LITE-ON LVD-2001 NEW 0301beta FIRMWARE!!!!!

[VeNoM]

No, same here....
I' beginning to wonder IF they are even gonna bring out 0301final.

[VeNoM]

I posted a message on the LiteOn Discussion board, and asked round when they're gonna bring out new firmware for the LVD-2001. The mf removed my message. Think this is their answer

[SARK]

removed my message

That is very rude, perhaps we LiteOn LVD 2001 owners can join forces somehow and slam our (imaginary) fist on the LiteOn table to demand the promised final firmware.

VeNoM? any suggestions?

[syphon00]

I'm gonna try to post this in here
I know I've already started a topic with it but with no responses
come'on someone must have tried burning Xvid/Divx on to a DVDR

I've flash my 2001 to 03.01b and it will display subs perfectly fine if
I burned it to a CD
but today when I burned 4 movies, each with a srt on a DVDR+
something weird happened
the movie all played fine but the subs are screwed up
seems like the player is confused as to which srt it'll use so it just picks
one to use for all the divx files, so all I get is the same sub for all 4 movies

next I tried putting each movie in its repective folder along with subs
and it did the same thing again

just wondering if anyone else experienced this

[scrotus]

i bet if you tried, you would get the same problem with clips from those same movies with the subs too. I bet the liteon just cant decipher multiple srt files.

isn't there a way to burn the subs directly into the movie file itself? I swear i saw one of the guides say something about it.

[dazz87]

I get so much freeze with 0301 when buring 6-7 movies on a dvd.... it would play one or two movies and it would freeze in the middle of a third one. and then I have to unplug and plug the player back which is a pain.

What is the deal with 0301 final version? I emailed LITEON's technical support about it 2 weeks ago and I got no response whatsoever. That is weird because Liteon had been very good about coming back to me; they always respond within less than a day! Yet they were silent.... Did anyone hear different?

I have the same problem when using cd media but not dvd media.

[Salitos]

Scrotus, I'd tried.
Not working.

[janilogia]

Hi!

This is the reply a got when asking about new firmware update!
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It's always hard to tell the future,but believe it or not, the LVD-2001 is worth the credit!

Sorry for any disturbance made by the wrong news that Phomaster LVD-2001 is quit from the market.

Truth is that LVD-2001 is the pioneer generation with it's last April debut and has been challenged
by all the MPEG and DVIX fans over the world with their great heads and hands. And we have built up
a feedback database over 5200 cases of request and accelerated 6 versions of firmware for all.

Also there is no replacement rumor by LVD-2002 which is only simplified version( SCART connection
and no
PCMCIA slot) fit for the European market. Both are of identical inner-designing and firmwarely
supported in a long term plan!

But the hard part is its nature controlled by the chipset vendors and DVIX content suppliers.
Technically it is designed with expanding features to support MPEG format, initially of divx 4&5 and
Xvid and later 3.11. But now DVIX has far passed 3.11 to 5.05 version!

I would just to share my minds with you to this degrees that for the year of 2003, we start the 2-x
series as a try in the consumer electronic field. After a 10-month experience we have been involeved
in the race of DVD industry, and the fact is we have the capacity to try more in the new year,like
the recordable series.

We have tried the LVD-2001 out to be a super player among its peers and we are working on final
version with amazing enhanced features added in based on the top5 feedback. Promisingly we will grow
mature and strong at all the espects in our 2nd fight, then we might have the energy to come back
for out pilot products and great clients, which is a future.

But now we are forced to lead the world and keep up with it, Jani.

Hope to have your attention and support all the way. Anything you want to share with me is most
welcome.
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Headline of the answer also suggested that the next firmware will be released during this month!
So don't worry lvd-2002 wontä replace lvd-2001! (it seems that they will share the same firmware updates!)

yours, Jani

[Dstructr]

Thats good news.

Finally a statement which makes sense from LiteOn.
Did they change their PR guy ? lol

I just hope they keep their release date on the new firmware,
it has been delayed forever.

d~

[lucky777]

I can't figure out how to use "search" function on the divx movies. I can enter time in the search window but can't make movie to advance to that timepoint. Can anyone comment, please?

[rilles]

press search, enter time, press enter (for the 2002).

[lucky777]

I already did that on 2001, didn't work...

[scrotus]

lucky,

make sure you are entering the time in correctly. The time is set up like this

00:00:00 (hours, minutes, seconds)

At first, I kept putting the minute i wanted in the hours block. Use the cursor keys on the remote to move to the right to enter in the digits you want but make sure you are putting the numbers in the right blocks.

Search works for me in Divx/Xvid. Much easier than using the FF/Rev because of the 1 minute increment limitation.

