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Community @ CeBIT 2010
The CeBIT is over and some of us had a chance to meet many of the important guys of the Xtreamer company and people related to them. We spent two days together and had a lot of fun and achieved some good things. Even the CeBIT 2010 was one day shorter than last year, their faces told us it was a long and tiring week for the guys at the Xtreamer booth. Anyways, we visited them on the last two days, on Friday and Saturday. It has been a very good and refreshing experience for us community members to join and meet these guys face to face to talk with them about our devices and the near future. mercury17, spaceshuttle, ahrensfd, Spare and me – with family or friends met with X (admin), George Lee (director), Mark Appel (Benelux), a manager from Realtek, the sales manager, art director and system administrator and more. It was a small booth in the Korean pavillion but definitely the most interesting booth for our growing community. They presented the Xtreamer Pro (Media Player), Xtreamer e-TRAYz (Personal Storage), Xtreamer Dual (2 x 3.5″ HDD enclosure), Xtreamer + Sidewinder (passive cooler) and the original Xtreamer at the booth. They demonstrated how the Xtreamer Pro is able to play 1080p 16ref videos and the root menu with the wallpaper art (which is customizable with your own wallpapers) looks nice. If I remember correctly, skins will be more safe to create. You just put new skin images into a specific location and the Xtreamer will use them (hookup) from that location without the need to overwrite the original images. This way you can revert to original skins as easy as pie. The new Xtreamer 1 which will come with a factory-fitted Sidewinder might start shipping from next month. I also saw the new Xtreamer Headphones (but damn, I forgot to try them) and in the Xtreamer booklet you would find first pictures of the Xtreamer IPCam which is coming soon. That wasn’t all… in CeBIT’s “Planet Reseller” area, their co-branding partner Trekstor presented both the Xtreamer and e-TRAYz to the visitors in a bigger booth/stand. On Friday evening, after the CeBIT closed, we were invited to join them for a dinner at the hotel where they stayed. We had lots of delicious food (Greek), the hotel manager even had a belly dancer organized for the evening which was a little embarassing for me but hey, you don’t have this everyday, do you… … everyone, the Xtreamer staff and the community people were there, later the Trekstor guys joined us and it was a great evening with lots of talking, eating, drinking (incredible how much ouzo some people can drink), laughing and dancing (lucky I didn’t have to). Very surprising for me as I really thought we would have a calm dinner together to talk about firmware and stuff … if I remember correctly we enjoyed the evening till around midnight until we left. On Saturday we took the chance to demo some community projects to Xtreamer and Trekstor. There was not much time so we could only show them a few projects like the PHP Installer for e-TRAYz and XMP or the RSS jukeboxes for the Xtreamer. We tried to show them how they work, how easy it is to install stuff or change skins etc… but also showed them, what we are NOT able to do and the good thing is they will try to help us as much as they are allowed to, regarding their contracts with Realtek. You could feel how they really want and desire to help us but also that it is not as easy as some of you may think. I walked around the Korean and Chinese pavillion in the same hall and it was like every second exhibitor had a media player in his portfolio and all their menus and GUI actually sucked, in case they had something to demo at all. If all of them had what we have on Xtreamer I guess more people will suffer from the bad quality of other cheap brands than people who will actually benefit from shared resources. It’s a vicious circle and more complex than that but I got this impression and I think you get the idea. Altogether, our time together at the CeBIT was very exciting and made us feel a lot better about all the negative vibes that was/is swirling around in the various communities. We made important contacts with the key people at the Xtreamer and other companies and I am sure all of us will benefit from all that we’ve shown to and collected from them. Lots of internal talk has been shared, forgive me that I am not allowed to write about it here but the message I get out of that is, that Xtreamer is not going to disappear some day. Soon, everyone in the tech scene will know about Xtreamer, no matter in the media player scene or others… [thx for reading - mavvy]
Photos by mercury17, spaceshuttle and the Xtreamer team
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
Xtreamer Beta Firmware
After the Xtreamer guys returned home from the CeBIT (short report will follow later) they have given us a new beta firmware for testing. Looks like they have focussed on some nice stuff: UPnP, YouTube, iPhone remote. Let’s see what conclusion our betatesters group will make. New Features: Bug Fixes: [thx for reading - mavvy]
