Fantec Hub Box, Manual

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Page 2: ...up Menu 13 3 Main Functions 22 3 1 Smart TV Portal 22 3 2 Movie Library 24 3 3 Photo Library 26 3 4 Music Library 28 3 5 File Manager 29 3 6 Playlist Management 34 3 7 Copy und Delete Function 36 3 8 SAMBA Server and Client 38 3 9 BitTorrent Download 39 4 Upgrading the Firmware 41 5 Appendixes 42 6 Frequently Asked Questions 44 7 Copyrights and Trademarks 46 8 Warranty 46 9 GPL Statement 47 ...

Page 3: ...imized for presentation on every TV Movie Playback Movie format AVI VOB MKV MOV MP4 MPG TS WMV DAT IFO RM RMVB ISO DVD BluRay AVCHD MTS M2TS M4V ASF FLV XviD DivX 3 4 5 DVD menu playback H 264 resolution up to 720p 1080i 1080p Supports major audio formats 1080p HD video decoding Fast forward rewind View subtitle Subtitle control color offset size Unicode UTF8 BIG5 Traditional Chinese Western Turki...

Page 4: ...s in most easy ways File Copy Supports copying moving files among USB storage devices memory cards and Network USB 2 0 Support USB HOST port x 2 for USB storage devices for connection of an USB DVD drive an USB Y cable is recommended 1 x SD SDHC MMC Card Reader Note All the information contained in this manual was correct at the time of publication However as our engineers are always updating and ...

Page 5: ... player s power jack When placing the adapter cable make sure it cannot get damaged or be subject to pressure To reduce the risk of electric shock unplug the adapter first before cleaning it Never connect the adapter to the player in a humid or dusty area Do not replace the adapter or cable s wire or connector 1 3 3 Radio Interference If not properly shielded almost all electronic devices will get...

Page 6: ...erable 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 be included in the repair policy Do not press the buttons of the player too hard Avoid hitting the player with hard object avo...

Page 7: ... 1 Make sure the player is powered on 2 Plug in the USB stick USB DVD or USB HDD etc to the USB HOST port of this player In this way you can browse contents on the USB device 1 4 3 Connecting a Memory Card Memory card can be used by inserting to the card slot 1 Follow the picture to insert the memory card to the card slot properly 2 Insert the card by following the arrow pointer in the picture In ...

Page 8: ...N jack In this way you can enjoy the content in the player on TV or other display devices 1 4 4 2 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 to the TV s HDMI jack Note The HDMI cable is an optional accessory sold separately In this way you can have the highest quality video a...

Page 9: ...this way you can enjoy powerful Dolby Digital Dolby Digital Plus Dolby TrueHD DTS or MPEG sound DTS HD sound is transferred via HDMI cable and an amplifier with HDMI interface is needed Please refer to 2 1 2 Changing Audio Settings for configuration 1 4 6 Connecting to a network To connect to a LAN Local Area Network you require a cat5 cat5e or cat6 network cable not supplied 1 Connect one of the ...

Page 10: ...r Note The Wi Fi Dongle is an optional accessory sold separately Please refer to 2 1 4 Changing Network Settings for more details about wireless setup 1 5 View Front 1 Power LED 2 Power 3 Play 4 Up 5 Down 6 Left 7 Right 8 Return Exit 9 Enter OK 10 Card Reader 11 USB 2 0 HOST port Rear Panel 1 S PDIF Optical audio jack 2 A V OUT jack 3 RJ45 LAN socket 4 HDMI jack 5 USB 2 0 HOST port 6 DC IN jack ...

Page 11: ...wing for details on each button and its function 1 Power 2 GOTO 3 FR 4 Play 5 Pause 6 Portal 7 Navigational buttons 8 OK 9 Return 10 Vol 11 Guide 12 Vol 13 Option 14 Numeric block 15 Audio 16 Space 17 RED button 18 YELOW button 19 Zoom 20 TV System 21 Mute 22 FF 23 Stop 24 Back 25 Info 26 Prev 27 Next 28 Subtitle 29 GREEN button 30 BLUE button 31 Repeat 32 Setup ...

