DVp642k

[y2khameed]

I have Philips DVP642k/69
I installed the latest firmwar upgrade version 1109. but it dosn't support Arabic language for external suptitle.
Could any one help me to add Arabic ISO into the firmwar upgrade?

[giannid]

Did you specifically use the upgrade for your particular player, 642k/69?

I found a link to the official 1109 firmware for the 642K/69. There is a zip file there with the firmware update.
dvp642k/69

[y2khameed]

Thanks for replaying
but, yes I did try it.
As it is written there It suppports latin only

[giannid]

Did you try hitting the subtitle button on the remote while it is playing? With the 642/37 there are 3 types of subtitle charsets. 1 each for Latin/Germanic, Russian, and Central European.

I don't know your model, 642k/69. I think it may be used in Asia and might have support for Chinese. Is there a specific Philips model for the Middle East? You might try installing that firmware, if you can find it. Or else you can try to contact Philips directly.

[jman98]

At present, this player only supports the following character sets for external subtitle files:

Latin
Central European (also using the Latin alphabet)
Cyrillic

That's it. For those who are interested, external subtitle files in Cyrillic MUST be encoded as ISO-8859-5 characters, which is a rather bizarre choice.

[y2khameed]

Thanks all,
I think that 742k/69 is for Asia or just Meddle ‎ East. I don't know exactly
but I tried to contact philips through the email but I didn't get any replay except the automatic replay.

does any one knows how to edit the firmware update and in what language is written?