a. Play files directly from web UI to TV
- Click Play button next to file name to play that file directly on TV
b. Play all files of a folder directly from web UI to TV
- Click Play button next to folder name to play the files of that folder directly on TV
c. Playlist play option from web UI to TV
- You need to make playlist from web UI or TV if not exists
- Click Play button from playlist window (Video/Audio/Photo) to play that playlist directly on TV
d. Play playlists from Web Remote Control to TV by one click
- You need to make playlist from web UI or TV if not exists
- Click Movies/Music/Photos button from web remote control to play corresponding playlist directly on TV
e. Currently playing file information and remote control by viewing “TV Screen Shot”
- Currently playing file name is viewable from main page of “RC”
- Click on that file name to see more information about it
- Go to “RC” sub page and click “Screen Shot” button to control your TV viewing screen shot
- Or go to “RC2” and click on TV icon at the left to control your TV viewing screen shot
- Currently need to refresh page to see updated Screen Shot
a. Go to Setup->Playback->Auto Run and select the playlist you want to play automatically
b. Whenever you will turn Xtreamer on or reboot your selected playlist will be auto played
c. For photo playlist you need to select “Setup->Playback->Background Music->Playlist” for background music to be auto played
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
Xtreamer Pro Announcement – Xtreamer Report
Xtreamer has officially announced the Xtreamer Pro along with an Xtreamer activity report for 2009 and 2010. The Xtreamer Pro got its own microsite which you can find here: http://www.xtreamer.net/pro-minisite/xtreamerPRO.html Check it out and let us know what you feel, either here or in the official Xtreamer forum where you can download the report. http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12804 [thx for reading - mavvy]
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
Xtreamer Pro Teaser
Some incomplete information about the Xtreamer Pro has been released by non-official sources a week ago and people were wondering why there is no official statement. Well, there is… Leaked specs and GUI concepts which have been published on other places than the official Xtreamer forum are either “very inaccurate or outdated” and given what they’ve shown to us global moderators back in November this sounds reliable. We’ve already seen this before. So the last thing one should do is to be “alarmed by rumours”. True though: the Xtreamer Pro looks like an Xtreamer in an e-TRAYz case. Personally (wish), I expected a more Hi-Fi-style case design… something similar to those Samsung BluRay players… anyway, looking at it from another point of view, the e-TRAYz has proven to be a valuable solid box which does look quite appealing, not only because of it’s tiny and cute size… but in the end it will always look more like a NAS than a mediaplayer to me. How about you? A teaser has been published on the main site which confirms the case design. Check it out but keep in mind: if you’ve seen the “leaks” before, this won’t be anything new to you maybe. Note: it’s a teaser introducing the Xtreamer Pro which will be shown at CeBIT 2010 in Germany this coming March. An official specifications sheet is not available and finalized yet! Silence before the storm… It’s been quiet in the last couple of weeks. But talking and listening to the admins indicate very clearly that they’ve been busy with a lot of tasks on different projects in different teams and they are very close to reveal some big news. I expect that we’ll know this week. Be sure that when there are news to announce, you will read them here or in the official Xtreamer forum. This is not a place for rumours [thx for reading - mavvy]
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
e-TRAYz v1.0.4-official released
The latest e-TRAYz BETA has been now released officially after it’s being tested for about a week. It is a small update with mainly bugfixes and improvements to the detection engine of the e-TRAYz in the network.
Download it here: What’s changed [thx for reading - mavvy]
http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=146&t=12710
- e-TRAYz detector daemon and client program for finding e-TRAYz within local network.
- time zoneinfo updated
- perl5, python2.6 updated
- glib-2.0 updated
- httpd.conf bug fixed.
- bug fixed : Port setup interface in the Setup wizard and the Setting page.
- bug fixed : firmware upgrade failed when there is no internet connection to e-TRAYz.
- bug fixed : Script error on Wireless network setup page.
- exception handling : including some exception handling for home partition un-mounted.
- exception handling : including some exception handling for link copy to support IE and Firefox
- bug fixed : e-Connector connection failed with ddns in some cases.
- bug fixed : cannot exit program when e-Connector trying to connect disk.
- Language support : added Japanese.
- exception handling : including some exception handling for home partition un-mounted.
- e-TRAYz detector client program.
