Hi,

Only a little message in english. Sorry for that.

New firmware is released for the RH 7x00:

http://eic.lgservice.com/gcsc/svb/main? ... B000045057

But where can I download it?

Thanks,

Hendrik
Pays-Bas

j'ai trouvé ceci sur le site de LG en date du 29-06-05

#. Symptom :It can't be possibly saved although you had set divx caption configuration
#. Countermeasure : Updating by using the newest firmware.The update method is refer to the attatchment.
#. Program Version : V5.0617[CD Write method]Disc Volume Label : RH7000_UPFile Name : LG_HDR_UPDATE.004

Yes I know. But what is the link to the firmware? There is not yet any firmware on the forum there. But there is firmware posted for other DVD players. Or is there another website?

Thanks

Here is the Link

Perhaps you need to logon first @ http://eic.lgservice.com

(see login data on page 3 of this topic)

Hi guys,

Sorry for my english. I cannot write french. I'm from Pays-Bas and found this forum. I have a LiteOn 5045 that has the same chipset as the LG RH 7x00 series. But I want another recorder and found the RH 7x00 series interesting. So I tried to find information and new firmware. That is why I posted it to this forum. If you have trouble with the device goto the lg service website with the login that is in this thread (page 4 I think). You can ask a LG technician directly for the bugs. That is how I found the firmware. I simply asked for it.

Now I want to know how stable the LG RH 7x00 is. The edit bug you describe here is like the bug that was on the LiteOn LVW 5045 too. But that was solved.

My tip: install the new firmware and reformat the harddisk drive.

How advanced do you use the LG? Have you recorded a long time and then split it up into pieces? The LiteOn was not good in doing this.
Thanks for your time.

Cheers

Moi je dirais juste que lorsque l'on parle en Français sur la majorité des forums en langue Anglaise, il y'a immédiatement des remarques séches précisant que le forum est en Anglais et qu'il faut s'y conformer !

C'est un peu normal aussi, je critique pas ça, mais c'est leur intolérance maximale qui m'agace !

I am sorry for that. But that is the way it works I guess. I don't bother with French because I can read it (or use babelfish sometimes).
I am an active member of the mt13x9 yahoo group. That group is a good example of what can be achieved if english is used as a base language.
But that is more a project and not a forum.

From the LG Service Bulletin:


So again it is very save to use the new firmware from LG. But if you don't need it there is only one advise: don't update.

Thanks

C'est bien joli tout ca, mais cela ne nous dit toujours pas quelles sont les corrections apportées par ce nouveau firmware et si quelqu'un l'a testé...

Perhaps you should go to the lg service site and do some research yourself... (goto technical bullitins)

Petite question:

Comment procedez vous lorsque vous supprimez des parties et que le fichier s'efface?
Par exemple, s'il y a 2 parties de l'enregistrement à supprimer, vous le faites en une seule fois, ou bien vous effacez d'abord la 1ere partie, puis recommencez à zéro pour la seconde?

Personnellement, je le fais toujours en plusieurs fois et n'ai jamais rencontré votre problème (enfin j'espère bien que je ne l'aurais jamais

J'ai déjà fait plusieurs fois des deux façons, une seule ou plusieurs découpes en une fois, avant d'avoir le problème. D'ailleurs depuis j'ai refais des tests, je n'ai pas pu reproduire le bug (?). Ca doit être la combinaison de plusieurs facteurs qui provoquent l'effacement, suivi de sueurs froides en général...

Did you try the UNDO function when edit goes wrong?

Ca existe vraiment cette fonction ? Est-elle cachée ?

In the Manual there is.

I don't have the LG recorder yet. Must sell my Liteon 5045 first.

If you select Edit > Delete and then go back to Edit Undo will appear.

après 2 mois d'utilisation intensive jamais déçu (les suppressions de séquences je les fais tout le temps jamais de pb), mais vivement qd même un new firmeware qui corrige les soucis suivants:

1- abscence de l'avance rapide sur les divx
2- pouvoir utiliser le lecteur pendant un enregistrement programmé ou pendant la copie HDD -> DVD
3- copie rapide du HDD vers DVD
4- pourvir copier les divx, mp3 et photos depuis HDD sur DVD (il propose de copier divx présent sur le HDD sur un autre endroit du HDD à koi ca sert c idiot?? )

sinon j'ai adoré le diaporama; photos+mp3 en même temps

@simo91: Can you tell me your firmware version?

