limHD 200i, User Manual

Page 1: ...I limHD200i User Manual Version 1 02 ...

Page 2: ...II limHD200i will bring you to the world of High Definition ...

Page 3: ...red by the radio wave of mobile phone while using If the interference is obvious please keep the mobile phone away from the player z Please read the instructions and methods of operation in the manual Keep this manual well for future references Placement Put the player on a flat surface away from the sunlit sunlight high temperature high humidity and frequent vibration Otherwise it will cause dama...

Page 4: ... unplug the pin with wet hands Otherwise it might cause electric shock Unplug the device from the socket outlet to avoid damages caused by thunder or when you do not use the device for a long time Doing so may keep it from damages caused by thunder or electric fluctuations efficiently Heat sources The device should be kept away from heat sources such as radiators heat registers stoves and other he...

Page 5: ...carelessly drop any liquid into the device Do not spray pesticide to the surface or the internal part of the device The sprinkler pesticide contains combustible gas that might cause fire if it enters inside the device Cleaning Unplug the electric pin of AC supply before cleaning Do not use any liquid cleaning solvent or aerosol detergent Use soft damp cloth for cleaning When cleaning the stains di...

Page 6: ...aged c If liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the device d If the device has been exposed to rain or water e If the device does not operate normally by following the operating instructions Adjust only those controls covered by the operating instructions as an improper adjustment of other controls may result in damage It often requires extensive work by even a qualified technician t...

Page 7: ...__________________________________________ 7 3 5 Turn on the player in suggested procedures________________________________ 7 3 6 Turn off the Player in suggested procedures _______________________________ 7 3 7 Website______________________________________________________________ 8 Chapter 4 Installation of Internal HDD of limHD200i _______________________9 4 1 Install the Internal HDD __________...

Page 8: ...__________________________ 51 Chapter 11 limHD200i FAQ ___________________________________________52 11 1 Choppy while playing with USB CD DVD drive __________________________ 52 11 2 Cannot find the USB devices newly connected____________________________ 52 11 3 Cannot find Internal HDD after turn on the player _______________________ 53 11 4 PC cannot find Internal HDD of limHD200i _____________...

Page 9: ...mounting safe and much more convenient 4 Interface Variety It has all kinds of video interfaces varying from Analog Standard Definition Composite Video Output Analog High Definition YPbPr component output and VGA output to Digital High Definition DVI and HDMI 2 Channels analog stereo sounds output coaxial optical SPDIF digital 5 1 channels output for the audio interface An RJ45 provided to place l...

Page 10: ...2 7 Convenient push buttons You can operate limHD200i easily without remote control 8 Dynamic color VFD helps you operate it more directly and efficiently ...

Page 11: ...OM External USB HDD Flash Disk and play stored media files One USB2 0 Device Connection which is used for PC connection and data transfer One 10 100Mbps Local Network Connection can be used to play shared video files 2 3 1 Audio Video Output Connection HDMI Digital Audio Signals embedded VGA interface Output YPbPr Analog Component Signals or RGB HV Analog VGA Signals S Video Output Standard Defini...

Page 12: ...9 asf 2 Audio Formats WAV MP3 MP2 MPA AAC Advanced Audio Coding WMA OGG RPCM 3 Image formats JPG BMP GIF 2 3 3 Subtitle Supported Supporting subtitles of srt and other formats of subtitle by later upgrading the Firmware 2 3 4 Display Devices Supported 1 For TV NTSC 480i 480p PAL 576i 576p HDTV 720p 1080i 1080p Plasma TV 1366x768 1280x768 2 For PC PC Standard VGA SVGA XGA SXGA 2 3 5 Multinational l...

Page 13: ...5 later upgrading the Firmware 2 3 7 Firmware Upgrade Supported You can upgrade your Firmware with Internal HDD or Flash disk using the System Setup Menu The upgrade Firmware is provided by TOMACRO ...

Page 14: ...ge your display devices the Default Factory Video Output Mode Setup might not match the newly changed display devices if there is abnormal display please adjust the Video Output of limHD200i by selecting the Video Mode button on the remote control Press button and alter the Video Output to normal display Then press button and enter the System Setup Manu adjust the Video Output Mode The system will...