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
[UPDATE²] Third BETA release of v2.1 and TOP ISSUES list
Today a new beta was released to the beta tester group, with a short changelog. This is a response to a two(?) hour meeting with our admin in the chat some days ago in which we compiled a TOP ISSUES list of items which need to be fixed or implemented in our Xtreamer because these are issues asked again and again by us. So we made this agreement with xtreamer (the admin and project leader) to make this list to be the base for the R&D team to concentrate on in the following weeks. It does not mean a feature-freeze coz besides these items there are still nice flowers along the road that you can pick up from the sides… like the Jukebox which was another topic today for about an hour in the chat. TOP ISSUES list: So that is the list… what do you think? And as a first response there is this new beta firmware of v2.1 which aims at fixing item #1 on the list. What’s new: Not sure if these settings will make it into the final release if the HDMI issue can be fixed meanwhile but it’s good to see that there is some movement into our direction. [thx for reading - mavvy]
a) User can set HDMI setting manually (Default, Option1, Option2, Option3, Option4)
b) User can set HDMI YCbCr
- Auto : default (YCbCr 4:4:4)
- On : Set YcbCr 4:2:2
If you are not a betatester and experience the purple screen issue, please read here.
Update² 2010-02-10Okay, let’s update the TOP ISSUES list we “negotiated” with the admins before and see what is the status quo:
- HDMI issues (purple screen)
- WIFI issues (DHCP not ready, manual SSID/IP for WiFi)
- Subsampling/downmixing to 2.0 16 bit 48hz PCM
- DTS-HD / TrueHD
- DTS out of sync
- Progressive DCT JPEG
- MPEG-2 TRP without PAT
- MP3 via UPnP causes Xtreamer GUI to reboot
Hmm… 3 out of 8 is not sooo exciting and I still wish item no. 8 would get a little more priority but we have some nice and very useful additions/modifications put into the latest v2.2 release. Anyways, few weeks left and we can say bye to the v2.x branch and move on to v3 which will hopefully inherit the best (working) features of v2, plus adding a working jukebox (I can’t mention that often enough hehe).
What do you think should be put in a new TOP ISSUES/WISHES list for v3? Jukebox, Search&Index will be there… 24p must have to work properly by then… what else?
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
Xtreamer Firmware v2.2
A new final has just been released for the Xtreamer. Check it out. Firmware Download New features Improvements Bugs fixed [thx for reading - mavvy]
General Discussion (no bug reports!)
a. Chapter navigation.(GOTO or Next button)
b. Audio navigation(AUDIO button)
c. Subtitle navigation(SUBTITLE button)
a. During Photo playback.
b. Setup->Playback-Ken burns Slideshow Effect.
a. Setup->A/V->Hue, Saturation.
a. Output AAC/FLAC/OGG/WAV 5.1 PCM
b. Setup->A/V->Digital output.
a. Static IP
b. WPS
a. If folder is DVD/Blu-ray folder structure, Appear select window of “Browser folder and auto playback”
a. Web page->Setup->TV skin.
b. Support 16bits BMP(656 format)
a. Media Library -> eTray.
a. Default playback resolution from 320×240 to full screen
b. Fast forward 1.0x->0.5x->0.8x->1.2x->1.5x->2.0x
a. Setup->NAS Mode->Restart
a. Samsung S1 mini (1.8inch external USB storage)
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
[UPDATE²] Xtreamer BETA around the corner…
It’s me again, your friendly spammer next door! Get prepared for the next BETA test. We are expecting a medium to major bugfix/feature release within 2 or 3 days. All you beta testers out there, wake up and get ready. It has gone quiet around the Xtreamer after the e-TRAYz has been released. All the action and fuzz was only about the e-TRAYz recently but the Xtreamer is back! The R&D team seemed very busy putting the Realtek SDK puzzle together. Today we were given the chance to sneak a peek once more and the result looks promising. To avoid misunderstandings: this next BETA release is not the highly anticipated v3 with the integrated jukebox with searching and indexing abilities, nope… it’s a v2.x.x addressing improvements and bugfixes, suggested and reported by the community. Once these have been confirmed to work they (R&D) can take this firmware as a base to concentrate on the v3 release which will finally have a jukebox *wiping tears away* and be released to us approximately in March… So what can we expect in the next BETA? Improved BD(MV) support, new effects for your photo slideshows, improved WiFi settings, no more DTS out of sync etc etc etc … sounds nice? Hope I didn’t reveal too much, the list is a bit longer stay tuned! [thx for reading - mavvy]
The beta firmware has been released. If you are a beta tester, download it here and keep discussions in here.