Page 12: ...characters 15 Audio Press to select an audio track 16 Space Press to enter numerical input 0 or space character 17 Red Press to open network option 18 Yellow Reserved button No function has been assigned to it yet 19 Zoom Press to zoom the image photo or video 20 TV SYS Press to switch between NTSC PAL 480P 576P 720P 1080I and 1080P 21 Mute Press to mute audio output and press again to resume 22 F...

Page 13: ...MISC Use the UP DOWN navigational buttons to select a menu Press OK to confirm Press Back to cancel and display the previous menu screen 2 1 1 Changing System Settings Use this menu to configure system settings Menu Language Select to choose the OSD On Screen Display language ENGLISH GERMAN FRENCH SPANISH ITALIAN DUTCH SLOVENIAN CZECH SLOVAK TURKISH GREEK RUSSIAN POLISH CHINESE BULGARIAN VIETNAMES...

Page 14: ...l media controller DMC which will find content from a digital media server DMS Mini KBD Language Select to change the language of the mini keyboard Resume Play Select to turn on off resume playback auto bookmarking feature for movies BD Menu Select to enable disable BluRay disk menu Auto Standby Select to enable disable auto power off after 2 hours without any command CEC One Touch Play Select to ...

Page 15: ... on the audio output volume will be decreased to make you more comfortable HDMI Output Choose among LPCM RAW and Auto SPDIF Output Choose among LPCM and RAW Note In RAW mode Dolby Digital Plus Dolby Digital and DTS sound can be by passed to the Digital amplifier Lip Sync Select to adjust the audio track to synchronise the lip movements of spoken words 2 1 3 Changing Video Settings Use this menu to...

Page 16: ...t TV Type and video output resolution This setting depends on your regional location Include NTSC PAL 480P 576P 720P 50HZ 720P 60HZ 1080I 50HZ 1080I 60HZ 1080P 50HZ 1080P 60HZ NTSC United States Canada Japan Mexico the Philippines South Korea and Taiwan PAL Europe Greenland parts of Africa and South America the Mideast China India Australia and Indonesia Video Zoom This item is to enable or disabl...

Page 17: ... DNS Server IP Address Wireless Setup There are 3 mode for you to select Infrastructure AP and Peer to Peer Ad Hoc and WPS AP mode Follow the prompting message on the screen and press Red button to choose Peer to Peer Ad Hoc or WPS AP mode This player can store up to three wireless network connections Press OK to connect press Back to cancel and press Zoom to modify the parameters of the connectio...

Page 18: ... OK to input encryption keys via the virtual keyboard Press the navigational buttons to select OK to input FF to move cursor left FR to move cursor right Zoom to switch between uppercase and lowercase Stop to delete a character Red to make more symbols available Green to change the language of the virtual keyboard OK to confirm and to start testing the connection The testing process will take for ...

Page 19: ... IP WPS AP WPS Wi Fi Protected Setup is used to connect a wireless router directly without searching SSID and inputting password In this mode you just need to configure the parameters of your router which support WPS function There are two modes for you to select PBC mode and PIN mode ...

Page 20: ...ill take for a while please be patient to wait PPPOE Setup Input the ADSL accountant and password in this menu system will obtain IP address automatically from the server based on PPPOE protocol Step 1 Select the connection interface wired or wireless Step 2 Press Right button to input your ADSL accountant Step 3 Press Right button to input your password and start to test the connection BT Process...

Page 21: ...t the firmware installed and about the material components of your player Network Info This tab shows you information about your network MAC Address IP address Gateway Subnet USB Upgrade Select to update the firmware via a USB stick Step 1 Copy install img or extension files to the root directory of an USB stick and connect it to an USB HOST port of the player Step 2 Press OK to confirm Key Tone V...

Page 22: ... open shortcuts by pressing the related numeric button Color button Use to open shortcuts by pressing the related color button Back Use to go back to the previous page stop playback or delete character you have typed in VOL Increase decrease the volume Mute Press to mute audio output and press again to resume Open Smart TV Choose Smart TV icon on the main menu or remote control to open the portal ...

