Philips 5960/12 Firmware. Help With Subtitles., Subtitle font problem. Firmware attached. Options

[Oam]

Hi guys. Attached is the latest official firmware for Philips 5960/12.

I played around with MTKRemaker and Font tool trying to change the subtitle font. I wanted a larger font, no grey background and with black outlining.

I found out that the Font numer 1 is actually used for almost all the text in the player (subtitles, most text in the filebrowser and on-screen messages). This makes it difficult to change it to a very big font because then the other parts would look stupid. Unless the firmware can be hacked to use different fonts for these areas. This I can't do.

Another issue is that the subtitle text has a grey background. Just changing the font isn't going to make it go away I suppose. I tried also MTZs font which looks great in my old player but Philips displays the fonts inverted, meaning the background is still grey and the font itself is white, also the black outlinging of letters.

Of course, also the filebrowser suffers from the 14 character limitation.

So, these are the issues. Are there any good firmware hackers willing to take a look at this little piece of code? Or give instructions.

Attached File(s)

 dvp5960_12_fus_eng.zip ( 1.01MB ) Number of downloads: 1622

 

[myelkovan]

Hi guys. Attached is the latest official firmware for Philips 5960/12.

I played around with MTKRemaker and Font tool trying to change the subtitle font. I wanted a larger font, no grey background and with black outlining.

I found out that the Font numer 1 is actually used for almost all the text in the player (subtitles, most text in the filebrowser and on-screen messages). This makes it difficult to change it to a very big font because then the other parts would look stupid. Unless the firmware can be hacked to use different fonts for these areas. This I can't do.

Another issue is that the subtitle text has a grey background. Just changing the font isn't going to make it go away I suppose. I tried also MTZs font which looks great in my old player but Philips displays the fonts inverted, meaning the background is still grey and the font itself is white, also the black outlinging of letters.

Of course, also the filebrowser suffers from the 14 character limitation.

So, these are the issues. Are there any good firmware hackers willing to take a look at this little piece of code? Or give instructions.

1- make a new and outlined font with mtkfontmaker (Arial narrow 23-24-24-25)
2- Export as a bmp
3- replace gray color with red and black outlined color with blue with photoshop and save
4- import this bmp again with mtkfontcreater and export as a font
5- replace font 2,3,4 with this new font in mtkremarker.

[Oam]

1- make a new and outlined font with mtkfontmaker (Arial narrow 23-24-24-25)
2- Export as a bmp
3- replace gray color with red and black outlined color with blue with photoshop and save
4- import this bmp again with mtkfontcreater and export as a font
5- replace font 2,3,4 with this new font in mtkremarker.

Strangely I couldn't do this with Photoshop elements 3, the Color replace tool just wouldn't work with the BMP! I managed to do it with Irfanview though (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Patched the firmware and flashed it to my player and
- The font background is still grey
- The font outline is still not black
- The font itself is white as supposed to

Maybe the colors weren't exactly the right ones? Got any RGB codes?

Also, because the same font is used in other places the text looks oversized in those areas. This will probably require some advanced firwmare hacking to make the player use a different font for subtitles and screen menus etc.

[naviga70]

Hi guys. Attached is the latest official firmware for Philips 5960/12.

I played around with MTKRemaker and Font tool trying to change the subtitle font. I wanted a larger font, no grey background and with black outlining.

I found out that the Font numer 1 is actually used for almost all the text in the player (subtitles, most text in the filebrowser and on-screen messages). This makes it difficult to change it to a very big font because then the other parts would look stupid. Unless the firmware can be hacked to use different fonts for these areas. This I can't do.

Another issue is that the subtitle text has a grey background. Just changing the font isn't going to make it go away I suppose. I tried also MTZs font which looks great in my old player but Philips displays the fonts inverted, meaning the background is still grey and the font itself is white, also the black outlinging of letters.

Of course, also the filebrowser suffers from the 14 character limitation.

So, these are the issues. Are there any good firmware hackers willing to take a look at this little piece of code? Or give instructions.

You can use This Firmware

This firmware have a big, black outlined and without gray background font for divx subtitle. Fixed only this bug. Tested, not have a problem.

Regards.

This post has been edited by naviga70: Sep 24 2006, 13:25

[Oam]

You can use This Firmware

This firmware have a big, black outlined and without gray background font for divx subtitle. Fixed only this bug. Tested, not have a problem.

Regards.

Thank you! The font looks very nice, just what I was looking for.

Just out of curiosity: how come the font background is different color when opened in the MTKFontCreator (blue) and in the MTKReMaker (rec)? Basic stuff I guess, but I'm new to the subject.