For all others as usual, the changelog on which we are basing our tests…
I New features
- Blu-ray simple navigation.
a. Chapter navigation.(GOTO or Next button)
b. Audio navigation(AUDIO button)
c. Subtitle navigation(SUBTITLE button) - Ken Burns
a. During Photo playback.
b. Setup->Playback-Ken burns. - Hue & Saturation
a. Setup->A/V->Hue, Saturation. - Multi Audio output.(HDMI only)
a. Output AAC/FLAC/OGG/WAV 5.1 PCM
b. Setup->A/V->Digital output. - Wireless network
a. Static IP
b. WPS - DVD/Blu-ray folder auto play.
a. If folder is DVD/Blu-ray folder structure, Appear select window of “Browser folder and Play folder” - Add 16:10 aspect ratio
a. Setup->A/V -> Aspect Ratio -> 16:10 - Add Digital Noise Reduction(DNR) function
a. Setup-> A/V -> DNR -> Off or Auto
II Improvement
- “Return” button operate stop, during video playback
- Wireless Network performance.
- e-TRAYz mount option from UDP to TCP
a. Media Library -> e-TRAYz. - Add Internet sites
a. Support H.264(mp4) streaming. - Internet video playback.
a. Default playback resolution from 320×240 to 640×480
b. Fast forward 1.0x->0.5x->0.8x->1.2x->1.5x->2.0x - When Skip button used during video playback, status window display progressive bar, current time and total time.
III Bugs fixed.
- Official DVD can’t playback used by GL811 chip.
- MKV+DTS out of sync.
- External USB HDD detect error.
a. Samsung S1 mini (1.8inch external USB storage) - If TS file has internal subtitle, can’t display subtitle.
- Upload window reload and “Tik-tik” sound while mouse dragging on Upload popup window of Xtreamer web UI.
While the latest final firmware v2.2 has just been released (Link), another firmware version rumoured around in the chat a day or two ago. Firmware v4 will add support for the Xtreamer IPCam which is about to be revealed soon (March? CeBIT?). No facts about that firmware yet but I just wanted to let you know^^
And by the time v4 will see light for the first time, v3 should be a matured release with its announced Jukebox+Search+Index. Exciting times are ahead of us.
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
e-TRAYz Software v1.0.3
A new e-TRAYz software has been released after v1.0.1 has been tested by our betatester group. Changelog [thx for reading - mavvy]
- Built-in
* autoconf-2.63-r1
* autoconf-wrapper-7
* automake-1.10.2
* automake-wrapper-3-r1
* binutils-2.19.1-r1
* binutils-config-1.9-r4
* bison-2.3
* gcc-4.2.4-r1
* gcc-config-1.4.1
* gdb-7.0
* m4-1.4.12
* make-3.81
- Changes FTP Setting Option : permitted to access /home folder by root
- Supports Samba Security mode changing : User Mode, Share Mode (Public, External)
- fixes HDD Sleep Mode unstability
- fixes Network reset problem when IP renewed by DHCP
- fixes USB Disk overmount & data delete problem when using USB Hub (not to use USB Hub and card reader)
** USB Hub and card reader will be supported later version.
- More stable wireless network
* fixes Wireless network connection failed problem
* fixes Wireless network card recognition failed problem
- fixs eTRAYz Xtreamer NFS speed problem : mount option changed to tcp by Xtreamer
- SW Package Installation
* unrar and zip/unzip
* telnet
* phpMyAdmin
* Programming Modules: Curl, GD Library, ImageMagick
* Programming Language: CGI, PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python
* transmission Torrent (/etc/init.d/transmission start/stop)
- Built-in
* Phpmyadmin-3.2.2.1 – An Open Source tool to handle the administration of MySQL.
* Grammafone – An Open Source Music Server.
- {e-TRAYz Web} fixs some bugs related with folder sharing.
- {mail} fixes some bugs related with e-mail : exception handling for special character sets(*&^^%$#@!?><”:)
- {mail} fixes id generation bug with “.” such as “aaa.etrayz@myetrayz.net”
- {security} prohibits file move to unauthorized folder for general users
- {security} prohibits accessing to unauthoriaed web page for general users
- {e-TRAYz Web} removes sharing menu for general users
- {Setting} adds CIFS share option control
- {Setting} modifies firmware upgrade interface
- {Setting} seperates user interface for gateway of wired and wireless network
- {setting} Supports more stable SMTP server for yahoo and hotmail
- {setting} fixes port setting bugs for webpage and user home page.
- {setting} fixes page loading time for some webpage including directory selection interface.
- {e-Torrent} fixes adding problem of torrents file to etrayz from Mac(the files are shaded and can’t be chosen)
- {e-downloader} adds some more error message for downloading failure.
