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MV3800 MyMovie HD Media Recorder

User’s Guide

Summary of Contents for MyMovie MV3800

Page 1: ... 1 MV3800 MyMovie HD Media Recorder User s Guide ...

Page 2: ... 8 1 5 3 DVB T TV 8 1 5 4 Video Recording 8 1 5 5 Network Feature 8 1 5 6 File Copy 8 1 5 7 USB 2 0 Support 9 1 6 0 Packaging List 9 1 7 0 Cautions 9 1 7 1 Usage Cautions 9 1 7 2 Power 9 1 7 3 Radio Interference 9 1 7 4 Repair 10 1 7 5 Disposing of the Player 10 1 7 6 Hard Disk Cautions 10 1 7 7 Others 10 1 8 0 Connection 11 1 8 1 Connecting the power supply 11 1 8 2 Connecting to a PC 11 1 8 3 Co...

Page 3: ... 3 Test Connection 29 3 6 4 Peer to Peer Ad Hoc 29 3 7 0 Changing System Settings 30 3 7 1 Menu Language 30 3 7 2 Text Encoding 30 3 7 3 Login Control 30 3 7 4 System Info 30 3 7 5 System Update 31 3 7 6 HDD Format 32 3 7 7 System Info 33 3 7 8 Restore Default 33 3 8 0 Miscellaneous 34 3 8 1 Slide Show Timing 34 3 8 2 Transition Effect 34 3 8 3 Background Music 34 3 8 4 Screen Saver 34 3 8 5 Movie...

Page 4: ...4 Info Bar 48 6 1 5 Electronic Programming Guide 49 6 1 6 Teletext Menu 49 6 1 7 Subtitle List Menu 49 Chapter 7 7 1 0 Timer Record Menu 50 7 1 1 Creating a New Schedule 50 7 1 2 Editing Schedules 51 7 1 3 Deleting Schedules 51 7 1 4 Viewing Schedule Status 52 7 1 5 Viewing Recording History 53 7 1 6 The REC List 54 Chapter 8 8 1 0 Web Server BitTorrent 55 8 1 1 Web Server unicgi 55 8 2 0 Account ...

Page 5: ...eakers of their computer system With MV3800 users can simply play the digital content directly from the pre assembled internal HDD up to 2TB or from USB external storage device in the comfort of their living room or bedroom They are free from struggling with burning media files onto DVDs or connecting the computer to the TV MV3800 also has recording feature of TV shows from the Cable or Satellite ...

Page 6: ...M RMVB 8 9 10 up to 720p 1 3 5 AUDIO CODECS SURPORTED MP2 3 OGG Vorbis WMA DRM and Advanced Profile not supported PCM LPCM MS ADPCM LC AAC HE AAC COOK RA Lossless 1 3 6 SUBTITLE FORMATS SURPORTED SRT SMI SSA ASS IDX SUB SUB 1 3 7 NETWORK FEATURE 10 100Mbps Auto Negotiation Ethernet 802 11b g n WLAN up to 300Mbps supported by optional WLAN USB Adapter Record Format AV in Video DVB T Rec Recorded Fo...

Page 7: ...t 100 240V AC 50 60HZ output 12V 3A Dimension 190 H 173 D 65mm W Language English Traditional Chinese Japanese Spanish French German Italian Korean Dutch Russian Simple Chinese 1 3 8 Description for details AVI NTSC PAL G Hour HQ 4 945Mbps 720 480 30fbs 4 945Mbps 720 576 25fbs 2G SP 3 428Mbps 720 480 30fbs 3 428Mbps 720 576 25fbs 1 5G LP 2 528Mbps 720 480 30fbs 2 528Mbps 720 576 25fbs 1G EP 1 691M...

Page 8: ...o and image file formats 1080p HD video decoding Movie format AVI 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 1 5 3 DVB T TV supports Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial DVB T TV reception supports Electronic Program Guide EPG Teletext and subtitle 1 5 4 V...

Page 9: ...autions User should not modify this player If commercial hard disk is being used the environmental temperature should be within 5 35 1 7 2 Power The player s power voltage DC 12V When using this player please connect the supplied AC adapter or AC adapter cable to the player s power jack When placing the adapter cable make sure it cannot get damaged or be subject to pressure To reduce the risk of e...