Page 23: ... sort and press OK button to confirm then move the icon by navigational button to the target location and then press OK key again to finish moving To access the next page of the portal please press the arrow keys left and right of the APP window Step 2 After all of your favorite APPs are sorted press the Arrange icon again to save your sort order Note It s not possible to arrange the upper row bec...

Page 24: ...ck Search Choose the Search option in the option menu and you can search for a media file by filter to locate the specific media file View Mode Choose a view mode among Thumbnails List and Preview from option menu or go to a specified folder Filter Mode Choose to filter by All Movies Show DVDs or Flash Animation from option menu Show DVDs Choose to display DVD IFO BD MV and ISO files directly in m...

Page 25: ... track Subtitle Select a subtitle and change the color size offset text encoding of subtitle Repeat Set the repeat option Zoom Zoom in the image Info View the media information 3 2 3 Movie Playback Options During movie playback press Option button to display or hide the option menu at the bottom of the screen Next to audio track subtitle repeat mode you also can get following functions though the ...

Page 26: ...ton to display the option menu you can get following functions though the option menu Quick Search Choose the Search option in the option menu and you can search for a photo file by filter to locate the specific photo file View Mode Choose a view mode among Thumbnails List and Preview from option menu Filter Mode Choose to filter by Photo Directory Date view All Photos or Albums from option menu S...

Page 27: ... to display or hide the option menu at the bottom of the screen You can get following functions though the Option menu during photo playback Slideshow Control Select to choose the Interval Slide Timing and Transition effect Slide Transition of the slideshow Repeat Mode Choose a repeat mode among Repeat off Repeat all and Shuffle Loop from option menu Select Music Select to turn on off Background m...

Page 28: ...oose the Search option in the option menu and you can search for a photo by filter to locate the specific music View Mode Choose a view mode among Thumbnails List and Preview from option menu or go to a specified folder Filter options Choose Albums to search for music files by album Choose Artists to search for music files by artist Choose Genres to search for music files by genre Choose Years to ...

Page 29: ...se Decrease the volume Repeat Set the repeat option Shuffle Select the shuffle mode 3 4 3 Music Playback Options During music playback press Menu button to display or hide the option menu at the bottom of the screen You can get following functions though the Option menu during music playback Repeat Mode Choose a repeat mode among Repeat off Repeat one Repeat all and Shuffle Loop from option menu 3...

Page 30: ... Music to display all the supported audio files in the current directory 3 5 2 A V Streaming via Network You can stream your media files shared on the home network Please refer to 2 1 4 Changing Network Settings for more details on network settings There are two ways to locate media files shared on your local network in the Network menu One is to browse through workgroup the other way is to browse...

Page 31: ...he shared media files that you want to browse Note Due to different network conditions sometimes the workgroup might not be accessed or shown in the list And then you need to use My_Shortcuts to browse shared files 3 5 2 2 Browsing though My_Shortcuts You can also set Specific File Server IP and access it from My_Shortcuts in the menu Press the Red button and a popup menu appears Select Add to ope...

Page 32: ... Server on your PC There re a lot of free and commercial UPnP Media Server software such as Windows Media Connect Windows Media Player 11 XBMC Media Center Linux Mac Windows MediaTomb Linux etc Please install one of them on your computer In the following chapters we will take Windows Media Player 11 on Microsoft Windows XP SP2 for an example 3 5 3 2 Sharing Media on your PC The Media Sharing featu...

Page 33: ...work LAN or Wi Fi Visit File Manager UPnP menu on the player select the UPnP server and press OK Then you can browse the media library shared by Windows Media Player 11 Note Make sure your player and your computer are on the same local area network and subnet Firewalls may prevent your player to communicate with your computer Please open the ports manually and add your player to the trusted list o...

Page 34: ...laylist please press the Green button and name the playlist 3 6 2 Playback music playlist Enter the music library press Option button and choose Playlists to show your music playlists 3 6 3 Create album playlist To create an album playlist please enter the USB storage device via File Manger The press Green button on the remote control and select Multiple Select option In the file explorer you can ...

