642 firm. - which one at huffyk.hollosite.com

[DrJOnes666]

I have a Philips 642/37 purchased in Canada.
What version of 1109 do I download at huffyk.hollosite.com ??

What is 642/k/78 ??

[cosma]

I have a Philips 642/37 purchased in Canada.
What version of 1109 do I download at huffyk.hollosite.com ??

What is 642/k/78 ??

it depends in which language your subtitles are going to be if in english:

Latin1 630/00v 2.1a either 1109 or 0531 (difference is "support" of microvision)

[giannid]

The DVP630 is the european equivalent of the DVP642 and it is virtually the same machine. So choose a 630 version firmware upgrade.

Like Cosma said, you need to choose in what type language you want to read your subtitles.

Latin 1 charset refers to characters found in English, german, french, spanish, and related languages.

Latin 2 refers to Central European slavic languages like Czech, Polish, etc.

Cyrillic refers to Russian, Ukranian, Belorus.

For example, if you want english or french subtitles for a foreign film, then you want the Latin 1 firmware --> 630/00 v2.1a - modified fw 1109
or 630/00 v2.1a - modified fw 0531

I wouldn't use the 642k/78 v2.1a as that is for a brazilian version with special support for portuguese fonts and the karaoke function on that specific player. There may be compatibility problems with the 630 and other 642/versions.

In a related note, I have Bruno's 1.1 yellow installed on my 642/37 and this works fine. It has a choice between a 28pt yellow bold outlined font, and a yellow 28pt against a semi-transparent background.

This is an offshoot of HuffyK's and might suit someone who prefers a yellow font. Works with english, portuguese, spanish, etc. Available is the 0531 macrovision-free option only.

dvp642-0531-bruno-1.1-yellow.zip

[DrJOnes666]

Thanks guys! I appreciate the info.

DrJOnes666

[ejp]

In a related note, I have Bruno's 1.1 yellow installed on my 642/37 and this works fine. It has a choice between a 28pt yellow bold outlined font, and a yellow 28pt against a semi-transparent background.

This is an offshoot of HuffyK's and might suit someone who prefers a yellow font. Works with english, portuguese, spanish, etc. Available is the 0531 macrovision-free option only.

dvp642-0531-bruno-1.1-yellow.zip

ok, so what's the difference between:

630/00 v2.1a - modified fw 0531
- and -
dvp642-0531-bruno-1.1-yellow

is bruno's an upgrade of huffyk's? because of the yellow? what's the difference between the two. also, i haven't really tried any of this stuff on my own, but it seems like, from the descriptions, you can CHOOSE what you want?

like for what you said about the bruno release, you can have:
1. 28pt yellow bold outline
2. 28pt yellow against semi-transparent bg

once the fw is installed, how do you actually choose what you want?

also, the "yellow bold outline". does it look like what huffyk posted here: http://huffyk.hollosite.com/images/img1.jpg (think you have to copy/paste rather than click this link)(description: 737 v2.0 - img1.jpg)

[giannid]

HuffyK's and Bruno's are quite similar. I haven't looked at HuffyK's 2.1 version yet, but release notes say that it has 28pt bold outlined white, and a 28pt white against a semi-transparent background. Bold has a full charset, whereas non-bold has a limited charset.

As with Bruno's, you can choose whether you want the bold or the non-bold with background. To do this you highlight the subtitle file on the menu, click "subtitle" on remote, play film. Then you choose which format you want by clicking the subtitle button while the film is playing. Latin1 is the bold font, and Latin 2 is non-bold against semi-transparent background. Cyrillic has been removed to make space for the other character sets.

HuffyK taught Bruno how to modify the firmware and thus these 2 firmwares are quite similar. HuffyK's has white font - Bruno's has yellow. Bruno's was targeted for a latin american version with attention for portuguese and spanish characters.

Here is a capture of Bruno's yellow bold latin1

[giannid]

And here is Bruno's yellow latin2 non-bold against a semi-transparent background


dvp642-0531-bruno-1.1-yellow.zip

[ejp]

so 630/00 v2.1a - modified fw 0531 is/should the same thing (both options), just white instead of yellow?

[giannid]

I haven't tried out HuffyK's v 2.1a yet, however both should have the 2 options, and be very similar except for color.

You can install one and change to the other if you don't like it. The only risk is that if the power goes out when you are firmware updating, it will make your dvp642 unusable. So don't do it in a thunderstorm for example, or better yet use a "no break" if you have one.

[giannid]

Here are a couple of screenshots of HuffyK's 630/00 v2.1a - modified fw 0531.