Page 10: ...ested to do defragment after a long period of usage Regularly backup the data in the hard disk so that it can be recovered in the event of data corruption or loss Our company takes no responsibility for loss of data stored on the hard disk 1 7 7 Others When using this player please do not let the player come into contact with water or other liquid if water is accidentally spilled on the player ple...

Page 11: ...r is powered on 2 Plug in the squarish connector of the USB cable to this player s USB DEVICE port 3 Plug in the rectangular connector of the USB cable to computer In this way you can manage content on the built in HDD of the player on your local PC 1 8 3 Connecting a USB Device 1 Make sure the player is powered on 2 Plug in the USB stick or USB HDD etc to the USB HOST port of this player In this ...

Page 12: ... by following the arrow pointer in the picture In this way you can browse contents on the memory card 1 8 5 Connecting to a TV A V OUT 1 Follow the picture and plug in the 3 color connector to the player s A V OUT jack 2 Follow the picture and plug in the 3 color connector to the TV s A V IN jack In this way you can enjoy the content in the player on TV or other display devices ...

Page 13: ...UT jack Second method use the audio output from the S PDIF Coaxial or Optical jack In this way you can also enjoy videos music and photos in the player on TV HDMI OUT 1 Follow the picture and plug one connector on your HDMI cable to the player s HDMI jack 2 Follow the picture and plug the other connector on your HDMI cable to the TV s HDMI jack Note The HDMI cable is an optional accessory sold sep...

Page 14: ...tical fiber to the digital audio device digital amplifier or decoder Note Optical fiber and coaxial cable are not supplied In this way you can enjoy powerful Dolby Digital DTS or MPEG sound Please refer to 3 2 Changing Audio Settings for configuration 1 8 7 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 cr...

Page 15: ...er 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 1 9 2 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 10 0 Menu Language The system language of this pla...

Page 16: ...E 7 OPTION 8 EJECT 9 MENU 10 Numeric buttons 11 ZOOM 12 GOTO 13 DISPLAY 14 GUIDE 15 Navigational buttons 16 OK 17 REC 18 RETURN 19 VOL 20 VOL 21 FR 22 FF 23 STOP 24 PLAY 25 PREV 26 NEXT 27 SLOW 28 PAUSE STEP 29 SOURCE 30 SUBTITLE 31 TIME SHIFT 32 REPEAT 33 SETUP 34 MUTE 35 TV SYSTEM 36 AUDIO No Button Function 1 POWER Press to POWER on or off the AVHDD recorder 2 EPG Press to enter the Electronic ...

Page 17: ... the point using Title Chapter and Time 13 DISPLAY Press to display current status Press during playback and an onscreen display appears showing track number and time elapsed remaining Press during recording and an onscreen display appears showing the recording quality setting and time elapsed 14 GUIDE Press to view the Guide menu 15 Navigational buttons Press the arrow buttons to select menu opti...

Page 18: ...o resume playback 29 SOURCE Select the signal source from Video DTV and Analog TV 30 SUBTITLE Press to set subtitle options 31 TIME SHIFT Press to activate the timeshift function which allows you to pause live TV and resume the program from the point you left it While paused the program is recorded to the HDD as long as space is available Press to activate TIME SHIFT function and wait for the PLAY...

Page 19: ... UP 8 DOWN 9 LEFT 10 RIGHT 11 OK 2 1 3 Rear Panel 1 FAN 2 A V in jack 3 A V OUT jack 4 COAXIAL jack 5 POWER SW 6 RJ45 LAN socket 7 ANT OUT Only available in DTV model 8 ANT IN Only available in DTV model 9 Ypbpr jack 10 S PDIF OPTICAL jack 11 HDMI Jack 12 USB HOST 2 13 USB DEVICE port mini5p Type 14 DC IN jack ...

Page 20: ...on the home screen or press the SETUP button on the remote control Use the LEFT RIGHT navigational buttons to select an option and then press ENTER There are five Setup options including TV Audio Video REC 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 ...

Page 21: ...e control to select the TV tab from the menu TV Region Select to set the region for TV Press and to select Press to confirm Channel Scan Select to scan for available TV channels Press and to select AUTO SCAN and press the ENTER button to confirm AUTO SCAN ...

