. The decoder engine uses the flags in the stream itself to figure out the aspect ratio. The "overri...

peterjcat

I am amazed how people choose to blame Beyonwiz for *all* bugs and issues, no matter when the fault actually occurs. Given Beyonwiz's past record of being open and willing to talk about the issues with us I am prepared to accept Beyonwiz's comments about where the bugs are until I am given cause to...

peterjcat

Once you have ripped using MacTheRipper, convert them using Handbrake. It's free and will give you the highest quality in the least time. But the higher the quality, the longer it will take. Most of my conversions take about twice as long as the original movie. You can preserve subtitles but not the...

peterjcat

...what he said, but make sure you've updated your firmware to the latest. You might have an early firmware that kept the info bar onscreen forever. Plus, the latest firmware has a lot of other improvements.

peterjcat

I too have to say that I'm very impressed with the new firmware. I set up a bunch of series timers on IceTV Interactive, played around with the media player for a bit, came back and all my new timers were there. The media player has gone from being a basket case to being pretty solid. MKV playback s...

peterjcat

LOL :D (I actually thought it was a neat solution to having my computer (storage) and internet (IceTV) access in the study but the BW at the other end of the house, and not having the ability to run an Ethernet cable readily between the two locations!) Thanks, I'll try that too. Although iScrambler...

peterjcat

Well, don't worry, it's a complicated setup. It only looks simple to me because I've got a similar one! The Beyonwiz P1 has only wired Ethernet, but GB's is wired to an Airport Express access point which then communicates via wireless 802.11n to an Airport Extreme base station, which is then wired t...

peterjcat

While your network is 11n, your BW is an 11g device, thus the discussion of 11g. Your 11n wireless network will slow itself down to 11g speeds to talk to your BW. As an aside, connecting 11g devices to an 11n network will have a negative impact on other 11n devices too. Dude, you've got to read the...

peterjcat

Peter, I recall from previous posts that you are running a P1 plus Airport Extreme. If so, that sounds similar to my setup. I have a P1 connected via one of the new 802.11n Airport Express routers to an 802.11n Airport Extreme which is connected via Gigabit Ethernet cable to my iMac. I store my BW ...

peterjcat

And streaming HD over wireless (especially 802.11g) is a pipedream. Streaming HD over wireless isn't (or shouldn't be) a pipedream, though streaming over 802.11g may be. I copy BW files over to my NAS and play them back through the BW over my 802.11n network without a hitch. I don't know whether th...

peterjcat

From memory the Beyonwiz has trouble with a few of the default settings in Handbrake. One of them is chapter markers. The other is anamorphic picture aspect ratio. Try turning both of these off. Both MP4 and H.264 vary widely in their implementation and it's often difficult to work out what exactly ...

peterjcat

Without knowing anything about it, I would imagine that this would be possible since the S1 already has the software to play physical DVDs -- surely it wouldn't be too hard to point it at a network/HDD folder instead? That would certainly be a great thing.

peterjcat

Most important thing is to make sure your QNAP's firmware is the latest available ( http://forum.qnap.com/ for latest official and beta releases; the last official release has fixes specifically for the Beyonwiz). After that it's pretty straightforward. I set mine up with (among other things) a spec...

peterjcat

PS thanks goo_roo for persisting with the QNAP/BW issue, obviously with neither party having heard of the other it likely wouldn't have been solved without your intervention and management. Cheers!

peterjcat

The reason I like the 109/109 Pro is that it is fanless and so quiet. The others all have fans, bit of an issue if you want to put them somewhere where the fan noise would be a problem (like in a walk-in-robe where my switch is and so where the qnap is most likely to go). It also seems that goo_roo...

peterjcat

peteru wrote:Can you please add an option for the TS-409? I am not interested in the smaller units, I would prefer 4 drives or more.

