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Philips dvp642 dvd and divX player
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wyntre
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7. September 2004 @ 10:27 |
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@timekills -
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I tried burning the SVCD to a CD - same thing.
Can I assume you burned SVCD directly from the .inb/.cue? I have not had any problems with PAL SVCD's burned on CD-R/RW. Getting the MPEG on DVD is a slightly different story though.
Check out the thread on problem SVCD's here:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/103251
This may solve your problem for you.
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minashin
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7. September 2004 @ 13:51 |
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I don't have a DVD burner =(
I meant what speeds I should be burning DivX movies for regular CD-Rs. =)
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imrllybad
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7. September 2004 @ 14:18 |
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minashin, that's an easy one to answer too. I just burned an Imation 44x CDR at 40x full of various mpeg1, mpeg2, and divx files; all of which played just fine.
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Thornfr
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8. September 2004 @ 10:44 |
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hello,
does the philips 642 play *.mkv files?
Thank you in advance for your answers.
Thorn
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bunanson
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8. September 2004 @ 10:51 |
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The stupid thing I did was to set it to Progressive. Since I don't have Progressive scan TV so video does not show anymore. MY TV monitor is in blue and nothing coming out it. Since I can't see anything on TV, I can't set the menu back to Progressive OFF. Do you know of a way to reset the player to default? If I know the buttons to click on remote to set it to default, I may be able to do it by pressing the right ones on remote. Or, I can go to a local store with a Progressive TV and reset it there.
Anyone knows a hot button or combination buttons to press to make it work again????
Thanks a lot for the help,
cpliu
to turn off Progressive scan : press ALL the buttons, one at a time from left to right. I do not have the player in front of me,..., just press the buttons. it is mentioned on page 15-16 of the bottom of the user manual.
I have the opposite problem, i can turn on the Progressive scan, but i cannot have it out from my infocus projector. still trying.....any suggestions
bunanson
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minashin
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9. September 2004 @ 13:49 |
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Hello again everyone!
Seeing how this player only goes up to 8X FF, I have noticed it takes an awful long time to get to near the end of a movie.
Can someone recommend a good simple DivX splitter program to use?
I'm talking about a program that will automatically split movie files into length segments of what I want automatically, rather than a self extract and re-encode method that programs like Virtual Dub uses.
This way I can make a DivX movie have "chapters" if you will so that it's easier to browse through them.
Thanks again for the help!
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mrborg
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11. September 2004 @ 13:43 |
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Help!
I just bought this player and am having problems with it. I copied a mpeg movie to DVD. When I play it in the player it will play the first minutes of the movie, then skip to a further portion play that, etc. When I pull up the disk menu, it shows the file as multiple tracks (I guess this is how the player breaks it up even though I recorded it as one big file) some of the tracks have a VCD icon next to them (these happen to be the tracks that are playing), the rest of the tracks have a ? in a cartoon bubble next to them (these are the parts that are not playing). What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
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piyushkg
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12. September 2004 @ 10:19 |
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Hi,
Can someone tell me if this player will operate in 220volt - 50Hz. power supply.
Thanks
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lovefool
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12. September 2004 @ 13:34 |
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I am glad to have a DVP642/17 to play DivX files. But this player doesn't play sound of one of movies. I have found the result audio codec is slightly different from the one what plays perfect.
If the codec is the probelm, how to re-encode the audio ? If not what is wrong ?
OK Audio
0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
160 kb/s (80/ch, stereo) CBR
48000 Hz
NG Audio
mpeglayer3 (mp3) (0x0055) ISO/MPEG
128 kb/s (64/ch, stereo)
48000 Hz
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lovefool
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12. September 2004 @ 15:47 |
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I have got a solution that is re-encoding AVI by VirtualDub from divx.com, and now the player plays with audio.
virtualdub
* under Video, ensure it's set to "Direct stream copy".
* under Audio, set it to "Full processing mode".
* Audio -> Conversion, set it to your desired sampling rate e.g. 48kHz
* Audio -> Compression, set it to whatever you like... e.g. 48kHz, 128 kbps
* File -> Save as AVI
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ponzan
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13. September 2004 @ 19:24 |
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@ minashin
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...Seeing how this player only goes up to 8X FF, I have noticed it takes an awful long time to get to near the end of a movie...
I guess you need FF to go a little further up, if you want to go quickly to the end just press the display button and input a time number near the end and you will be there at no time
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wyntre
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14. September 2004 @ 08:59 |
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Thornfr
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14. September 2004 @ 17:08 |
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Does anyone know if it plays mkv files?
thx
Thorn
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joelerois
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15. September 2004 @ 08:34 |
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can some please help me with this problem,
I have the dvp642/37 and i burn a couple of AVI files on different sony cdr's, now the movie itself is just as perfect as a dvd but there is no sound at all. when i play the AVI files on my pc it is just fine and working. can some please tell me if there is any fix to this. The sound comes after a while when the movie is way playe a head. And there is a delay in the sound like breaks, u hear one word and then another word in a while. The firmware is also upgraded to teh latest from www.p4c.philips.com
I appreciate any help on this.
