[MattBur]

Hello,

New to this forum so I hope you can help....

I just bought a Hisense MP800H and it looks very nice etc, but I can't get it to play videos over my network from a hard drive attached to my PC.

I've bought the Hisense to replace my Freecom box which played music/video fine over the network, from the hard drive I have plugged into my PC which is allocated to Media files, so I know it can be done, but the Hisense will not do it.

Strangely, it can find and play music files but will not see or play any video files.

Also, it will not find its IP address automatically and just says "DCHP not ready!", so I have to get the IP address from my router and input it manually into the box.

The poorly-translted-from-Chinese instructions say to use the "Network Neighborhood" function but it does not say how to find this function, and having been through every menu and setting and options over and over again, I can't see any mention of that anywhere!

The Network tab in the Settings only has an option to set the IP address automatically (which fails), or manually.

Can anyone help please?? I'm disappointed that everything seems to be so badly made and designed these days in terms of functionality and GUI etc....


Thanks

Matt

[Chris Frost]

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Originally Posted by MattBur

I'm disappointed that everything seems to be so badly made and designed these days in terms of functionality and GUI etc....

You're talking about a media player with support for Full HD 1080P, video streams in MPEG1, MPEG-2 up to 1080P, MPEG-4 (720P/1080i/1080P), Xvid, H.264 up to 1080P, WMV9/VC-1 up to 1080P, RealNetworks (RM/RMVB)8/9/10 up to 1920*720(720P), Flash Video, Audio in MPEG-1 Layers I,II and III and MPEG-2, LPCM, ADPCM, FLAC, AAC, WAV and OGG Vorbis. It handles DTS HD Master Audio, LBR, Dolby digital Plus, TrueHD, RA1/RA-cook/RA-lossless WMA/WMA Pro. Not to mention still image support in all the popular file formats, and it can work with both FAT / NTFC formatted USB hard drives. It has HDMI out, Component, analogue audio and digital audio outputs....

...all of this wrapped up in a package about the size of a paperback novel and sold for under £75! I think that's incredible value.


...and yet you're not happy with the functionality or GUI design??????


Have you had a look at the thread over on AV Forums?

[MattBur]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Frost

You're talking about a media player with support for Full HD 1080P, video streams in MPEG1, MPEG-2 up to 1080P, MPEG-4 (720P/1080i/1080P), Xvid, H.264 up to 1080P, WMV9/VC-1 up to 1080P, RealNetworks (RM/RMVB)8/9/10 up to 1920*720(720P), Flash Video, Audio in MPEG-1 Layers I,II and III and MPEG-2, LPCM, ADPCM, FLAC, AAC, WAV and OGG Vorbis. It handles DTS HD Master Audio, LBR, Dolby digital Plus, TrueHD, RA1/RA-cook/RA-lossless WMA/WMA Pro. Not to mention still image support in all the popular file formats, and it can work with both FAT / NTFC formatted USB hard drives. It has HDMI out, Component, analogue audio and digital audio outputs....

...all of this wrapped up in a package about the size of a paperback novel and sold for under £75! I think that's incredible value.


...and yet you're not happy with the functionality or GUI design??????


Have you had a look at the thread over on AV Forums?

Hi Chris - thanks for the reply.

Wow, that thing sounds great. And it would be great if mine actually did any of that!

Perhaps you can enlighten me as to why it doesn't work then?

[RobAnt]

Presumably this is connected to your PC via a network cable?

Or is it connected via a USB cable?

Have you shared the directory containing the video files?

[MattBur]

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Originally Posted by RobAnt

Presumably this is connected to your PC via a network cable?

Or is it connected via a USB cable?

Have you shared the directory containing the video files?

Yes, it's via ethernet. As I say, the old Freecom box saw all the hard drives connected to the PC fine abd played the files ok (it just doesn't do HD, which is why we have replaced it with the Hisense...).

I fiddled with it a lot last night though and think I may have cracked it... It seems it needs to see the PC's media library in order to see any media files, and whilst the music was in that library, movies and TV files were not, so I added them and the Hisense sees them now, using the UPNP option on the box.

Occasionally it will see all the hard drives connected to the PC, using the "Net" option but it always wants a login name and password which it doesn't remember after having been switched off and on again, so that's not really a goer....

Very fiddly and rubbish UI but hopefully it can actually be used now.....