[lucky777]

This makes sense. I think I was entering minutes in the "hours" field as you did. LiteOn manual has very few details on search and for everything else. Thanks!

[VeNoM]

Updated to 0301beta, subtitles work fine, although i must check synchronity before burning
What really bugs me though, is i have 10 DVD's with mp3 files, and i can't shuffle
Everytime i start up it plays the first song in the first folder. Sometimes i can switch between folders during playing a file. Mostly it freezes after playing the song at the end, and have to unplug the LVD and restart in order to do anything else on it....

[absolutic]

This makes sense. I think I was entering minutes in the "hours" field as you did. LiteOn manual has very few details on search and for everything else. Thanks!

You have to press play, then have the movie played, then press search and the time where you want to search to. Still very annoying knowing that other players, such as Yamada with the same chip you can ff up to 8X.

Plus, what is the deal with my 2001: one day it plays a divx dvd, and the next day it refuses to play the same dvd, very moody machine. Also if you leave it on for a long time, it sometimes refuses to play a dvd. Overall, I like the picture quality very much, but I don't like when it refuses to play some dvds and no ff rw function.

As to the 0301 Firmware, it is the last two days of this month! Where is the damn thing? Stop playing games, LITEON.

[Roundabout]

Plus, what is the deal with my 2001: one day it plays a divx dvd, and the next day it refuses to play the same dvd, very moody machine.

I had that happen on my 2002 once in a while, but the opposite - one day it won't play a DivX disc, the next day it plays the same disc. No idea why. Hasn't happened often, but it baffles me.

One thing I have noticed, if the audio bitrate is too low (i.e., 64 Kbps) it won't play a DivX 5.1 disc, it loads and seems like it's going to start, but never does. As long as the audio is 96 Kbps or better there is no problem. Most things I have are encoded at 128 Kbps, seems to be sort of standard. But those occasional files with the lower audio rate just refuse to play, even with the newer DivX encoding.

[absolutic]

Roundabout, good to know, I will check my files to see what the audio bit rate is on the ones that it refuses to play. It just sucks, since I distinctly remember the player perfectly playing the dvd and now it refuses to play it; and i disconnected the "auto-play ISO" feature which everyone says I should disconnect. I am going to wait for couple of weeks and then go back to 0229 Final if 0301 Final does not arrive.

[Roundabout]

Absolutic,

Yeah, they are taking their own sweet time finishing the FW. How long has it been in beta, maybe a couple of months? Too long already. They must be having problems with it or it'd be out already. Since you're using the 0301 beta, do you think that could be the cause of your problems? If so, that wouldn't explain why my 2002 with 0229 FW is having similar issues. At least it's only happened a couple of times. Other than that I don't have any major complaints on the player, but I wish it would be able to play the files with the lower bitrate audio on them. Now I'm gonna have to re-encode the audio in order to be able to use the file. I don't know if this holds true for other variations of DivX (3.11, 4) or XviD, but the files I see in 5.1 with this bitrate all refuse to play. Whoever out there that's encoding this stuff should know better, I don't know why they decide to use such low rates, when they know a lot of players won't play them.

Like I mentioned in the other thread, they should stick to DivX 5.1, 900 ~ 1100 Kbps Video, 128 Kbps 48Khz mp3 audio and there would be no issues. Someone needs to make an "ad hoc" standard to encode to when possible. Otherwise the encoding is all over the map. Oh well, I can wish...

[absolutic]

roundabout

if you are interested in checking which format(s) audio and video your player plays you can download test cd from
http://www.horgi.mtu.ru/

(just click on

http://www.horgi.mtu.ru/DivXTestCD.zip

and you will download a full CD with every imaginable DIVX and XVID format, you can play it in your LVD or any other DIVX player and truly see which video and audio formats your dvd player supports). Quite interesting.

[Roundabout]

Absolutic,

Thanks for that information, I wasn't aware there was a test CD available for d/l like this. It could be very useful to have. I'm going to d/l and try it as soon as I get the chance.

Thanks again for letting me know about it!

Roundabout

[austin316gb]

Thought id add my two-peneth worth to the worth of the beta firmware (P.S. It's still available as a direct link although STILL no official release).

I have a great number of low motion DivX 3.11 encoded cartoons and tv-shows I have archived myself. Previously the 'stuttering' effect has rendered watching these encodes as unwatchable. So reading the previous posts and being a dareing type i decided to flash my player.

First the good news, although not entirely 'stutter'-free the stuttering is at a minimum and the shows are now watchable.

