NETGEAR NTV550 - Ultimate HD Media Player, User Manual

Page 1: ...350 East Plumeria Drive San Jose CA 95134 USA December 2010 202 10589 01 v1 0 NTV550 Ultimate HD Media Player User Manual...

Page 2: ...4 5 974 380 5 978 762 6 487 535 and other US and world patents issued and pending DTS and the Symbol are registered trademarks and DTS 2 0 Digital OUT and the DTS logos are trademarks of DTS Inc Produ...

Page 3: ...5 Browsing with Live Folder or the Media Library 15 Browsing the Media Library 15 Live Folder Browsing 16 Tips for Browsing and Searching 16 Browse Folders 17 Cover Art 18 Finding Media on Your Networ...

Page 4: ...ormation 46 Chapter 5 Using Your PC with the NTV550 Controlling the Ultimate HD Media Player from a Windows PC 47 Installing the Resource CD Software on a Windows PC 48 Using the Configuration Wizard...

Page 5: ...ing a Wireless Network Connection 62 IP Address 63 Connecting to a Server 63 Using Ping 63 Recovering the NTV550 If It Does Not Start 64 Appendix A Supplementary Information Supported Digital Media Fi...

Page 6: ...g Dolby Digital or DTS 5 1 or 7 1 surround sound The NTV550 Ultimate HD Media Player automatically scans your networked and local devices and organizes your movies music and photos Or you can use live...

Page 7: ...access media stored on it On Off button Turn the Ultimate HD Media Player on and off Component video Cable not included These ports support a component video connection to a television A V Out A V ca...

Page 8: ...evision supports multiple formats choose the format that provides the best picture quality HDMI offers the best picture quality video Component video provides the next best quality followed by composi...

Page 9: ...n the package 1 Orient your HD media player vertically 2 Insert the tabs of the stand into the slots on the bottom of your HD media player as shown 3 Place your HD media player in a suitable area for...

Page 10: ...10 Chapter 1 Getting Started NTV550 Ultimate HD Media Player User Manual Remote Control Use the remote control to operate your NTV550 Ultimate HD Media Player Figure 3 Remote control...

Page 11: ...o 90 Caps toggles Caps Lock or numbers on or off Press Clear to to clear text from a text entry field Fast forward Fast forward the media that is playing When playing music enter fast seek mode Audio...

Page 12: ...media Watch YouTube listen to Internet Radio view Flickr photos watch RSS videos and access local weather and news Streaming TV and Movies This feature is coming soon Settings View or work with system...

Page 13: ...upper case letters lower case letters and symbols Menu close the onscreen keyboard 0 9 Enter letters and numbers Press 2 to cycle between A B C 2 and so on Back Erase the last character entered Clear...

Page 14: ...ods of time Media on Your Portable Media Player USB Device You can connect up to two USB flash drives or a media player such as an iPod to a USB port on the front or rear panel of the Ultimate HD Medi...

Page 15: ...tings Media Locations Scan The Ultimate HD Media Player scans these locations for media files from sources on your network whether they are on NAS devices PCs or attached storage and aggregates the fi...

Page 16: ...r containing jpg files starts a slideshow from the photos in the folder If the folder contains one or more DVD files then Play shows a menu listing the available files From the folder press OK to choo...

Page 17: ...edia Button Description Toggle between list view and cover view Within cover view toggle between a single row of covers gallery view and a 10x3 screen of covers poster view 0 9 Narrow the selected med...

Page 18: ...shown with covers Other videos are represented within the folders that contain them You can add cover art at any time as described earlier Highlight the video that you have added the cover to and the...

Page 19: ...by MPAA rating G PG PG 13 and so on You can use the Tag Tool to set the rating Set the age rating permission in Settings Parental controls Media that is disallowed by the age rating setting is not sho...

Page 20: ...deos The Ultimate HD Media Player finds the video files on your computer s hard disk on other computers on external hard drives or on other storage devices on the network Downloaded content from nonco...

Page 21: ...ts the video from the beginning To display information about the video press the i button on the remote control Popup menus are described in the following section 5 If you want to add videos to a play...

Page 22: ...Aspect Ratio popup menu displays TV Mode and Display Settings You can use the TV Mode button to display the TV Mode popup menu Use care when changing the TV mode CAUTION Selecting the wrong TV mode ca...

Page 23: ...MKV To display or change subtitles for a movie press Subtitle and the Subtitle popup menu displays For movies with text subtitles you can control the text color and the position of the subtitle While...