Now, the next step is to find out how to show more characters in the filebrowser...

[angelthepep]

I'm going to buy Philips DVP 5960 DVD player, but since English is not my native language I will be using subtitles a lot, so could you tell me if this firmware shows corectly cyrilic subtitles - font, size, etc. Are the subtitles placed on the black stripe (for movies with 2.4:1 AR). Thank you very much in advance.

[myelkovan]

http://www.turkeyforum.com/satforum/showthread.php?t=225647

http://ultrashare.net/hosting/fl/bceeb075d1

[conkerjoe]

Do you know of any other hacks for the 5960? like turning off the HDCP requirement ?

[Oam]

And I would be pretty happy with a better filebrowser...
Meaning a smaller font, more lines and more characters on screen. Also in USB mode.

I actually requested Philips to make these improvements but they replied that they have no plans on releasing these kind of fixes "for now". They said they will still deliver the message to the tech.department. Yea right.

I guess if many of us request the same things they will take note of it? So fire away, send some emails to Philips (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by Oam: Sep 29 2006, 10:06

[robbynaish]

Hi to all,

I just Got this Player player which has some small bug and im sure the FW could be improved so much. Does anyone already modified the firmware for this player?

(IMG:http://www.consumer.philips.com/catalog/DV/DVP5960_12_webImageFullSize.jpg)

My FW

Versione 12.06.36.24
Sottoversione 00.00.04.05
8032 05.00.06.05
Servo 89.05.20.00
RISC 05.00.06.05
DSP 07.03.00.58
Region 2

Immagine/Display
• D/A converter: 12 bit, 108 MHz
• Picture enhancement: High Def (720p, 1080i), Progressive scan, Smart Picture, Video Upsampling, Video upscaling
Sound
• D/A converter: 24 bit, 192 kHz
• Signal to noise ratio: 100
• Distortion and noise (1kHz): 85 dB
• Crosstalk (1kHz): 100 dB
• Dynamic range (1kHz): 90 dB
• Sound system:: Dolby Digital
• Frequency response:: 30-20,000 Hz
Video playback
• Playback Media: CD, CD-R/CD-RW, CD/SVCD video, DVD, DivX, DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW
• Compression formats: MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX 3,11, DivX 4.x, DivX 5.x, DivX 6.0, DivX Ultra
• Video disc playback system: PAL, NTSC
Audio Playback
• Playback Media:: CD, CD-MP3, DVDMP3,CD-R/RW, WMA-CD
• Compression format:: Dolby Digital, MP3, PCM, WMA
• MP3 bit rates: 32 - 256 kbps
Still picture playback
• Playback Media: DVD+R/+RW, DVDR/-RW, CD-R/RW, CD immagini, CD immagini Kodak
• Picture compression format:: JPEG
• Picture enhancement:: Capovolgimento foto, Rotazione, Zoom, Presentazione con riproduzione MP3, Risoluzione ad alta definizione
Multimedia Applications
• Multimedia connections:: Dispositivo USB memory
• Playback formats:: DivX, MP3, Fermo immagine JPEG



Bug : Rewind always 32x

Bad: No Goto with Divx, slow in changing audio with divx (abt 2 seconds its mute)

Good: Audio Quality, Video. DVD menu wonderful, Foto eccezionali e velocissime nel caricare

Video Test

Lastmanstanding

Menu no
Audio 3
Subtitle 3

DIVX Test v2.0

14 Characters

File Option
OPT-3C = Yes (MP3 ID3 v1 tag display)
OPT-3D = Yes Only Audio (MP3 ID3 v2 tag display)

File-Images
IMG-01 JPG 2 Megapixels Yes
IMG-02 JPG 6 Megapixels Yes
IMG-03 GIF No
IMG-04 BMP No
IMG-05 TIF No
IMG-06 PNG No
IMG-07 PCX No