Page 22: ...In MANUAL SCAN mode you can select the CH name Bandwidth and Input Frequency Use the Navigational and Numeric buttons on the remote control to select or input Press the ENTER button to confirm Channel Set Select to edit channel information Press and to select DVB T or cancel and press the ENTER button ...

Page 23: ...efault and press the BLUE button to select Sort 3 3 0 Changing Audio Settings Use this menu to configure audio settings 3 3 1 Night Mode Choose between Off On Comfort If the option is turned on the audio output volume will be decreased to make you more comfortable 3 3 2 Digital Output Choose between HDMI LPCM HDMI RAW SPDIF LPCM SPDIF RAW In raw mode Dolby Digital DTS or MPEG sound can be bypassed...

Page 24: ... 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 3 4 2 Brightness Adjust the level of brightness 3 4 3 Contrast Adjust the level of contrast 3 4 4 TV SYSTEM Select to adjust video output resolution NTSC PAL 480P 576P 720P 50HZ 720P 60H...

Page 25: ... 25 3 5 0 Changing Record Settings Press and on the remote control to select the Record tab from the menu bar ...

Page 26: ...quires the most storage space The other settings reduce recording quality sequentially but also require less storage space Press to confirm Permanent timeshift Select to set the Permanent timeshift on or off Press and to select Press to confirm Record Device Select to choose the device to which to record Press and to select from HDD and USB Press to confirm ...

Page 27: ...tup Selecting a connection profile This player can store up to three wireless network connections Press ENTER to go to next step press RETURN to cancel and press PLAY to connect Get 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 networ...

Page 28: ...s means the network is encrypted i e an encryption key is needed to access the network NONE means it is an open system network Input WEP WPA Key Encryption keys can be inputted via the virtual keyboard Press the navigational 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 ...

Page 29: ...ubnet Mask Gateway etc will be displayed on the screen 3 6 4 Peer to Peer Ad Hoc Peer to Peer mode which is also called Ad Hoc mode or computer to computer mode is used to connect wireless clients directly together without the need for a wireless router or access point Ad Hoc Setup Press ENTER to go to next step press RETURN to cancel and press PLAY to connect ...

Page 30: ...he OSD On Screen Display language 3 7 2 Text Encoding Select to set the text encoding option subtitle display 3 7 3 Login Control Select to turn on off password protect for the Web server Neighbor Web 3 7 4 System Info Select ON OFF to format HDD and install the BT download software BT and SAMBA option to continueUUU ...

Page 31: ...e Upgrade to do manually install BT download software Select to update the firmware or extension package via a USB stick 1 Copy install img or extension files to the root directory of a USB stick and connect it to the USB HOST port of the player 2 Go to System upgrade under setup Menu 3 Press ENTER to confirm ...

Page 32: ...l to select Cancel or CONFIRM from the menu When select HDD format please according the following steps 1 Warring Press and to select OK Press to confirm 2 Step1 Timeshift Butter Disc Capacoty Press and to adjust the capacity of time shift buffer Press and to select Next and Press to confirm ...

Page 33: ...ting will start which will take for several minute please be patient to wait 4 Congratulation When formatting is completed press to reboot 3 7 7 System Info Select to view system information firmware version HDD info Mac address etc 3 7 8 Restore Default Select to restore factory defaults ...

Page 34: ...to set the transition effect for photo slide show 3 8 3 Background Music Select to set the background music options while view pictures Off Folder Playlist 3 8 4 Screen Saver Select to turn on off screen saver 3 8 5 Movie Preview Select to turn on off movie preview in the browser menu 3 8 6 Resume Playback Select to turn on off resume playback auto bookmarking feature for movies ...

Page 35: ...BROWSER button on the remote control The following buttons 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 th...

Page 36: ...ilter please switch to the Music filter instead 4 1 2 Browsing Music In this mode all folders and supported audio files in current directory will be displayed The following buttons can be used to control music playback Button Function PLAY Begin playback PAUSE STEP Pause playback FR FF Fast rewind or fast forward Press repeatedly to select the speed REPEAT Set repeat options One All and Shuffle IN...

Page 37: ... options One All and Shuffle ZOOM IN OUT Zoom in out the image INFO Hide or display the information bar during playback STOP Stop playback You can view photos in slide show mode with background music When it is enabled the slide show starts automatically once you press PLAY button Please refer to Slide Show Timing Transition Effect and Background Music in chapter 3 7 Miscellaneous for more details...