The first is the 28pt white outlined font
HuffyK 630/00 v2.1a latin1

[giannid]

And here is the same firmware with non-bold 28pt against a semi-transparent background.

HuffyK 630/00 v2.1a latin2



630_0531_lat1_v2.1a.zip

[giannid]

I remembered something that might be important to you if you chose Bruno's Yellow. This firmware (bruno's) is based on that for the DVP642k/78 model for latin america. While it will play fine on your DVP642 you may be limited to menu language choices of english, portuguese and/or spanish.

If you need another language for your menu options (e.g. french) then you should use HuffyK's 2.1a.

If you installed Bruno's and want to change to HuffyK's, just flash firmware update with HuffyK's and after unplugging for 15 seconds and rebooting you can change back to your specific model by:

opening the tray
selecting on the remote: 5, 6, 9, OK
Using the up/down buttons on remote to choose model (e.g. 642/37)
click OK to confirm.

You will also need to redo the region code setting each time you do a firmware update. Installing Bruno's yellow may give you region 4. To convert to multi-region, do the following:

open tray
use remote: 7, 8, 9, OK, 0

[chas0039]

Be aware that some have reported going to 1109 re-enables Macro protection.

[giannid]

Right, firmwares 1109 negatively enables macrovision. However it does open the tray door by holding down the stop button for one second as opposed to two seconds in the 0531.

The 2 modified firmwares recommended in this thread are 0531 (macrovision free) versions.

[arivan]

I've just played some xvid movies using Bruno's firmware yellow 1.1.
Great piece of tool, specially beacuse I am brazilian.
Only a few issues:
The same way such as the other firmwares (official and unofficial), the control of <CR> and <LF> fail. The lines of a dialogue appear together in the same line.
The controls for italic font in the .srt file do not work.

Anyway, thanks for Bruno for the hard work.

[como]

Hi.I have updated the firmwase on my dvp642/37 to ver-1109 for dvp630- sales in Europe olso good for dvp642/37.This firmware should support bulgarian (cirillic) subtitles.When i press dhe subtitle button I have on the screan masigies:latin1; iatin2; and latin cirillic;In result Iplay some subs but the simbols are not correct-not readable.Please tell mi what is the problem.

[giannid]

Como,

The links above were for Latin1-type languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian, Scandinavian, etc).

You need a different software for Bulgarian.

I'm not sure which one would be better for Bulgarian. Either Cyrillic or Latin 2. Try one of the following firmwares from HuffyK.


Latin Cyrillic: Russian, Ukranian, Belarusian
HuffyK's Cyrillic 630/00 v2.1 - modified fw 1109


or


LATIN 2: Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian

Huffyk's Latin 2 630 v2.1b - modified fw 1109 - only transparent background

Huffyk's Latin 2 630 v2.1 - modified fw 1109-bigger readable white fonts

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Huffyk's site

[como]

Hi.This is a link to firmware ver. BULGARIAN CYRILLIC subtitle support for DVP630 VP642.Works good and is different from RUSSIAN .VER-1122 from08-12-2004.Thanks!!!!!!!! http://www.electron.bg/downloads.php?DDMid=e9ab9b3ef13e5f392e1a38760d68b763&prod_id=1030

[newnews]

What is macrovision?

[canadateck]

What is macrovision?

Macrovision
An analog video copy protection scheme that alters the unseen part of a video signal such that a VCR or other macrovision enabled device may not record the video signal properly. There are several types:
- Automatic Gain Control
- 2-line color stripe
- 4-line color stripe

Symptoms of this include picture fading in and out or color banding of the signal.

[moraize]

I've just played some xvid movies using Bruno's firmware yellow 1.1.
Great piece of tool, specially beacuse I am brazilian.
Only a few issues:
The same way such as the other firmwares (official and unofficial), the control of <CR> and <LF> fail. The lines of a dialogue appear together in the same line.
The controls for italic font in the .srt file do not work.

Arian, I´m brazilien too, and I intend to use Bruno´s Firm, but I didn´t understant that about CR and LF, when we have more than 1 subtitle line they are on just one line??

Thanks...

[giannid]

Here is the latest "official" firmware from Philips (0112). Latin1, Latin2 and Cyrillic have been renamed to CP1254, CP1250, CP1251. Subtitles now have the semi-transparent background used as the only choice. Font appears to be Arial narrow.



Firmware is for Philips 630 and is compatible with 642/37, though not 642k/78. It likely has macrovision which was introduced in November, and probably isn't any improvement on Huffyk's or Bruno's 0531 firmware shown above.