Page 24: ...next to the name of the video Videos that have been completely watched are shown with a full circle In list view the circle icon is shown to the left of the video title If you resume playback you are...

Page 25: ...g to a song To go to a song you selected either press Stop before you select the song or press Next repeatedly until you reach the song you want to hear Tip To save the list of playing songs press i o...

Page 26: ...hows the playlist When the media bar is in playlist view navigate between files in the playlist the currently playing song is shown with a speaker icon Press OK to resume playback at the selected item...

Page 27: ...trol or press Home and then select Photos 2 Browse based on your preference Recently added Display the most recent photos at the top of the list Year Display photos by year Camera Display photos by ca...

Page 28: ...use the media bar to view the name of the current photo resolution if known and repeat mode of the slide show To display the media bar press Popup Menu while you are viewing a slideshow While the med...

Page 29: ...et news channels See Internet News Channels on page 32 ReadyNAS Photos View photos on a ReadyNAS device accessed over the Internet Weather maps Access the Internet to view weather and maps To receive...

Page 30: ...and press OK The Ultimate HD Media Player begins playing the YouTube item Use the Zoom button to improve the picture quality when viewing YouTube content When you have finished viewing the item you ca...

Page 31: ...nternet Radio and press OK Browse station You can browse by title genre or quality Use the up or down arrows and page up or down to scroll through the list A preview of each item is shown on the right...

Page 32: ...l as many Internet websites and portals Press Home and select Internet Media Internet news channels The following screen displays The Ultimate HD Media Player includes several common news feeds and yo...

Page 33: ...le for this type of installation are Room name You can use the Setup Wizard to select a room name such as Living Room for each Ultimate HD Media Player See Settings Menu on page 34 Follow me Move the...

Page 34: ...page 36 Media locations View media locations that the Ultimate HD Media Player discovered See Media Locations on page 38 Parental controls and security See Parental Controls on page 39 User interface...

Page 35: ...to confirm that the audio is working correctly TV Mode By default this is Auto You can cycle through the TV modes to see which works best with your TV Select a room name This question displays only if...

Page 36: ...ted with video playback and slideshow Display Select Settings Audio Video Display to go to the following screen View or change the settings to customize the display Display type Switch between North A...

Page 37: ...ol do not work This setting is useful if you use the volume level of your home theater and want the NTV550 to always use the same volume setting DRC Dynamic range compression This limits the range of...

Page 38: ...n page 39 File share discovery Locate shared media files Scan attached devices Click Scan to scan attached devices for media files Daily scan This is disabled by default You can set up a daily scan fo...

Page 39: ...after you set up parental controls Parental control Select the rating that you want to control from the drop down list Room access Specify a password to enter when watching media by room HTML Access R...

Page 40: ...R no rating set are accessible only if you enter the supervisor password Select the NR rating to allow access to all shared media files Note To temporarily suspend parental controls for 20 minutes and...

Page 41: ...n this screen Language Select a language for the Ultimate HD Media Player menus Skin selection Select a skin from the drop down list or click Custom skin to create a new skin The skin image is limited...

Page 42: ...er Wired You are using an Ethernet cable for a local area network LAN connection Standalone You do not want to access a network only USB devices connected directly to your Ultimate HD Media Player Net...

Page 43: ...tandby off and Remote power key the power button in the remote control Update Update the firmware for the Ultimate HD Media Player either from a USB device or over the Internet See Updating the Firmwa...

Page 44: ...the USB port of your Ultimate HD Media Player and select Specify a location Uncompress the zip file if necessary The img firmware file has to be on the top level root of the device If more than one fi...

Page 45: ...cessing SACK audio processing is used for debugging only Clear resume playback By default the Ultimate HD Media Player remembers where media was paused and will resume playback at that location in the...

Page 46: ...information and gateway Free memory and Version information Kernel and firmware currently running on your NTV550 Network information LAN Room The room name for the Ultimate HD Media Player If you have...

Page 47: ...ing the Ultimate HD Media Player from a Windows PC You can control the Ultimate HD Media Player from your PC using 2 methods Open a Web browser and type the IP address of the NTV550 To find the IP add...

Page 48: ...essary 2 Insert the Resource CD into the CD drive on the computer 3 The Welcome screen displays If you do not see the Welcome screen browse the files on your CD and then click Setup 4 Click Setup You...

