Is it possible to 'Time search' through Divx files on Philips 5960?

[Kibz25]

I bought this player yesterday and have been playing around with it for a bit. I'm happy with everything except for one thing. The player does not let me time search through divx files! It works on DVDs fine, where you can specify the time you want to skip to and it will go there without having to fast forward through the film/tv show. But I can't seem to do this with divx files. Is there something I'm not doing right, or is this player incapable of doing this? If the Philips can't do it, anyone know if the Pioneer Dv300 or dv 400 can do it?

The two divx players I had previous to this had this feature so I dont know why Philips would leave it out. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Squash]

Philips's 5960 firmware doesn't have this feature; why I don't know. My old Philips 642 would do it.

It's a real pain when you're an hour into watching a movie off the USB drive and the player auto-offs when you get sidetracked. It fast forwards very slowly off the USB so it might take 15 or 20 minutes to get back to where you were. Anyway, the fix I found was Porkupan's modded firmware available at phunkyfish's site:

http://www.phunkyfish.com/article/4/philips-dvp-596012

I'm using the 5960/37, codepage 1252 for my U.S. model 5960. I believe the U.K. units are 5960/12 (check to make sure) and FWs for those are also available at the page above.

Once installed, just hit the "Title" button twice and input the time you want to go to. By the way, it also enables "Resume" for avi files (start the title you were watching, then hit the >| button ("Next"); the stock firmware only allowed this for standard DVDs (uses different command, though). If you want to finish watching tomorrow it'll pick up where it left off without you having to write down the time.

There is a warning on phunkyfish's page stating that this will disable the "Fix for Multichannel output via coaxial out when connected to HDMI" which was a problem with the very first FW for the 5960, later corrected. Since I don't use coax I don't care.

The Porkupan FW also plays packed-bitstream files with more than 2 consecutive b-frames with no problem (an issue with some of the Philips's 5960 firmwares). It also improves subtitle display and supports long filenames on CDs and DVDs.

You can get more background on it if you're interested by searching on Porkupan and 5960 and looking at the Softpedia hits.

Firmware upgrade instructions are at Philips's website. If you decide to do it, pay particular attention to the parts where it says "DO NOT close the tray" and "Wait approximately 3-5 minutes...". I think some people have rushed it there and run into problems.

I've used this firmware for a couple of months now with no problems. Your mileage...

[Kibz25]

Excellent! Thanks for the quick response Squash, appreciate it.

This may be a long shot, would you know how to get rid of the 'chapter number' from the main display on the player? It gets a bit congested whenever a file goes over an hour.

[Squash]

Sorry, no. It's never really bothered me, I guess I got used to blocking it out mentally. Maybe someone else has an idea.