[Current system information display]
1. Setup -> Lock -> 7889

Thanks.

Bonsoir
Pour tweakradje:
tu peut traduire en Français?
ne comprends pas l'anglais
merci

Non, desole (un petit peut)

I use http://babelfish.altavista.com for translation.
I can read french but not write.

tweakradje : do you say that you found a firmware for the LG RH-7x00 series ?

Do you know witch it is ? What it is suppose to fix ?

Any Url to download the firmware ?

Non, desole (un petit peut)
donc je n'est plus qu'a aller sur un site ou l'on écrit FRANÇAIS
Dommage me plaisait bien ici,mais bon

Indeed use at own risc!

It was me who asked for it. Because I wanted to know if there was an update before I bought the machine. With my LiteOn 5045 I had 4 firmware updates in 6 months. Never any trouble with the update.
I have now ordered the RH 7500 and will fit a larger Harddisk later.
I don't like the front panel of the RH 7800

Va al la section "PAQUET TECHNIQUE". Entre RH7500 ou RH7800.
Il ya une firmware pour tous les series de RH 7x00.

J. Boussouf est un technician de LG .

Actually, I don't have any real reason to upgrade my player, it's working fine.

I will only flash it if I am 100% sure that it fix big problems or add cool feature (DivX6 ...).

Anyway, I don't feal that LG push customer to upgrade their players ... seems LiteOn does !!

You are absolutely right. Don't upgrade if you don't need to.
The LG service site is for LG service point members. Not intended for end users I guess like us.
The LiteOn was realy crap when it hit the market. Not tested
and a lot of bugs. I had all of them and now the 5045 is stable.

But I wanted something else. Good to hear the LG 7x00 is stable. Do you edit in the recordings a lot?


Cheers

Yes the 7xxx series is stable and have only a few minor problems, not realy bugs.

Yes I edit recordings (to remove commercials ...). It works well exept that sometime, when you cut more than 1 part of the video, the video is removed completly from you harddrive !! It happens to me and some people in this forum. Annoying bug. Any way, it's not happening all the time and I am not sure that it is not a mistake.

[Moved message]

Yes it's a big bug, but once again, I'm not sure at 100% that it is not a due to a user mistake.

je suis bien sur un site FRANÇAIS???

OK so we moved to a new thread. I don't mind reading French.

Perhaps there are different production models: with the problem and without the problem. They are out of stock at pixmania.nl (380,- euro).
I will wait for my unit to arrive.

nmeuret, can you try to remember what you did if it happens again?

Yes I'm a technical guy (tweaker) and always trying to solve problems (for the benifit of everyone)

Cheers

Dsl mais tweakradje est hollandais et ne parlent pas français, donc on a un peu parlé anglais ...

En résumé, il avait un LiteOn 5045 qui semble être un clone des LG 7xxx (en tout cas, il utilise le même soft).

Le LiteOn a l'air d'avoir été lancé sur le marché avec des firmware buggés et il a fallu que tweakradje update son system plusieurs fois.

Il demandais donc si le LG était stable et s'il fallait l'upgradé comme le LiteOn.

Voila, voila.

Oui, ou plus exactemment sur un site francophone. C'est la raison pour laquelle les posts ont été triés et la partie anglaise rapatriée ici. C'est d'ailleurs ton intervention qui m'a fait réagir.

Pour ce sujet, les intervenants sont les bienvenus pour causer en anglais

Pour les francophones, le sujet n'a pas bougé de place : il est en post-it.

Donc les considérations sur français/anglais ou pas sont résolues (et j'espère closes)

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Pas disponible dans les prochains temps >> plus de MP, merci de votre compréhension

tweakradje :

Unfortunatly, nobody here can figure out what he did to make the video edit crashing.

