[A110] Firmware 01-17-080818-15-POP-403 (NMT 00-17-080808-15-POP-403) released

[Lexluthor]

Hi,

Do you think it could be fixed the following:
- USB power off when PCH-100 is in "off" mode. That means that external disk, conected to USB would also shut down automaticly
- "random shuffle" function added for mp3 playback in music player
- faster jpeg switching

Best regards to all!

[trnsltr]

(10-27-2008 01:34 PM)H2Deetoo Wrote:  >So the pixelation in some 1080p movies will not be solved in the next fw update??

No it will not.
The A-1xx uses a hardware decoder which can only handle L4.1
L5.1 cannot be handled by any hardware player that I know of.
(The problem is that people encode to L5.1 which they should not do, they should limit to L4.1)


Rgs H2Deetoo

The problem is I see pixelation alson on some L4.* encodings.

[tsylverberg]

(10-29-2008 11:52 AM)trnsltr Wrote:  

(10-27-2008 01:34 PM)H2Deetoo Wrote:  >So the pixelation in some 1080p movies will not be solved in the next fw update??

No it will not.
The A-1xx uses a hardware decoder which can only handle L4.1
L5.1 cannot be handled by any hardware player that I know of.
(The problem is that people encode to L5.1 which they should not do, they should limit to L4.1)


Rgs H2Deetoo

The problem is I see pixelation alson on some L4.* encodings.

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem, it seems to be quite common also for L4.* encodings in 1080p

[H2Deetoo]

I haven't seen it before on 1080p L4.1
Could it be you have a bandwith problem? (NFS/SMB are slowest compared to HDD or HTTP, try them as test)


Rgs H2Deetoo,

[alainc77]

i m happy to learn that the next firmware will resolve the dts problem.
but will we have the "random" function when we listen music ?
will you improve the navigation in audio file list ?(it s hard to reach a file when you have a lot file)
sorry for my english
a date please for the next firmware

[euseller]

hope problem with indicator will be fixed (red/orange)
how long need wait for next firmware?

[zombiefood]

(10-29-2008 09:48 PM)euseller Wrote:  hope problem with indicator will be fixed (red/orange)
how long need wait for next firmware?

The talk is today the new firmware is released. for me maybe that's going to be tomorrow seeing as my yesterday is their today

[werner]

not A-110 Firmware, A-100 Firmware will be out tommorow because the popcornhour Site admin wasnt online anymore so we cant release it today, our engineers are working already on an A-110 release normaly if all works well it will be out in 1 or 2 weeks

[trnsltr]

(10-29-2008 02:06 PM)H2Deetoo Wrote:  I haven't seen it before on 1080p L4.1
Could it be you have a bandwith problem? (NFS/SMB are slowest compared to HDD or HTTP, try them as test)


Rgs H2Deetoo,

No, I am running an external HDD and its only a minority of movies pixelating, like it was some codec/filter problem.

[CyberTron]

What's the actual streaming rate currently with the current firmware?

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/i...methods.3F

SMB: ~38Mbps
NFS: ~33Mbps
HTTP: ~42Mbps (same clip peaks at 47Mbps)
USB HDD: ~ 42Mbps
USB DVDROM (8x): ~42Mbps
Internal HDD: ~42Mbps

On the wiki, it seems HTTP can do 42Mbps, while on the firmware changelog, which seems to indicate HTTP can only do 20Mbps?

[OwL]

(10-30-2008 06:43 AM)CyberTron Wrote:  What's the actual streaming rate currently with the current firmware?

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/i...methods.3F

SMB: ~38Mbps
NFS: ~33Mbps
HTTP: ~42Mbps (same clip peaks at 47Mbps)
USB HDD: ~ 42Mbps
USB DVDROM (8x): ~42Mbps
Internal HDD: ~42Mbps

On the wiki, it seems HTTP can do 42Mbps, while on the firmware changelog, which seems to indicate HTTP can only do 20Mbps?

Mad muxed mkv's may cause HTTP transfers stall to speeds around 20MBit... HTTP is very fast for linear transfers, but very slow for random access! (badly muxed mkv may cause a lot of random access reads of the files... This is somewhat remedied with larger caches... and in most cases that solves the problem..)

All the other methods are quick in random access but have slower linear transfers... Right now, internal HD and SMB provides the best over-all speeds!

Regards // OwL

[cheaper_popcorn]

^Thanks for the explanation OwL, that clears up a lot of confusion for me.

So does that mean that a simple remux with the latest version of mkvmerge will improve a 'mad muxed' mkv's performance over http?

[SkykingUSA]

(10-29-2008 10:28 PM)werner Wrote:  not A-110 Firmware, A-100 Firmware will be out tommorow because the popcornhour Site admin wasnt online anymore so we cant release it today, our engineers are working already on an A-110 release normaly if all works well it will be out in 1 or 2 weeks

Thanks for that clarification werner - great to hear.

[H2Deetoo]

>Right now, internal HD and SMB provides the best over-all speeds!

Hmmm, I don't agree.
None of my large bandwith movies (blueray rip about 40Gb each) play fine over NFS/SMB. Only HTTP (TVersity) plays them without hickups.


Regards H2Deetoo,