Compatibility tests : MP3
AUD-1A mp3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (simple mp3 test) Yes
AUD-1B mp3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps VBR (VBR test) Yes
AUD-1C mp3 pro 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (SBR test) P (48khz detection = Yes, otherwise P) Segna 95kbps
AUD-1D mp3 5.1 48KHz 192Kbps CBR (multichannel test) Yes
Compatibility tests: AAC
AUD-2A LC-AAC 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (simple test AAC) No
AUD-2B LC-AAC 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps VBR (VBR test) No
AUD-2C HE-AAC 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (SBR test) (48khz detection = Yes, otherwise P) No
AUD-2D LC-AAC 5.1 48KHz 192Kbps CBR (multichannel test) No
Compatibility tests: WMA9
AUD-3A WMA9 Sdt 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (simple WMA9 test) Yes (segna 97kbps)
AUD-3B WMA9 Sdt 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps VBR (VBR test) Yes (segna 97kbps)
AUD-3C WMA9 Pro 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (WMA9 Pro test) No
AUD-3D WMA9 Pro 5.1 48KHz 192Kbps CBR (multichannel test) No
Compatibility tests: Ogg Vorbis
AUD-4A Ogg Vorbis 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (simple Ogg Vorbis test) No
AUD-4B Ogg Vorbis 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps VBR (VBR test) No
AUD-4C Ogg Vorbis 5.1 48KHz 192Kbps CBR (multichannel test) No
Compatibility tests: Others
AUD-5A AC3 5.1 48KHz 448Kbps CBR (simple DD test) No
AUD-5B DTS 5.1 48KHz 768Kbps CBR (simple DTS test) No
AUD-5C MPC 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps VBR (simple MPC test) No
AUD-5D FLA 2.0 48KHz (simple FLAC test) No

H_Compatibility : supported video codecs (all files included)
MPEG1 and MPEG2
VID-1A VCD MPEG1 1150 Kbps + MP2 224 Kbps (VCD standard with file only compatibility test) Yes
VID-1B SVCD MPEG2 VBR ~1150 Kbps (max 2520 Kbps) + MP2 224 Kbps (SVCD standard with file only
compatibility test) Yes
VID-1C KVCD MPEG2 VBR ~1150 Kbps (max 9800 Kbps) + MP2 192 Kbps (modified MPEG2 KVCD with file
only compatibility test) Yes
VID-1D MPEG2 MP@HL HD 720p 1280*720*60 + AC3 2.0 224 Kbps (standard MPEG2 MP@HL 720p
compatibility test) No
VID-1E MPEG2 MP@HL HD 1080i 1920*1088*30 + AC3 2.0 192 (standard MPEG2 MP@HL 1080i compatibility
test) No
Microsoft MPEG4 (M$ MPEG4 V3, DivX 3.xx, DivX 3 NBC ...)
VID-2A DivX 3 + MP3 CBR (DivX3 compatibility test) Yes
VID-2B DivX 3 Bitrate Crash Test + MP3 CBR(crash test with 4 levels of complexity: write down the last supported bitrate) 6000 Ok
VID-2C DivX 3 High Definition 1280*720 + MP3 CBR (High Definition 720pcompatibility test) No (only Audio)
VID-2D DivX 3 High Definition 1920*1088 + MP3 CBR ((High Definition 1080p compatibility test) No (only Audio)
MPEG4 ASP (XviD, DivX4, DivX5, DivX6, 3ivX, NeroDigital ASP ...)
VID-3A MPEG4 ASP 4CC DivX + MP3 CBR ((simple DivX codec compatibility test)) Yes
VID-3B MPEG4 ASP 4CC XviD + MP3 CBR (simple XviD codec compatibility test) Yes
VID-3C MPEG4 ASP Bframes + MP3 CBR Write down the number of b-frames supported (1/2/3)
(multi-bframe without packet bitstream compatibility test) Tutti
VID-3D MPEG4 ASP Bframes packet bitstream + MP3 CBR Write down the number of b-frames supported
(1/2/3) (multi-bframe with packet bitstream compatibility test) Tutti
VID-3E MPEG4 ASP Custom Matrix + MP3 CBR (custom matrix compatibility test) Yes
VID-3F MPEG4 ASP Qpel + MP3 CBR (Qpel compatibility test) Yes
VID-3G MPEG4 ASP GMC 1 WP & 3 WP + MP3 CBR Write down the number of warp supported: 0/1/3
(GMC 1 & 3 warp points (DivX & XviD) compatibility test)) Tutti anche se al terzo scrive “Risoluzione Video Non supportata
VID-3H MPEG4 ASP Bitrate Crash Test + MP3 CBR CBR (crash test with 4 levels of complexity: write down the last supported bitrate) 4500 Yes
VID-3I MPEG4 ASP High Definition 1280*720 (High Definition 720p compatibility test) No (only Audio)
VID3J MPEG4 ASP High Definition 1920*1088 (High Definition 1080p compatibility test) No (only Audio)
MPEG4 AVC (Nero AVC, x264, Quick Time AVC, MainConcept AVC, Sorensen AVC ...)
VID-4A MPEG4 AVC Main Profil + LC-AAC CBR (H264 Main Profile compatibility test) No
VID-4B MPEG4 AVC High Profil + LC-AAC CBR (H264 High Profile compatibility test) No
VID-4C MPEG4 AVC Bframe + LC-AAC CBR (multi-bframe compatibility test) No
VID-4D MPEG4 AVC Reference Frame + LC-AAC CBR (multi-reference frame compatibility test) No
VID-4E MPEG4 AVC Cabac + LC-AAC CBR (Cabac compatibility test) No
VID-4F MPEG4 AVC weighted prediction + LC-AAC CBR (weighted prediction compatibility test) No
VID-4G MPEG4 AVC with quantization matrix + LC-AAC CBR (Custom quant matrix compatibility test) No
VID-4H MPEG4 AVC Bitrate Crash Test + LC-AAC CBR 750/1500/3000/6000
(crash test with 4 levels of complexity: write down the last supported bitrate) No
VID-4I MPEG4 AVC High Definition 1280*720 + LC-AAC CBR (High Definition 720p compatibility test) No
VID-4J MPEG4 AVC High Definition 1920*1088 + LC-AAC CBR (High Definition 1080p compatibility test)No
Microsoft WMV9 or VC-1
VID-5A WMV9 MP@ML + WMA9 sdt CBR (WMV9 compatibility test) No
VID-5B MPEG4 AVC Bitrate Crash Test + LC-AAC CBR 750/1500/3000/6000
(crash test with 4 levels of complexity: write down the last supported bitrate) No
VID-5C WMV9 MP@HP High Definition 1280*720 + WMA9 sdt CBR (High Definition 720p compatibility test)
No
VID-5D WMV9 MP@HP High Definition 1920*1088 + WMA9 sdt CBR (High Definition 1080p compatibility test)
No