It may prove helpful if you have a newer model of the 642 which doesn't allow you to change firmwares to Bruno's or Huffyk's (or 0531) and you want to have readable subtitles. It may also appeal to someone who only uses the semi-transparent background (in one of the modified Firmwares) and prefers this narrower font. Because it is more narrow, you are less likely to get 3 subtitle lines the odd time as you do sometimes with the other two firmwares (but it still does happen). The subtitle lines still run together with all three firmwares. And you don't get the option for bold font without the background like with Bruno's or Huffyk's.

Firmware Update Instructions link

Firmware Update DVP630_0112.zip

[moraize]

Hi, I tryed to upgrade my player to Bruno's firmware, I recorded the files to a CDRW(inspite of not recomended, I read about this possibility), And the player recused to recognize the disk (or refused to upgrade), because It ejected the disk after a long time without any warn...

Is it possible that my player is not accepting this Bruno's firmware (its a Brand new player)..

Thanks...

[cosma]

Hi, I tryed to upgrade my player to Bruno's firmware, I recorded the files to a CDRW(inspite of not recomended, I read about this possibility), And the player recused to recognize the disk (or refused to upgrade), because It ejected the disk after a long time without any warn...

Is it possible that my player is not accepting this Bruno's firmware (its a Brand new player)..

Thanks...

have you finalised the disk (closed the session)?

[moraize]

Yes, I closed the section, I was reading about that it's possible that the new 642K/78 are not accepting upgrading to Bruno's Firmware based on Firm 0531. I dont know. It seem there are 3 kinds of hardware, because of that, Philips send 3 files to the upgrade (1109) , and it seems the player selects the correct one. Mine ends in "E 4", que 4 is the region, and the "E" must be the kind of hardware...

I don't know , Im still learning about all of it...

Thanks...

[giannid]

Moraize, it looks like you read Jefferson's page about the 3 types of DVP642 hardware/software, and the "E" appears to be the newer one that wasn't modified in Bruno's 1.1 yellow.

Huffyk did a modified firmware for the 642k/78 though it could be the same as Bruno's in that it won't work for you.

You might try to put in the new "official" firmware, 0112, from Philips. You need to have a TV that plays NTSC and you will lose your Karaoke and screen menus in portuguese. This is based for the 630's and north american 642's though it will probably work on yours to some degree, though it will set your 642k/78 as 630/00 as a default because the /78 is not an option.

Therefore importantly you must see if your television supports european PAL at least in black & white to see if you can read the screen. You can do this in your system menu. Try to change to PAL, and then you have to use the arrows <, > to confirm the change. If the screen goes black, then you won't use the arrows to confirm the change and it will not alter the settings after 10-15 seconds. If you pass this test, then you can install the new firmware if you want and then afterwards, you can change the model number from 630 to 642/37 for example which will give you NTSC by default.

Change the version by opening the tray,
using the remote: 5,6,9,OK
Then using the up and down buttons to get to 642/37

Jefferson wrote about this on his webpage when he first put on 0531 philips software for the 642/37 before they released it for the 642/78. (In Portuguese)
Jefferson's_642_Webpage

[moraize]

Ok, That was the place I read abou that...

I don´t intend to use a firmware that I´ll lose the original characteristics of the player...

So as I could understand, The "E" model is not compatible to these modified firmware (Bruno). I wanted the subtitles in yellow. So I think the only option was Bruno. So I`ll wait for a new version...

Thanks...

[ejp]

just want to be completely sure before i burn it. what set of directions from philips site do i use to burn:

630/00 v2.1a - modified fw 0531 - fixed charset and offset (now full latin1 section)

and upon doing that, are there any other settings, etc. i have to worry about or fix after updating to this firmware? thank you.

[giannid]

The instructions are linked in one of my posts above and again here
Firmware Update Instructions

You will get a .pdf file that tells you how to set your burning software, like you need to set it to FILE system level 2, do it as an ISO data disc, etc. Otherwise it is the same for all versions of updating the dvdplayer.

Make sure you don't unplug it or turn it off when updating - that would ruin your dvdplayer.

Your dvd player should keep it's same configurations after updating (unless you have a 642k/78 which then you should use Bruno's instead of HuffyK's). You will need however to redo the region code setting if that is important for you.

to set to multi-region
remote control dial
7,8,9,OK,0

To verify version of player:
(with remote) 5,6,9,OK

[Goldman123]

Very old thread...

But, can't see the top subtitles, and a lil bit of the bottom of the subtitles, and the sides of the subtitles sometimes.

Is it just cuz it's fan-sub anime? Or because of the DVD player? (Which is upgraded from the philips website)

642/37 is the philips dvd player.

Will any of the firmwares posted here fix it?