To sumurize the info we have :

- not everybody meets the problem,

- some say that the problem only happens when you remove more that one part of the video,

- errors are random and, fortunatly, don't happen too much.

Merci
donc pour lire le sujet en français je dois aller en post it??
heu c'est en debut?

j'ai cocher m'avertir en cas de reponse,c'est peut etre pour cela que je suis sur le poste langue anglaise?

C'est la raison pour laquelle les posts ont été triés et la partie anglaise rapatriée ici.
Merci

OK. Perhaps we can try this if it happens:

- What is your Firmware version (Setup -> Lock -> 7889)
- in what quality was it recorded?
- how many parts did you remove from the file before it
happened?

With this info we can perhaps post it on the LG service site.

About the English: Language is only an information carrier. It is the message that is important. But that is my opinion.

tweakradje :

I'm going to perfom some tests this Week End ...

Oui, là...


Oui, je n'avais pas pensé à cela. Problème réglé

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Pas disponible dans les prochains temps >> plus de MP, merci de votre compréhension

Merci
«problème régler»
encore merci

This problem reminds me of a similar problem with the 5045. LiteOn has declared it a Hardware bug of the LSi DMN8652 chip. They solved it in the firmware.

Mpeg compression uses I,P,B frames where P and B frames only use the difference from the previous I frame (Intra = complete image frame)

When splitting at a P or B frame the file (or part of it) was sometimes lost. So with later firmware it was only possible to split on a I frame. Same was applied to chapter marks and pictograms.

Perhaps the RH 7x00 suffers the same problem.

Thanks for trying.

Looks like some users use rather "old" firmware in their RH 7x00.

I see versions like 50308A. The new firmware is 50617A. Remember that the release notes for this latest firmware only hold the latest changes.

So a lot could be improved since 50308A.

- DIVX subtitles disapear BUG should be fixed.

Can someone test this?

Cheers.

Hi tweakradje,

I flashed my RH7800 (which had an old firmware) with the latest firware available from LG.
Well, i m sorry to tell you that none of the bugs (such as divx subtitles staying on screen,fast forward on divx...) is corrected.
So we just have to wait & see for another upgrade

Bummer. Cannot login to the LG service site anymore.
I hope LG will offer new firmware updates on their support website from now on...

tweakradje -> try again, it still works fine for me this morning !!

Thanks. Works again.
The site is for LG personnel only (by the looks of it). So better be careful and not post too much questions there. Otherwise we loose a VERY useful source. Don't know where else to get the latest firmware for the RH 7x00 series.

Yes, LG is not very cool ...

Somebody (on the french topics) flashed his 7800H and noticed that it fixed a HDMI problem.

How to replace your harddisk with a bigger one:

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=257538

The How-To and pictures:

http://www.addison-net.co.uk/dvd/

I think better to use a Maxtor QuickView or a Seagate ACE series. (or other Consumer Electronics version) This due to power and heat requirements.

Cheers

waaoo, what a news !!!

I've forwarded it (and translated it) to the french topic.

We are also looking for some solutions to decrease the noise from the fan ...

It is a 40x40 12V fan?

Is the noise source mechanical or from the wind it produces?

I will also take a look at it when I got the machine delivered.
Thanks.

yes, 40x40 12V.

Next thing is checking if a USB card reader can be attached to the main board of the 7500. The DR7900MH has this feature. Perhaps is a matter of connecting the 4 USB leads from a cheap USB card reader onto the motherboard.
Link to LG DR7900MH

Could be that required chip is missing on the 7500 main board. Who knows?

In poland the RH7900MH is sold with integrated (USB) cardreader.
English manual can be downloaded here: Manual RH7900MH

Anybody investigated this?

Is the DR7900 a the same as a RH7900 without a HDD?

Cheers

Photo

Looks like the Fan mounting is not very wel constructed. Here March 2005 model of 7900H.

The openings near the center are useless. The openings are not where you expect them to be. Isn't it possible to remove the Cap and then screw the Fan directly to the case?

How about the sound then?

Cheers