I_Compatibility : video containers ans « bivx » tests (all files included)
AVI Containers
CONT-1A MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (simple AVI container compatibility test) Yes
CONT-1B MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps VBR (mp3 vbr audio-video synch test) Yes
CONT-1C MPEG4 ASP + AC3 5.1 48KHz 384 Kbps CBR (multichannel test) Yes – Low volume
CONT-1D MPEG4 ASP + Multiple MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (MP3 multi audio test – 3 audio tracks) Yes
CONT-1E MPEG4 ASP + Multiple AC3 5.1 (multi-audio with multichannel AC3 test – 3 audio tracks) Yes Low volume
CONT-1F MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR + Multiple subtitles (AVI subtitles test – 3 subtitle tracks)Yes
CONT-1G MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR + chapter (AVI Chapter test – 3 chapters) Yes without Chapters
CONT-1H MPEG4 ASP + Multiple MP3 2.0 CBR + Multiple subtitles + Chapter + Menu (AVI menus test) Yes Without Chapter e Menu
CONT-1I MPEG4 ASP + DXAudio 2.0 CBR (DivX audio test = old WMA) Yes
CONT-1J MPEG4 ASP + Multi DXAudio 2.0 CBR (multi-audio with DivX audio test) – 3 audio tracks) Yes
DivX Container (DivX6 standard)
CONT-2A MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (simple DivX container compatibility test) Yes
CONT-2B MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps VBR (mp3 vbr audio-video synch test) Yes
CONT-2C MPEG4 ASP + AC3 5.1 48KHz 384 Kbps CBR (multichannel test) Yes Low volume
CONT-2D MPEG4 ASP + Multiple MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (multi-audio with MP3 2.0 test – 3 audio tracks) Yes
CONT-2E MPEG4 ASP + Multiple AC3 5.1 (multi-audio with multichannel AC3 test– 3 audio tracks) – 3 AC3 tracks) Yes Low volume
CONT-2F MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR + Multiple subtitles (Divx6 subtitles test – 3 subtitle tracks)
Yes Subtitlei out of screen
CONT-2G MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR + chapter (chapter test – 3 chapters) Yes without Chapters
CONT-2H MPEG4 ASP + Multiple MP3 2.0 CBR + Multiple subtitles + Chapter + Menu (divx6 menu test) Yes without chapter e Menu
MP4 Container (MPEG4 official standard, Nero Digital)
CONT-3A MPEG4 ASP + LC-AAC 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (simple MP4 container compatibility test) No
CONT-3B MPEG4 ASP + LC-AAC 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps VBR (AAC VBR audio-video synch test) No
CONT-3C MPEG4 ASP + LC-AAC 5.1 48KHz 192Kbps CBR (multichannel AAC test l) No
CONT-3D MPEG4 ASP + Multiple LC-AAC 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (multi-audio AAC test– 2 audio tracks) No
CONT-3E MPEG4 ASP + Multiple LC-AAC 5.1 48KHz 192Kbps CBR (test du multi-audio en AAC multicanal – 2
pistes) No
CONT-3F MPEG4 ASP + LC-AAC 2.0 + Multiple subtitles (Nero Digital subtitles test – 2 subtitle tracks) No
CONT-3G MPEG4 ASP + LC-AAC 2.0 + chapter (chapter test – 3 chapters) No
MKV Container (Matroska)
CONT-4A MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (simple MKV container compatibility test) No
CONT-4B MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps VBR (test de synchro audio-video avec MP3 VBR) No
CONT-4C MPEG4 ASP + AC3 5.1 (multichannel AC3 test) No
CONT-4D MPEG4 ASP + Multiple MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (multi-audio MP3 2.0 test – 3 audio tracks) No
CONT-4E MPEG4 ASP + Multiple AC3 5.1 Eng (multi-audio iwith multichannel AC3 test – 3 audio tracks) No
CONT-4F MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR + Multiple subtitles (Matroska subtitles test – 3 subtitle
tracks) No
CONT-4G MPEG4 ASP + MP3 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR + chapter (chapter test – 3 chapters) Y No
OGM Container
CONT-5A MPEG4 ASP + Ogg Vorbis 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (Simple OGM container compatibility test) No
CONT-5B MPEG4 ASP + Ogg Vorbis 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps VBR (Ogg Vorbis VBR audio-video synch test) No
CONT-5C MPEG4 ASP + Ogg Vorbis 5.1 48KHz 192Kbps CBR (multichannel Ogg Vorbis test) No
CONT-5D MPEG4 ASP + Multiple Ogg 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (multi-audio with Ogg Vorbis 2.0 test – 3 audio tracks)
No
CONT-5E MPEG4 ASP + Multiple Ogg Vorbis 5.1 (multi-audio with multichannel Ogg Vorbis – 3 audio tracks) No
CONT-5F MPEG4 ASP + Ogg Vorbis 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR + Multiple subtitles (OGM subtitles test – 3 subtitle
tracks) No
CONT-5G MPEG4 ASP + Ogg Vorbis 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR + chapter (chapter test – 3 chapters) No
WMV Container (Microsoft standard)
CONT-6A WMV9 + WMA9 sdt 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (simple WMV container compatibility test) No
CONT-6B WMV9 + WMA9 sdt 48KHz 96Kbps VBR (WMA9 VBR audio-video synch test) No
CONT-6C WMV9 + WMA9 pro 5.1 48KHz 192Kbps CBR (multichannel WMA9 test) No
CONT-6D WMV9 + Multiple WMA9 sdt 2.0 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (multi-audio stereo WMA9 test – 2 audio tracks)
No
CONT-6E WMV9 + Multiple WMA9 pro 5.1 48KHz 96Kbps CBR (multi-audio multichannel WMA9 test – 2 audio
tracks) No

