Topic: Popcorn Hour A-100

[JT]

musta na bro? :-)

you mean, attach an external SATA enclosure that has a DVD / HDDVD or BLURAY drive instead of a hard drive right?

Oks naman.  I mean attaching external dvd drive.  Just got my POPCORN A100 so still exploring this.

I was there 1st week Sept pero sobra busy never had a chance to meet any of the member.  Musta? Whats new?

[ert]

galing...

so mkvs, isos and other files will play without stutter from a drive?

yup..try mo iplay from your pc na nakashared yung cd drive pwede sya

[iiinas]

yup..try mo iplay from your pc na nakashared yung cd drive pwede sya

thanks, will do that. 

[shibby75]

galing...

so mkvs, isos and other files will play without stutter from a drive?

Tried installing a dvd writer by using a USB to IDE converter. The PCH can read  any DATA  (MKV/MP3/divx/iso/pictures) disk from the drive without any hiccup, provided that the media and the reader is in perfect condition. Otherwise stuttering would occur

I was thinking of modding a PCH casing from a nonworking dvdplayer. Substituting the optical drive to a  IDE-DVD.

[anya618]

assuming meron akong htib, pwede ko ba magamit un sa popcorn hour? the htib im using is panasonic sc pt465

[shibby75]

assuming meron akong htib, pwede ko ba magamit un sa popcorn hour? the htib im using is panasonic sc pt465

Kinabit ko sa pioneer xv-dv8 5 disc carousel yung popcorn ko. Automatic ang selection ng sound setup, either 5.1 DTS or dolby digital, kung wala eh nag-dedefault sya sa stereo mode. Digital Coax lang ang available connector nito kya i opted for the PCH A-100 which is  an older model. Kung me SPDIF HTIB mo, mas maganda ang  A-110.

[ert]

Popcorn Hour featured on T3 Magazine Philippines October Issue! with a 5 star ***** rating! Grab one now! 








5 **** STAR RATING!   




visit www.popcornhour.com.ph or myhdworld.multiply.com

[JT]

Has anyone tried attaching external blu-ray or dvd drive?

[ert]

Has anyone tried attaching external blu-ray or dvd drive?

yes pwede thru USB

[iiinas]

Has anyone tried attaching external blu-ray or dvd drive?

it will work for dvd,i dont think it will play bluray.

[JT]

Manage to connect external dvd drive and got detected using 2 usb connections. But showing 'BAD DISC REGION' for all the dvd titles regardless of region.

Any idea why?

[ert]

Popcorn Hour Philippines would like to invite you to visit us at Booth #11 on the upcoming CEL manila 2008 exhibit at the SMX convention center on October 24, 25 and 26! We will be featuring the Popcorn Hour A100 as well as the A110! The A100 recently garnered a 5 star rating! from the country’s premier tech magazine T3 and none less from Mr. Amazing Reviewer himself! With the largest active online forum support community, the Popcorn Hour once again showed us why it deserves so.






Credit Cards will be accepted and maybe installment plans! Limited Stocks only!
 
1st 10 pinoyDVD members who visited us on the said date will get a free Popcorn Hour Sport Shirt!
 
See you guys in CEL!

www.popcornhour.com.ph

Email: [email protected]

[JT]

Popcorn Hour Philippines would like to invite you to visit us at Booth #11 on the upcoming CEL manila 2008 exhibit at the SMX convention center on October 24, 25 and 26! We will be featuring the Popcorn Hour A100 as well as the A110! The A100 recently garnered a 5 star rating! from the country’s premier tech magazine T3 and none less from Mr. Amazing Reviewer himself! With the largest active online forum support community, the Popcorn Hour once again showed us why it deserves so.

Credit Cards will be accepted and maybe installment plans! Limited Stocks only!
 
1st 10 pinoyDVD members who visited us on the said date will get a free Popcorn Hour Sport Shirt!
 
