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SeeMoreDigital
16th May 2005, 11:22
Technical Support Link
UK and Europe
http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?scy=GB&slg=ENG&sct=DVD_PLAYERS_SU_GB_CONSUMER&cat=DVD_PLAYERS_RECORDERS_CA_GB_CONSUMER&session=20060205090240_81.98.148.105&grp=HOME_AUDIO_VIDEO_GR_GB_CONSUMER&ctn=DVP630/05&mid=Link_Software&hlt=Link_Software

Northern America
http://www.usasupport.philips.com/productDocuments.html?ProductCode=DVP642&subCat=DVD_PLAYERS_SU_US_CONSUMER

Latest Firmware
Philips: DVP630/00, 630/02, 630/04, 630/05 | DVP632/00, 632/02, 632/04, 632/05 |
Philips: DVP640K/69, 640K/75 | DVP642/17, 642/37 |
Version No: 1109 (http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/d/dvp630_05/dvp630_05_fus_eng.zip) - Released 17 Nov 2005

Latest Firmware Release Notes
TBA

Player Specification (as stated in their manual(s)) for: -
Philips: DVP630/00, 630/02, 630/04, 630/05 | DVP632/00, 632/02, 632/04, 632/05 |
Philips: DVP640K/69, 640K/75 | DVP642/17, 642/37 |

http://img87.exs.cx/img87/7826/Philips_DVP_player_specs.gif


Useful Player Information Threads on the Doom9 Forum
Philips DVP642 / DVP630 - The three firmware files explained (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91048)
Philips DivX DVD Player (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93287)
Philips DVP642 + UDF File System (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93449)
Philips DVP642 firmware (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93330) Philips DVP642 question and comment (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93203)
Philips DVP632/02 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=90746)
Philips DVP642 sync issues (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=87525)


TEST ENCODE(S): -
For all those who would like to test an Mpeg4+Mp3 encode in MP4. Please click here (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/seemoredigital/XviD+Mp3+Subs.zip).


16:9 TV OWNERS PLEASE NOTE: -
Currently, most (if not all) ESS chip-set based players owners have reported having trouble displaying 16:9 square pixelled Mpeg4 encodes correctly. And contrary to popular belief, generating Mpeg4 encodes with PAR/DAR signalling (or using tools such as MPEG4 Modifier) will not help either.

What you need to do is complain directly to your player manufacturer!
Ingemar
12th June 2005, 21:11
I posted under a new thread, this post was mistakenly posted as a reply. Sorry.
unskinnyboy
12th June 2005, 21:33
This (http://www.xvid.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2365) thread may also be of interest. This explains how a user generated XviD encodes playable on DVP 642/37 after some trial and error.
DJ Alik
22nd July 2005, 07:59
New one posted today. See this thread http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=97661
SeeMoreDigital
22nd July 2005, 13:55
New one posted today. See this thread http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=97661Thanks DJ.

How did you find this link?

When you visit Philips' "Product Support" site and look for DVP64x and DVP63x firmware upgrades, the old "Version: ver 0112 Posted: 23/02/05" is still listed.


Cheers
MaximRecoil
23rd July 2005, 18:25
This (http://www.xvid.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2365) thread may also be of interest. This explains how a user generated XviD encodes playable on DVP 642/37 after some trial and error.
From that thread you linked to:
***YOU MUST NOT SAVE YOUR XVID ENCODED AVI in an openDML container format! ***
If you do, it will not play on this Philips DVP 642.
This is not true, at least not with the firmware that my DVP642/37 came with (1109). It has played every XviD AVI that I have tried in it so far without even the slightest hint of a hitch, all of which have openDML AVI containers.

The only problem I have had with it so far was with a single XviD w/VBR audio. If you watched it straight through there would be no problems but if you FF'd or RW'd during playback, the audio would get out of sync. I fixed it by demuxing to WAV and then recompressing to CBR MP3 and remuxing and then I could FF or RW with no sync issues resulting. I have played plenty of other AVI's w/VBR audio and none of them got out of sync when FF'ing or RW'ing so it must have been something specific to that file, not necessarily a DVP642 problem in general with AVI's w/VBR audio.
Gimpi
31st December 2005, 21:53
This might be a helpful tip for to some, the DVP642 has overscan/clipping issues with 640x480 xvid/divx encodes. If you watch a lot of fansubed anime, this is going to be a big issue. Reencode to 576x432 from 640x480 and you won't get hardsubs being cropped off by overscan.