Thanks
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lovefool
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15. September 2004 @ 12:20 |
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joelerois - Please refer to my post on the same page. Try G-Spot to check your audio codec, if not compatible, use VirtualDub to re-encode. I hope this will help.
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bartsi
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15. September 2004 @ 14:45 |
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i have on 630 and i have upgrade firmware for the last version...but the subtitles have one litle problem...they are white and no shadow and some times i can't see the sub...any one have the solucion fot this problem???
thks
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dvdcollec
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16. September 2004 @ 16:59 |
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How much buffer memory does the 642/17 have?
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dvdcollec
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16. September 2004 @ 17:20 |
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To Estebins and Snaphook
I can attest that on a Philips 727 that comes with 8MB buffer memory I have played a lot of region2 Pal/SECAm MOVIES (I own about 300 French movies issued mostly by Canal+ -all the Gabin,Belmondo,Delon,Louis de Funes...all region 2 PAL/SECAM ) and ply them without any problems on my Toshiba 56" NTSC retroprojector TV.The quality is the same whether I look at an NTSC native region 1 movie or a native region 2 PAL movie converted to NTSC for my NTSC TV.
I am looking at the 642/17 for another apartment so I am intersted in the buffer memory because that is in my limited experience the key to smooth,jitter-free,freeze-free conversion of the video signal.
Hope this helps
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dvdcollec
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16. September 2004 @ 17:20 |
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To Estebins and Snaphook
I can attest that on a Philips 727 that comes with 8MB buffer memory I have played a lot of region2 Pal/SECAm MOVIES (I own about 300 French movies issued mostly by Canal+ -all the Gabin,Belmondo,Delon,Louis de Funes...all region 2 PAL/SECAM ) and play them without any problems on my Toshiba 56" NTSC retroprojector TV.The quality is the same whether I look at an NTSC native region 1 movie or a native region 2 Pal movie converted to NTSC for my NTSC TV.
I am looking at the 642/17 for another apartment so I am intersted in the buffer memory because that is in my limited experience the key to smooth,jitter-free,freeze-free conversion of the video signal.
Hope this helps
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 16. September 2004 @ 17:25
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bali
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18. September 2004 @ 08:45 |
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Hi,
While playing a DivX encoded movie on my DVP642 player, the playback freezes at random intervals. The FF and Rewind keys stop working and I have to eject the CD and start from scratch to get it working again. Now, the problem doesn't disappear, but the freeze happens at a different point in the stream. I have observed upto 4 freezes during the length of a 75 min movie.
Symtomps - The sound becomes distorted (as if it is playing in fast forward mode). The video then becomes distorted and freezes after a few seconds. The FF and RW functions stop working at this point and you have eject the disc and start all over again.
DivX 5 encoded movie on a CD-R media.
Anyone having the same problem with their player ? Any help would be truly appreciated.
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ponzan
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19. September 2004 @ 08:51 |
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in my 642, DivX (5.x) frezzes when they are encoded at bitrates over about 1050-1100, encoding arround 1000 works the best for me
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tdu
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23. September 2004 @ 01:48 |
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I was going to make a thread about this, but this thread seems to be the place to put general questions about the DVP642. I just bought this machine last week and so far I am very happy with it. It has played everything I have thrown at it so far. Except for one damn file! And I can't figure out why it won't play it because when I compare the movie properties to other files the machine will play they look pretty much the same.
The video and sound do 'play' but the video is a blurry, pixelated mess on screen. You can't even make it out.
encoded with 3ivx d4 4.5.1
mpeg layer-3 audio, 48000 hz
frame rate 23.98
512x384
This also seems to be the only file that I can't open with Quicktime on my machine (Mac). Every other Divx/Xvid file will open. It does play fine in Mplayer though. I get a "compressor not found' error in Quicktime.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 23. September 2004 @ 02:14
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dponce80
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23. September 2004 @ 08:15 |
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Look, no guarantees this will work, but when that happens on my machine (once in a while, not too often, usually only with Xvid), just press the "Menu" button... then press it again to exit the menu and go back to your movie. Usually, that fixes it, for me. Don't know what it does exactly, but if that doesn't work... well, mebbe someone else here can be of more use.
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wyntre
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23. September 2004 @ 11:10 |
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To dvdcollec -
I have a DVD I picked up from Las Vegas a few weeks ago. It has NTSC on one side, and PAL on the other. Content is the saem on both sides. I have a 50" Philips rear projection that does not support PAL. With the DVP642 set to MULTI, I can play obth sides of the dvd without any noticable change in quality. Hope this helps.
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tdu
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23. September 2004 @ 16:59 |
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I will give that menu tip a try and see what happens. Thanks.
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