Page 15: ...t music hall for you 3 5 Turn on the player in suggested procedures z Make sure that you have connected the limHD200i to your display device such as TV and Audio device such as A V receiver with appropriate cables z Connect the DC output of accessory AC DC adaptor to the power input of limHD200i z Insert the AC electric pin of the AC DC adaptor to your power supply socket outlet z If the power lig...

Page 16: ...c z Press to back to main menu z Press Stand by and let the device in sleeping state z Press the power button on top of the device and switch power off z Unplug the AC electric pin if you do not use the device for a long time 3 7 Website Suggest visiting our website http www tomacro com often Notice the new Firmware version announcement Often upgrade your limHD200i to keep it in the best performan...

Page 17: ...ternal HDD Follow the simple procedures below and install your IDE HDD Step 1 At the beginning make sure that you have done the following preparations a Find a clean working area with enough light It must be dry no strong light no dust b Prepare 2 screwdrivers and HDD fix screws included in the gift box of limHD200i c Prepare one IDE HDD formatted or unformatted Step 2 Make sure that you have disc...

Page 18: ...e all the screws from the base board according to the picture below Step 6 Off the base board from the player and expose the HDD frisket Step 7 Draw out the HDD frisket along with the internal lead rails of the player ...

Page 19: ... HDD as MASTER or Cable Select mode by correct jumper setting Step 9 Mount the HDD with frisket in directions showed in the below picture and fix the screws Step 10 Push the fixed HDD frisket along with the lead rails in directions showed in below picture ...

Page 20: ... Fix all the screws back Step 13 Fix the bottom base to the device with screw Now you can use the internal HDD If HDD is still unformatted please refer to the next part 4 2 Format the Internal HDD If the HDD remains unformatted please format the HDD in the following procedures Step 1 Connect the limHD200i to the power supply near your computer ...

Page 21: ...d the requirements of your operating system Notes 1 limHD200i supports multi partition while the first partition of HDD must be initialized as the Main Partition 2 limHD200i supports FAT 32 and NTFS File Systems NTFS system is recommended for FAT 32 does not support files larger than 4 GB while the HD video Files often excess the limits 4 3 Transfer files to Internal HDD Using the same method in 4...

Page 22: ...14 Chapter 5 Physical Connection of limHD200i 5 1 DC Interface 12VDC 12V DC Interface is used for providing power for limHD200i Connect the power supply as picture instructed below ...

Page 23: ...et Step 2 Connect the 12VDC output of accessory adaptor to the player Step 4 Turn on the power You will notice that the green LED of the Adaptor is lightened If the green light of VFD is off please press the power button on top of limHD200i 5 2 USB 2 0 Device Interface limHD200i has 1 USB2 0 device interface which is used for the data transfer with USB2 0 host devices such as PC NAS and so on When...

Page 24: ... be on 5 4 10 100M LAN Interface RJ45 limHD200i has one RJ45 for fast Ethernet Network connection You can connect limHD200i to your LAN to play the shared high definition videos or other media files in media server or other computers connected to the network you can also use limHD200i as VOD Video On Demand terminal when you link it to WAN limHD200i can visit the NAS drive on the network For IP se...

Page 25: ...transfer uncompressed audio signals and High resolution digital signals It can ensure audio video signals transferring with the highest quality The advantage of HDMI you can use only one HDMI cable to transfer the audio and video signals meanwhile as there is no signal attenuation and distortion in the transfer process you can obtain higher quality video audio transfer HDMI uses the same cable for...

Page 26: ...Analog signals are still transferred by VGA The digital images information is converted to R G B signals included H V synchronizing signals by color palette D A convertor and then transferred to display devices by VGA cable For the analog display devices such as CRT monitor signals are transferred to relative processing circuit then control the CRT to generate images for the digital display device...

Page 27: ...Pr cable is required included in the accessories You only need to connect one end of VGA YPbPr cable with the VGA connector of limHD200i the other end to a standard YPbPr cable then connect standard YPbPr cable to your display device 2 Standard Definition Connection 1 Component Video YPbPr Use VGA connector for this connection One VGA YPbPr cable is required included in the accessories You only ne...

Page 28: ...ield ground 3 Composite Video The interface of composite Video is a standard yellow RCA plug which is the most commonly used so far Almost all the products like TV sets Video Players are equipped with this kind of interface Composite Video composite by Y C is a kind of video signal that supports low quality image Generally the resolution can only reach to 350 450 scan lines and therefore is not re...

