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Yamada dvx 6600
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baldrick
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20. January 2005 @ 23:24 |
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I Aplogoize - It is VirtualDub that i was using, but it has been some time now, and by then I was working also on recoding DVD and hence the mistake in program names.
Sorry....
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fishily
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21. January 2005 @ 01:08 |
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@micol
Yeh, your mileage varies with reencoding. Obviously the more passes the better and, different settings yadayada.
Getting the 350 meg files is by far the best idea. Also you will find it quicker to download them, if you get them as soon as possible after release. (I'm guessing what method you are using ;-) )
I think we should try and make a yamada FAQ and start a newer thread. This thread is like 6 years old in dog years and the yamada has changed a bit since then, as has xvid which went to pot on the yamada after v1.
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noias
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21. January 2005 @ 11:13 |
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I've been to the store where i bought the surround loud speakers and they said that i only could have DTS sound output using the Coaxial cable!!!
It's true??? If i want to connect by the 5.1 channel input conectors what should i do???
Can you give me some advice, like what columns would make the DTS, or maybe a not very expensive amplifier through which the DTS would be decoded, or any other suggestion u would find useful.
Thank you in advence for your help!!!
Noias
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fishily
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21. January 2005 @ 13:08 |
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@noias
Without knowing where you are it's hard to give recommendations for DTS amplifiers/receivers. And as I said before, I believe the yamada 6600 does not decode a DTS signal to its analogue outputs but I would be happier if others can confirm that.
The press release from yamada themselves only mentions AC3, see below
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In the beginning of February UMAX launched the MPEG4 player Yamada DVX-6600.
Besides the good price the DVX-6600 offers a wide range of functions and a good quality.
It cannot only read the common actual formats like CD-Audio, CD-Video, S-Video, JPEGCD,
JPEG-DVD and Kodak Picture CD but also nearly all formats based on the MPEG4
standard as well as Xvid, WMA, PCM, OGG-Vorbis (with next firmware).
The DVX-6600 offers advanced simple profile, which includes, global motion compensation
(GMC), quarter pixel accurate motion compensation (Q-PEL), B-frame, higher bit-rate up to
10 Mbsp.
With the built-in AC3-Decoder with 5.1 channel output you can plug in a surround sound
system and get the perfect home cinema in your living room.
Of course the DVX-6600 also offers all prevalent functions like parental control, different
camera angles, different menu languages, slow motion, programming and repeat. The user
friendly on screen menu is assessable with the remote control. The DVX-6600 has S-video-,
composite-, Scart- and coaxial / optical digital output.
There are mediatek player that can out DTS thru' their analogue outputs like the e-boda so you never know someone may find out enough about the firmware to hack this in or may be they won't, we will see.
DTS is nice (I use a separate decoder) but to be honest I don't go out of my way for DTS titles. I would also wonder about why (in UK prices) someone would want to stick a sub £50 DVD player to a DTS receiver with a minimum cost of £120.
Do you dislike the sound of Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks that much? It is obviously possible to tell the difference between DD 5.1 and DTS 5.1 with its much higher bitrate but I would be suprised if many yamadas are attached to amp and/or speaker setups where the difference between AC3 and DTS is very great.
My 2 cents, please feel free to disagree with the above (I do a bit ;-).....)
Fish
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jami01
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1. February 2005 @ 02:37 |
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Have Yamada really addressed the Packed Bitstream issue with the 6700 running the latest firmware? Initially, I thought so, but after encountering a little jerkiness in several titles, I had to revert to unpacking it, which enabled them to work fine.
Anyone else having the same issues with the 6700? It makes be wonder why I bothered to upgrade at all.
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fishily
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1. February 2005 @ 08:37 |
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@jami01
As you have found out later firmwares for the 6700 do not do packed firmware.
Only the first firmware will do packed bs, the 2nd and 3rd do not. If packed bs is important to you stick with the 1st firmware and put up with the bugs.
It will be interesting to see if packed bs support returns to later firmwares.