Page 38: ...points of a section to repeat ANGLE Change the view angle during DVD with multi angle playback MENU Return to the root menu during DVD playback INS REPLAY Backward 10 seconds of the current playback CM SKIP Advance 30 seconds of the current playback AUDIO Select an audio track while watching BivX video or DVD with multiple audio tracks SUBTITLE Set subtitle options STOP Stop playback 4 1 5 A V Str...

Page 39: ... limit of network speed or signal strength Due to different network conditions sometimes the workgroup might not be accessed or shown in the list And then you need to use My_Shortcuts to browse shared files 4 1 7 Browsing through 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 popu...

Page 40: ...ables the player to auto detect UPnP Media Servers on the network to browse and stream media files from them 4 2 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 w...

Page 41: ...nts of your Windows Media Player library from anywhere in your home Open Windows Media Player 11 click Library Add Library Advanced Options to add or remove media files from the library Click Library Media Sharing then you can allow or deny devices to access the media library Click Allow to authorize your player ...

Page 42: ...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 Then you can browse the media library shared by Windows Media Player 11 ...

Page 43: ...u can rename and delete files or folders Press the UP DOWN buttons to select from Return Rename and Delete And press ENTER to confirm 4 4 0 Managing the Playlist This player supports the playlist function which allows you to add your favorite contents on local HDD to the playlists All Music Photos and Movies and enjoy them at any time Pls format HDD before use it 4 4 1 Adding files to the playlist...

Page 44: ...ect Play List in the browser menu Press the LEFT RIGHT buttons to select between All Music Photos and Movies And press the ENTER button to confirm Then you will enter the playlist If you wish to delete a file from the playlist press the SELECT button to select and then press the CONFIRM button to confirm ...

Page 45: ...lected options Please refer to the following operations to copy move folders files between devices Step 1 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 The following buttons can be used under this menu Button Function UP DOWN Move cursor up down to s...

Page 46: ...Station All downloaded stations will be listed under this menu 5 1 2 Genre You can search for stations by genre pop rock jazz etc under this menu 5 1 3 Favorite Your favorite stations can be kept under this menu ...

Page 47: ...ital TV programs Name Function ENTER Press to view the program list menu UP DOWN Press to switch channels Channels cannot be switched in the recording mode PREV NEXT Numeric buttons Press to input channel numbers Press the ENTER button to confirm GOTO Press to switch between the last two viewed channels REC Press to start recording the current TV program TIME SHIFT Press to activate the time shift...

Page 48: ... button an info bar will be displayed to show the channel information or Press the RETURN button to display the info bar There re 4 strings displayed on the bar Taking the info bar in the above photo for example 11 Stands for TV rating N A Stands for the voice language SS Stands for subtitle TT Stands for Teletext SD Stands for resolution SD Standard Definition HD High Definition When the string l...

Page 49: ...te scheduled recording 6 1 6 Teletext Menu If the broadcasted stream supports Teletext press the TELETEXT button to enter the Teletext menu Press the Navigational buttons to view the content in the Teletext menu 6 1 7 Subtitle List Menu Press the SUBTITLE button when watching DVB T TV programs the Subtitle List menu will be displayed Press the LEFT RIGHT button to switch between Subtitle and TTX S...

Page 50: ...te recording schedules and view all schedule status and history To enter the menu select Timer Record from the Guide menu 7 1 1 Creating a New Schedule Press and on the remote control to select the Edit tab from the menu bar Select Add a New Schedule and press The schedule setting screen appears ...

Page 51: ...nd SP The higher the quality the more space required on the hard drive See HDD USB Free Space on the left of the screen for details of how long you can record for using each setting Nicam Nicam On or Off 7 1 2 Editing Schedules Press and on the remote control to select the Edit tab from the menu bar Select the schedule you want to edit from the list and press The schedule setting screen appears Mo...

Page 52: ...Press to confirm 7 1 4 Viewing Schedule Status Press and on the remote control to select the Schedule tab from the menu bar The schedule list is displayed Select a schedule and press Select Disable the timer by user s setting or Pause the selected schedule Press to confirm ...

Page 53: ...1 5 Viewing Recording History Press the left and right navigation arrows on the remote control to select the History tab from the menu bar Here you can view a complete history of all recordings that were set ...

