Cyr. CP 1251 for Philips DVP-3962

[kingsteve]

Hi guys.
I've got a Philips DVP3962_37 and I need to add a Cyrillyc code page for subtitles. Can somebody help me in this matter? I need also to add Pal TV system in the setup menu if it is possible. I saw already there is a firmware with CP1251 for DVP_5990 but I did not found anything for my player. 10q in advance.

[jman98]

As most (all?) Philips DVD players are converting players, the setup menu should have an option for PAL TV output. If this is missing, then you don't have a converting player and you can't do anything about it. I can't say it's impossible for that to happen, but I can say that such would be highly unusual for Philips.

I can't speak about this particular model, but the old DVP-642 which was sold in the USA and Canada came with Cyrillic support for Divx subtitles. However, this player originally only supported ISO-8859-5, which was just bizarre. I can read and write Russian reasonably well and I don't know of anything that still uses that old character set. Eventually Philips provided a firmware update that supported CP-1251. If your subtitles are in KOI8-R, they may work if you change them to CP-1251. If they are in Unicode, again, change them to CP-1251.

Well, you may be out of luck. I just took a look at the user manual, which is not the best I've seen. It seems to state that this player ONLY supports Latin character sets for Divx subtitles. Maybe someone else will respond with helpful info as we have a few members who live in Russia, but it doesn't look good for you for this player.

[kingsteve]

Yeah This player is for USA sale only. The video output is locked to NTSC only and no chance to be changed. My TV supports NTSC so this is not a big problem. The power suply was made for 110V..I already rebuild it for 220V. But I still need Cyr. support for subtitles. If somebody can find a CP1251 firmware I'll be thankfull. I already updated firmware thih the one I found in this forum for my player but it is not CP1251 compatible. Now I can choose a different size for the subs and few more stuff, but the cyrillic is still not supported.

[jman98]

Please tell me that you did not buy this as a gift for someone in the ex-USSR. I made that mistake 5 years ago when I bought a small Cyberhome DVD player to give to my (at the time) girlfriend in Ukraine. The DVD player got damaged somehow despite being securely (I thought) packed in my checked luggage. It didn't work correctly after arrival, so we threw it away and I bought her a DVD player in a local electronics store. I wish I had done that to begin with. Although we ended up breaking up, I still have some limited contact with her and I think she still has the DVD player. The price on the player was fine in the local shop and I wished I had just waited to buy it there to begin with instead of trying to be clever and buying it in the USA.

Honestly, it's just better to buy DVD players in country if you are making this as a gift. Not only do you not have to fool with voltage issues, but the players over there are all converting players and if they support Divx, they'll come with Cyrillic support. Unfortunately what you are trying to do is basically hammer a square peg in a round hole. You've got a player clearly only designed for the North American market and you've had to convert the voltage and yet worse, it still won't do what you want - support Cyrillic subtitles for Divx. Do note that your player probably will only output NTSC TV signals. While that should not be a problem for the TV over there as every TV I ever saw in Ukraine could handle NTSC and PAL (that's generally true of everywhere in Europe), consider this. Your player may not be able to play PAL video at all. How useful is that going to be? Not very useful at all. Just throw the player away and buy something in country when you're there. You'll be better off in the long run.

[kingsteve]

I think you're right man. Honestly I didn't knew this is such a big problem. Of course such a DVD Player in Bulgaria is cheap but I have this one for free and I have some free time to play with it. I though that somebody already made a firmware wich supports cp1251 as they did for 5990. That's why i posted this toppic. Thanks for yor time and if somebody knows a way to rebiuld my current firmware I can take a time to play with this even in the end the player becomes unusible.