Cheers
Fish
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jami01
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1. February 2005 @ 10:47 |
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jami01
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1. February 2005 @ 10:51 |
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jami01
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2. February 2005 @ 09:34 |
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fishily
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2. February 2005 @ 13:20 |
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@jami01
Quote:
http://voyager222.no-ip.com/pyps/yamada6700_more.html
Nice link, Thank you.
Like I said, the 3rd firmware doesn't support packed bs.
The biggest change is subtitles - 124 characters in 3 lines. Disappearing subs is fixed, sub sync-age is fixed like v2, ff is fixed like v2.
With my 6600 the big thing is packed bs, almost all the hacked firmware is fixing subs. Not a big deal for me being an anglophone. Almost all my downloads are packed bs and although unpacking it only takes minute, I really don't like doing it.
Again, thanks for the link
Fish
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libero61
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7. February 2005 @ 06:17 |
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Hi, i'm new to this, i've just got a yamada dvx6600 and dvx6700 i can't seem to get the subtitles on dvix or xvid to work i've tried many different versions of firmware, put the AVI and SRT file in the same folder and named the file the same burned them as data file on cd-r and cd-rw using Nero, recordnow and easycd.
both players see the AVI file and play it but not the srt file and when i press the subtitles or aungle button i get a no entry sign comes up.
can anyone help please
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wobblyway
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9. February 2005 @ 03:27 |
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***fishily***
Just a quick note to say "Thanks" for all you helpful info/advice & your program to unpack the juddery films - you've solved all my 6600 problems.
*Big sloppy kiss!*
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fishily
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10. February 2005 @ 15:14 |
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@wobblyway
Glad you found some of the stuff in the thread to be useful.
It seems while yamada and mediatek 'refuse' to sort out the packed bs problem on the yamada 6600, that this thread lingers on like some kind on zombie. I think it's nearly dead though. Most people buying new players are going to be getting 6700's and using the first firmware if downloading tv etc is their thing. Or buying the new sigma players if they have a load of spare cash.
Cheers
Fish
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BigMuff
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10. March 2005 @ 16:17 |
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PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HELP!
Over the last few months AVI files on my Yamada dvx 6600 have started getting jerky. Someone told me i have to download the latest firmware to fix this problem.
I found a firmware. The latest firmware i could find was from August 4th 2004. I upgraded my dvd player with this firmware, but the AVI files are still playing jerky.
All other files play ok...
Is there a more recent firmware update that will correct this problem? If so could someone give me the link to it as it's driving me insaneeeeeeeeeeee
Cheers :)
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idoubtit
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10. March 2005 @ 22:25 |
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Hey Bigmuff try reading through the last 20-30 messages and you will get your answer. Unfort there is no firmware as yet to fix this, but there is a software solution called mpeg4modifier you can download which is not ideal but really works. As I said read back through this topic for details.
Hope this helps.
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zaf2005
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11. March 2005 @ 08:11 |
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Hope someone can help ....
I have a Yamada DVX 6600 ... Whenever I watch some xvid movies, i can select them in the file browser window ... however upon selecting them, the movie fails to start, instead I hear the sound and I get a frozen file browser window (slightly expanded) !!!
The only common thing I have noticed with these unplayable movies is that they seem to be of a high res. i.e. higher than 640 x 272 ... If i re-encode to a lower res, they play OK.
Is there a patch/workaround to resolve this problem as it seems a shame (and a lot of wasted re-encode time) to reduce the quality of the movies
p.s. I have the latest firmware loaded ...
Any help would be most appreciated ... Thx.
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fishily
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11. March 2005 @ 20:45 |
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@Bigmuff
To save you looking back at the thread, here is the info you need.
