Emtec Movie Cube S700H, User Manual

Page 1: ...Home Multimedia Center Movie Cube S700H S800H User s Manual Version 1 0 2 ...

Page 2: ...u 20 3 2Music Playback 30 3 3 Photo Playback 32 3 4 Movie Playback 33 3 5 All Files 35 3 6 Net Service 35 3 7Help Function 36 3 8DTV Menu S800H 37 4 Web Server BitTorrent 43 4 1 Web Server unicgi 43 4 2 Account Management 43 4 3 Visit Neighbor samba 44 4 4 BitTorrent Download btpd 44 5 Media Library 48 6 Upgrading the Firmware 50 7 Appendixes 50 7 1Specifications 50 7 2 Frequently Asked Questions ...

Page 3: ... electronic devices will get radio interference Under some conditions your player might get interference The design of this player has followed the FCC CE standard and has followed the following rules 1 This player may not cause harmful interference 2 This player could accept some interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation 1 1 4 Repair If the player has a probl...

Page 4: ...uid if water is accidentally spilled on the player please use a dry cloth to absorb the spillage Electronic products are vulnerable when using please avoid shaking or hitting the player and do not press the buttons too hard Do not let the player come into contact with water or other liquid Do not disassemble the player repair the player or change the design of the player any damage done will not b...

Page 5: ...onal File sharing via Samba server A V streaming via UPnP Media Server BitTorrent download controlled and managed via web server Internet Radio USB 2 0 Support USB DEVICE port for computer connection USB HOST port x 2 for USB storage devices Navigation Options Include Search search by genre album date folder recent playlist and artist Media Library lets you view all your media files in one menu re...

Page 6: ... are always updating and improving the product your device s software may have a slightly different appearance or modified functionality than presented in this manual 2 2 Package Contents Part Quantity Player 1 A V cable 1 YUV cable 1 USB cable 1 Remote Control 1 AC DC adaptor 1 Power cord User Manual 1 Quick Installation Guide 1 CD with User Manual 1 Warranty Card 1 SCART out adapter 1 Note The a...

Page 7: ...k MP3 USB HDD etc Connection 1 Make sure the player is powered on 2 Plug in the USB stick or USB HDD etc to one of the USB host ports of this player Removing a USB Device In order to prevent data loss it is highly recommended you press EJECT button on the remote control before remove a USB device To remove a USB Device 1 Press EJECT button on the remote control 2 Select the USB device you want to ...

Page 8: ...V Set Top Box 2 3 3 2 A V OUT 1 Follow the picture and plug in the 3 color connector to the player s A V OUT jack 2 Follow the picture and plug in the 3 color connector to the TV s A V IN jack In this way you can enjoy the content in the player on TV or other display devices 2 3 3 3 SCART OUT 1 Follow the picture and plug one connector on the SCART cable to the player s SCART socket 2 Follow the p...

Page 9: ...g Y Pb Pr Video out First method use the audio output from the A V OUT jack Second method use the audio output from the S PDIF Coaxial or Optical jack In this way you can also enjoy videos music and photos in the player on TV 2 3 3 5 HDMI OUT 1 Follow the picture and plug one connector on your HDMI cable to the player s HDMI jack 2 Follow the picture and plug the other connector on your HDMI cable...

Page 10: ...re and plug a TV Aerial or analog TV cable to the ANT RF IN socket 2 3 3 7 ANT RF OUT S800H 1 Make sure the player is connecting to power supply 2 Make sure a TV Aerial is connecting to the ANT RF IN socket 3 Follow the picture and plug a TV cable to the ANT RF OUT socket then plug the cable to a TV or other TV receiver ...

Page 11: ...the player s S PDIF Coaxial jack Or if you use optical fiber please plug in the Toslink connector on your optical fiber to the player s S PDIF Optical jack not supplied 2 Follow the picture and plug in the other connector on your coaxial cable or optical fiber to the digital audio device not supplied 2 3 5 Power connection 1 Follow the picture and connect the AC adaptor to the player s DC IN jack ...

Page 12: ...onnect one of the crystal plugs on the cable to the player s RJ45 LAN socket 2 Connect the other crystal plug on the cable to a RJ45 LAN port on your router switch or hub devices 2 3 7 WLAN connection 1 Make sure the player is powered on 2 Plug the Wireless LAN USB Adapter i e Wi Fi USB Dongle to the USB HOST port of the player ...

