Thanks Dinderi. I followed your instructions for burning the CD, and the firmware from Hakan is working. The fonts are bigger, only a smaller problem because the letters are at the bottom of the screen, so close to the edge, that I can't see the whole letters(for example "j"; "g" and so one). Can this be resolved, or I need another firmware for this problem?

Try to find out what "chassis" is your TV-set. this is a code that looks like ICC-20 or so. It may be written in user's manual. Then using this chassis, find Service Manual for your TV. There, it is written how to enter Service Mode (usually, it is sequence of keys, to be pushed on TV's panel, or remote control). In service mode you may change picture's settings. I think, the picture in your TV, is set too big, and it needs to be set smaller. That is why, part of a picture is out of the screen.
I suppose, Hakan used in his mod, specific divx subtitle window settings, that should fit every TV.(I did not check it, but I'm more then only "suppose" ) Even those, with the picture set wrong. If those settings are, as I think so, subtitles should be displayed, as on those images:

2 years ago, TV-set on the picture, also had a problem with cutting bottom of subtitle's letters. Now it looks a bit different.
Otherwise, to set subtitles higher, you need to open fw with MTKWindows, find window 0x10 and relocate it up. But if I would have that problem, I would check the picture's settings, first. This will make your movie watching, much better.
Regards

BTW. This is, how subtitles should be displayed, if using my mod for dv-393. Those pictures was taken, to show the subtitle window setting, in Dinderi's mod YDA6824A v.2.0 for Pioneer dv-393.

Thank you, Dinderi

Say me one thing more, in the mtkwindows what is the adress of subtitles position? is 0x10.


Filomeno

I change the fonts in the Hakan firmware and change the color of subtitles. The subtitle change for yellow but with grey shadow. Someone knows how to remove the grey subtitles shadow from DV-393?


Filomeno

What shadow you mean? Font's outline or background?
And which Hakan's Fw you worked on?

Dinderi, your special version contain the CP1252 code for spanish language? or I have to load the other version?

The background shadows like the original FW and I worked in the YDA6824A.V4.0_ENG Hakan´s FW.

Filomeno

Hello all,
Firts of all- thank you for this great work you are doing with developing and testing FW-s!

I am very exited about Pioneer DV 393 and thinking of buying one also for itself.

But first I would like to know your opinion about a "Picture Shift problem: the bottom few lines of the picture are misplaced at the top of the screen", which have been reported on PAL movies- for regular PAL DVD-s and DIVX.

The article about this topics is avaialble here:

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=61831

(at chapter "Video playback: PAL movies")

This review is written on DV 490. But as far as it is very similar to DV 393, I would like to ask your opinion- have you ever saw this "Picture Shift Problem" also on DV 393?

Thank you in advance!

This problems on dv-490 has nothing to do with dv-393. This is a problem with picture, passed through HDMi.
dv-393 has not got HDMi

Hello Dinderi,

Thank you for promt answer!

Sorry- one more "stupid" question: do the modified firmwares (HAKAN V4.0 (26-01-2007) and Dinderi v.2.0) support also Estonian characters in DIVX subtitles: Ü Õ Ö Ä ?

Thank you in advance!

I guess Estonian is the same code page (CP1252) as Sweadish, Finnish, German etc. So, CP1252 is supported by every 'international' mod fw. Hakan's and mine.

Dinderi,

Thanks!
The rigt CP for Estonia and Baltic countries is CP1257....but I checked out that CP1252 contains also these alphabets (Ü Õ Ö Ä), so it should work!

Regards!

We are Baltic country and use 1250
In case it does not work, send me an info I'll try to help.

Andersson2: Täpitähed toimivad Dinderi V2.0 firmwarega ilusti aga on font ikka liiga väike.

Dinderi: I can confirm that Estonian characters (ÜÕÖÄ) are displayed correctly with Your V2.0 international firmware.
However there are other problems. The font is still way too small. actually theres virtually no visible change in font size compared to original Pioneer firmware. I also have a DV470 with firmware by MTZ and font there seems to be a lot bigger.
secondly on a Thomson 20" LCD TV only half of bottom line of subtitles are visible and it doesnt change even if i select 16:9 mode on TV, subtitles get lifted up but bottom line is still cut...

At the end of this week I'll release my mod fw v.3.0 for dv-393. I think, It has been too much time in testing now.
Will also make bigger fonts and subtitles a bit higher.

WOW - thats good news. Ill be looking forward to try it....

Hello everybody, my first post here.