So the jittering with newer xvid is the yamada trying to play packed bitstream. The solution is to remove the packed bistream with Mpeg4modifier. This can be found at
http://www.moitah.net/
download the binary
It need .Net, so install it at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=262d25e3-f589-4842-8157-034d1e7cf3a3&displaylang=en
Another useful for telling you what encoding a file has is
http://w1.261.telia.com/~u26119659/Avicheck.exe
Which will give an output like this
Total Streams: 2
Running Time: 0:44:06
Index Chunk: Yes
Interleaved: Yes
Max Bytes Per Sec: 0
AUDIO: 0 - AC3 (0x2000) --- Dolby Digital, it could say MP3
Average bitrate Per Sec: 192 kb/s --- The bitrate, with MP3 it's often 128
Samples Rate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits Per Sample: 0
SuggestedBufferSize: 3840
Sample Size: 1
VIDEO: DIV3 --- The video type here DIVX 3, but could say XVID
B-VOP: No --- No packed bitstream
S(GMC)-VOP: No --- No GMC
QuarterPixel: No --- No Qpel
Frame Size: 512 x 384 --- The resolution, the yamada won't take above 720*576(in PAL)
Frames Rate: 25.000
Color Depth: 24
Total Frames: 66171
SuggestedBufferSize: 48548
Hopefully that helps explain lots of the previous threads.
Unofficial firmware with better subtitle support (only .srt) and better audio options is at
http://mtz.softpedia.com/
Hope that helps
PS Packed bitstream, GMC and Qpel are fine if it is a divx, for example if it say DX50 in avichecker.
Fish
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fishily
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11. March 2005 @ 20:51 |
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@Zaf2005
The yamada won't take above 720*576 in PAL, less in NTSC. This is a limitation of the chipset and there is no workaround. Downloaded movies should not generally be higher than this, some high resolution TV episode that are 700mb are higher than this and won't play.
If it is a movie, re-encode, same with TV episodes. In future is downloading stuff, if it is TV go for the 350 mb version. If it is a movie check by starting the download and get enough to throw in avichecker to see the res.
Fish
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baldrick
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12. March 2005 @ 02:52 |
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Hi Fish!
I guess I can confirm that 6600 doesn't decode DTS. It says so also as DTS digital out, and the sound you get from DTS coded files is just some high pitched noise.
Haven't tried yet with coax to receiver DTS decoding, becuse I do not have any.
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zaf2005
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12. March 2005 @ 05:17 |
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@Fishily
Many thanks for the reply .... at least i now know that I'm not going mad nor that there is a fault with my dvx 6600.
Thx.
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kellaken
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12. March 2005 @ 10:02 |
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I've just bought a second hand Yamada 6600 and would like to know how to find out which firmware is installed.......On my previous 6100 the procedure was open the tray and type 123....the version would then appear on the screen but it doesn't work on the 6600...Please help....Ta Ken
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fishily
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12. March 2005 @ 16:08 |
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@baldrick
If you don't have a proper coaxial cable, you can sometimes use a normal audio/video phono to phono, you know the yellow-red-white ones. It depends, some work, some don't on some things if you know what I mean. The DTS not working from the analogue is not suprising since it would cost money :-).
Fish
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fishily
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12. March 2005 @ 16:11 |
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@baldrick
just re-read what you said, and I've reply assuming you meant you had no co-ax rather than you have no receiver which I now think it said. Sorry.
Fish
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fishily
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12. March 2005 @ 16:25 |
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@Kellaken
You can get info about firmware by
Make sure there is no disk in the drive
Press the Setup button on your remote control
Move cursor to Preferences
Press the 1 3 6 9 on your remote control
This won't help you much since yamada/meditek have been very poor with firmware update and the information there will not tell you if you have the latest modded firmware.
I would just go to
http://mtz.softpedia.com/
and download the latest modded firmware for the 6600, which at the time of writing is Yamada6600_1252_v15_Mtz if you are UK based or other roman alphabet based language. Make sure you do the resets mentioned in the gumpth.
Fish
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kurgan666
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12. March 2005 @ 18:04 |
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The firmware support has been absolutely awful from yamada, less than a year old and lack of updates have almost killed it. I would never buy another Yamada product and will reccomend everyone I know to avoid them also.
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