- {Installer} adds warning message before HDD formatting.
- {e-TRAYz connector} fixes long waiting time for wrong etrayz server connection.
- {e-TRAYz connector} fixes e-TRAYz Disk mounting problem for general user.
- {e-TRAYz connector} adds authentication logics for additional sharing mode.
- {e-TRAYz connector} fixes unstable connection problem : more stable.
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
Sidewinder
While the Sidewinder has been shown to the global moderators a few weeks ago but wasn’t allowed to be published in the forum yet, it seems that it has (according to a forum user) made the way into a Chinese onlineshop on its own, including an image. Follow the discussion here. [thx for reading - mavvy]
The Sidewinder is going to be available in the official Xtreamer Shop at http://shop.xtreamer.net at any hour from now, so very soon!
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
e-TRAYz BETA v1.0.1
The latest BETA v1.0.1 for the e-TRAYz has now been tested for 3 days. Some useful configuration changes have been made to the system, some core stuff been added giving you more freedom / less sweat to install web services. So what’s been changed in the BETA: 1. System 2. Web 3. Windows Application Give it some more time (can’t tell you how long yet though). This BETA is another brick in the wall for the next PUBLIC e-TRAYz software which will be released later and have more real stuff added. [thx for reading - mavvy]
** USB Hub and card reader will be supported later version.
* fixes Wireless network connection failed problem
* fixes Wireless network card recognition failed problem
* unrar and zip/unzip
* telnet (/etc/init.d/xinetd start/stop)
* phpMyAdmin
* Programming Modules: Curl, CPAN, GD Library, ImageMagick
* Programming Language: CGI, Fast CGI, PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, SSI
* transmission Torrent (/etc/init.d/transmission start/stop)
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
[UPDATE] Movie Jukebox, IPCam… anybody home?
Hey folks! It’s been a while since I wrote the last blog entry so I should start with nothing less than a feature, which almost everyone is longing for. Admins and some Global Moderators had a meeting today and we had been given the chance to get a peek on the progress of the so much anticipated movie jukebox. First of all: Geeez… they have been REALLY working on it!!! What they’ve shown to us, gave me a feeling of satisfaction, relief and a lot of hope at once for the upcoming weeks until firmware v3 will be released. It encouraged me to believe that the wait will be worth and that they are still on the right track, showing us, that they DO listen to community feedback. Okay, enough of the apple-polishing If you know me then you know that I belong to those guys pushing this jukebox thingy because I really want it, g.. damn it As you may have guessed, the details are still confidential and we can’t give you specific details because the work is still in progress so even we (GMs) don’t know how it will look in the end. They presented a movie jukebox concept to us. Not on paper, not on images, no… it was a video capture of an actual Xtreamer running this new jukebox. One thing I can tell for sure: the way you are used to navigate through your Xtreamer GUI will change… it won’t be the reinvention of the wheel but I like the changes quite much. Still remember that Let’s talk about a Movie Jukebox thread? Cover wall, search, indexing… it’s there, right in that concept demo video. Xtreamer team…give it the final polish and make it look pretty and fancy and stuff with all your passion put into its design and functionality. Only then, we, the community will stop nagging! Any news on the IPCam? Well, admins have been very careful with leaking information recently. We talked about it today and I can tell that it will be capable of streaming up to 1080p h.264 video content to your Xtreamer or… well, that’s a secret they should present to you themselves!.. it looks like the Xtreamer team is very proud and excited about their new toy and even the e-TRAYz team seems to be positive about what their colleagues created. The IPCam is an addition to expand the functionality of your Xtreamer. It’s all about the Xtreamer, we should not forget this or even think that they would neglect our little gadget for new toys! Yeah, I know what you want to ask now… WHEN??? Let’s ask the crystal ball… all those leaked infos and rumours about Sidewinder, new SDK, new firmware, new Xtreamer Pro… they all rumoured to be revealed in Q1, 2010. At least the Sidewinder should be ready for the online shop the coming days, it’s about time, don’t let the people wait any longer! The CeBIT will take place in two months (March) so it’s just a logic thing to expect the announcement of the IPCam and (maybe) the Xtreamer Pro at the CeBIT. Just guessing. [thx for reading - mavvy]
We have a first image of the Sidewinder product box, posted by XtreamerAdmin:
http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=6998&p=81437#p81437
… and a new e-TRAYz BETA software is expected to be released this week. Stay tuned.
