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EP950 Digital Media Player
Owner's Manual
Thank you for purchasing a Micca product. Should you need any
assistance, please contact our technical support before returning the
product to the retailer. Email
support@miccastore.com
Product information, firmware updates, and common questions and
answers can be found at:
http://content.miccastore.com/
Copyright © 2009-2012 Micca, Ltd. All rights reserved.
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  • Page 1 EP950 Digital Media Player Owner’s Manual Thank you for purchasing a Micca product. Should you need any assistance, please contact our technical support before returning the product to the retailer. Email support@miccastore.com Product information, firmware updates, and common questions and answers can be found at: http://content.miccastore.com/...
  • Page 2 1 Introduction 1.1 Preface Thank you very much for purchasing this media player. We hope you will enjoy using it as a great home entertainment device. This player has the following functionality: 1.1.1 A/V Output HDMI for high-definition video and digital audio Composite &...

  • Page 3: Packing List

    1.2 Packing List Part Quantity Player Remote Control AC/DC Adaptor User Manual (printed) Note: The actual contents in the package might be different from the packing list in this manual. 1.3 Precautions This player’s design has your safety in mind. In order to safely and effectively use this player, please read the following before usage.
  • Page 4 1.3.6 Hard Disk Cautions The player uses an internal hard disk for data storage. New hard drives need to be properly formatted prior to use. Users should carefully read the Frequently Asked Questions chapter and check our website for latest information before formatting the hard disk. Physical impact may damage the hard disk drive.

  • Page 5: Front Panel

    2 Player and Remote Overview 2.1 Front Panel Name Description On/Stand-By Button Turns the player on or places it into stand-by mode Player Control Buttons For operating the player without the remote control IR Sensor The sensor for receiving remote control commands VFD Display Shows basic player status and current time.

  • Page 6: Remote Control

    USB 3.0 Used to connect the player to a PC and copy media files to or from the player’s internal hard drive. COAXIAL S/PDIF coaxial digital audio output to a home theater receiver with coaxial audio input. VIDEO/L/R Composite video and analog Left/Right audio output to a TV or home theater with analog AV input.
  • Page 7 Button Description POWER Press to power on/off the player. COLOR BUTTONS Context buttons; Function will be noted when available. EJECT Press to stop a storage device for safe removal. Turns ON or OFF the VFD light on the front panel. TIMER Sets the timer for auto power off.
  • Page 8 Press to access the Internet Media Service menu. REWIND Press to rewind the current playback. Press repeatedly to change rewind speed. FAST FORWARD Press to fast forward the current playback. Press repeatedly to change fast forward speed. PLAY/PAUSE Press to begin or pause playback. STOP Press to stop playback.

  • Page 9: Basic Connections

    3 Connections 3.1 Basic Connections 3.1.1 Connecting the Power Supply To connect power to the player: 1) Connect the barrel connector of the AC adapter to the player’s DC IN jack 2) Connect the plug of the AC adapter to the power outlet 3.1.2 Installing an Internal Hard Disk Drive The player has an internal drive bay for holding a hard disk drive.

  • Page 10: Audio And Video Connections

    3.1.5 Connecting a USB Storage Device Storage devices such as USB hard drives or flash drives can be connected to the player for playback of media files. 1) Plug in the USB device to one of the USB HOST ports on the left side of the player. 2) After about 5-10 seconds, the USB drive will be detected and can be accessed through the player.

  • Page 11: Network Connections

    3.2.2 Digital Audio Connection When using a home theater receiver or sound system that lacks HDMI input, the player’s coaxial or optical digital audio output can be used. 1) Plug one end of the coaxial or Toslink optical cable to the player’s digital audio jack. 2) Plug the other end of the coaxial or Toslink optical cable to the home theater receiver or sound system’s digital audio input jack.
  • Page 12 1) Plug one end of a Cat5/5e/6 Ethernet network cable to the player’s LAN jack. 2) Plug the other end of the Cat5/5e/6 Ethernet network cable to an available port on a LAN switch, router, or networked wall plate. The player auto detects LAN network settings in most cases without requiring any additional configuration.

  • Page 13: First Time Startup

    4 First Time Startup 4.1 Power On After connecting the AC power adapter to the player’s DC IN jack, turn on the player by press the POWER button on the front of the player or on the remote control. To turn the player off, press the POWER button on the front of the player or on the remote control again.

