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Page 2: ...g Audio Settings 19 3 2 Changing Video Settings 20 3 3 Changing Network Settings 21 3 4 Changing System Settings 24 3 5 Miscellaneous 25 4 MAIN Menu 27 4 1 Browser Menu 27 4 2 Media Library 36 4 3 File Copy Menu 37 4 4 Internet Radio 38 4 5 P2P Share Menu 39 4 6 IMS Internet Multimedia Service Menu 41 4 7 NAS Function 41 5 Upgrading the Firmware 43 6 Appendixes 43 6 1 Specifications 43 6 2 Frequen...

Page 3: ... MKV TS TP TRP M2TS MPG MP4 M4V MOV VOB ISO IFO DAT WMV ASF RM RMVB FLV Music format MP3 OGG WMA WAV AAC FLAC Photo format HD JPEG BMP GIF TIF PNG Photo slide show with background music Network Feature A V streaming transmission via Ethernet 10M 100M Wi Fi 802 11b g n optional File sharing via Samba server A V streaming via UPnP Media Server BitTorrent download controlled and managed via web serve...

Page 4: ...acture has your safety in mind In order to safely and effectively use this player please read the following before usage 1 3 1 Usage Cautions User should not modify this player If commercial hard disk is being used the environmental temperature should be within 5 35 1 3 2 Power The player s power voltage DC 12V When using this player please connect the supplied AC adapter or AC adapter cable to th...

Page 5: ...t required You should carefully read the Frequently Asked Questions chapter and check our website for latest information before formatting the hard disk Physical impact may create bad sector in the hard disk you can use CHKDSK to fix the problem All data stored in the player may be lost due to physical impact electrical shock power lost HDD format etc Please backup your data It is suggested to do ...

Page 6: ...e and the product will return to normal performance next time it is powered on 1 4 Connection 1 4 1 Connecting the Power Supply 1 Follow the picture and connect the AC adaptor to the player s DC IN jack 2 Follow the picture and plug in the AC adaptor to the power outlet 1 4 2 Connecting to a PC 1 Make sure the player is powered on 2 Plug in the squarish connector of the USB cable to this player s ...

Page 7: ...1 4 3 Connecting to a eSATA External Serial ATA device 1 Make sure the player is powered on 2 Plug in the eSATA cable to this player s eSATA port 3 Plug in the another end of the eSATA cable to the eSATA port of your external HDD device In this way you can browser contents on the external HDD ...

Page 8: ...s player In this way you can browse contents on the USB device 1 4 5 Connecting a Memory Card Memory card can be used by inserting to the card slot 1 Follow the picture to insert the memory card to the card slot properly 2 Insert the card by following the arrow pointer in the picture In this way you can browse contents on the memory card ...

Page 9: ...r other display devices 1 4 6 2 Y Pb Pr Component OUT 1 Follow the picture and plug in the 3 color connector to the player s Y Pb Pr jack 2 Follow the picture and plug in the 3 color connector to the TV s Y Pb Pr jack Audio Connection while using Y Pb Pr Video out First method use the audio output from the A V OUT jack Second method use the audio output from the S PDIF Coaxial or Optical jack In t...

Page 10: ...video and audio via a single cable 1 4 7 Connecting to an Digital Amplifier 1 Follow the picture and plug in the RCA connector on your coaxial cable to the player s S PDIF Coaxial jack Or if you use optical fiber please plug in the Toslink connector on your optical fiber to the player s S PDIF Optical jack 2 Follow the picture and plug in the other connector on your coaxial cable or optical fiber ...

Page 11: ... configuration 1 4 8 Connecting to a LAN To connect to a LAN Local Area Network you require a cat5 cat5e or cat6 network cable not supplied 1 Connect one of the crystal plugs on the cable to the player s RJ45 LAN socket 2 Connect the other crystal plug on the cable to a RJ45 LAN port on your router switch or hub devices ...

Page 12: ...After connecting the DC IN jack and press the power button on the front panel the player will soon enter the home screen and the power indicator will turn blue Power Off Press the power button on the front panel the player will soon enter standby mode and the power indicator will turn red Then unplug the power cord to cut off the power supply 1 6 Menu Language The system language of this player ca...