See you guys in CEL!

www.popcornhour.com.ph

Email: [email protected]

Can u deliver in Singapore?

[ert]

Can u deliver in Singapore?

hello! yes we can deliver to singapore

[uvax]

Manage to connect external dvd drive and got detected using 2 usb connections. But showing 'BAD DISC REGION' for all the dvd titles regardless of region.

Any idea why?

Are those orig DVDs you were trying? These players as a whole don't support region decoding.

[iiinas]

Are those orig DVDs you were trying? These players as a whole don't support region decoding.

+1 i think if you want to play legal dvds on this machine it should be "region all" discs, and of course jack sparrow discs will play. 

[Weng!]

my PCH internal 750GB hdd has only 25% ''educational content'' as of todate . if i wanted to have 'em filled up from a source, what is the best way to do?

1. bring the whole pch
2. remove the hdd and put in an hdd enclosure. but the format is not ntfs/fat32, will usb connection work when connected to a pc?
3. remove the hdd and connect it directly (internally) to a pc. this will be a tedious job that the educational content supplier may not want to go into this mess.

TIA sa suggestions

[ert]

my PCH internal 750GB hdd has only 25% ''educational content'' as of todate . if i wanted to have 'em filled up from a source, what is the best way to do?

1. bring the whole pch
2. remove the hdd and put in an hdd enclosure. but the format is not ntfs/fat32, will usb connection work when connected to a pc?
3. remove the hdd and connect it directly (internally) to a pc. this will be a tedious job that the educational content supplier may not want to go into this mess.

TIA sa suggestions


pinakamabilis is no. 3? but medyo hassle lang..then download mo www.ifs-driver.org for windows to recognize the hard drive..if u want to transfer files thru the network pwede rin kaso mabagal..

[HD_MOVIES]

my PCH internal 750GB hdd has only 25% ''educational content'' as of todate . if i wanted to have 'em filled up from a source, what is the best way to do?

1. bring the whole pch
2. remove the hdd and put in an hdd enclosure. but the format is not ntfs/fat32, will usb connection work when connected to a pc?
3. remove the hdd and connect it directly (internally) to a pc. this will be a tedious job that the educational content supplier may not want to go into this mess.

TIA sa suggestions

number 1 na lang.. bahala na yung source mo.. hehe
pero kung pang movie watching lang yung PCH, why not format the disk to NTFS na lang? some other NMT's kasi pede directly isalpak yung NTFS formatted hdd.. for my case, i find the other feature un-useful.. pang MKV viewing lang talaga yung sakin..

[Weng!]

@ert & HD_movies,

sayang din naman ang 25% content ng hdd ko kung burahin lang. my other option is to source out or borrow a hdd for storing my existing files then format the hdd to ntfs. kaso lang i need to store the new files somewhere again coz i will have to reformat back the hdd to pch settings. hassle talaga no another option is to buy a 1TB hdd but this will be an expensive route.

[HD_MOVIES]

@ert & HD_movies,

sayang din naman ang 25% content ng hdd ko kung burahin lang. my other option is to source out or borrow a hdd for storing my existing files then format the hdd to ntfs. kaso lang i need to store the new files somewhere again coz i will have to reformat back the hdd to pch settings. hassle talaga no another option is to buy a 1TB hdd but this will be an expensive route.

bili ka na lang ng 1TB, will give you a good price.. 
ygpm..

[JT]

Any A100 firmware to enable DTS as PCM?

[anya618]

Any A100 firmware to enable DTS as PCM?

gusto ko rin nito. ung htib ko kasi dolby digital and pcm lang pde pag thru optical cable

[ert]

Any A100 firmware to enable DTS as PCM?

nope d sya pwede sa a100 e..

pero pwede sya sa a110 sa next firmware update popcorn hour gets a dts license for this one

[anya618]

nope d sya pwede sa a100 e..

pero pwede sya sa a110 sa next firmware update popcorn hour gets a dts license for this one

kelan sir ung next firmware update? 

