Elta 8882: new firmware with national characters support

[tomb]

Hello,

I want to inform you, that I prepared new unofficial firmware for Elta 8882. This firmware is based on official 2.0.4.0 release and adds support for central-european characters on DivX/XviD subtitles according to Windows 1250 charset.

Regards,
Thomas
http://sigma-players.nd.e-wro.pl/

[xkodi]

great, but i need support for windows 1251 charset. i will bye an elta8882, if it can display cyrillic characters; i don't know if elta8882 has cyrillic support or not - mail to elta support, but no answer. anyway, can you give more info about firmware mod, so i can try to add support for windows 1251 charset in case it can't display cyrillic characters. thank you.

[tomb]

Originally posted by xkodi
great, but i need support for windows 1251 charset.can you give more info about firmware mod, so i can try to add support for windows 1251 charset in case it can't display cyrillic characters.

Now, only central european Windows 1250 codepage is supported. I plan to add new charsets, including Windows 1251. I work on new tool for fonts converting. When it will be ready (week?), I will be able to create new mods much faster. If you want to try yourself, you can download a good font editor from my website and draw cyrillic characters. But I have to say that it will take you some time - you have to draw every cyrillic character by hand.

[Mtz]

Hi, tomb!
From your experience, do you think that is possible to add suport for subtiles for the elta 8883 (MediaTek MT1389DE chipset)? I need the Central European support.

And I have another question: Centrum Gemini 330 can display subtitles with diacritics in Romanian language without ª and Þ. Is any possibility to fix that 2 missing characters?

10x.

[tomb]

Originally posted by Mtz
From your experience, do you think that is possible to add suport for subtiles for the elta 8883 (MediaTek MT1389DE chipset)? I need the Central European support.
Subtitles will be added in the new official firmware release. At least I found such statement on the feature list, which leaked to the Internet. But I doubt if we will see support for Central-European characters.
Fimwares for MediaTek based players are harder to change - they are not Linux filesystems as software for Sigma Designs based units. Of course font bitmaps must be hidden somwhere inside. But I don't have Elta 8883, I don't analysed it's firmware and I'm not sure if proper font definitions are stored in current firmware release.

Originally posted by Mtz
And I have another question: Centrum Gemini 330 can display subtitles with diacritics in Romanian language without ª and Þ. Is any possibility to fix that 2 missing characters?
Can you give any link to the firmware for Centrum Gemini? Is this player based on Sigma Desings EM8500 chip?

Regards,
Tomb

[Mtz]

DVD-Player Centrum Gemini 330
Info. (http://www.chip.de/artikel/c_artikel_11097191.html)
Firmware. (http://www.netonnet.de/aktuellt_lasmer.asp?id=7821)

I hope good news from you.

10x, again!

[tomb]

Originally posted by Mtz
DVD-Player Centrum Gemini 330
It's ESS based player. Unfortunatelly, I know nothing about firmwares for such players. Sorry.