Aldi DVIX player from monday

dadsarmy · 22-07-2005 11:43PM

Picked up one of these today but when I tried it out none of the front panel buttons worked, it worked fine with the remote and played anything i put in it divx, xvid dvd etc no problem. after a while the picture started flickering and jumping, so I returned it but there were none left to exchange for so I just got my money back. Also there is a symbol on the back that says it is region 2 I didn't have a region 1 dvd to try so can't confirm if it is indeed multi region.
Anyone know if there are any left in any of the stores I wouldn't mind getting one that works properly.

Deesy · 22-07-2005 11:52PM

GoodForNothing wrote:

I've spent the morning looking for a Tevion site with manuals/firmware downloads and can't find anything. Why is that? What's the relationship between Medion and Tevion?

Anyhoo, has anyone confirmed whether it's multi region or not? Anyone find a firmware for it?

It is multiregional. I've checked it on DVD R5. Found if you open tray and type "8888" it will show region code 9, which is multizone. You can select any other zone.
Didn't find anything about firmware. Have an idea to call service center and ask on some bug which found in dvd player and try to get any FW updates.

Also have some bad news and some good news. Will start from bad. http://www.dvdboard.de/forum/showthread.php?threadid=87582
now is good. have few disk wich has a problem on lidl's player on MTK on both movies picture was not smooth and on one is completelly hangs but sound is good. All disk play ok on this player.

Also downloaded divx test cd with different divx. will test player and tell you.

GoodForNothing · 23-07-2005 06:32PM

Deesy wrote:

It is multiregional. I've checked it on DVD R5. Found if you open tray and type "8888" it will show region code 9, which is multizone. You can select any other zone.
Didn't find anything about firmware. Have an idea to call service center and ask on some bug which found in dvd player and try to get any FW updates.

Also have some bad news and some good news. Will start from bad. http://www.dvdboard.de/forum/showthread.php?threadid=87582
now is good. have few disk wich has a problem on lidl's player on MTK on both movies picture was not smooth and on one is completelly hangs but sound is good. All disk play ok on this player.

Also downloaded divx test cd with different divx. will test player and tell you.

Thanks for that info Deesy. Much appreciated.

deesycom · 23-07-2005 06:50PM

GoodForNothing wrote:

Thanks for that info Deesy. Much appreciated.

More than welcome.
I have some problems with this player. I does not play sound on quite few divx movies. Have some movies where whole movie does not play. No video (divx5, hangs). no audio (mp3, 48khz).
What is a "unconditional refund period" in aldi? Will try to contact customer support on monday and will return it if no luck.

HOB-it · 23-07-2005 08:25PM

lensman wrote:

the firmware here sorts out
the packed bit stream problem

read the site and i think this firmware update disables the card reader. so think ill wait for the full version to come out. maybe that FW update will support the card reader - but great to see the bitstream prob sorted out. this player seems to be the divx player of choice for all the tweakers/modders/developers on the go at the mo. great to see such a good support for the player. it'll be making the tea next

dublinguy05 · 23-07-2005 08:38PM

ff

chump · 24-07-2005 01:03PM

lads about that silvercrest firmware upgrade, know any way to make it work using a dvd disc and not a cd-r/rw ?

I'm all out of cd's, just dvd's left

lensman · 24-07-2005 01:25PM

chump wrote:

lads about that silvercrest firmware upgrade, know any way to make it work using a dvd disc and not a cd-r/rw ?

I'm all out of cd's, just dvd's left

have you tried a failed with a dvd ?

chump · 24-07-2005 04:06PM

course

heggie · 25-07-2005 10:11AM

anywhere have any of these left?

Deesy · 25-07-2005 10:19AM

heggie wrote:

anywhere have any of these left?

I'm gonna back my. In Dublin.

Anyone can tell me a customer support number? Want to call them ask about firmware.

degsie · 25-07-2005 03:08PM

Isn't there a pnone no on the front of the box???

heggie · 25-07-2005 04:11PM

ah come on! anywhere at all have any?

HOB-it · 25-07-2005 04:16PM

heggie wrote:

ah come on! anywhere at all have any?

dunno if theres any left in athlone but if youve no joy finding one - lidl doing one on 28th. its 99 yo yos but its basically the very same as the one we mentioned elearier - the silvercrest one - with the card reader - only its a slimed down version - nice neat little thing thats a little bigger than a discman.

www.lidl.ie

lensman · 25-07-2005 05:06PM

more links for the full size Lidl dvd/divx player here .
different people seem to been writing firmware for the silvercrest
player,.......... take you pick

paulj13 · 27-07-2005 12:06AM

This player (aldi one as this thread had got a little off the aldi topic of late) does play xvid but I finding very jumpy. Also, in certain cases, the player will jump ahead to the next xvid on the disk for no reason. Has anyone figured out what player this originally is and if there is a fireware fix for it (the adli one NOT the Lidi one)

Cheers

Deesy · 27-07-2005 09:40AM

paulj13 wrote:

This player (aldi one as this thread had got a little off the aldi topic of late) does play xvid but I finding very jumpy. Also, in certain cases, the player will jump ahead to the next xvid on the disk for no reason. Has anyone figured out what player this originally is and if there is a fireware fix for it (the adli one NOT the Lidi one)

Cheers

call service center (phone number provided in leaflet). Did not find any firmware (read all tread about this).

mickey_t · 02-08-2005 05:55PM

Hi I bought this dvd player, it plays some divxs fine, then others there is either no sound or it says cannot play file - do I have to re-encode the file or is there any way to solve this??

degsie · 02-08-2005 07:45PM

mickey_t wrote:

Hi I bought this dvd player, it plays some divxs fine, then others there is either no sound or it says cannot play file - do I have to re-encode the file or is there any way to solve this??

You could try a proggie called 'mpeg4 modifier' to see if this will fix the broken files. Also there is a program called gspot which will identify what codecs are required to play back divx/xvid files, perhaps some of these are not supported by the player.

Aldi DVIX player from monday

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