Yamada 6700 with New Age v4 Firmware is AMAZING and will replace my Siemssen!

[telemachus]

Hello all,
Long time no visit here, but I just HAD to report back.

I have long had problems with my Siemssen - particularly with subtitles not playing properly, the Hardware is unable to play subs when they happen fast, so any normal movie will happen with some of the subs missing, some flash on for a fraction of a second, so I always watched foreign moview off my laptop.

I had to buy a cheap DVD for work, and got the Yamada 6700 a year ago, and today brought it home to test and compare it. I just happened to find that this Guy who makes New Age firmware JUST made a v4, and I am giving my Siemssen to my sister, I am blown away.

Main points in favour:

Subs are P-E-R-F-E-C-T and you can tweak colours, shading, outlines, position.

Perfect Playback of several Divx and Xvid movies which my Siemssen would not play.

Playback of MP3 gives all ID3 info, not one at a time like Siemssen, and long file names supported, and you can also either see the cover in a small image to the side while you listen, or if you have several JPG images in the folder you can slide show them while you get MP3 playback. I LOVE THAT!

You can also browse other folders while listening to music in the current folder.

Points against:

Siemssen, while playing back an MPEG4 file, can show you what video and audio codecs are being used, what bitrate too... not on yamada.

Menu on New Age firmware is ugly and you get a horrid shocking pink bg when nothing is playing.

I dont think I still have Bond's CD, but I have copied and pasted a README from the firmware update below. The link to it is http://newage.mpeg4-players.info/

All the best guys.

Mark.
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V4: Dec 23, 2005.
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+ two types of firmware:
+ default: small subtitle font
+ LARGESUB: larger subtitle font but no jpg viewing function at all

+ New RISC: 05.00.05.07

+ XviD Packed Bitstream support
+ Nero Digital Support (MP4, M4V)
+ OGG, OGM support
+ Mpeg4 text subtitles: srt smi ssa ass sub txt
+ VobSub subtitles (ifo+idx+sub), DivX embedded subtitles (XSUB)
+ No NTSC sub bug
+ misnamed subtitle filename extension is not a problem (eg: SRT file with SUB extension)
+ Probably some other new bugfixes and bugs ;-)

+ DVD Q-Play

+ Mpeg4 Subtitle Setup:
+ Movie filename and subtitle filename character count match can be set up (0..40): 0 will load all subtitles in current folder
(character count = characters from first character)
+ VobSub Palette Colorspace can be selected (RGB, YUV)

+ Formatted MP3 TAG Info display (ID3V1)

+ Selection Bar will follow currently played MP3 file

+ No stand-by and firmware upgrade failure bug


V3: May 5, 2005.
================

+ Based on official V4
NAv3 Type A: official V4 8032 + official V1 ARM
NAv3 Type B: official V4 8032 + official V4 ARM

+ OSD Languages:

Slovenian by Mirkuma

+ File browser:
+ Selectable filename text colors

+ Mpeg4 subtile related changes:

* Fixed: Type A SUB subtitles maximum subtitle length was 64 characters

+ Both Type A and Type B now support full 255 characters / subtitles

* 42 character bug fixed: subtitles will be loaded if filenames are too long (respect to Gufiak for finding subtitle loader routines)

+ Real word wrap !! Subtitle text will be wrapped to fit into subtitle window

+ Reformat mpeg4 subtitles: remove linebreaks and word wrap joined lines

+ Filter out SRT special tags like <font> <i> and remove X1, Y1, X2, Y2 coordinate texts

+ New subtitle colors:
Black
Dark Grey
Grey
White
Red
Green
Blue
Yellow
Orange
Dark Red
Dark Green
Dark Blue
Cyan

+ Mpeg4 subtitle background transparency
Transparent
50% transparent
Non transparent

* Fixed MicroDVD subtitle bug in "Type A" firmware: missing first charater in 2nd, 3rd etc lines (Thanks to jj_arg)

+ Player will remember volume level if you turn off

+ New default slideshow transition effect: None

+ DVD-VIDEO playback: partially removed UOP (thanks to Gufiak)