[JT]

kelan sir ung next firmware update? 

Good news for us A100 user. Firmware release Date : 30 Oct 2008  will have the ff:
 
 Firmware Version : 01-17-081023-15-POP-402-000 
 
 Release Note : 
1. Requires NMT apps 00-17-081023-15-POP-402
 
2. Playback
  - MKV HTTP streaming performance improved
  - MKV Chapters support.
  - MKV chapter key handling (follows WMP)
   - use PREV/NEXT key to switch chapter
   - at each chapter, 
    - pressing PREV once will goto start of that chapter
    - pressing PREV twice will goto previous chapter 
    - pressing PREV twice at 1st chapter will goto previous clip if in playlist
    - pressing NEXT once will goto start of next chapter
    - pressing NEXT once at last chapter will goto next clip if in playlist 
  - Fixed ISO playback over USB occasional hang issue
  - Fixed some FLAC playback at wrong sampling frequency
  - Fixed certain TS substream (mostly teletext) incorrectly detected as DTS
  - Fixed certain TS with mixed Hi-Def and standard audio subtracks losing audio 
  - Audio with new info display and ID3v2 (album art if available)
   - ID3 parsing for local (HDD, USB storage) content only
   - Press Info key to display 
  - Added filename and bitrate in video info display.
  - RMVB support (requires new myiHome v5.1.0 and above to perform transcoding)
  - Fixed certain microDVD SUB file will cause hang
  - Fixed thumbnail display issue from WMP servers
  - Moved Video Zoom option from "Preferences" to "Audio/Video" page, separating into 2 options 
   - Video Zoom [Actual Size | Fit To Screen | Crop | Full Screen] 
   - TV Type [4:3 | 16:9 | 16:10] 
  - Prebuffering control 
   - new HTML extension tag supported, "prebuf=xxx" property tag added to anchor tag to set the size of the pre-buffer
  - Fixed no dimension information displayed for certain M1V/M2V files
  - display MP3 album art in actual size
  - Fixed exception handling for music album art
  - added handling of FLAC file with ID3 header
  - DTS-core passthrough fixed
  - Fixed audio switch between DTS-HD and other codec no output issue
  - Video playback progressive zoom and pan 
   - press "Zoom" key to cycle through zoom mode, magnify mode and pan mode 
   - use arrow key to adjust value (only left/right key for zoom/magnify)
   - moves viewport when panning, instead of the image 
   - added exit zoom mode 
   - change pan step size to 1
   - save pan/zoom setting for each zoom profile (FullScreen, Actual Size etc) to RAM.
  - Audio output fixes 
   - fixed some AVI with DTS 96/24 output 
   - fixed AVI with PCM output noise when set to 5.1 
   - fixed HDMI no DTS output when AC3 set to PCM mode
  - Fixed for 24 bit encoded FLAC playback
  - Fixed playback video_ts over SMB stuttering issue
  - Fixed Brightness/Saturation/Contrast not applied correctly in DVD playback 
  - Added language selection for DVD subtitle/audio (Danish etc)
  - Fixed DVD with single subtitle track cannot be displayed
  - Modified Volume range to improve usable range
   - Volume range -15~+15, max 15dB, min -28dB.
   - red number if >0dB, indicating boosted volume
   - green number if <0dB 
   - white at 0dB 
  - Fixed volume not saved when it is 0dB
  - Detect .dts as DTS-WAV, starts playback with 0dB to allow uncorrupted passthrough
  - Fixed WAV header parsing for certain wav file
  - Fixed HD-DVD remux, DD+ track no audio downmix output
  - Fixed M2T PMT detection bug
  - Fixed DTS-WAV output issue when surround mode is set to 5.1
  - Fixed inaccurate running video bitrate
  - Rectified "repeat", "suspend" key mapping in ISO playback 
  - Fixed incorrect playlist OSD display when music playback from myiHome
  - Fixed decoder crash when playing a MKV without audio track 
  - Fixed incorrect downsampling of PCM audio for HDMI output source sampling rate > 48kHz 
  - Fixed incorrect WAV playback sampling rate (set at 48kHz) 
 
