new 642 firmware problems??

[etab]

i have philips dvp 630 which is i believe european 642. anyway philips always releases firmware upgrade on the same moment for both of them.

recently i upgraded to firmware 1109 and found that with the new firmware player plays divx GMC ok.
anyway it doesn't play divx QPEL and doesn't play neither GMC nor QPEL of xvid

to check it i used test samples of ftp://ftp.mtu.ru/pub/horgi/outdoor/DivXTestCD.zip
please mind it is a file of more then 500 megs if you would like to download it

[ibm9000]

For me 1109 is a big stink so far... why? unlike firmware 0531, firmware 1109 seems to think that .sub or .srt files with the same name as the divx movie file are an MPEG2 file and attempts to play them instead of using them as subtitles...

Whenever I hit the subtitles key on the remot, all I get is that dreadful hand icon...

Anyone else running into this issue?

I have both a 642/17 and a 642/37 DVD players - and both display the same problem... any workarounds on how to get .sub or .srt files to work?

[canadateck]

You must select the .Subs before playing the Video.If i understand your question right.

[ibm9000]

That's of no use... when I select the subs before or after - the result is the same - the DVD shows that dreadful hand and refuses to post the message it used to show when 0531 was the firmware: "DIVX subtitles selected" or something to that effect... it just shows that hand... and if I highlight the .sub file line and then hit "OK" instead of "subtitles" it attempts to play the .sub file as if it was a movie...

To top it all, the icon next to the .sub file is now an MPEG2 file icon when previously it was some binary icon made of 0s and 1s if I am not mistaken...

[canadateck]

You are naming them the same? Movie.mpg Movie.sub

[ibm9000]

To the letter. Yes.
Still doesn't work.

[DereX888]

BTW - if anyone with firmware 1109 wants to 'downgrade' to firmware 0531 then email me with "0531" in the subject (but make sure your mailbox can receive ~2MB emails with attachments!).

[DereX888]

You are naming them the same? Movie.mpg Movie.sub

I have few discs with divx movies in foreign languages and few subtitle files for same movie that are NOT exactly the same name, and it works.
I.e.

Movie.avi
Movie-EN.sub [english subtitles in microdvd format]
Movie-ES.sub [spanish subtitles in microdvd format]
Movie-FR.srt [french subtitles in subrip format]

and I have no problem to select any of the subtitles (I just tested it).

[canadateck]

You are naming them the same? Movie.mpg Movie.sub

I have few discs with divx movies in foreign languages and few subtitle files for same movie that are NOT exactly the same name, and it works.
I.e.

Movie.avi
Movie-EN.sub [english subtitles in microdvd format]
Movie-ES.sub [spanish subtitles in microdvd format]
Movie-FR.srt [french subtitles in subrip format]

and I have no problem to select any of the subtitles (I just tested it).

If you tested you are right,I never did try it,But come to think of it,I can select anyone i want...Good point.

[ibm9000]

Can you please walk me through the exact process of subtitle selection as it works for you with firmware 1109?

I have both DVP642/17 and DVP642/37 with FW v. 1109 and with both the .sub file gets mistreated/misrecognized as an MPEG2 file...

Thanks.

[canadateck]

The player seeing a .Sub as an Mpg icon is very strange. And they do play with Subs on the PC.?

[ibm9000]

Just tested it with VOBSUB & MediaPlayer on the PC... didn't show the subs either... looks like it might be a bad file. I will run some tests and try and download some other subs for that same movie for testing.

Thanks for the advice! good call! I was hoping that the likelihood of me being the only one running into this issue is slim...

[ibm9000]

Can't believe people spread bogus .sub files too... I thought this was something reserved to video files only :)

The new .sub I downloaded (39K vs. 18MB earlier - which did seem rather large for a sub file) works like a charm :)

Thanks y'all!

[DereX888]

There are 2 different .sub formats.
One is the graphical .sub version, that comes with the extra .idx file, and the other one is microdvd's .sub text version of subtitles.
You can recognise them by the file size, usually microdvd's .sub file is rarely more than 100kB, while the graphical .sub is in megabytes (anything from few to even 50MB if it contains many language subtitles).

Perhaps you've got the graphical .sub file?
Use SubRip to OCR-it and output it to .srt text format.

If it is the text version .sub file, then it may be damaged somehow, or it may be yet another different text subtitle format that is using same .sub extension, but is incomptaible with this player.
Try open it up with Subtitle Workshop and convert it to .srt (my favorite) in this case.

[DereX888]

Can't believe people spread bogus .sub files too... I thought this was something reserved to video files only

The new .sub I downloaded (39K vs. 18MB earlier - which did seem rather large for a sub file) works like a charm

Thanks y'all!

It wasn't bogus file. It was graphical .sub format since it was 18MB, Im sure it came with .idx file too. Read my previous reply