Page 13: ...2 4 Front Panel 1 LCD screen 2 Infrared receiver window 3 Indicator 4 POWER STANDBY button ...

Page 14: ...L jack 6 HDMI jack 7 Y Pb Pr OUT jack 8 A V OUT jack 9 AV IN jack 10 DC IN jack 11 ANT RF IN and OUT socket S800H 2 6 Menu Language The system language of this player can be set to English or other languages Change the language you wish in the setup menu the selected language will take effect immediately ...

Page 15: ...stem HDD Format menu Step 2 Press the up down button to adjust the capacity of time shift buffer Press the left right button to select Next and the enter button to confirm Step 3 Select Format press ENTER and then hard disk format will start The formatting procedure will be finished within a few minutes And then you can use the hard disk properly on the player Note HDD format will remove all data ...

Page 16: ...LOW 30 NEXT 31 PREV 32 STOP 33 EJECT 34 VOL 35 RIGHT 36 RETURN 37 AUDIO 38 ZOOM 39 40 TV SYS 41 POWER No Button Function 1 MUTE Press to mute audio output and press again to resume 2 OPTION Press to add the file to Playlist and press to display or hide the information bar during playback 3 SETUP Press to enter the setup menu 4 INFO Press to display current status Press during playback and an onscr...

Page 17: ...n to confirm 10 DOWN Navigational button Press the arrow buttons to select menu options 11 VOL Press to decrease the volume 12 Numeric buttons Press to enter channel numbers or numeric input when changing settings 13 HELP Help Button Press to get information guide 14 PAUSE Press to pause the current playback Press again to step to the next frame 15 PLAY Press to begin playback 16 FR Press to fast ...

Page 18: ...OSD if it is available in the broadcasted stream of Digital Terrestrial TV 25 BLUE Press to activate sort function in channel set in TV setup menu 26 REPEAT Press to set repeat option 27 SELECT Press to select files in browser and file copy menu 28 SUBTITLE Press to set subtitle options You can change the color size offset text encoding of subtitle 29 SLOW Press to play back in slow motion Press t...

Page 19: ...and 1080P 41 POWER Press to enter standby mode or wake up ...

Page 20: ...nine Setup options including TV Audio Video Photo REC Network System MISC and Media Library Use the UP DOWN navigational buttons to select a menu Press ENTER to confirm Press RETURN to cancel and display the previous menu screen 3 1 1 Changing DVB T TV settings S800H TV Region Select to set the region for Digital Terrestrial TV Press the up down button to select and the enter button to confirm Cha...

Page 21: ...ly scan for available DVB T TV channels MANUAL SCAN In MANUAL SCAN mode you can select the CH name Bandwidth and Input Frequency Use the navigational and numerical buttons on the remote control to select or input Press the enter button to confirm Channel Set Select to edit channel information Press the up down button to select DVB T and press the enter button ...

Page 22: ...o confirm 3 1 2 Changing Audio Settings Use this menu to configure audio settings Night Mode Choose between Off On Comfort If the option is turned on the audio output volume will be decreased to make you more comfortable Digital Output Select to set Digital Output S PDIF mode Note In raw mode Dolby Digital DTS or MPEG sound can be bypassed to the HDMI TV or Digital amplifier ...

Page 23: ... a standard 4 3 TV is connected 16 9 Compress the image to convert the whole image Select when a 16 9 TV is connected Brightness Adjust the level of brightness Contrast Adjust the level of contrast TV SYSTEM Select to adjust TV Type and video output resolution This setting depends on your regional location Include NTSC United States Canada Japan Mexico the Philippines South Korea and Taiwan PAL Eu...

Page 24: ...fect Select to set the transition effect for photo slide show Background Music Select to set the background music options while view pictures 3 1 5 Changing REC settings Quality Select the recording quality Choose from HQ SLP EP LP and SP Permanent Timeshift Select to set Time Shift mode If On the time shift will start automatically while in Video In mode ...

Page 25: ...ings Wired LAN Setup DHCP IP AUTO Select to obtain IP address automatically FIX IP MANUAL Select to manually input the IP Address Subnet Mask Default Gateway and DNS Server IP Address Wireless Setup Selecting a connection profile This player can store up to three wireless network connections Press ENTER to go to next step press RETURN to cancel and press PLAY to connect ...