Page 29: ...tal and DTS SPDIF is divided into Coaxial and Optical according to different transfer medium actually the signals they transfer are the same However the optical signal transfer will be a popular trend without considering the signal level resistance and with stronger flexibility and anti interference capability 1 Coaxial Cable Coaxial SPDIF is generally named as coaxial output marked with a COAXIAL...

Page 30: ...tical fibre Interfaces are mainly divided into two kinds one is standard interface for home appliances and another is mini Tosilink for portable devices such as CD player Optical transfer can realize electric isolation prevent the digital noises from ground and help increase the SNR of DAC The time base error however is an important factor that affects the timbre As the optical signals needs two c...

Page 31: ...ro Logic and Pro Logic II coding signals to provide stereo sound effects When using analog audio output D A conversion will be processed by high quality DAC and low noise amplifier of limHD200i In some cases 2 channels analog audio output is connected to headphone ...

Page 32: ... of the lights could be lightened from left to right in the above picture follows When this light is lightened it shows that you select internal IDE HDD Left When this light is lightened it shows that you select USB device1 Right When this light is lightened it shows that you select USB device2 When this light is lightened it shows that you select LAN device 3 Media Playback State Light Show the p...

Page 33: ...ow the Video Output Mode of limHD200i Press VIDEO MODE button do not press the button too fast in case it missed the matching video output mode until there is a normal display When you choose the video output mode VFD shows as the picture below 6 Play time of media files When playing files like Movies or Music the VFD shows the elapsed time of the media files When pressing INFO button the play tim...

Page 34: ...26 8 Select Movie Playback Under Movie Playback conditions 9 Select Music Playback Under Music Playback conditions 10 Select Photos Browse Under Photo Browse conditions ...

Page 35: ... 7 Remote Control of limHD200i Using remote control is convenient for your operation In this manual we indicate all the functions of remote control buttons The reference picture of the remote control is as below ...

Page 36: ...ng battery Incorrect usage of battery might lead to battery leak or erosion Please operate the instructions as below z Do not upside the positive and negative pole of the remote control battery According to the and marks z Do not dissect short circuited heat or charge the battery neither can throw it into fire z Do not leave the waste or run out battery in the remote control z Mix use of different...

Page 37: ...tatus limHD200i consumes little power VFD ON OFF Select VFD ON OFF VIDEO MODE SELECTING Select the video output mode of limHD200i to match with the display mode resolution etc of the TV or other display devices The default video output mode of limHD200i might not match with your display devices At this time your display devices might not have normal performance or do not show In such circumstances...

Page 38: ...owsing PAGE UP When the files are listed with many pages press PAGE UP button to browse the previous pages PAGE DOWN When the files are not listed in one page press PAGE DOWN button to browse the next pages MENU Enter the main menu for relative operations EXIT BACK Go back to previous level menu OK ENTER Used to confirm current settings or play selected media file in this case equal to PLAY button...

Page 39: ...ious page files in browse mode equal to PAGE UP button NEXT Press this button to play the next media files or to show the next page files in browse mode equal to PAGE DOWN button PLAY Play the selected media files PAUSE Press one time to pause Press again to continue playing STOP Stop playing the media files and back to the present directory VOLUME Tune up or tune down the volume MUTE Press this b...

Page 40: ...he Repeat Mode REPEAT CLEAR REPEAT TRACK repeat the playing files and REPEAT ALL repeat all the files at the current directory UNMOUNT CD DVD DRIVE In the menu mode press this button will unmount the CD DVD Drive then you can open the CD DVD Drive cabin to take out the disc Notice Along with Firmware upgrade some button functions of remote control might have been changed So please pay close attent...

Page 41: ...on the top of limHD200i to meet an emergency In this case please contract the local agent to buy a new remote control equal to on the remote control OK button equal to on the remote control SETUP button equal to on the remote control TV MODE button equal to on the remote control MEDIA FUNC button equal to on the remote control ...

Page 42: ...FO button equal to on the remote control Notes Along with Firmware upgrade some button functions might have been changed So please pay close attention to the related version descriptions when upgrading the Firmware ...

Page 43: ...udio quality Connect limHD200i with power supply Enter the Main menu after the initialization finished Press on the remote control to enter setup menu Generally you only need to use and on the remote control to operate the menu Any time you want to quit this Setup mode and back to the Main file browsing page you only need to press again or just press 9 1 Audio Setup ...