Page 13: ...format the hard disk on the player before usage Step 1 Select OK on the Warning page press ENTER to confirm Note This page can be also accessed via Setup System HDD Format menu Step 2 Press the up down button to adjust the capacity of time shift buffer Press the left right button to select Next and the enter button to confirm ...

Page 14: ...sk format will start The formatting procedure will be finished within a few minutes And then you can use the hard disk properly on the player Note HDD format will remove all data stored on the hard disk drive Please take care and backup your data in advance ...

Page 15: ...12 Navigational buttons 13 MENU 14 PAUSE STEP 15 SLOW 16 INS REPLAY 17 CM SKIP 18 SELECT 19 CONFIRM 20 AUDIO 21 SUBTITLE 22 ZOOM IN 23 ZOOM OUT 24 A B 25 ANGLE 26 SETUP 27 RETURN 28 STOP 29 NEXT 30 VOL 31 PREV 32 GOTO 33 COPY 34 MUSIC 35 INFO No Button Function 1 STANDBY Press to enter standby mode or wake up 2 MUTE Press to mute audio output and press again to resume 3 TV SYSTEM Press to switch b...

Page 16: ...to the next frame Press PLAY to resume playback 15 SLOW Press to play back in slow motion Press the PLAY button to resume regular playback 16 INS REPLAY Press to repeat previous 10 seconds of playback 17 CM SKIP Press to skip 30 seconds of playback 18 SELECT Press to select files in browser menu 19 CONFIRM Press to confirm and add files to playlist 20 AUDIO Press to select an audio track 21 SUBTIT...

Page 17: ...tle Specify the point using Title Chapter and Time 33 COPY Press to enter the file copy menu 34 MUSIC Press to start playing music in the music playlist 35 INFO Press to hide or display the information bar during playback 2 2 Front Panel 1 Power button indicator 2 Infrared receiver window 2 3 Rear Panel ...

Page 18: ...18 47 2 4 Side Panel 1 Memory Card slot 2 USB HOST port A Type x 2 3 USB DEVICE port B Type ...

Page 19: ...T navigational buttons to select an option and then press ENTER There are seven Setup options including Audio Video Network System and MISC Use the UP DOWN navigational buttons to select a menu Press ENTER to confirm Press RETURN to cancel and display the previous menu screen 3 1 Changing Audio Settings Use this menu to configure audio settings Night Mode Choose between Off On Comfort If the optio...

Page 20: ...ngs Aspect Ratio Pan Scan 4 3 Display a wide picture on the entire screen and cuts off the redundant portions Select when a standard 4 3 TV is connected Letter Box 4 3 Display a wide picture with two black borders on the top and bottom of 4 3 screen Select when a standard 4 3 TV is connected 16 9 Compress the image to convert the whole image Select when a 16 9 TV is connected Brightness Adjust the...

Page 21: ...Z 1080P 50HZ 1080P 60HZ 3 3 Changing Network Settings Use this menu to configure Ethernet and WLAN Wireless Local Area Network settings Wired LAN Setup DHCP IP AUTO Select to obtain IP address automatically FIX IP MANUAL Select to manually input the IP Address Subnet Mask Default Gateway and DNS Server IP Address Wireless Setup Selecting a connection profile ...

Page 22: ... Connection Mode Choose between Infrastructure AP and Peer to Peer Ad Hoc Press ENTER to go to next step and press RETURN to cancel Infrastructure AP Infrastructure mode is used to connect computers with wireless network adapters also known as wireless clients to an existing wired network with the help from wireless router or access point Get SSID Name ...

Page 23: ...avigational buttons to select ENTER to input CAPS to switch between uppercase and lowercase to delete a character to insert a space shift to make more symbols available and OK to confirm Test connection The testing process will take for a while please be patient to wait If the test is ok the network information Profile Name IP address Subnet Mask Gateway etc will be displayed on the screen Peer to...