J_Compatibility : separated subtitle files tests (for *.avi containers)
(all files supplied except SUB-09 and SUB-11)
SUB-01 SubRip .srt without tags Yes
SUB-02 SubRip .srt with tags Yes
SUB-03 MicroDVD .sub Yes
SUB-04 SubStation Alpha .ssa Yes
SUB-05 SAMI .smi Yes
SUB-06 SAMI .smi multi-languages (2 languages) Yes
SUB-07 Original DVD subtitles .sub + .idx Yes
SUB-08 Multiple subtitles (SubRip in separated .srt files– 2 languages) Yes
SUB-10 Display of accents/special characters Yes
SUB-12 Viewable Character lengths - Write the exact maximum number of characters displayed by line - 43
SUB-13 Number of lines displayed - Write the number of lines displayed during the test (1/2/3) - 3

Last FW

I hope i copied all…. i got this Player only yesterday afternoon

Thanks in advance

Alex

This post has been edited by robbynaish: Oct 5 2006, 18:43

[Oam]

Hi to all,

I just Got this Player player which has some small bug and im sure the FW could be improved so much. Does anyone already modified the firmware for this player?

My FW

Versione 12.06.36.24
Sottoversione 00.00.04.05
8032 05.00.06.05
Servo 89.05.20.00
RISC 05.00.06.05
DSP 07.03.00.58
Region 2

Last FW

I hope i copied all…. i got this Player only yesterday afternoon

Thanks in advance

Alex

Check out this thread. It has links to the latest firmware with a better subtitle font modification. Nothing else is changed.

http://board.softpedia.com/index.php?showtopic=4372

This players is still very new, I'm sure we will see many great firmwares to come.