3. Photo app
  - New Photo app
  - added more information on display
  - eliminate black-out gap between slides 
  - able to display monochrome JPEG
  - auto rotation for photo (JPEG)
   - based on EXIF orientation and below 2048x2048 
  - Brightness/contrast/saturation change ("Setup" + arrow keys) 
  - Slideshow fixes
   - Auto rotation for jpeg 2111 profile 
    - Known issue: Color distortion at the bottom of picture after +-90deg rotate. 
   - Color settings to follow preset value 
  - changed pan to moving viewport, instead of image (same as for movies)
  - fixed mis-aligned position when performing zoom 
  - Fixed decoder crashed when displaying certain GIF file through HDMI
  - Fixed certain JPEG rotation will crash decoder
  - Known issues: 
   - for GIF/BMP/PNG, will clear screen when manually switch previous/next slide
   - color distortion at bottom of photo when panning.
   - no rotation for BMP GIF PNG 
   - no rotation for JPEG >= 2048x2048 
   - JPEG > 15MB cannot be displayed through HTTP 
   - BMP > 2272x1712, PNG > 4000x2400 cannot be displayed - checking 
   - Note: myiHome will transcode and scale-down BMP/GIF/PNG to JPEG 
 
4. System/Browser
  - Atheros WiFi WEP issue fixes
  - added HDMI/DVI colorspace Setup option
  - fixed wrong navigation flow after adding network share
  - Modified Web Services UI pages
  - Fixed when USB drive added/removed, issue with media source page refresh
  - Turkish, Danish translation added
  - Browser caching to harddisk
  - Various translation fixes
  - WiFi graceful teardown during reboot/shutdown to avoid crash.
  - Browser modification 
   - pressing SOURCE key at "Media source" page will goto "Web Services" 
   - fixed browser using wrong cached image 
   - added "new folder" and "rename" functions in File Operation menu 
   - faster fileplayer sort
  - Fixed garbled text at network share -> username/password page 
  - Various new libs to resolve crash issue Usenet download under certain condition 
  - Fixed CD-ROM folders not sorted on top of file list 
  - Fixed occasional inaccurate WiFi auto-scan list
  - Workaround inaccurate width calculation for some fixed-width character
  - Cut Browser parsing time to about half (reduce about 0.2s)
  - Fixed ISO file does not support relative path on fileplayer
  - Fixed NMT apps start/stop status shown incorectly 
  - Fixed NMT apps status refresh in SEtup page and "Reset Factory Setting" handling
  - Fixed failure to access Clutch interface
  - Fixed broken browser history
 
5. Network
  - NFS servers browsing supported
  - SMB client fixes, additional checking to prevent from redirect to invalid/stale share folder 
  - Handling when network lost - proper unmount and page redirection 
  - NFS client fixes, reduce the retry time on NFS mount from 2 mins to 1 min
  - Revert network IP checking for SMB/NFS share before mount attempt
  - Fixed reset to factory settings occasionally failed after network configuration changed
 
6. Subtitle
  - Fixed extended character misaligned in MKV embedded subtitle 
  - Fixed bi-direction issue in Hebrew *.SUB 
  - Subtitle menu re-ordered and text modified
   - A"Time"->"On/Off"->"Color"->"Size"->"Position"
  - Fixed Subtitle from myiHomeLite bug (QA#495)
 
7. Casgle client
  - changed Casgle client name from "Casgle Client" to "Casgle iDVR"
  - opened Casgle client service for SD mode too
 
8. Known issues
  - PNG/TIFF support over myiHome broken

[CocoBoy]

Good news for us A100 user. Firmware release Date : 30 Oct 2008  will have the ff:
 