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
Back to the Future: new IRC chat
There are some interesting news for the “older” users among us. Xtreamer.net has approved to switch and test a new chat (based on IRC), since the old flash based chat wasn’t very reliable. So everyone who likes to join us with his/her favorite IRC client is very welcome. Use the following data to login: Host: chat.xtreamer.net If you don’t know how to use IRC, don’t worry. It’s as easy as joining the old chat. Just go to: http://chat.xtreamer.net … or click on the appropriate links in the forum and you will sign in automatically with your forum nickname which leads me to the first request: if you don’t own a forum account you will be asked to sign in with a nickname of your choice. Please don’t use any “Guest” or “Anonymous” nickname. Maybe you are using an IRC client or a tool with IRC support and you didn’t know? Here is a selection of popular clients / tools which you might know or even use already: Some useful commands that you can use in the chat: Last but not least: please be nice to other people in the forum / chat and act like a reasonable person would act. [thx for reading - mavvy]
Port: 6667
Channel: #xtreamer
/register <password> <email>
/id <password>
/nick <newnickname>
/list
/join #<yourchannelname>
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
Happy New Year!
Now that everyone on this planet should be in 2010 let me use the opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year. May all your wishes for health and prosperity come true! The CES is around the corner and even Xtreamer may not be listed as an exhibitor I am sure there will be new gadgets announced. Competitors gave birth to different variants of their media players, why should Xtreamer not take this path. And the forum party which was announced sometime in early December is still due, with the new roadmap on it’s agenda but I still can’t give you any date when it will take place coz I simply don’t know. I believe the next two months will be exciting for us: Xtreamer Sidewinder (the official and long awaited cooling solution for the Xtreamer), Xtreamer Pro (successor of the Xtreamer, which will definitely come soon) and the almost forgotten Xtreamer IPcam and Xtreamer Netbook. Nevertheless, 2009 has been a “difficult” year. On the one hand we still remember recent issues which let us scratch our heads when thinking of them and we still miss important features like proper HD audio handling or the movie jukebox which are still in the queue. But on the other hand we should honour that for most people (including me) the Xtreamer is doing what they need it for. The Xtreamer team has done well in satisfying the majority of the customers. But with more and more 7.1 AVRs being sold in 2010 (even the lower priced AVRs offer 7.1 sound now), we should not rest to think that HD audio only matters for power users. Competitors, whose devices also base on the Realtek chip are beginning to implement YAMJ and similar features. So it is about time that they will provide us with a movie jukebox solution. What will 2010 bring? Let Xtreamer surprise us with a new roadmap soon *wish* … over and out. [thx for reading - mavvy]
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
Official Xtreamer Forum – Cleanup!
As more Xtreamer gadgets (like the recent e-TRAYz) will be released soon, it was about time for a forum cleanup. This is an ongoing process and our admins and moderators will be busy moving threads into the right sections in the next days. Please help us to keep the forum tidy by posting in the right sections. With the new structure it should be easy to find what you are looking for even without using the forum’s Search. Have a look at the new forum strucure here: Here is a little help for our forum newbies: Enjoy your time and of course, feedback and suggestions for improvements are always welcome. [thx for reading - mavvy]
http://forum.xtreamer.net/index.php
http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=3416
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
Xtreamer Firmware v2.1.3
A new firmware has been released to address a very annoying bug where playback of e.g. AVI files stopped occasionally during playback. Also NFS shares are handled more logically now and Favorites are really used for your own favorites. http://xtreamer.net/downloads/xtreamer/firmware/ver-2-1-3.aspx Improvements: Bugs Fixed: Please try out and let us know if this solves the problem for you. Add your feedback here: [thx for reading - mavvy]
- It has been moved from “Favorites” to “Network Shares”
- You can add a NSF mounted directory to “Favorites” by pressing “FUNC->Add to Favorites”
http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8988
Read more [Xtreamer Blog]
Xtreamer Firmware v2.1.2
This release is a good one, I guess. It seems that this release also has no issues with purple screens via HDMI. I think we can now mark the TOP8 issues item #1 as resolved! The GUI font size has been increased by a reasonable amount. The readability should be much better now on CRT TVs. Check it out for yourself! http://xtreamer.net/downloads/xtreamer/firmware/ver-2-1-2.aspx Improvements: Bugs Fixed: [thx for reading - mavvy]
- NFS mount is back in Web GUI.
- To mount a local directory input any name.
