Gateway Connected DVD Player

I just bought a Gateway Connected DVD Player. I bought the Ethernet
version btw.

The problem is the Gateway Server Software, filters out my Divx files.
I have the latest version. I have encoded a couple of movies using
Flask and Divx Codecs 4.0 and 5.0. Neither attemps would work. I also
downloaded a movie and the server software filtered it out also.

Does anyone have any ideas? I have a bunch of mpeg1 files, which work
fine, btw.

(Smith) wrote in message om...
I just bought a Gateway Connected DVD Player. I bought the Ethernet
version btw.

The problem is the Gateway Server Software, filters out my Divx files.
I have the latest version. I have encoded a couple of movies using
Flask and Divx Codecs 4.0 and 5.0. Neither attemps would work. I also
downloaded a movie and the server software filtered it out also.

Does anyone have any ideas? I have a bunch of mpeg1 files, which work
fine, btw.

Supposedly it now supports MPEG-4 (DivX) - Gateway lists it under
"Highlights" but not under "Specification" or in the product manual.
Have you tried the latest DivX version (5.1.1 I believe)?
Please post your resolution as I am very much interested in this
player as well. How do you like its other features (e.g. display of
pics - can you rotate a pic from the remote?), video playback of
commercial DVDs, etc.?

Frank

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(Smith) wrote in message om...
I just bought a Gateway Connected DVD Player. I bought the Ethernet
version btw.

The problem is the Gateway Server Software, filters out my Divx files.
I have the latest version. I have encoded a couple of movies using
Flask and Divx Codecs 4.0 and 5.0. Neither attemps would work. I also
downloaded a movie and the server software filtered it out also.

Does anyone have any ideas? I have a bunch of mpeg1 files, which work
fine, btw.

Supposedly it now supports MPEG-4 (DivX) - Gateway lists it under
"Highlights" but not under "Specification" or in the product manual.
Have you tried the latest DivX version (5.1.1 I believe)?
Please post your resolution as I am very much interested in this
player as well. How do you like its other features (e.g. display of
pics - can you rotate a pic from the remote?), video playback of
commercial DVDs, etc.?

Frank


I bought the Ethernet version, because I was afraid of the wireless
connection breaking up. I have to say overall I really like the
player. I ripped some DVD's into VCD's and the playback is fine, no
problems. I have not tried SVCD, but I have tried DivX version 5.1 and
4.0. After I created them, the server software (that comes with the
player) will not recognize it the DivX files. I will try version 3.11
as I believe that was a pretty popular codec. If that doesn't work,
I'll have to call Gateway and find out what's going on.

Pictures look fine for being displayed on the TV, however I don't know
if you can rotate them, I haven't tried. Music is great because I just
lie on my couch and can listen to all my 3000 mp3 files. However you
need to have good ID tags on the files. Under the Artist directory I
have several of the same artists because of slightly different
spelling. So I'll have to go through the ID tags and clean them up.

Overall it's a great player. I also have a ATI Wondercard which I
wanted to do soemthing similar to years ago. The Gateway puts that to
shame.

If I can get it to play DivX files, I'll be a real happy camper.

(Smith) wrote in message om...
I just bought a Gateway Connected DVD Player. I bought the Ethernet
version btw.

The problem is the Gateway Server Software, filters out my Divx files.
I have the latest version. I have encoded a couple of movies using
Flask and Divx Codecs 4.0 and 5.0. Neither attemps would work. I also
downloaded a movie and the server software filtered it out also.

Does anyone have any ideas? I have a bunch of mpeg1 files, which work
fine, btw.

There is a problem with the Digital5 server software. When trying to
play back MPEG2 files created with a Leaktek Winfast XP2000 capture
card, it incorrectly identifies the bit rate, and the server won't
allow you to select them from the DVD player menu.

If you have Microsoft Access (or other DB software that will read Access
files), then you can manually edit the bit rate in the DB tables (find the file
called D5StreamingServerDB in the program directory on your PC) and trick it
into using the correct bit rate.