 Firmware Version : 01-17-081023-15-POP-402-000 
 
 Release Note : 
1. Requires NMT apps 00-17-081023-15-POP-402
 
2. Playback
  - MKV HTTP streaming performance improved
  - MKV Chapters support.
  - MKV chapter key handling (follows WMP)
   - use PREV/NEXT key to switch chapter
   - at each chapter, 
    - pressing PREV once will goto start of that chapter
    - pressing PREV twice will goto previous chapter 
    - pressing PREV twice at 1st chapter will goto previous clip if in playlist
    - pressing NEXT once will goto start of next chapter
    - pressing NEXT once at last chapter will goto next clip if in playlist 
  - Fixed ISO playback over USB occasional hang issue
  - Fixed some FLAC playback at wrong sampling frequency
  - Fixed certain TS substream (mostly teletext) incorrectly detected as DTS
  - Fixed certain TS with mixed Hi-Def and standard audio subtracks losing audio 
  - Audio with new info display and ID3v2 (album art if available)
   - ID3 parsing for local (HDD, USB storage) content only
   - Press Info key to display 
  - Added filename and bitrate in video info display.
  - RMVB support (requires new myiHome v5.1.0 and above to perform transcoding)
  - Fixed certain microDVD SUB file will cause hang
  - Fixed thumbnail display issue from WMP servers
  - Moved Video Zoom option from "Preferences" to "Audio/Video" page, separating into 2 options 
   - Video Zoom [Actual Size | Fit To Screen | Crop | Full Screen] 
   - TV Type [4:3 | 16:9 | 16:10] 
  - Prebuffering control 
   - new HTML extension tag supported, "prebuf=xxx" property tag added to anchor tag to set the size of the pre-buffer
  - Fixed no dimension information displayed for certain M1V/M2V files
  - display MP3 album art in actual size
  - Fixed exception handling for music album art
  - added handling of FLAC file with ID3 header
  - DTS-core passthrough fixed
  - Fixed audio switch between DTS-HD and other codec no output issue
  - Video playback progressive zoom and pan 
   - press "Zoom" key to cycle through zoom mode, magnify mode and pan mode 
   - use arrow key to adjust value (only left/right key for zoom/magnify)
   - moves viewport when panning, instead of the image 
   - added exit zoom mode 
   - change pan step size to 1
   - save pan/zoom setting for each zoom profile (FullScreen, Actual Size etc) to RAM.
  - Audio output fixes 
   - fixed some AVI with DTS 96/24 output 
   - fixed AVI with PCM output noise when set to 5.1 
   - fixed HDMI no DTS output when AC3 set to PCM mode
  - Fixed for 24 bit encoded FLAC playback
  - Fixed playback video_ts over SMB stuttering issue
  - Fixed Brightness/Saturation/Contrast not applied correctly in DVD playback 
  - Added language selection for DVD subtitle/audio (Danish etc)
  - Fixed DVD with single subtitle track cannot be displayed
  - Modified Volume range to improve usable range
   - Volume range -15~+15, max 15dB, min -28dB.
   - red number if >0dB, indicating boosted volume
   - green number if <0dB 
   - white at 0dB 
  - Fixed volume not saved when it is 0dB
  - Detect .dts as DTS-WAV, starts playback with 0dB to allow uncorrupted passthrough
  - Fixed WAV header parsing for certain wav file
  - Fixed HD-DVD remux, DD+ track no audio downmix output
  - Fixed M2T PMT detection bug
  - Fixed DTS-WAV output issue when surround mode is set to 5.1
  - Fixed inaccurate running video bitrate
  - Rectified "repeat", "suspend" key mapping in ISO playback 
  - Fixed incorrect playlist OSD display when music playback from myiHome
  - Fixed decoder crash when playing a MKV without audio track 
  - Fixed incorrect downsampling of PCM audio for HDMI output source sampling rate > 48kHz 
  - Fixed incorrect WAV playback sampling rate (set at 48kHz) 
 