Page 35: ...FANTEC Smart TV ENGLISH 35 52 3 6 4 Playback Album playlist Enter the photo library press Option button and choose Albums to show your album playlists ...

Page 36: ... can navigate by Up Down Left Right Next Prev button and add or delete files to the File List by the Play button In order to switch between different folders please select the upper folder icon To start the copy procedure please press the Green button and select Copy Select the destination or create a new folder and then press Play button to finish the copy process Note If you want to copy a singl...

Page 37: ...t option In the file explorer you can navigate by Up Down Left Right Next Prev button and add or delete files to the File List by the Play button In order to switch between different folders please select the upper folder icon To start the Delete procedure please press the Green button and select Delete Note If you want to delete a single file just press Green button and then Delete to start the d...

Page 38: ...fer to 2 1 4 Changing Network Settings for more details and then type in IP Address or Host name in the Run window click Run in the start menu or in the address bar of Microsoft Internet Explorer If the IP address of the product is 192 168 0 9 please type in 192 168 0 9 and click OK or press the Enter button on the keyboard Under Windows Vista and Windows 7 please type in 192 168 0 9 at the search...

Page 39: ...T process in chapter 2 1 4 Network Settings for enable disable BT download function The BitTorrent client btpd is running in daemon a process running in the background mode and you can manipulate the process via the Web server Click BitTorrent Download on the home page of Neighbor Web then you will enter the BitTorrent Download page 3 9 1 Add new torrent Click Add new torrent on the BitTorrent Dow...

Page 40: ... increase the priority for the selected torrent 3 9 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 Set the maximum upload rate Set the idle hours to start the next download automatically Set the seeding hours Set to delete the finished torrent files a...

Page 41: ...ls You can also use the following method to upgrade the firmware Copy install img to the root directory of a USB key Plug the USB key to the USB HOST port on the player Press and hold the POWER button on the front panel and connect the player with power supply Wait for more than 30 seconds and then lose your finger on the POWER button Then the upgrade process will start automatically If it is conn...

Page 42: ... 32 320 kbps Stereo Dolby Digital AC3 5 1 pass through downmix to stereo Dolby Digital 5 1 pass through downmix to stereo Dolby Digital Plus 7 1 pass through DTS Digital Surround 5 1 7 1 pass through downmix to stereo PICTURE FORMATS SUPPORTED HD JPEG JPG BMP GIF TIF PNG JPEG 6048x4032 24MP VIDEO CODECS SURPORTED MPEG 1 HD MPEG 2 HD MPEG 4 SP ASP AVC H 264 WMV9 VC 1 RealNetworks RM RMVB 8 9 10 up ...

Page 43: ...G5 Traditional Chinese Western Turkish Central European Greek Cyrillic SE European Russian Hebrew Arabic Japanese Thai NETWORK FEATURE 10 100 1000Mbps Auto Negotiation Ethernet 802 11b g n Wi Fi up to 300Mbps supported by optional Wi Fi USB Adapter Note The specifications and design of this product are subject to change without notice ...

Page 44: ... Question 3 My files have disappeared from the player Answer Make sure that you browse your files via the correct browser mode which means correct filtered views such as Photos Music or Movies Question 4 During power on why does the TV will have a short flashing blue screen or screensaver Answer This is normal when the system initializes it will setup the corresponding parameters so it can output ...

Page 45: ...ing network communication including PING and access shared folders try disabling it to see if you can connect If you can connect with the firewall disabled you may need to add the player to the Trusted list or configure the firewall for local intranet access Worst case disable your firewall long enough to use the player then enable it again when done Question 8 I am using the 802 11n Wi Fi dongle ...

Page 46: ...er license under U S Patent s 5 451 942 5 956 674 5 974 380 5 978 762 6 487 535 other U S and worldwide patents issued pending DTS and the Symbol are registered trademarks DTS 2 0 Digital Out and the DTS logos are trademarks of DTS Inc Product includes software DTS Inc All Rights Reserved Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories Dolby and the double D symbol are registered trademarks of ...

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