[A-100] Firmware 01-17-100317-15-POP-402 (00-17-091216-15-POP-402 Apps)

[cheaper_popcorn]

(03-29-2010 10:26 AM)obvious Wrote:  Multi language sub/idx support. Is it working now? I've been patiently waiting for what seems like years. Can't test yet cos I have an HDX1000.

It is not perfect yet. Works with some files, and not with others

[kurben]

(03-29-2010 03:33 AM)ricocarlos Wrote:  My NMT Apps install keeps failing saying Your Soursce is not valid. Please reboot. Any ideas????

I have the same thing!! I do not want to reformat my 1.5 tb disk!

[ricocarlos]

It hosed mine...so now I'll have to reformat.
Nice.

(03-29-2010 07:28 PM)kurben Wrote:  I have the same thing!! I do not want to reformat my 1.5 tb disk!

[HeartWare]

I see a lot of talk about IDX/SUB support for .AVI files?

How about S_VOBSUB support inside .MKV files? Is that working on the A-100?

[cheaper_popcorn]

Nope, VOBSUB muxed into MKV doesn't work on the 100 series. Only supported by the 200 series.

Syabas stated early on with the 100 series that they would focus on sub/idx external and made no promises about embedded in MKV.

[HeartWare]

I wasn't trying to imply that they promised anything, but would also like it to be supported inside .MKV files.

[cheaper_popcorn]

I wasn't trying to imply that you were trying to imply anything. Just a general 'for your information' note not specifically directed at anyone.

I would also like sub/idx embedded in MKV to be supported.

[marinoslb]

I have a problem in updating the NMT apps.
Firmware update from an external USB HDD went as planned, NMT rebooted and the update wizard manager is displayed as from the README notes; I select Typical setup but when I select USB as source, it's telling me that the USB device is not found. What is not the case as I can see a browse the drive.
Any idea anybody?
Thanks in advance

[rshri]

Since past year, my PCH had been suffering from a strange problem - After a cold start, most of the time, the screen would remain blank. It would take 2-3 power cycles (connecting & disconnecting power cord) to make the PCH boot logo appear.
Strangely enough, ever since I updated to this firmware, I have not had this problem. Not sure whether it actually got fixed by firmware. It could be just a happy coincidence.

[AJ500]

(03-26-2010 01:26 PM)Bojoko Wrote:  With this new firmware my NZBget is working faster, but my BitTorrent WebUI (PCH-A100:8883/torrent/bt.cgi) is not working anymore, my MusicPlayerDaemon (MPD) stopped working and on top of this, I cannot access my PCH-A100 with Putty anymore!

Same problem here with the BitTorrent WebUI not displaying. I get an empty screen with a blue background. I think the client is running, but I have no web interface. I hope the solution is NOT to reformat the disk.

[projnet]

(03-31-2010 03:59 AM)ricocarlos Wrote:  It hosed mine...so now I'll have to reformat.
Nice.

Any way around this?

[awdkoers]

(03-29-2010 03:33 AM)ricocarlos Wrote:  My NMT Apps install keeps failing saying Your Soursce is not valid. Please reboot. Any ideas????

I had the same problem. Not with this last firmware but the previous one. Turned out that there was nothing wrong with the firmware and apps.

The harddisk is formatted linux ext3 by the popcorn resulting in 3 partitions. The partition #1 is used to store the firmware & apps and turned out to be full! Pretty stupid that they use such a small partition when you have a 1 TB HDD. I don't know who's to blame. Off course i installed a lot of software on the pch to make this machine fun.
By using telnet from my pc i found out about this. I have no knowledge about linux commands but managed to find out about this.

To fix the problem i have gone a "dangerous" road. I didn't want to lose all my data on my 1TB HDD. I used Parted Magic (free download cd) to manage the linux partitions in my popcorn.
The only way the extend the first full partition is to create adjacent drivespace. This was not possible because partition 2 was linux swap partition. The third partition was the data partition.

I cant remember in what order, but i deleted the linux swap partition and added the free space to partition 1 (extra 100 mb! ). Then i created a new linux swap partion using free disk space of data partition three.

I was afraid that the order of partitions would cause problems, because of swap partion now being the third partion instead of the second. Everything works fine for my and i didn't lose data!

This is highly experimental, use it at own risk. Perhaps you can try it before you reformat your drive.

I was happy this last firmware installed without any problems.

Bye
Alex

[Stavr0s01]

is it me or does playback of xvid seem to be getting worse not better

i often download tv shows in xvid on a weekly basis, and, since this firmware i cannot view certain episodes, without either of these situations,

1, the video plays back and no sound

2, the video plays back and stutters and seems to almost lock and i can hear bits of garbled sound at the same time

3, i press play and get a black screen so end up pressing stop when i know its not going to play.



in case this matters, i doubt it does


A100 +internal 320gb WD


Samsung 40"

Dlink DNS 323 Nas 2x 1TB WD

is there any way at all to go back to the previous firmware or even one older than that, without bricking my A100 or formatting the drive please?

[rshri]

Last night my A-100 unit got factory reset by itself! Has anyone observed anything like this before? I mean I didn't really do anything. I just turned it on, noticed that its taking rather unusually long to boot. Then after it finished booting I noticed that its fallen off my home network. I then checked and found out that ALL my settings are gone as if a factory reset had been done!
I re-did all the settings but things still look problematic since unit froze several times while doing the settings. I suspect this has something to with this new firmware but it could be a one off problem. I will keep you guys updated if I notice any more problems.

[projnet]

(04-03-2010 07:50 AM)awdkoers Wrote:  I had the same problem. Not with this last firmware but the previous one. Turned out that there was nothing wrong with the firmware and apps.

The harddisk is formatted linux ext3 by the popcorn resulting in 3 partitions. The partition #1 is used to store the firmware & apps and turned out to be full! Pretty stupid that they use such a small partition when you have a 1 TB HDD. I don't know who's to blame. Off course i installed a lot of software on the pch to make this machine fun.
By using telnet from my pc i found out about this. I have no knowledge about linux commands but managed to find out about this.
...

Bye
Alex

Thanks, Alex,

This worked for me.