Page 54: ... play all saved titles When you press to begin recode System will make a My Recordings folder at HDD1 or USB device automatically for the first time And your recode movie file will be saved at this folder The file name will be rename according system time ...

Page 55: ...k LAN or WLAN Get the IP address of the player under SETUP NETWORK menu Type the IP address e g 192 168 3 15 in the address bar of Internet Explore on your PC Then you can access the Web server on your PC Note Please refer to Extension Info in chapter Changing System Settings and make sure all related packages btpd samba and unicgi are installed and run properly in advance ...

Page 56: ...will become effective when Login Control is turned on Please refer to Login Control in chapter Changing System Settings for more details The default user name is admin and the default password is 123 8 3 0 Visit Neighbor samba Click Visit Neighbor on the home page of Neighbor Web Then you will be able to browse edit and copy files to from the local HDD of the player ...

Page 57: ...Changing System Settings for more details about installing and uninstalling btpd The BitTorrent client btpd is running in daemon a process running in the background mode and you can manipulate the process via the Web server Click BitTorrent Download on the home page of Neighbor Web then you will enter the BitTorrent Download page 8 4 1 Add new torrent Click Add new torrent on the BitTorrent Downlo...

Page 58: ...torrents as well as view the status of current torrents Click Start to begin download Click Stop to stop download Click Delete to delete the selected torrent Click Refresh to refresh the current status Click Down arrow to decrease the priority for the selected torrent Click Up arrow to increase the priority for the selected torrent ...

Page 59: ...rrent Setting page you can configure the following settings Set the maximum download rate Set the maximum upload rate Set the idle hours to start the next download automatically Set the seeding hours Set to delete the finished torrent files automatically or not Set the maximum number of simultaneous download tasks ...

Page 60: ...are The firmware is the operating system OS installed on the device Firmware upgrades can bring new features improvements and bug fixes Please refer to System Update and Extension Info in the chapter Changing System Settings for more details ...

Page 61: ... harm to the player Question 3 I used my player to transfer files back and forth between different computers Will defragmenting the player hard disk do any harm to it Answer Defragmenting the player hard disk may be useful after having transferred many files to and from the player It is never harmful to use the defragment on the player Make sure no other programs are running while using the Window...

Page 62: ... the player to network and obtain an IP address first 2 Please enable NetBIOS of TCP IP on computer 3 Please check your PC s firewall settings 4 Please enable your PC s Guest account 5 Please share the folders which you wish to browse on your PC and make sure that Everyone or Guest has the right to access Question 10 I configured everything correctly but still cannot get the wireless network or UP...

Page 63: ...torrent sites can be found on the Internet such as The Pirate Bay Isohunt com TorrentPortal com Mininova org etc Please take care of the contents you re downloading and their usage which might cause copyright infringements and violate the local laws Question 13 Why do some supported photo formats cannot be shown in the photo function Answer In the JPEG format there are different modes The player d...

Page 64: ... on the HDD were deleted If hard disc failure occurs please backup your data and reinstall the firmware Question15 Some functions like recording time shift etc do not work What should I do Answer If you find some functions do not work properly on the player please change system settings to the default Refer to changing system settings ...

Page 65: ...om the copyright owner Trademarks Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other trademarks are property of their respective holders Manufactured under license under U S Patent s 5 451 942 5 956 674 5 974 380 5 978 762 6 487 535 other U S and worldwide patents issued pending DTS and the Symbol are registered trademarks DTS 2 0 Digital Out and the DTS logos are t...

Page 66: ...re components that malfunction in conditions of normal use Exclusions Universal Tech does not warrant that the operation of the product will be uninterrupted or error free UT is not responsible for damage that occurs as a result of your failure to follow the instructions intended for the product This Limited Warranty does not apply to product under the following circumstances serial number has bee...

Page 67: ... 67 FTP software management 1 Enter into Setup and Format HDD 2 Enter the software icon 3 Intall vsftp server ...

Page 68: ...anagement Set up New IP the IP ADDRESS should be the media recorder s IP User s name root passwords 1234 Click advantage choose code UTF 8 and click apply connecting it s will be connect to the HD Recorder Noted Pls confirm you choose Code UTF 8 otherwise it s will be a mess After the connection succeed you can up load the file to HDD by ftp function ...

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