This post has been edited by Oam: Oct 6 2006, 07:48

[Ge0force]

You can use This Firmware

This firmware have a big, black outlined and without gray background font for divx subtitle. Fixed only this bug. Tested, not have a problem.

Regards.

I am VERY interested in this firmware, but the download link doesn't work. Is it possible to post it as attachement on this forum or mail it to me?

And is this only a Turkish firmware or also English or Dutch?

[EDIT] Download works now! Firmware is in English and subs are perfect! Just pitty they are a little close to the screen bottom...

This post has been edited by Ge0force: Oct 29 2006, 13:28

[wireless2104]

I made firmware with 1250 fonts (no gray background,31) and with new skin (edited background from Laza http://www2.freeweb.hu/lazadezign/index.htm)

Player always use font 1 [00-01] for menu and subtitle. Does anyone know how to change firmware to use other fonts?

[Oam]

Nice work Wireless.

It's really annoying that the same font is being used in both subtitles and in the menus/browser. This practically prevents one making a very small font for the filebrowser. At least my skills aren't good enough to hack the firmware to use another font for menus and filebrowser.

[wireless2104]

New firmware:

- 1250 subtitle fonts, white (no gray background,32).
- new osd font (no gray background,30, only english)
- long file names in browser (length 34, no extensions, no jpg preview)
- new skin fixed

Note : Still same font for browser and subtitles; ID3 tag mess browser. If someone can help? How to change coordinates of ID3 tag and move tags to bottom?

@Oam: Thanks. I hope someone will help with this.

[naviga70]

Thanks wireless2104, long file name support in file browser is a great job!

[hamaru05]

New firmware:

- 1250 subtitle fonts, white (no gray background,32).
- new osd font (no gray background,30, only english)
- long file names in browser (length 34, no extensions, no jpg preview)
- new skin fixed

Note : Still same font for browser and subtitles; ID3 tag mess browser. If someone can help? How to change coordinates of ID3 tag and move tags to bottom?

@Oam: Thanks. I hope someone will help with this.

Is it possible for you to make an American(5960/37) version of this? I actually tried this version and it messed it up the picture quality-everything was scrambled, I had to revert back to using my old firmware. I would be grateful for your assistance.

[wireless2104]

Is it possible for you to make an American(5960/37) version of this? I actually tried this version and it messed it up the picture quality-everything was scrambled, I had to revert back to using my old firmware. I would be grateful for your assistance.

I am new to disassembling, only five days of experience (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) So, I don't know how to do it, believe me, I am walking in the dark here. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Maybe You just need to switch tv type: setup->2 times right -> 1 down -> ok -> 2 down -> ok -> 1 left -> ok

[hamaru05]

I am new to disassembling, only five days of experience (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) So, I don't know how to do it, believe me, I am walking in the dark here. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Maybe You just need to switch tv type: setup->2 times right -> 1 down -> ok -> 2 down -> ok -> 1 left -> ok

5 days experience? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) wow, except for the fact that my picture was scrambled and there was no sound, I was able to see the subtitles well. You did a great job with only 5 days working on something like this. I actually tried to do this myself--I am a total newbie to this as well. May you could explain to me the steps that you took to make the adjustments to your firmware file or perhaps a link to a tutorial for this? Thanks again.

[wireless2104]

5 days experience? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) wow, except for the fact that my picture was scrambled and there was no sound, I was able to see the subtitles well. You did a great job with only 5 days working on something like this. I actually tried to do this myself--I am a total newbie to this as well. May you could explain to me the steps that you took to make the adjustments to your firmware file or perhaps a link to a tutorial for this? Thanks again.

Well, there is no universal tutorial. I read some documents from

http://personal.inet.fi/cool/mediatek/documents/index.html
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mt13x9/
http://www.8052.com/tutorial.phtml

After that, I searched for locations in firmware. You can extract 8032 pages 1 and 3 with MTKReMaker from my firmware and compare with yours with UltraCompare. If you find that they have 3-4 different values just PM me locations and I'll send you hex value.

Someone else (naviga70?) made white text patch (compare bank3, 3b84 orig 30->50, 3b87 orig 01 -> 0A). I don't know is this safe to change in your firmware. I made long filenames, 1250 fonts and new skin.