Me too on the 409.

peterjcat

Sometimes the HD audio via HDMI goes bung when the Beyonwiz gets turned on before the receiver, but it can be brought back by cycling all the way through the TV Out options.

peterjcat

I use a DP-P1 with 802.11n -- in this case the Apple Airport Extreme version. It really is extremely fast, easily 8MB/sec which is more than 4x what you need for HDTV. The router does occasionally go on the fritz and need rebooting, but when it's on it really goes. I've got an old place and running...

peterjcat

I use a DP-P1 with 802.11n -- in this case the Apple Airport Extreme version. It really is extremely fast, easily 8MB/sec which is more than 4x what you need for HDTV. The router does occasionally go on the fritz and need rebooting, but when it's on it really goes. I've got an old place and running ...

peterjcat

Given that adds are typically 30s long, with some at 15s and some at 60s, with usually no more than about 6 in a row, I'm sure that skipping them all in 3 seconds is not too much of a problem at the max speed of x60 So we need buttons that fast-forward at 60x for exactly 30 seconds and rewind at 60...

peterjcat

No worries Samurie. Keep in mind that autosensing switches can sometimes have unexpected results, eg if you're watching a DVD and the BW switches itself on to start recording something the switch may sense the change and switch over to the DVD. You may be better getting a remote-controlled one and u...

peterjcat

Well I just tried it, and 720p works fine over HDMI to my M81. However with the cricket on right now, I could see line flickering on 720p that I didn't see on 1080i (recorded a bit I saw line flickering on, where they had a screen graphic up, and went back to 1080i to see it looked fine). Of course...

peterjcat

Howdy Samurie You might want to consider an HDMI switch like the Joytech Trilink (~$50) which has 3xHDMI in and 1xHDMI out. Use your HDMI->DVI cable to connect the switch to your TV, and run HDMI->HDMI cables from your Beyonwiz and Oppo to the switch. Buy them online and they're pretty reasonable. T...

peterjcat

Even if it's hard, we know by now that the BW engineers are very clever!

peterjcat

I've been saying for a few years that any TV with a native resolution of 768 is a bad choice for every single input because it can never match even one single broadcast standard. Many consumers have been fooled into buying these enhanced definition TVs, thinking that they were buying real high defi...

peterjcat

If you can afford it, you might want to get a separate 802.11n access point to plug into the BW via wired ethernet -- I think Netgear makes one in the same series as your router. That way you wouldn't have any of these wireless compatibility problems and you'd get the full benefit of 802.11n speeds.

peterjcat

I must admit that when I first heard someone suggest MKV support for the BW I thought it was a pretty esoteric idea with pretty narrow appeal. Then I started to archive my DVDs onto the network and realised that MKV is the only container that can handle both H.264 (for superior video compression) an...

peterjcat

You can go to the IceTV website and tell it to "Copy SD programming to HD channels" or similar, and it will fill in the gaps. However, you'll then lose the ability to distinguish native HD programs and upscaled SD programs (since the Beyonwiz EPG doesn't currently display the HD flag). Als...

peterjcat

And there are TWO people here who want support for MKV files. Extrapolated out to the wider market, that probably indicates at least THREE people who are hanging out for this feature.

peterjcat

Onkyo too!

peterjcat

The trouble is that it's very difficult for non-design-professionals to accurately predict what will make a user interface simple and enjoyable for a majority of users; and also very difficult for users to suggest specific changes to "fix" a UI. There are really very few well-designed inte...

peterjcat

Dammit! It's very hard to find information about cheese wheels on this forum.

peterjcat

It's just a trial at the moment, I'd wait until they finalised it before giving it the thumbs up or down.

But, hard to argue with extra HD programming, no matter how little. If they could see their way to sticking all the native HD on the HD channel and everything else on SD, that'd be pretty sweet.

peterjcat

(unless you had gone onto the Ice Remote website and added a few favourites) Yeah, that's the only problem. You're at work, you hear at the water-cooler that a great new show is starting tonight, but you're going straight to the pub from here -- if you're only polling IceTV Remote every morning the...

peterjcat

I always say composite when I mean component or vice versa, they really should have thought of more distinctive names. You should try HDMI and see if you have lip sync issues; there have been some reported but every setup is different so you might get away with it. I prefer the HDMI signal to the co...

peterjcat

Lex200 wrote:Congratulations Beyonwiz. This is an impressive list of fixes / enhancements.
Thanks for the support and responsiveness.
Just give us IceTV remote and some improved codec support and I'll be happy.

I'll be extremely happy then. I'm pretty happy now.

peterjcat

On the Mac I'm allowed to set the IceTV Remote polling to every hour, every three hours or every day -- I'm not sure who decided that hourly is the most frequent option, but since IceTV quite strictly governs the number of times you can hit the site for an EPG update it might well be them. Ian is ri...

peterjcat

From the look of things, IceTV Remote clients poll the IceTV site at regular intervals and download timers which are then incorporated into the device's ordinary timer list. That's how it works on the Mac with EyeTV, at least. If the Beyonwiz can wake itself up for recordings, it should be able to w...

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