Page 26: ...s also known as wireless clients to an existing wired network with the help from wireless router or access point Get SSID Name Press ENTER to go to next step press RETURN to cancel and press OPTION to refresh the SSID list Note In the Security list WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy and WPA Wi Fi Protected Access means the network is encrypted i e an encryption key is needed to access the network NONE m...

Page 27: ...s available and OK to confirm Test connection The testing process will take for a while please be patient to wait If the test is ok the network information Profile Name IP address Subnet Mask Gateway etc will be displayed on the screen Peer to Peer Ad Hoc Peer to Peer mode which is also called Ad Hoc mode or computer to computer mode is used to connect wireless clients directly together without th...

Page 28: ...he text encoding option subtitle display Login Control Select to turn on off password protect for the Web server Neighbor Web Note 1 The default user name is admin and the default password is 123 2 When it is turned off and then turned on again the password will be restored to default BT and SAMBA Select on off to control the BitTorrent samba and Web server services System Info This tab gives you ...

Page 29: ... be reserved System Reinstall Select to reinstall the firmware completely All settings will be lost Time Select to set the system time Parental Control Select to set the TV parental control options A password will be needed for the modification The default one is 0000 Press the numerical buttons to input and the enter button to confirm HDD Format Select to format the HDD Restore Default Select to ...

Page 30: ...al mode from USB HDD Off When you set off mode system will turn off media library and won t scan media library Auto When you set auto mode system will update media library after you turn on the player Manual When you set manual mode you need enter into Update Media library and select update by manual Note System only scan the folders what you have selected System default to scan all of the folders...

Page 31: ...wind or fast forward Press repeatedly to select the speed PREV NEXT View the previous or next movie SEARCH Search for a music file OPTION Hide or display the Music toolbar during playback VOL Increase Decrease the volume 3 2 2 Music Playback Options During music playback press OPTION button The music toolbar opens at the bottom of the screen The music toolbar has several command icons to customize...

Page 32: ...der will be displayed This player supports JPG JPEG BMP files You can navigate using a filter option Date Folder Recent or All photo by selecting the photo icon and using UP and DOWN button to scroll through the options listed 3 3 1 Photo Playback Control Button Function PREV NEXT View the previous or next photo LEFT RIGHT Rotate a photo in any angle OPTION Hide or display the Photo toolbar during...

Page 33: ...ck Search You can search for a media file by filter current folder to locate the specific media file Press SEARCH button while browsing photo files in the photo library 3 4 Movie Playback Enter into movie interface only supported image files and folder will be displayed This player supports AVI MKV MOV MPG files You can navigate using a filter option Date Folder Recent Playlist or All movies by se...

Page 34: ...ION Hide or display the Movie toolbar during playback STOP Stop playback VOL Press to increase decrease the volume 3 4 2 Movie Playback Options During movie playback press OPTION button The photo toolbar opens at the bottom of the screen The movie toolbar has several command icons to customize the way you play photo The functions from left to right are zoom in zoom out repeat subtitle info audio d...

Page 35: ...owsing movie files in the movie library 3 5 All Files The all files allows you to browse and play music photo and movie files stored on an internal HDD external USB device and Network 3 6 Net Service This player integrates the SHOUTcast free Internet radio function Select the Net Service icon and press UP DOWN to enter into internet radio ...

Page 36: ...UP DOWN Move cursor up down to select station channel and genre PREV NEXT Page up down ENTER Confirm and enter the selected menu OPTION Add delete a station to from Favorite while it is highlighted PLAY Begin playback after a channel has been selected STOP Stop playback RETURN Return to the previous menu Station All downloaded stations will be listed under this menu Genre You can search for statio...

Page 37: ...nction OK Press to view the program list menu up down Press to switch channels Channels cannot be switched in the recording mode numeric buttons Press to input channel numbers Press the enter button to confirm record Press to start recording the current TV program time shift Press to activate the time shift function subtitle Press to activate the subtitle list menu if available green Press to acti...

Page 38: ...bar will be displayed to show the channel information There re 4 strings displayed on the bar Taking the info bar in the above photo for example N A Stands for TV rating ENG Stands for the voice language SS Stands for subtitle TT Stands for Teletext 480 Stands for resolution SD Standard Definition HD High Definition When the string looks concave the option will be available Electronic Programming ...

Page 39: ...button to add delete scheduled recording Teletext Menu If the broadcasted stream supports Teletext press the TTX button to enter the Teletext menu Press the navigational and numeric buttons to view the content in the Teletext menu Subtitle List Menu Press the subtitle button when watching DVB T TV programs the Subtitle List menu will be displayed ...