Page 49: ...ia Use the Configuration Wizard to specify shared access to media files on the PC where you have them stored The Ultimate HD Media Player performs a full scan of your network to find the shared media...

Page 50: ...The Configuration Wizard locates the Ultimate HD Media Player on your network and displays the following screen If the wizard is unable to connect to your Ultimate HD Media Player disable any third p...

Page 51: ...AR digital media players on your network Remote control your NeoTVs Display a virtual remote control that lets you use the Ultimate HD Media Player from your PC See Remote Control Your Ultimate HD Med...

Page 52: ...een displays The buttons on this screen correspond to the Ultimate HD Media Player remote control Click them to send commands to the Ultimate HD Media Player For example click Volume Up to increase th...

Page 53: ...D Media Player User Manual 2 Right click the folder that you want to share and select Share with Specific people The next screen displays 3 Click Share to share this folder The following screen displa...

Page 54: ...r to the following Now you can use the Ultimate HD Media Player to browse the folder that is shared The Ultimate HD Media Player asks you to enter a user name and password In this example dell is the...

Page 55: ...D Media Player User Manual 2 Select Everyone and add it to the share list 3 Click Share and a new window displays 4 Click Yes to turn on network discovery and file sharing Now this folder is shared on...

Page 56: ...l 5 To turn off password protected sharing select Control Panel Network and Internet Network and Sharing Center and click Change advanced sharing settings 6 Select Turn off password protection sharing...

Page 57: ...d to the remote control Check the LED on the front panel of the Ultimate HD Media Player to make sure that the power is on Make sure that the television is turned on The LED on the remote control shou...

Page 58: ...n it by pressing Power Powering on the unit from the full power off state takes significantly longer 30 seconds compared to 1 second Firewall Port Settings The built in Windows firewall opens ports to...

Page 59: ...Panel User Accounts and enable guest access Manually enter passwords on your Ultimate HD Media Player Remove the password from the main administrator account Macintosh OSX Turn off the Macintosh fire...

Page 60: ...g a 60 Hz TV to watch a video with a frame rate of 25 frames per second instead of 30 frames per second or if you are using a 50 Hz TV to watch a video with a frame rate of 60 frames per second The Au...

Page 61: ...e network throughput is not high enough to handle the file type specified such as playing high definition video over a wireless network Unsupported video may not play correctly The video is a DIVX 3 v...

Page 62: ...rnet adapter WNCE2001 sold separately If you are having trouble with a wireless connection check the following items If there is more than one network in your area then you have to know your wireless...

Page 63: ...255 255 0 2 For Windows PCs run the Configuration Wizard to verify that the NTV550 and the computer can communicate Double click the task icon and select Configure your NeoTVs 3 For other systems try...

Page 64: ...nging TV Mode No Picture on the TV on page 58 If you are fairly sure that the firmware on the unit has become corrupted for example if the unit was starting up normally and it is no longer starting th...

Page 65: ...TS MP1 MP2 MPG DVR MS Audio formats Dolby Digital AC3 Dolby Digital Plus TrueHD DTS 2 0 DTS HD and DTS HD MA passthru MP3 up to 320 Kbps or variable bit rate VBR WMA8 and WMA9 up to 192 Kbps or variab...

Page 66: ...restored and then the unit restarts The following table lists the default settings Feature Description Language English Video mode Standard definition NTSC Room name NTV550 Network connection Wired L...

Page 67: ...dows XP to Manage Wireless Network Connections http documentation netgear com reference enu winzerocfg vistaxpconfig pdf Networking Basics http documentation netgear com reference enu tcpip index htm...

Page 68: ...ed antennas only Any product changes or modifications will invalidate all applicable regulatory certifications and approvals This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to...

Page 69: ...to correct the interference by one or more of the following methods Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver Connect the equipment int...

Page 70: ...ing 58 63 E error messages 61 Ethernet cable 8 Ethernet cable troubleshooting 62 F file formats supported 65 files copying 44 firewall port settings 58 firmware updating 44 Follow me feature 33 G gapl...

Page 71: ...27 ping 63 playing Internet media 29 trouble with media 60 playlist music 25 Pop up Menus 12 protected media 15 R RadioIO 31 recovering the NTV550 64 remote control 10 navigating 12 playing music 25...

Page 72: ...aying media 14 V video display jittery 60 video media bar 21 videos 20 videos resuming playback 24 W weather 33 Windows sharing and security 47 Windows system passwords 59 wireless networks troublesho...