a noob and his dvp642

[Lamp]

Ok, I just bought my dvp642 and have 2 questions:

1. While playing an audio cd, I don't want that ugly BLUE "dvd-logo" screen to show up all the time (I want it dark-blank)...Can I remove it ?

2. I burnt a movie (*.avi / 700Mb) as data into a maxxel cd-rw. When I try playing it, it does only 5secs and aborts, displaying the "CODEC. NOT SUPORTED" msg...What am I missing?

p.s I can make a screenshot of GSpot stats for that .avi file if needed...
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[ejp]

don't think you can change the wallpaper. i think there's some custom subtitle firmware that had the wallpaper changed, but that would be default. just turn your TV off when you listen to your music CDs, and leave your reciever/amp on (assuming you have that type of setup).

yeah, you probably have qpel or gmc. post a screenshot.

[Lamp]

Aight, Thanks for the info regarding wallpaper...
Ok, here is the pic (I hope that's what you want to see)

And I hope the pic loads (noobie here)

[steve2713]

'GMC' was used for the file you burned (you can see the small green letters 'GMC' in the top right).

[Lamp]

Oic ... That's what giving me the error msg when I try to play??

Ok....So what should I do?? Is there a solution....Any help linkz???

Thanks alot..

[johns0]

Re-encode to xvid or divx without gmc or qpel settings cause the philips 642 doesnt support those features.

[Lamp]

ok thnx... Imma read the how-to's, since I'm bloody noob in this game

[absinthecarolinas]

Interestingly enough, the unit will play DivX files with GMC (but not q/QPEL). But it will not play XviD files with GMC (or QPEL, of course).

Reason being, XviD uses 3 warp points for GMC whereas DivX only uses 1 (which is about useless, anyway).

Just a point of interest. But it was nice as once I figured this out, I had a boatload of DivX files I realized I could play.

-abs