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Thanks, PRL... it worked fine. I was just hesitate to open the new cable package and risk losing $16 if it didn't work. But it's perfect.

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I have a new PC and to my horror I realised it doesn't have a spare network port. Thus, I can't plug my P1 into my PC anymore because the network port is used by my Optus Netgear Wi-Fi Router. However, I do see that the router has 3 spare network ports on it... am I crazy to assume that if I plug th...

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I don't work for Dick Smith Electronics, but they do have a 7-day no-questions-asked refund policy for most things. (Things like batteries, cut-to-length cables, software, etc, are not refundable). Or, just pay by credit card, and do a chargeback with your bank if the store refuses to refund. It's t...

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On the BW, you can't do this. You either have to 'fly blind' (press skip quickly for some count, hoping you'll reach the program restart), stop and wait for play to catch up. If you've overshot, you have no idea how much because you didn't see anything along the way. Or you can press-and-wait, pres...

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I just super-glued a small square of thin black cloth over the circle on mine. Dimmed it perfectly, while still leaving it visible and functional.

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Power off and on didn't fix it. The FourCC changer didn't fix it. I couldn't be bothered re-encoding it. Too much hassle for a temp vid. Thanks anyway.

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Noticed something weird today with my P1. I went to play an AVI video over my network and the BW stayed on the "Loading" message, with the hourglass animating, and the audio only of the AVI was playing, but not the video. Here's the MediaInfo, if that helps. Firmware 350. A bug? General Co...

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Was this problem caused by the P1 losing its Windows Sharing login name/password? Because if that happens, you log in as Guest. No, because I haven't changed that for years. it is often pointed out to members having issues that they should check the security and access settings when there are netwo...

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You should go to the advanced tab, and ensure the folder enforces permissions on children entries, or else the next time you copy a file or folder to that share, it will have your PC main user permissions and you will be in the same boat Yep, I think somehow that wasn't set anymore (for whatever re...

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FORGET EVERYTHING I POSTED. The videos are ALL fine and supported.

My PC's folder sharing settings were causing the "Unsupported format" errors!
More details here: http://www.beyonwiz.com.au/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=88966

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Okay, for some reason my shared "Media" folder wasn't set to "Everyone" in XP's share settings for "Groups or user names". It was just things like "Administrator", "Authenticated Users", etc. So I removed all the existing shared groups and user names...

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OMG, I can't believe what I just discovered about my P1! Remember in another thread (http://www.beyonwiz.com.au/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=6293) I was complaining that no matter how I encoded my videos, the P1 wouldn't play them, and kept reporting "Unsupported format"? And I got lots of help ...

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probably easier to buy a cheap media player and find a spare input on the TV Not a bad idea, actually. My media folder is 760 GB, so it'd be good to free up that space for my PC apps instead of using it as media storage. It means I could also take my media wherever I go, and not have this encoding ...

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Okay, my Handbrake-encoded file just finished (I restarted it with a smaller resolution to save time) and the P1 says "Unsupported format". I knew it. I used all the default Handbrake settings with "High Profile" selected. No chapters set, and only one audio track used (I removed...

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Ian, thanks for the background info on encoding in general. I now understand why nobody can just post "set this, then this" in any given app. But, you know, VirtualDub lets the user save and load encoding settings, so if a person saved their settings and then I loaded them, surely VirtualD...

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Okay, I used AVIdemux to unpack the second one, and then I resaved it as an AVI, and woohoo, it works! :) However, some other videos I have also are packed (according to MediaInfo), but they play, so what gives there? The first and third ones I guess I'll have to re-encode as something else, but tha...

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This is like asking people to document the length of string But why? File formats are documented and can be found on the net. Surely following the document file format specs would produce a working video? Computers are computers: they blindly do what they're told. They don't look at a video one mor...

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http://www.beyonwiz.com.au/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=319 Thanks, but I'm not convinced it's reliable enough. For example, it says .ASF video files play properly, by such files do not play on my P1 at all. All I want is a "readme" that says, make sure your video is MP4, at WxH resolution, in ...

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I just can't win with my P1 at the moment. There used to be a time I could download (or convert) any video and it would play it. Now, 99% of the time I get "Unsupported format" errors. Even the other day, the P1 would play a WMV file (without audio though!) but now it says, for the same fi...

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Just to double-check (since my memory is shot today): to unpack an AVI with AviDemux, I load the video into it (done), it wants to rebuild the audio (I let it), then what?

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Done now, Tony. Thanks for the tip!

And yes, I'm glad it wasn't the BW.

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Okay, I worked it out! :) Had to go to the Properties of the parent folder ("Married With Children"), then I selected "Authenticated Users" in the list, clicked the "Remove" button, and then for "Full Control" I ticked it and clicked "Apply". Now the...

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Hi IanSav, I was just doing that while you responded. :) Here's the results: http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/416/image1bs.th.png MWC is on the left, and a different (working!) folder also named "S01" is on the right. As you can see, the right-hand one says "Everyone" but MWC's...

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Okay, I just updated my P1 firmware to 350. My PC is Win XP and I can view all other files in all other folders just fine. Just not this new folder. The story is: I did a DVD rip of "Married With Children" to play from my BW. Now, before anyone accuses me of piracy, here's proof that I own...

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I just copied a bunch of AVI files to my "Media" folder on my PC, in a subfolder, but none of the files are showing on my BW when I browse it via the network. But if I browse to other folders in my "Media" folder, other AVI files show up just fine. What might cause this? Filename...