Now onto the bad news. Personally, I think the quality of the DivX 3.11 decoded picture has reduced in this revision. A lot more artifacts are present on the screen than ever before when the action pics up on-screen and these artificts are not present when playing back at full-screen on a PC or when the file is played back on my moddified X-Box.

To conclude: for me this is the best firmware revision yet. I just hope Lite-On release a final version of this firmware.

If the 2001 and the 2002 are essentially the same then i think we can expect more firmware revision to be released although I have just read in another thread that the 2002 has been discontinued as well!

One question I'd like to ask: A lot of the files I have now have been encoded with variable bitrate on the audio. This has produced some Very bad ausio sync issues on the files, that i admit to being able to fix easly using VDub but i was wondering if anybody else had noticed this problem?

[syphon00]

this might have been discussed before
but how can u make the player play all the mp3's in a folder with 3.01b?
I think it'll only play all the files on the disc if you turned the auto iso play option on, if you actually select a folder it won't continue playing until you select the next mp3

[Macfixer01]

One thing I have noticed, if the audio bitrate is too low (i.e., 64 Kbps) it won't play a DivX 5.1 disc, it loads and seems like it's going to start, but never does. As long as the audio is 96 Kbps or better there is no problem. Most things I have are encoded at 128 Kbps, seems to be sort of standard. But those occasional files with the lower audio rate just refuse to play, even with the newer DivX encoding.

Thanks for the good info. The one downloaded movie I tried re-encoding in DivX 5.1 did just what you say. The filename kept flashing and it never started playing. I probably did use a low bit rate to make sure it would still fit on a CD (didn't really know exactly what I was doing). Funny but I only re-encoded it because the original movie would freeze in the middle. I got the beta 3.01 firmware about the same time and it took care of the freeze, so I didn't need to use the re-encoded movie anyway.

Macfixer01

[Dstructr]

Headline of the answer also suggested that the next firmware will be released during this month!
yours, Jani

hehe and again they dont keep their release date.
I'm starting to wonder if the firmware will
be released at all.

They are months overdue on this release, seems
to me that they dont know what the **** they are doing.

LiteOn really needs to get their shit straighten out.

Dst

[Roundabout]

Thanks for the good info. The one downloaded movie I tried re-encoding in DivX 5.1 did just what you say. The filename kept flashing and it never started playing.

Macfixer,

Upon rechecking the particular files I was talking about, I also noticed in this case that one was encoded at 71Kb/s VBR and the other at 77Kb/s VBR. The one encoded at 77 played just fine, the one at 71 doesn't play at all. They both were DivX 5 encoded but the lower bitrate made the difference. So if you are going to use VBR, make sure it's at least around 75Kb/s or it may not play at all.

From GSpot, the file that doesn't play on LVD-2002:



This one plays fine, (same series encoded by the same person):

[scrotus]

just popping back in to address a problem a lot of us are having with the double letter box problem with DVDs.

Some DVDs, depending on the aspect ratio, display 2 sets bars on a 4:3 TV whereas there are the black bars as usual but right on top/bottom of the film there are greyer bars. It's really annoying.

A quick fix is to go into the setup and turn up the contrast. I think mine is on +2 right now. The grey bars are almost gone all the way and are not near as noticeable. I didn't notice too much of a picture color change as I expected. It may be a little darker, but it actually helps some with the fleshtones.

[barrybear]

I have decided to upgrade my 2001 to 301 beta firmware . I have the zip file so I have unziped the file and prduced the nero image file I use nero vision express to burn this with the option to burn nero data files in the burn previous project. The burn goes well and I can see all the files on the disk but when I test the disk (Nero CDspeed). Error logical block address out of range 052100. As you guessed the lite-on spins the disk up says its reading it then stops . The origanal firmware remains.

I am using cd-rw`s 3 diferant brands and I have tryed using magic iso to ripp the nerofile and burn it as a iso with cdrwin. What am i doing wrong each time I do this. No matter what I do or how I produce the files I can read them and copy them back and forward to ths computer but as soon as I test the disk using cdspeed I get exactly the same type off error.

Has anybody got any ideas as to what I am doing wrong

Barrybear

[Macfixer01]

roundabout

if you are interested in checking which format(s) audio and video your player plays you can download test cd from
http://www.horgi.mtu.ru/

(just click on

http://www.horgi.mtu.ru/DivXTestCD.zip

and you will download a full CD with every imaginable DIVX and XVID format, you can play it in your LVD or any other DIVX player and truly see which video and audio formats your dvd player supports). Quite interesting.

Hi Absolutic,
That seems to be a dead link for the test CD. Is it being hosted anywhere else?

Thanks,
MacFixer01

[absolutic]

it is a dead link. I will inquire on another forum about a current link. Thanks