I have Pio 393 and one big problem that has not been mentioned by anyone. On some of divx files subtitles just dont get displayed. They can be selected - you can see there is one because it shows "Subtitles 1/1" but they dont get displayed. And what is more strange if I rename the same files (avi and sub) in some other name it might get displayed. There is no rule that I discovered which names work and which dont. One example is

Movie name CD1.avi
Movie name CD1 hrv.sub ------- not displayed

and on same dvd...

Movie name CD2.avi
Movie name CD2 hrv.sub ------- displayed


P.S. I just wanted to say thanks to everybody doing the hard work on this fws, great job.

To Dinderi:
About your new FW v3.0- does it will have also a subtitle wrap option (if the line is too long for the screen)?


To Graviticvortex:
Aitähh!
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To YeahYeah:
I had experienced similar problems with .sub format subtitles on 2 different divx movies.
My player was Pioneer DV380.
I had checked these subtitles many times but did not find- what is wrong...

I was able to solve it only in way that I had converted the subtitle into .srt format. After that it worked.
Please give it a try- may be you have the same starnge case....

.srt files works best, in Pioneer divx players.
Not line wrapping yet. Sorry for this. I'm not good enough, to do it myself. This is very difficult issue, only to be solved by real code-experts, as f.e Gufiak is.

I modified all files to srt and still the same files didnt get displayed. Really dont know why is that so, and its very strange that noone reported that 'bug' because my friend has also 393 and has the same problem. I noticed one more thing: video that dont show subtitles is hard to FFW and FR it gets stuck after few seconds.

Some videos have realy hard parameters. This may be video or audio virable bitrate or so. F.e. 6+ chanel AC3 audio is such a hard parameter that makes problems to be properly handled by Pioneer. Usualy this is seen when showing (or not showing) subtitles. This problem apeared already on dv-380/585 and seems to be a bit bigger on 393. I use 393 for last couple of months. I also noticed that generaly, dv-393 is worse than older Pioneer's players. Has much more problems in hardware and software. It looks like Pioneer seem to join the group of low quality/low price DVD player's producers.
Also, may be fw for dv393 was written the way that works with subtitles even worse than dv380/585. Every information about those bugs would be very apreciated.

That is the strange part the audio/video parameters are the same for working and not-working file, checked with gspot. Logical conclusion is that there is something wrong with not-working sub, but I just can't find anything except that in some cases renaming both (video and subtitle) could make it work, again no rules.

Could it be that the .sub file that can not be displayed is in Unicode?

You can check it out: open the .sub file using Windows notepad, then select File -> Save As...

In the dialog box that opens, check out the value of the "encoding" pull down menu at the bottom of the dialog box: if it's not ANSI, then the file is Unicode and it won't be played by the pioneer.

In this case to correct the problem, save the file as "ANSI" and then check if it is played back by the pioneer properly.

To: YeahYeah,

If you have problems with FFW and FR, then it could be tied with keyframes....may be the Divx video is not formated in good way?

I would suggest you to do the following: open the video file with Nandub, in opening window select "Pop up extended options" and then in new window select "Re-derive keyframe flags". And then open the video.
Now it will process around 0,5....1 hour with opening the wideo and setting up the keyframes. After that you can save the video.

Now you can try, if FFW, FR and subtitles work work better.

Also, make sure that you have no packed bitstream in video.

Hope, it helps.

if you have problems with FF/REW/GOTO (and maybe disapearing AUDIO) the reason is that some begginers (including coders) use the buggy Nandub.
The solution is to open the movie with VirtualdubMOD and resave the movie (with direct stream copy)



and NEVER USE NANDUB!!!

I made some new little features and fixed bug in Pan&Scan patch, in previous mod firmware

Pioneer dv-393 modded firmware YDA6824A - v.3.0 by Dinderi
New features, added to the this version: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- New icons
- Divx subtitles window moved up
- Disabled play the new file during FF or REW.
- Divx subtitles aligned to the bottom
- Displaing names of subtitles' files in filebrowser
- Displaying files' specific extensions in filebrowser
- The pointer highlights the filename and it's icon.
- Fixed bug of incorrect showing subtitles for DVD when Pan&Scan is set.
- Coursor relocation in some DVD menu bug fixed

And here you may find Serbian&Croatian version:
http://esnips.com/doc/84cae397-295f-416d-b...SerbianCroatian
And International version is here:
http://esnips.com/doc/bf10cece-5324-45d5-8...i-International

Hi Dinderi, I just tried your new FW and the subtitles on DivX are still cut-off on bottom...

I guess, I moved the window at least half a letter up.
Would you send me a picture like that shows how it looks on your tv?

here you go

I moved subtitles window 18 pixals up. Hope this is enough.
But I thing, you should adjust TV picture first. Follow this http://board.softpedia.com/index.php?s=&am...ost&p=24857

Firmware with relocated subtitles window is attached.
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I´ve tried the modified version but it remains the same... Thanks anyway.