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Interesting story, and good to know! Thanks for posting it.

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I just changed my contract with TPG and got a new IP address, and I too am "banned" from these forums. I am posting this message via www.ipshade.org because I can't access these forums any other way! According to IP address sites, my TPG address starts with 14.200 (as reported by http://ww...

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netmask wrote:With AVI files it's a good idea to check if they are "packed", if they are you can unpack them with Avidemux

So, should I just use Avidemux to unpack ALL my AVIs? Should that be the norm?

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@sub3R: I just noticed this in your sig:

"Not used as media players - can't even random play (shuffle) music files"

You can always sort the music by size and that gives a random-like playback.

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Hmm, I can't reproduce the play-pause-play-pause thing here. But the bug definitely is in
there. I will have to be careful to note what I was doing the next time it happens.

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Since updating my firmware from 320 to 334 on my P1, I've noticed that if I'm watching the timeshift buffer, it may (seemingly randomly) jump back to the live feed by itself. This occurs even when no timer is fired or anything. Just watching. I thought it was just a one-off, but it's happened about ...

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> If the installers had secured it correctly in the first place you shouldn?t have been able to move it Yes, it was quite easy. There was a bit of give, but I basically moved it with just my index finger and thumb. I'll have to investigate tightening it properly on the weekend when I can secure myse...

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FIXED! :D I did another re-scan today and the ABC and TEN were "picked up" in that the BW showed them as a channel and in the EPG, but signal-wise it kept showing "No Signal" all the time, with maybe a flash or two of footage every 5 seconds or so. So I went onto the roof to look...

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I'll definitely try moving the antenna first, just to confirm if that's the cause. It was raining heavily when I got home yesterday, but hopefully not tonight or before Thursday. And I'll get my wife to do a scan in front of them before they start (I'll be at work). Good thinking, IanSav. Knowing my...

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> There is also a possibility that your antenna has moved slightly off axis causing reception > to be weakened for ABC/TEN but not the others Yes, that is most likely the problem, given the history in this thread of birds landing on it all the time, and lots of strong winds we've had lately. So, I r...

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Everything is still secure and non-corroded from what I can see. It basically went from one day showing ABC/TEN, to not showing them the next morning when I turned it on. Also, if it can scan and get all other channels, wouldn't that mean the antenna itself is fine? It's digital -- all or nothing. T...

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Hi Ian, I even tried scanning the other TV in another room (same cable to it) and it too can't get any ABC or TEN channels. I went onto the roof to look at the antenna and it seems totally fine though... not as much poo as I expected; it was rather clean actually. I was also able to determine that I...

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For the past week now I can't tune in any ABC or TEN channels at all. Both my Beyonwiz
and TV itself can't get them with a re-scan. I assume the birds have stuffed my antenna?

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> Alignment : Split accross interleaves > This is why the file does not play. This is not supported. I see... but I do have several other AVIs also with this property and they play. So, it's sort of confusing. > There are tools that will correct this issue and allow the file to play properly If it's...

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> different software is used for the previews from full screen playing Well, that's a bit silly. The thumbnail driver should be the fullscreen driver then, as it's obviously more advanced and can handle different video formats better. I know it's probably not as simple as that, so I make that commen...

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Riddle me this: why does my P1 fail to play a certain AVI file that I encoded, and indeed it says "unsupported format", but if I select "Info" for that file in the popup menu, the smaller thumbnail video of the AVI plays just fine! What the? One second it's saying it can't play i...

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> there was a note at the start of the document saying that a Hard Drive Format
> was required after updating to this version. This statement was incorrect.

I read that, but there's no way I was going to reformat anyway!

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VideoReDo isn't free, but it's ad removal is pretty much spot on. Get what you pay for.

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REW and FF are a rough and ready method of scanning media. They are not designed for accurate positioning. Hey, if a DVD player can do it with digital media, even when scanning at 32x speed, then IMHO so can the BW. As a coder I feel it's laziness not to do it properly. All the BW has to do is note...

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An update to this: today I started getting lots of splatting and blockiness again, so I went outside to check and sure enough, there were 3 pigeons nesting on my antenna! After I shooed them away and came back inside, the reception was perfect again. So I think I'll definitely have to try the cable ...

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> 1. Yes it is an official release > 2. Yes it is a previous beta release Even the two comments above seem contradictory. I read those as meaning it's a beta release that was then made official with no changes. Otherwise, item 2 above should say something like "Yes there was a previous beta rel...

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Why is this so confusing? There is a firmware for my P1 on www.beyonwiz.com.au but other threads here say it's a leaked beta or something? What's going on? Do I install the firmware that I just downloaded from there or not? WHAT'S THE DEFINITE ANSWER? :roll: Because if I can't believe the official s...

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> download movies to the beyonwiz

You know downloading movies is illegal, right?

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I've had a lot of digital splats and signal loss lately, at random times. Tonight, when it started again, I took a torch outside in case it was a bat or something on the TV antenna, but it wasn't. What I did notice, however, was lots of white bird poo all over the antenna. Could that coat enough of ...

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Connecting P1 to PC via Netgear WiFi Router?

Re: Skip/jump/FF etc

"Loading" with audio only playing

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Unsupported format = Perhaps not!

Official supported file specs?

AVI files not showing in network

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Timeshift jumps to live by itself in 334

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Re: Unsupported format vs info playback

Unsupported format vs info playback

Re: Firmware Release Notes Correction for 01.07.055

Re: Free program to delete commercials

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New firmware out or not?

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Signal loss due to bird poo?

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