- The mounted directory will be visible in “Favorites” menu.
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Pimp my Xtreamer
So you got your Xtreamer now… what can you do with it besides watching movies, listening to music or viewing photos and all that boring stuff? Yeah right, pimp it =) Xtreamer Wiki A request to all developers in the community! Please add all your dev stuff inside the Wiki so the community will have an easy gateway to find them. Some other very helpful software projects (mods and addons) exist today, making your Xtreamer life easier… here are some examples, please check them out! XMP – Xtreamer Mod Pack XTREAMJ XtreamerMRTG Fakeshell XRC Xtreamer RC sidebar gadget MXRC Last but not least [thx for reading - mavvy]
There are a lot of ways to modify your Xtreamer’s hardware and software. But first of all though, let me introduce the Xtreamer Wiki to you. It was made to serve you as an information resource which should grow to the #1 place to go in future to find anything about your modification needs.
Link: Xtreamer Wiki
Use the Xtreamer Mod Pack to easily extend the functionality of your Xtreamer media player. Enable OpenSSL, install a Torrent or Usenet client, customize fonts and even skins. All in one package!
Link: http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7411
A french initiative to replace the Xtreamer Movie Jukebox. Why use this instead of XMJ? Because it works! Use the output images to display them in your Xtreamer.
Link: http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5762
A monitoring tool to monitor memory, CPU and network load. If you worry what your Xtreamer is doing in the background, try this!
Link: http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=7790
Fakeshell (included in XMP) is a little script which comes in handy when you quickly want to enable Telnet, see the running processes, put the Xtreamer to standby after a user defined time or reboot it when the GUI crashed… and you can view the available/free space of your internal and external HDDs.
Link: http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=4914
A little tool which sits in your Windows system tray and allows you to control some key functions of your Xtreamer, like PLAY, STOP, NEXT, PREV etc.
Link: http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=6107
A remote control replacement like the iPhone web remote control, but this one sitting on your Windows Vista or 7 desktop as a gadget!
Link: http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5604
Another RC replacement which has been optimized for QVGA resolutions of e.g. old Windows Mobile devices.
Link: http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=4661
There is much more to explore, especially on the hardware side. The creativity of the community is infinite! Just search the forum for the popular Scythe Mod and you will know what I mean. Here is a list of hard- and software mods and again my request to all of you. Please help to complete the Wiki to help new and existing users to benefit from the Xtreamer!
Link: Mods_in_alphabetical_order
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Firmware v2.1.1 available, v2.1.2 on the way
A new “quickfix” firmware has been released to address some issues that occured in the last v2.1 release. MP3 via 5.1 optical has been fixed. Some re-occuring HDMI issues seem wiped out again too. http://xtreamer.net/downloads/xtreamer/firmware/ver-2-1-1.aspx Bugs fixed: Another release with some more last minute bugfixes will be released soon. Stay tuned for the bugfix list. [thx for reading - mavvy]
- Select Hebrew in “Subtitle/ID3tag”
- Folders can be added to favorites
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e-TRAYz Firmware 1.0
Finally a stable version of the e-TRAYz firmware has been released to the public. If you already received your e-TRAYz and wondered where to download the software, check the following link: http://xtreamer.net/downloads/etrayz/firmware/etrayz-software-ver1-0.aspx [thx for reading - mavvy]
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Firmware v2.1
So it happened. Firmware v2.1 just popped out over night after our beta tester group had 3 different betaversions in their hands for testing. Judge for yourself. What’s new: Improvements: Bug Fixes: [thx for reading - mavvy]
- Needs Restore Defaults in setup menu.
- Add your favorite contents from HDD (Internal/External) to “Favorite”
- By pressing “Func(8)” key from Remote Control select “Add to Favorite”
- To remove from Favorite press “Func(8)” key and select “Delete from Favorite” from Favorite menu.
- Folders and files are displayed from “All” menu only, “Music/Photo/Video” menu only shows respective files not folders
- Accessible from “Media Library->Network Shares” menu.
- NFS Shortcut replaced by Network Shares
- NFS Client option also remover from Xtreamer Web UI “Setup” menu
- To reload list of share folders press “1” key
- eTrayz can be auto searched and mounted from media library.
- Only one eTrayz device supported for auto mount now.
Estonian language support for OSD and subtitle.
- Subtitle font can be change from Setup->Playback->User Subtitle Font
- Font file should be in internal HDD(first partition) or USB HDD(first partition) in “user_font” folder.