Page 44: ...lecting this option you can directly output the digital streams from the media files without any conversion These digital streams later will be decoded by the outer decoders AV receivers amplifiers Notice This option has no effects to the Analog Audio Output 9 1 2 Speakers out Speaks Out setting has two options 2 Channels Left and Right Channel suit for relative Analog Audio Out 5 1 Channels Use 5...

Page 45: ...fer to 5 5 1 Video Connection VGA Output RGBHV analog video signal HDMI Output pure digital video signal with embedded digital audio signal SD Output standard definition analog video signals with S Video or Composite Video Interface HD YPbPr Output analog component video signal with VGA YPbPr conversion connector DVI Output pure digital video signal with HDMI DVI conversion cable ...

Page 46: ... Frequency 60Hz 1280x1024x60 1280x1024 Progressive Scan Vertical Scan Frequency 60Hz 1280x1024x75 1280x1024 Progressive Scan Vertical Scan Frequency 75Hz 1360x768x60 1360x768 Progressive Scan Vertical Scan Frequency 60Hz 1920x1200x60 1920x1200 Progressive Scan Vertical Scan Frequency 60Hz z HDMI 59 Vertical Scan Frequency 59 97Hz If you are using HDMI please select proper resolution settings accor...

Page 47: ...0 Progressive Scan 1080i 1920x1080 Interlace Scan 1080p 1920x1080 Progressive Scan z SD Mode If you are using SD Modes please connect your display device to limHD200i by S Video or composite video cable according to the display device instructions ...

Page 48: ... If you select HD YPbPr please connect the display device to your limHD200i by YPbPr cable with the accessory VGA YPbPr conversion connector following the display device instructions limHD200i YPbPr supports the following resolutions 480p 720x480 Progressive Scan Output 720p 1280x720 Progressive Scan Output 1080i 1920x1080 Interlace Scan Output 9 3 System Setup Press on the remote control to enter...

Page 49: ...41 z TV System Select NTSC or PAL according to the standard of your display devices TV etc ...

Page 50: ...f your display devices screen aspect ratio length width before you select the relevant settings 16 9 Please use this setting if your display device is wide screen 4 3 Please use this setting if your display device is not wide screen z Network Setup ...

Page 51: ...rm that no checkmark appears in the box next to Account is Disabled If there is a checkmark click the box and the checkmark will disappear Click OK to save the change and close the Guest Properties window To confirm the change look for the Guest Account icon in the Computer Management window the small x on it disappears Close the Computer Management window After the above steps then you can let yo...

Page 52: ...a new nfs directory under the user directory Save and exit The added content stands for limHD200i IP address in the range of 192 168 can access the directory home work with read write permissions home user nfs is also named as server export shared directory Parameters in the blanket are described as below rw read write access permissions ro read only sync synchronous write in cache memory and Disk...

Page 53: ... setup menu It will pop up a soft keyboard set the IP address of your linux server and the path of the shared folder such as 192 168 18 106 home user nfs You can delete the default IP and Path by selecting Back on the screen Input the IP address and path by selecting numbers or letters using UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT buttons Press enter to confirm and exit Choose Networkpath Static IP to set your IP addr...

Page 54: ...vice 3 Turn limHD200i on and wait 4 Enter System Setup Menu using the SETUP button on remote control 5 Select Software Upgrade Boot About 5 minutes later the display will be turned off black screen no video signal output by system when the upgrade finished Then you can turn limHD200i off safely 6 Repeat the above step 3 and 4 7 Select Software Upgrade App About 35 minutes later the display will be...

Page 55: ...are bright Release the OK button limHD200i upgrade firmware automatically After about 35 minutes all VFD lights black out the upgrade procedure is complete Reboot limHD200i you can use limHD200i as usual z Select Menu Language limHD200i currently supports 2 Language options English and Chinese Choose LANGUAGE in setup menu and select the Language Go back to main menu by pressing EXIT button reboot...

Page 56: ...ivx HD Xvid HD etc Standard Definition video code stream includes MPEG 1 2 4 DivX XviD DVD files ISO and VOB INFO Screen When entering the video playback we can get relative information of the playing video files by pressing INFO button The information includes File Name File Size length Elapsed time and Play Mode Info window shows as below Video Playback Control 1 Press to play or pause Press to ...