+ New playback icons by Laca

V2: March 18, 2005.
===================

+ File browser:
+ Full Windows Code Page 1250-1258 support

+ New fonts (OSD, File browser, Mpeg4 subtitles)

+ OSD Languages:

English few corrections by Alexander Maxim
Hungarian by New Age
Czech by LukaS & lakyljuk
Romanian by Alexander Maxim
French by PixiesII
Portuguese by Redcat & Kivan
Greek by Kronos911

* bugfix: fixed OSD font flickering


V1: February 28, 2005.
======================

+ Corrected official firmware bugs:
+ no more initial single elapsed time display with mpeg4 files
+ common mediatek bug: current folder indicator screwed up if you
step into multi level folders and back
+ removed ZOOM indicator in the DVD-VIDEO playback

+ New setup menu: (only the additional features)

General Setup:
+ JPEG Preview in filebrowser
On (Filenames and the highlight bar are shorter)
Off

Preference Setup:
+ DVD Audio | Preferred DVD Audio Language
English
Hungarian
French
Spanish
Portuguese
German
Italian
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish
Dutch
Croatian
Turkish
Polish
Czech
Russian
Romanian
Slovenian
Bulgarian
Slovak
Irish
Greek
Hebrew
Icelandic
Chinese
Japanese
Thai
Indonesian
Malay
Korean
Others
+ DVD Subtitle | Preferred DVD Subtitle Language
+ DVD Menu | Preferred DVD Menu Language

Mpeg4 Subtitle Setup:
+ Mpeg4 Subtitle Background Color
+ Transparent
+ Black
+ Grey
+ White
+ Cyan
+ Yellow
+ Blue
+ Light Green
+ Light Yellow
+ Light Grey
+ Very Light Yellow
+ Red 1
+ Light Green 2
+ Red 2
+ Pink
+ Orange
+ Mpeg4 Subtitle Outline Color
+ Mpeg4 Subtitle Text Color
+ Mpeg4 Subtitle Font
+ Font 1
+ Font 2
+ Font 3
+ Mpeg4 Subtitle Horizontal Align
+ Left
+ Center
+ Right
+ Mpeg4 Subtitle Vertical Align
+ From Top
+ From Bottom
+ Mpeg4 Subtitle Line Spacing (pixel)
+ 0..64
+ Mpeg4 Subtitle Window
+ Left
+ Top (300+...)
+ Width (500+...)
+ Height

+ Two types of firmware
+ Type A:
+ xvid packed bitstream
- NTSC SUB bug
- partial ID3V1 TAG display ('COMMENT' tag is missing)
- during avi playback the setup menu can disappear :-(
+ Type B:
- no xvid packed bitstream
+ no NTSC SUB bug
+ full ID3V1 TAG display

+ MP3 TAG Info display (ID3V1)

+ MPEG4 Subtitles:
+ All setup menu options apply immediately even during mpeg4 playback
+ 255 (Type A) or 128 (Type B) character/subtitle
+ Code page support: 1250-1258

+ JPEG:
+ Jpeg preview can be turned on/off
+ No automatic jpeg slideshow -> have to press NEXT, PREV button
(slideshow can be accessed in the Kodak mode)

+ File browser:
+ Full width file browser
+ Special characters in file- and foldernames
+ Longer current folder name display (40 chars)

+ New fonts (OSD, File browser, Mpeg4 subtitles)

+ MUTE, VOL OSD messages are moved to the top of the screen

+ Pressing Search(Goto) button you will only get the GOTO message (Select removed)

+ Design by Laca

[fuel__2001]

Been ages since ive dropped by here.

Just like telemachus i had to report back that this new firmware buy newage is really great, and its being modded with other features and bigger subs also to stop that pink background thing.