- Subtitle can be turn on/off from “Setup->Playback->Subtitle Default”
- Factory default in “subtitle on”
- During movie playback, press subtitles button from remote control and select thickness
- Thickness option is next to size option.
- From “Setup->Playback->DVD AutoRun” on/off option can be selected
- From Xtreamer web UI .zip, .tar, .tar.bz2 type files can be unzipped
- Just click unzip icon located next to file name, select target dir and press “unzip” button
- So user can upload more than 10 files at a time as a zip file
- Select “File Manager->Archive” option and choose folder to make archive(tar)
- Folder can be downloaded at a time instead of downloading files one by one
- User can change their workgroup from Xtreamer Web UI “Setup->Workgroup/Hostname”
- Under this workgroup they will find their Xtreamer samba share
- Samba share name change from samba 3.0.23c to xtreamer’s hostname..
- Can be selected from “Setup->A/V->HDMI chroma Sub-sampling set”
- “Auto” option will auto select one of YCbCr422 and YCbCr 444.
- “On” means YCbCr 422 (if supported).
- If Xtreamer connect to DVI, output is RGB444
- Not display tag information and cover art.
- If this symptom found, Restore Default will be needed.
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Say hello to garibald75, our new global moderator…
… which of course means more work, more stress, more sleepless nights, more junk food and no girls! [thx for reading - mavvy]
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Second BETA release of v2.1
Today our betatesters group received a new beta of the v2.1 firmware. The release notes tell us nothing about the upcoming On2 VP6 license yet as mentioned in the official Xtreamer Chat before but the release has some other nice improvements. One of these being the DVD CSS license which gives you the ability now to play retail DVDs via an optical USB DVD drive/burner. Of course AutoRun and AudioCD is supported as well Shall I mention here yet that I heard an admin saying something about a planned Xtreamer Slim USB DVD Drive in the chat? Damn, this thought still keeps me from buying a nice Samsung SE-S084C which I wanted to have since the last 3 or 4 months. Back on topic… some other nice additions in the next fw release are the option to have your own font files used for subtitles and along with this, so long long long awaited feature to disable subtitles by default, STRIKE! If all goes well and no major new bugs are found, we can expect a last beta version to clean out small isues before the final v2.1 get’s released. Again, this release does not have a Jukebox yet but i’ll keep pushing. What’s new: Bugs fixed: Improvements: [thx for reading - mavvy]
a) Accessible from “Home->Network Shares” menu
b) Later it will be merged with “Medialibrary->NET” menu
c) Network shares searching time will be reduced later
d) Currently don’t supports password protected shares and wireless network, will support soon.
a) Font file should be in internal HDD(first partition) or UBS HDD(first partition) in “user_font” folder.
b) Font file name should be “font1.ttf”
c) Before changing font file please stop the playing moving
d) Multiple user’s font will be supported soon, currently supporting only one.
a) Subtitle can be turn on/off from “Setup->Playback->Subtitle Default”
b) Factory default in “subtitle on”
a) During movie playback, press subtitle button from remote control and select thickness
b) Thickness option is next to size option.
a) From “Setup->Playback->DVD AutoRun” on/off option can be selected
a) From Xtreamer web UI .zip, .tar, .tar.bz2 type files can be unzipped
b) Just click unzip icon located next to file name, select target dir and press “unzip” button
c) So user can upload more than 10 files at a time as a zip file
d) Select “File Manager->Archive” option and choose folder to make archive(tar)
e) Folder can be downloaded at a time instead of downloading files one by one
a) If this symptom found, Restore Default will be needed
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Xtreamer GPL source code released
All the developer people in the house… where are you? Grab yourself a copy of Xtreamer’s source code which has been released just now! Read and download here: If you are a developer, please don’t hesitate and send your application to MediaMan.
http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6993
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[UPDATE²] PayPal issues? Here is why…
Update²: PayPal has been disabled Read the official statement here.
PayPal decided to change their policy for fees. Given that the Xtreamer is selling already at a very low price to the customers, this means less turnover so Xtreamer.net is now in negotiation with Paypal to find a solution. Any rumours about a PayPal ban due to whatever reasons… is pure nonsense.
Transactions via PayPal will be available in a few days. Please use other payment methods for the meantime if applicable.
[thx for reading - mavvy]
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[UPDATE] eTRAYz – more first impressions
Update: more can be found here (thanks to Valek): [thx for reading - mavvy]
http://forum.xtreamer.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6719
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