Page 24: ...s menu to configure system settings Menu Language Select to choose the OSD On Screen Display language Text Encoding Select to set the text encoding option subtitle display Login Control Select to turn on off password protect for the Web server Neighbor Web BT and SAMBA Select to turn on off BitTorrent download service and NAS function ...

Page 25: ...confirm HDD Format Select to format the built in or external HDD Note Please take care that all data on the hard disk will be removed after formatting System Info Select to view system information firmware version HDD info Mac address etc Restore Default Select to restore factory defaults 3 5 Miscellaneous Use this menu to adjust miscellaneous settings Slide Show Timing Select to set the interval ...

Page 26: ...c options while view pictures Off Folder Playlist Screen Saver Select to turn on off screen saver Movie Preview Select to turn on off movie preview in the browser menu Resume Playback Select to turn on off resume playback auto bookmarking feature for movies ...

Page 27: ...ons can be used while navigating the browser menu Button Function UP DOWN Move cursor up down to select devices folders or files LEFT RIGHT Select filter options All Music Photos and Movies PREV NEXT Go to previous next page ENTER Enter or confirm the selected item SELECT Select files under Browser HDD menu CONFIRM Add the selected files to the playlist RETURN Return to the previous menu 4 1 1 Bro...

Page 28: ...rted audio files in current directory will be displayed The following buttons can be used to control music playback Button Function PLAY PAUSE Begin pause playback FR FF Fast rewind or fast forward Press repeatedly to select the speed REPEAT Set repeat options One All and Shuffle INFO Hide or display the information bar during playback STOP Stop playback 4 1 3 Browsing Photos In this mode all fold...

Page 29: ...5 Miscellaneous for more details 4 1 4 Browsing Movies In this mode all folders and supported video files in current directory will be displayed The following buttons can be used to control video playback Button Function PLAY Begin playback PAUSE STEP Pause Press again to go to the next frame SLOW Play video in slow motion Press repeatedly to select the speed FR FF Fast rewind or fast forward Pres...

Page 30: ...Network You can stream the media files shared on the home network Ethernet or WLAN Please refer to 3 3 Changing Network Settings for details about network settings There are two ways to locate media files shared on your local network in the Network menu One is to browse through workgroup the other way is to browse through My_Shortcuts 4 1 5 1 Browsing though Workgroup You can choose the workgroup ...

Page 31: ...sed or shown in the list And then you need to use My_Shortcuts to browse shared files 4 1 5 2 Browsing though My_Shortcuts You can also set Specific File Server IP and access it from My_Shortcuts in the menu Press the MENU button and a popup menu appears Select Add to open a popup menu where you can input Label Net User ID Net Password Domain Host Name and Specific File Server IP Select OK to conf...

Page 32: ...dia files from them 4 1 6 1 Installing UPnP Media Server on your PC There re a lot of free and commercial UPnP Media Server software such as Windows Media Connect Windows Media Player 11 XBMC Media Center Linux Mac Windows MediaTomb Linux etc Please install one of them on you computer In the following chapters we will take Windows Media Player 11 on Microsoft Windows XP SP2 for an example 4 1 6 2 ...

Page 33: ...om the library Click Library Media Sharing then you can allow or deny devices to access the media library Click Allow to authorize your player 4 1 6 3 Streaming Media on your Player Connect your player to the home network LAN or WLAN Visit Browser UPnP menu on the player select the UPnP server and press ENTER ...

Page 34: ... and subnet Firewalls may prevent your player to communicating with your computer Please open the ports manually and add your player to the trusted list or disable the firewall temporarily 4 1 7 Renaming Deleting Files When navigating in the browser menu you can press the MENU button to activate a popup menu where you can rename and delete files or folders ...

Page 35: ... 1 Adding files to the playlist Select the favorite file you wish to add press the RED button and the file will be ticked Press the GREEN button to confirm and then an on screen message Add selects to list will be shown Multiple selections are allowed See photo below 4 1 8 2 Browsing the playlist Press the UP DOWN buttons to select Play List in the browser menu Press the LEFT RIGHT buttons to sele...