Take a look www.my-yamada.co.uk

Regards

[telemachus]

Been ages since ive dropped by here.
Just like telemachus i had to report back that this new firmware buy newage is really great, and its being modded with other features and bigger subs also to stop that pink background thing.
Take a look www.my-yamada.co.uk


Hey fuel_2001
thanks for the link, from that site I got another firmware (a mod on NAv4) NAv4.Hej456.new.DSP.1252.iso which allows a much better font as well as backgrounds and jpeg preview while maintaining all the plusses of the NAv4 firmware.

Now the only thing I would really like is the ability to view text (either a txt file or text in the Comments section of ID3v2) so I can read about an artist when listening - sometimes it's confusing and I get artists mixed up, like Lemon Jellies vs Air or Strokes vs White stripes or... and a text biography from allmusic.com would be great to read while listening, just text would be good enough.

Catcha later,
Mark.

[Wam7]

I totally concur! :) NewAge 3 was good but v4 is even better (as you'd expect). It really does transform the player into an altogether better machine.

The killer features for me were no longer needed Mpeg4moddifier as packed bitstream play flawlessly and the latest addition in v4 is ogm files of which I had quiet a few (Sopranos)

I've just bought two new players for my friends as it's so good. Hard to get hold of as well as Umax don't have them in stock.

Oh word of warning: follow instructions carefully when flashing!

[masken]

Where's the product page?

[Wam7]

Do you mean this...

http://www.umax.co.uk/WebNew_UK/index.htm

[telemachus]

Hello folks,

Hello and happy xmas/new year.
LONG time no see...

Im still using my yamada, and have been doing some browsing around to see whats going on, and much to my suprise, it seems nothing very exciting has been going on. A year since New Age v4 and it seems many of the most highly regarded players are still based on the same old MT chipset.. which is very suprising since it wasnt particularly cutting edge/new when I bought into it.

What I was HOPING to find is a DVD player/recorder with some new chipset which could play real/mov/wmv etc, and perhaps play SACD's too... but it seems none of those things are available yet.

Do you guys know if there is a DVD player/recorder which is capable of as varied divx and xvid playback as the yamada 6700? It seems newage and other firmware writers only write for players, not recorders. Any favourites out there, what about yamada chilli 8400x?

Thanks,
be well,
Mark.

[chris57]

Hello folks,

Hello and happy xmas/new year.
LONG time no see...

Im still using my yamada, and have been doing some browsing around to see whats going on, and much to my suprise, it seems nothing very exciting has been going on. A year since New Age v4 and it seems many of the most highly regarded players are still based on the same old MT chipset.. which is very suprising since it wasnt particularly cutting edge/new when I bought into it.

What I was HOPING to find is a DVD player/recorder with some new chipset which could play real/mov/wmv etc, and perhaps play SACD's too... but it seems none of those things are available yet.

Do you guys know if there is a DVD player/recorder which is capable of as varied divx and xvid playback as the yamada 6700? It seems newage and other firmware writers only write for players, not recorders. Any favourites out there, what about yamada chilli 8400x?

Thanks,
be well,
Mark.

I had a Yamada 6700 and like you was satisfied but expected things to have moved on when my Yamada gave up the ghost.

Apart from the media players from KISS etc. there isnt really anything out there that is a major improvement on the Yamada. I have found an equivalent the Peekton 6006 which has firmware available from here:-
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/dhammer/pk6006/pk6006.html
Supported formats:-
DVD, DVCD, SVCD, VCD, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/-RW, MP3, WMA, DivX Ogg, Srt, Smi, Sub, DivX 3.11/4.xx/5.xx/6/Xvid, DivX Pro
Bought it from Pixmania and I'm just about to get the HDMI version also:-
http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/s_action/search/index.html

Apart from that waiting for divx HD supportfrom a player.

[telemachus]

Hey there Chris,

yeah, well Kiss are out for me, I had one two machines ago, and it was unbelievably bad at playing almost anything. The only thing I liked was the display of ID3 Tag info.

dvd recorders dont seem to be firmware updated as much as dedicated players. The Liteon LVW-1105HC is a Divx\Xvid compatible recorder, but for now maybe its better to have separate player and recorders.

till later,
mark.