3. Photo app
  - New Photo app
  - added more information on display
  - eliminate black-out gap between slides 
  - able to display monochrome JPEG
  - auto rotation for photo (JPEG)
   - based on EXIF orientation and below 2048x2048 
  - Brightness/contrast/saturation change ("Setup" + arrow keys) 
  - Slideshow fixes
   - Auto rotation for jpeg 2111 profile 
    - Known issue: Color distortion at the bottom of picture after +-90deg rotate. 
   - Color settings to follow preset value 
  - changed pan to moving viewport, instead of image (same as for movies)
  - fixed mis-aligned position when performing zoom 
  - Fixed decoder crashed when displaying certain GIF file through HDMI
  - Fixed certain JPEG rotation will crash decoder
  - Known issues: 
   - for GIF/BMP/PNG, will clear screen when manually switch previous/next slide
   - color distortion at bottom of photo when panning.
   - no rotation for BMP GIF PNG 
   - no rotation for JPEG >= 2048x2048 
   - JPEG > 15MB cannot be displayed through HTTP 
   - BMP > 2272x1712, PNG > 4000x2400 cannot be displayed - checking 
   - Note: myiHome will transcode and scale-down BMP/GIF/PNG to JPEG 
 
4. System/Browser
  - Atheros WiFi WEP issue fixes
  - added HDMI/DVI colorspace Setup option
  - fixed wrong navigation flow after adding network share
  - Modified Web Services UI pages
  - Fixed when USB drive added/removed, issue with media source page refresh
  - Turkish, Danish translation added
  - Browser caching to harddisk
  - Various translation fixes
  - WiFi graceful teardown during reboot/shutdown to avoid crash.
  - Browser modification 
   - pressing SOURCE key at "Media source" page will goto "Web Services" 
   - fixed browser using wrong cached image 
   - added "new folder" and "rename" functions in File Operation menu 
   - faster fileplayer sort
  - Fixed garbled text at network share -> username/password page 
  - Various new libs to resolve crash issue Usenet download under certain condition 
  - Fixed CD-ROM folders not sorted on top of file list 
  - Fixed occasional inaccurate WiFi auto-scan list
  - Workaround inaccurate width calculation for some fixed-width character
  - Cut Browser parsing time to about half (reduce about 0.2s)
  - Fixed ISO file does not support relative path on fileplayer
  - Fixed NMT apps start/stop status shown incorectly 
  - Fixed NMT apps status refresh in SEtup page and "Reset Factory Setting" handling
  - Fixed failure to access Clutch interface
  - Fixed broken browser history
 
5. Network
  - NFS servers browsing supported
  - SMB client fixes, additional checking to prevent from redirect to invalid/stale share folder 
  - Handling when network lost - proper unmount and page redirection 
  - NFS client fixes, reduce the retry time on NFS mount from 2 mins to 1 min
  - Revert network IP checking for SMB/NFS share before mount attempt
  - Fixed reset to factory settings occasionally failed after network configuration changed
 
6. Subtitle
  - Fixed extended character misaligned in MKV embedded subtitle 
  - Fixed bi-direction issue in Hebrew *.SUB 
  - Subtitle menu re-ordered and text modified
   - A"Time"->"On/Off"->"Color"->"Size"->"Position"
  - Fixed Subtitle from myiHomeLite bug (QA#495)
 
7. Casgle client
  - changed Casgle client name from "Casgle Client" to "Casgle iDVR"
  - opened Casgle client service for SD mode too
 
8. Known issues
  - PNG/TIFF support over myiHome broken

Updated to this already.  Nice.

[JT]

Updated to this already.  Nice.

Great. Is it confirm, got the DTS decoder already?

[ert]

Great. Is it confirm, got the DTS decoder already?

DTS decoder will be available sa A110 only

[JT]

DTS decoder will be available sa A110 only

Some says this patch will enable DTS for A100.