Page 40: ... the enter button The schedule setting screen appears Use the left right button on the remote control to move between fields and press the up down button to adjust each setting Source Select the video source or TV channels for the recording Start Time Enter the date and time of the recording Length Enter the length of the recording Repeat Select how often you want the schedule to record Choose fro...

Page 41: ...e Schedule Press the left right button on the remote control to select the Delete tab from the menu bar Select the schedule you want to delete and press the enter button A confirmation message appears Select CANCEL Delete the selected schedule or Delete all schedules Press the enter button to confirm Viewing Schedule Status Press the left right button on the remote control to select the Status tab...

Page 42: ...e the selected schedule Press the enter button to confirm Viewing Recording History Press the left right button on the remote control to select the History tab from the menu bar Here you can view a complete history of all recordings that were set ...

Page 43: ...ETUP NETWORK menu Type the IP address e g 192 168 3 15 in the address bar of Internet Explore on your PC Then you can access the Web server on your PC Note Please refer to Extension Info in chapter 3 1 7 Changing System Settings and make sure all related packages btpd samba and unicgi are installed and run properly in advance 4 2 Account Management Click Account Management on the home page of Neig...

Page 44: ...age of Neighbor Web Then you will be able to browse edit and copy files to from the local HDD of the player 4 4 BitTorrent Download btpd BitTorrent is a peer to peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data on the Internet A BitTorrent utility btpd BitTorrent Protocol Daemon has been integrated into the player Please refer to Extension Info in chapter 3 1 7 Changing System...

Page 45: ...t Download page Click Browse to upload a torrent file and click Yes to confirm 4 4 2 Managing the downloads The BitTorrent Download page also allows you to start stop delete torrents and set priorities for torrents as well as view the status of current torrents ...

Page 46: ...t status Click Down arrow to decrease the priority for the selected torrent Click Up arrow to increase the priority for the selected torrent 4 4 3 Settings Click Setting on the BitTorrent Download page to enter the BitTorrent Setting page In the BitTorrent Setting page you can configure the following settings Set the maximum download rate ...

Page 47: ...imum upload rate Set the idle hours to start the next download automatically Set the seeding hours Set to delete the finished torrent files automatically or not Set the maximum number of simultaneous download tasks ...

Page 48: ...n or modified date Folder Select to search for music files in file folder Recent Select to search for music files that have been played recently Music Playlist Select to search for music files by playlist All Photo Select to list all the photo files in the library Date Select to search for photo files by creation or modified date Folder Select to search for photo files in file folder Recent Select...

Page 49: ...Recent Select to search for movie files that have been played recently Playlist Select to search for movie files by playlist ...

Page 50: ... HOST port x 2 compatible to USB 1 1 USB Device port Composite CVBS A V jack AV IN jack Component Y Pb Pr jack SCART TV socket HDMI V1 3 interface S PDIF optical jack ANT RF IN and OUT socket S800H DC IN 12V FILE SYSTEM SUPPORTED FAT32 NTFS CONTENT FORMATS SUPPORTED AVI MKV TS MPG MP4 MOV VOB ISO IFO DAT WMV RM RMVB resolution up to 720p 1080i 1080p MP3 OGG WMA WAV FLAC HD JPEG BMP VIDEO CODECS SU...

Page 51: ...not work you should shut down the player and disconnect the USB cable Question 2 I find new file names and folder names that I never created before or they have strange gibberish names Answer Most likely the player s file allocation table FAT has been corrupted This might be due to the player shutting down due to low battery power while reading or writing to your computer by the USB connection Win...

Page 52: ...support please use the A V signal display instead press the TV SYSYEM button on the remote control then switch the TV s video input to NTSC or PAL Question 7 Why is there no sound on movie or music playback when using Y Pb Pr component output Answer Y Pb Pr output is a video output only and does not include sound signals When using Y Pb Pr output please plug the A V OUT or the S PDIF jack to outpu...

Page 53: ...layer then enable it again when done Question 11 I am using the 802 11n Wi Fi dongle with an 802 11n wireless router why the speed is still 802 11g 54Mbps rather than 300Mbps Answer The IEEE 802 11n Draft standard prohibits using high throughput with WEP or TKIP as the unicast cipher If you use these encryption methods e g WEP WPA TKIP your data rate will drop to 54 Mbps You may contact the Access...

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