This post has been edited by wireless2104: Nov 4 2006, 21:58

[hamaru05]

Well, there is no universal tutorial. I read some documents from

http://personal.inet.fi/cool/mediatek/documents/index.html
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mt13x9/
http://www.8052.com/tutorial.phtml

After that, I searched for locations in firmware. You can extract 8032 pages 1 and 3 with MTKReMaker from my firmware and compare with yours with UltraCompare. If you find that they have 3-4 different values just PM me locations and I'll send you hex value.

Someone else (naviga70?) made white text patch (compare bank3, 3b84 orig 30->50, 3b87 orig 01 -> 0A). I don't know is this safe to change in your firmware. I made long filenames, 1250 fonts and new skin.

This is beyond my knowledge of programming, but I do find this very interesting. Well, I don't really understand what I am suppose to look for from the pages 1 and 3 files, but I do see some differences. I've never used ultracompare before and I only used ultraEdit for webprogramming so I'm not sure how I'm supposed to read these bin files. So far, all I've done was replace some of font files in my firmware with a version of yours and just save to cd using mtkremaker. The cd would show up as "unknown" from the dvd player. I'm pretty sure I'm missing a step somewhere in remaking the bin file. Could you explain about how to look at "bank3"?

[tolchuk]

Just to save anyone else the trouble. I compared the changed code between wireless2104's firmware and the original 5960/12 (sixteen differences) and changed those same areas on the 5960/37 (the weird thing was after replacing bank 1 and 3 and saving the bin I had 19 differences instead of 16, but I thought maybe the checksum?). Firmware upgraded fine, but the file browser is still stuck at 8 characters. Wish I knew more about how to fix it, but that's as far as I've got so far. Thanks wireless2104 for the help and heads up on more resources.

hamaru05,

Not sure if I'm doing it right, but I just right click bank 3 and save that 64k section of code to view it by itself.

This post has been edited by tolchuk: Nov 5 2006, 14:04

[hamaru05]

Just to save anyone else the trouble. I compared the changed code between wireless2104's firmware and the original 5960/12 (sixteen differences) and changed those same areas on the 5960/37 (the weird thing was after replacing bank 1 and 3 and saving the bin I had 19 differences instead of 16, but I thought maybe the checksum?). Firmware upgraded fine, but the file browser is still stuck at 8 characters. Wish I knew more about how to fix it, but that's as far as I've got so far. Thanks wireless2104 for the help and heads up on more resources.

hamaru05,

Not sure if I'm doing it right, but I just right click bank 3 and save that 64k section of code to view it by itself.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I've yet to be able to replace the modified bank 3 file with mtkremaker as suggested by wireless2104. The replace function is grayed-out, which was why I've only been replacing Data Part with the modified fonts from wirless2104's firmware.

Thanks for your's and wireless2104's help though.

[tolchuk]

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I've yet to be able to replace the modified bank 3 file with mtkremaker as suggested by wireless2104. The replace function is grayed-out, which was why I've only been replacing Data Part with the modified fonts from wirless2104's firmware.

Thanks for your's and wireless2104's help though.

hamaru05,

You have to enable "expert" mode under the Help in MTKReMaker. There's a warning for people like us who probably shouldn't be tinkering, but... I haven't compared wireless's bank 3 code with the bank 3 from the 5960/37, but the direct comparison code was so different I was afraid to just substitute the whole thing. I'll take a look at it. Let me know if you make any headway.

[tolchuk]

To wireless or anyone who has loaded his firmware:

Does the long file name support work through the USB? I figured the file browsers used the same code, but the firmware I made does support long file names on a DVD or CD, but not through USB. Thanks.

This post has been edited by tolchuk: Nov 6 2006, 11:13

[danix]

All of you Philips 5960 owners I have a good news. I send mail to Philips customer service in Germany, explaining that subtitle fonts for divx subtitles are not working, that the player always uses the OSD font for subtitles. They're respond the next day telling me that they're gonna try to fix this problem. Their answers were very kind and they've said that the're sorry for this incovienece and that they will present this problem to their software developers. So, I think that new firmware will arrive to fix this bug. They've also told me to regullary check the www.p4c.philips.com for software.
Such a good care for customers and professionalism is rare this days, especially for customer who bought their product costing only 85€.
Bravo Philips!

BR

[mono-poly]

Does anyone got a clue how i need to play a divx file with subs?
Just put a divx and the subs together on my usb stick?

[phunkyfish]

First of all I would like to thank wireless for his firmware and might I say great work!!!

I have the firmware running on my 5960. But the filebrowser mod does not seem to extend to the usb interface. Works great for DVD discs though.