And another thing, with this version, "spanish language" for subtitles disappeared and instead there are two "hebrew" options... wired...

And I can´t enter service mode in my TV because I´ve lost the remote...

I think I should buy a brand new TV set...

regards

Where did you buy this DVD (wich country)... smells like asia - it isn't the european model...

Anyway for DivX subtitles English=Spanish=French=... so it doesn't matter what do you select. If you still need "Spanish" (for original DVDs) you can select it via the "Others" menu (without entering codes - just scroll)

I bought it here in Argentina.. No idea which model it is

As for the subs, I noticed that some letters are replaced by strange symbols (specially ñ; ó, á, etc)

Specialy for you, I moved subtitles window 28 pixels up. It means, it is cca 1 character up. It must be enough!
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According to some Robert7 suggestions, I moved that window in bit different way. In case the first one does not work, try this one:
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Thanks a lot Robert.

I can´t thank you enough!! I´ll try it once I get back from work...

THANKS!

Hello, the firmware Sub_window_moved_up_28_pxs___Pioneer_dv_393_YDA6824A_mod_v.3.0_by_Dinderi.rar doesn't show spanish characters in the subtitles like 'ñ', '´', '¿', etc.

If the character you see instead 'ñ' is sort of , I understand the problem. I left original Fontbank for English and Japanese. Use different language (probably Turkish works as CP1252 is set to fontbank10.) Hmm looks like I made a mistake in fonts position, sorry guys. Will correst it bit later.

It worked like a charm!

Please take the time you need to correct the fonts issue...

And what about subtitles position, Janitoxx? Which fix worked?

Yes, I see instead of ñ.
The new subtitles position works fine for me

The second one, with the subtitles window up "in a different way"...

And another thing, the background image appears in black & white, as if it was in NTSC (my TV is PAL-N). But the menu (file browser, initial options) are all in colors..

Unfortunately, I can not remove those files in my previous post. Edit function for this post is unavalible.
So I kindly ask everybody, not to download files attached to this post http://board.softpedia.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=4295&view=findpost&p=25183 , as thay may have problems with corect chars in subtitles.
I changed fonts in my 3.0 mod, I belive thay shoud work fine, now. This is also subtitle window moved up, a lot If anybody need bigger fonts, or just does not like mine, he may prepare his own, using MTKFontCreator and MTKRemaker.
At Font 4 - CP 1253
At Font 7 - CP 1252 - default
At Font 8 - CP 1250
At Font 9 - CP 1251
At Font 10 - CP Hebrew
At Font 11 - CP 1254
Janitoxx, the picture on NTSC is black&white, probably because your TV has no automatic switch. You have to manualy switch it for NTSC.
Nice, avatar anyway

Pioneer dv-393-Firmware-YDA6824A-mod_v.3.0-by_Dinderi-International

And ofcourse, if anybody want to make any changes to this fw, I do not mind at all.
If you make some changes, please leave the track of you, in line 1057 of a language part. Or add an info about what changes were made and who did them.

The firmware works perfectly . But now, .sub subtitles doesn't work

Any details?

The subtitles are recognized by the pioneer but when playing the video, the .sub subtitles (.srt works fine) won't show up. Also I have noticed that fast forward doesn't work with DivX, only work with DVD's

Was it the same movie that worked right on previous mod? Or this is the movie that did not played on previous? Would you please paste some informations about the movie (GSpot report) and an example of subtitles? (would be the best if you paste the sub file as you burned on your record)

Method: I checked both original firmwares: Y3A01160 and YDA6824A; I checked both modded FWs - Dinderi v.2.0 and v.3.0. I used 3 types of ".sub" subtitle files: MicroDVD.sub, SubView.sub and SubSonic.sub.
Conclusion: every fw, supported only MicroDVD.sub files. SubView and SubSonic were not supported.
So, I belive Thandruil may used subtitles of not supported format, or made subtitle filename different than movie name.
There is no difference between original and modded firmware in .sub files .support

I have tried with another .sub and now works fine, but yesterday i had another problem with an .srt subtitle, burning again the DVD fixed the problem. I think that maybe was because it was a multisession DVD.

Letters are fine with the new FW

And as for the .sub subs, I noticed that some work fine and others don´t, so perhaps they were made in an unsupported format...

regards

Hi,

I accidently installed the latest 490 FW on my 393. It works fine but will not upgrade to any 393 FW anymore. (Tried with many FWs, also original one, always getting "Can't read disc" error)

Is it possible this is because I installed the 490 FW? Can I recover from this state?

Thanks!