Page 57: ...s to setup relevant functions subtitle setting time search repeat mode etc 8 Press to show the playing video information 9 Press to select Repeat Mode 10 Press to adjust Brightness Contrast Saturation of display image 10 2 Play the Music Files Audio Formats Supported limHD200i mainly supports two audio formats Lossless format WAV Lossy format MP3 OGG Ogg Vorbis WMA Windows Media Audio AAC Lossy fo...

Page 58: ...t hh mm ss Length whole length format hh mm ss Repeat Mode Music Play Control 1 Press to play or pause Press to pause or continue press to stop 2 Press and to forward rewind 3 Press and to skip to next previous music file 4 Press and to tune the volume press off on the sound 5 Press to select Repeat Mode ...

Page 59: ...Screen While browsing the photos we can know the relevant image information by pressing INFO button such as file name file size image size Photo Browse Control 1 Press and to skip to next previous image file 2 Press and to enlarge reduce images press to rotate images 3 Press to show the photo file information 4 Press to set relevant functions such as Slide Show ...

Page 60: ...SB CD DVD drive or USB IDE ADAPTER allowed by USB2 0 standard and use the accessory USB connection cable Other reasons not found yet 11 2 Cannot find the USB devices newly connected When you just connect the USB devices like USB Mobile HDD USB CD DVD drive or need to change the disc it displays empty and you can not visit the USB devices or newly changed disc Such problems are probably caused by t...

Page 61: ...on as master limHD200i Internal HDD has been damaged Please contact with HDD Manufacturer or change the Internal HDD Other reasons not found yet 11 4 PC cannot find Internal HDD of limHD200i Sometimes limHD200i is connected to the PC through USB while the PC can not recognize limHD200i automatically cannot auto refresh to show the Drive Letter But it shows a USB device icon in the right down corne...

Page 62: ...number of physical disks find out a Disk not active right click it will show Convert to C or basic Disk notes this conversion will lead you to format HDD option not recommended you should select convert to C and double click My Computer then you will see the Drive Letter ...

Page 63: ...uality in DTV HDTV is short for High Definition Television Established by usage most people name the HD Video as HDTV Here HDTV mentioned in the latter part of the manual refers to High Definition Video rather than High Definition Television Appendix 3 Definition It is generally believed that the display definition of HDTV video is at least tree times higher than the present TV With richer image d...

Page 64: ...mand data in single cable in the industry HDMI has already been the most advanced multi media interface standard internationally HDMI represents the direction of digital transmission development and intends to have greater influences HDMI originates from DVI standard and both of them center on the TMDS signal transmission technique of Silicon Image Three groups of TMDS channels transfer the 24 bit...

Page 65: ...DVD and HD DVD by DVD Forum and Blue Ray Disk Association Now Japan adopts H 264 coding stream for its ISDB T Digital Broadcast while many satellite TV like BskyB DirecTV Dish Network Euro1080 Sat1 HD also adopt H 264 format Technically speaking H 264 represents the most advanced video compression technique in the video digital processing field It is able to provide high quality image transmission...

Page 66: ...deo with MPEG 2 TS format is very common on the broadcast network It generally uses suffixes of mpg tp ts HD video files using MPEG 2 TS format for compression are usually very large Take a 90 minute movie for instance its file size is usually above 8GB some even larger than 15GB It also has difficulty in playing the HD video files with suffixes of tp and ts The reason is that the files contain AC...

Page 67: ...s free of charge These two formats have a perfect quality comparable to MPEG 4 while their bit rates compressed enough to be able to spread the videos on the internet Thus it satisfies the practical demands of most users DVD ISO ISO image iso is an informal term of disk image of ISO 9660 file system The contents of CD DVD disc can be converted to an ISO file Generally playing video ISO file is sim...

Page 68: ...ened by Microsoft Some pure audio ASF which adopts Windows Media Audio coding format to code its whole content also use WMA as its extended name WMA format is primarily privately owned by Microsoft However with Apple iTunes surport this format is becoming a competitor to MP3 format It is compatible to the ID3 tag and supports extra tag at the same time In addition generally for WMA and MP3 audios ...

Page 69: ...ats JPEG JPEG is the widest used compression image format it is a lossy compression format Over compressed files might bring negative effects blur sots and Mosaic This situation is similar to the phenomenon of image distortion discovered in DVD and VCD of low Bit Rate BMP It is a name short for bitmap This kind of files can be saved using different color depth expressed by number of bit per sample...