I figure since it only took you 5 days to create this mod we should expect a usb version in let's say another 5 days? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

If you manage it you'll the first person to do it!!! Not to worry if you don't what you've done so far is brilliant.

Thanks

[wireless2104]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Thank you phunkyfish, but I just followed instructions from documents I found in mt13x9 yahoo group.

Someone wrote that firmware doesn't have code for handling long filenames on usb.

I'll just try to transfer some other hacks from firmwares to this one.

[phunkyfish]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Thank you phunkyfish, but I just followed instructions from documents I found in mt13x9 yahoo group.

Someone wrote that firmware doesn't have code for handling long filenames on usb.

I'll just try to transfer some other hacks from firmwares to this one.

No worries, I'll keep my eyes on this post to see if you come up with anything!

[phunkyfish]

Does anyone got a clue how i need to play a divx file with subs?
Just put a divx and the subs together on my usb stick?

If it's an avi file then just put them together on your usb stick. You should then have an avi, idx and sub files together. The names of the files must be the same (less the extensions of course) and the filename length must be less than 42 characters.

If your video file has a .divx extension then you must somehow combine the subs in with the divx file. That's all the .divx extension is, a container for avi, subs and other information...

I've had some luck with "Avi Sub" in the past: http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAviSub.html

[kilokhan]

Will this works on 5965/98k ?ASIAN version.
i burn the .bin files downloaded here on a cd-rw and it shows UNKNOWN. Did i do anything wrong ?

[wireless2104]

There is a big chance to kill your player!!!

If you want to risk, burn cd (cd-r) with this options:
- no multisessions
- file system: iso 9660+ joliet
- label: Philips
- write speed: 4x
- write method: disc-at-once, finalize disc

This post has been edited by wireless2104: Nov 9 2006, 16:59

[hamaru05]

wireless2104,

I've tried burning the firmware the same way it still came up 'unknown'. I managed to install your version of the bin by changing name from dvp5960_12.bin to dvp5960_37.bin for my player-this was how I did it the first time. Unfortunately, 5960/12 firmware will scramble the picture and have no sound on my dvd player, but at least I could see subtitles clearly.

To revert back to the proper firmware, I changed the name dvp5960_37.bin to dvp5960_12.bin. The disc loaded and upgraded back to what I had before.

Well, I'll keep reading up on those documents you posted, hopefully I can make some progress in at least getting subtitles without grey backgrounds for my firmware.



This post has been edited by hamaru05: Nov 9 2006, 19:51

[wireless2104]

I managed to install your version of the bin by changing name from dvp5960_12.bin to dvp5960_37.bin for my player-this was how I did it the first time.

Yes, I forgot about this. You need to rename it.

Try this firmware. I hope I fixed subtitles:

This one have new skin:



This post has been edited by wireless2104: Nov 9 2006, 21:45

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[masa2]

Great job for long filenames support! I am now fighting with HDMI output which does not allow to use 720P mode, is there any changes to forget all EDID data which come from my projector via cable to 5960 by firmware modding? I'll preciate a lot if somebody could help with this problem. My model is 5960/12. These HDMI problems are very common because projectors and monitors have not so well done edid data and of course problem could exists inside dvd player also (or worst case: both have bugs).

Best solution would be if you could force through all output resolutions by pressing the upscaling button front of 5960.

This post has been edited by masa2: Nov 9 2006, 22:56

[masa2]

Great job for long filenames support! I am now fighting with HDMI output which does not allow to use 720P mode, is there any changes to forget all EDID data which come from my projector via cable to 5960 by firmware modding? I'll preciate a lot if somebody could help with this problem. My model is 5960/12. These HDMI problems are very common because projectors and monitors have not so well done edid data and of course problem could exists inside dvd player also (or worst case: both have bugs).

Best solution would be if you could force through all output resolutions by pressing the upscaling button front of 5960.

Best regards,

masa2

[kilokhan]

wireless- is it posible for you to edit/change what u did on the 5960 firmware to 5965/98k ??
probally is the same i guess.

[Ge0force]

Great job wireless! Please go on exploring the firmware to make some more improvements. Keep up the good work!

A suggestion: Is it possible to use a narrow font for the subtitles? All my .srt files are up to 48 characters in one line, and they don't fit on the screen on a 4:3 resolution.

And is there a chance to fix the rewind bug (always 32 speed) ?

[wireless2104]

New official firmware for dvp5960/12 is out (12.06.36.37). Fixed DivX Subtitle.

Check http://www.p4c.philips.com