Page 36: ...e multimedia files stored on the internal HDD in most easy ways To enter this menu select the Library icon on the home screen 4 2 1 Music library Use the left right button on the remote control to select the Music tab Press the up down button to select from Update Search All Artist Genre and Album And press the enter button to confirm 4 2 2 Photo Library Use the left right button on the remote con...

Page 37: ...rm Note In order to use the search function more efficiently you are encouraged to use the following rules to name the movies stored on the internal HDD Syntax Name Actor Genre Year extension Examples Enchanted CD1 Amy Adams Love 2007 avi The Dark Knight CD1 Christian Bale Action 2008 avi etc 4 3 File Copy Menu Select the File Copy icon from the home screen to enter the File Copy menu or press the...

Page 38: ... Select the source device and destination device Step 2 Select the source files you want to copy Step 3 Select the destination folder to store the above files Step 4 Select Copy or Move to proceed 4 4 Internet Radio This player integrates the SHOUTcast free Internet radio function Select the Internet Radio icon on the main interface to enter this menu Note Make sure the player is connected properl...

Page 39: ...nel has been selected STOP Stop playback RETURN Return to the previous menu Station All downloaded stations will be listed under this menu Genre You can search for stations by genre pop rock jazz etc under this menu Favorite Your favorite stations can be kept under this menu 4 5 P2P Share Menu Select the P2P Share icon on the main menu You can see the status of torrents download progress and confi...

Page 40: ... menu The following buttons can be used under this menu Button Function UP DOWN Move cursor up down MENU press to adjust the priority of the download task PAUSE Press to pause the download PLAY Press to start download STOP Press to stop the download RETURN Return to the previous menu BT setup Menu ...

Page 41: ...rational stability of the contents and services for example if you cannot access certain web site for video streaming or news broadcast or the content of a web site has been changed etc are all responsible and control by the third party service providers If you find that these features cannot operate properly please contact our customer service or visit our company website to obtain the relevant i...

Page 42: ...er windows vista and windows 7 pls type 192 168 0 9 on search bar then press the Enter button on the keyboard Then you can view and edit the files stored on the hard disk installed on the player In this way you can also playback and copy files via network between your PC and the player Note 1 Please turn on the BitTorrent and SAMBA in the setup menu before using this function ...

Page 43: ...on will start There is another way for upgrading Please refer to System Update and Extension Info in chapter 3 4 Changing System Settings for more details 6 Appendixes 6 1 Specifications I O INTERFACES SUPORTED 3 5 SATA HDD eSATA port USB 2 0 HOST port x 2 compatible to USB 1 1 Memory Card slot supports SD MMC MS MS Pro USB 2 0 DEVICE port connecting to PC Composite CVBS A V IN jack Composite CVBS...

Page 44: ...plorer If it does not work close all programs and wait for another 20 seconds then try the green arrow icon again If it still does not work you should shut down the player and disconnect the USB cable Question 2 I find new file names and folder names that I never created before or they have strange gibberish names Answer Most likely the player s file allocation table FAT has been corrupted This mi...

Page 45: ...our TV supports Y Pb Pr 480p 576p 720p 1080i and 1080p output if your TV does not support please use the A V signal display instead press the TV SYSYEM button on the remote control then switch the TV s video input to NTSC or PAL Question 7 Why is there no sound on movie or music playback when using Y Pb Pr component output Answer Y Pb Pr output is a video output only and does not include sound sig...

Page 46: ...han 300Mbps Answer The IEEE 802 11n Draft standard prohibits using high throughput with WEP or TKIP as the unicast cipher If you use these encryption methods e g WEP WPA TKIP your data rate will drop to 54 Mbps You may contact the Access Point or router manufacturer to download the latest firmware or try other encryption methods WPA2 AES or WPA2 TKIP or choose to configure an unsecured profile but...

Page 47: ...nder license from Dolby Laboratories Dolby and the double D symbol are registered trademarks of Dolby Laboratories 6 4 Warranty What your warranty does not cover Acts of nature such as fire static discharge Damage from unauthorized repair alteration or accident Damage from misuse or neglect A unit that has been modified or incorporated into other products or is used for institutional or other comm...

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