  • Page 14: Main Menu

    4.3 Main Menu When the initial setup is complete, the player will display the main menu. The main menu contains a row of menu items that represents functions available for access. The main menu items have the following functionality: Menu Item Description Movies Browse and play video files on attached storage devices through the...

  • Page 15: File Manager

    5 File Manager The file manager is the default method for browse media files on hard drives, USB drives, flash memory cards, network folder shares, or UPnP servers. Media files will be organized in their original folder structure. The file manager can also be used to copy/move/rename/delete files. To access the file manager, select the File Manager icon from the main menu and press OK/ENTER on the remote control.
  • Page 16 are available: Thumbnail, List, and Preview. To change the display mode, press the MENU button on the remote to bring up the options menu and select the desired display mode 5.1.1 Thumbnail View Thumbnail view displays folders and media files as thumbnails on the screen with a partial file name underneath.
  • Page 17 5.1.3 Preview In preview mode, folders and media files are displayed as a list on the right side of the screen and a preview window on the left side. When a folder or media file is highlighted in the list, the preview window displays a thumbnail or video preview.
  • Page 18 at the following URL: http://content.miccastore.com/node/230 To browse for media files in shared folders on the local area network, elect “Network” from the file manager device list. On the next screen, select WORKGROUP and a list of available host names will be shown. Select one of the host names and all available folder shares from that host will be displayed.
  • Page 19 Use the directional LEFT/RIGHT and UP/DOWN buttons on the remote control to select folders or files and press OK/ENTER to enter a folder. To exit from a folder, press the RETURN button. To play a media file, highlight it and press the OK/ENTER button. Because UPnP servers acts as a streaming server and not provide direct access to the underlying media files, some playback features may not be available depending on the UPnP server.
  • Page 20 5.5 File Operations, Playlists, Photo Albums The file manager contains additional functionalities, such as file copying/deleting/renaming, and creation of playlists and photo albums. 5.5.1 Single File Operations To access the file operations menu, highlight a file or folder and press the GREEN button on the remote control.
  • Page 21 menu. The multi-file operations menu will display: The multi-file operations menu has two sections, the right section is a file/folder browser box, the left section shows files and folders that have been selected. While in the multi-file operations menu, the following remote control commands are available: Button Description RETURN...
  • Page 22 Setting Description Copy Copy the list of files or folders – the user will be prompted to select the destination location Delete Delete the list of files or folders Move Move the list of files or folders – the user will be prompted to select the destination location Save Playlist If the list of files or folders contains music files, they can be added...

  • Page 23: Media Library

    6 Media Library The player has a media library feature for organizing media files on storage devices attached to the player. Within the media library, all media files are organized by type (video, music, or photo), and a search function is available for quickly locating specific files or groups of files, even when there are tens of thousands of files.
  • Page 24 recommended that all boxes should be checked. Next, the player will begin scanning and indexing the media files on the selected storage devices. When finished, the main menu will be displayed. The media library is now ready for use. You may now select Movies, Music, or Photos from the main menu to access media files. 6.2 Media Library –...
  • Page 25 6.4 Media Library – Movies After selecting the Movies icon from the main menu, the media library screen will show all movies found on attached storage devices. For example, if the internal hard disk drive contains 20 movies and an attached external USB drive contains 10 movies, all 30 movies will be shown together on the same screen if both drives were selected when setting up the media library.
  • Page 26 6.5 Media Library – Music After selecting the Music icon from the main menu, the media library screen will show all music files found on attached storage devices. For example, if the internal hard disk drive contains 20 music files and an attached external USB drive contains 10 music files, all 30 music files will be shown together if both drives were selected when setting up the media library.
  • Page 27 Name Sort music files by name 6.6 Media Library – Photos After selecting the Photos icon from the main menu, the media library screen will be shown. By default, photos will be shown in Leaf Folder View mode, where folders are arranged based on their folder.
  • Page 28 7 Playing Movies, Music, and Viewing Photos After finding a media file to play using the file manager or media library, a variety of convenient playback controls are available. 7.1 Playing Movies 7.1.1 Playback Controls During video playback, the following remote control commands are available: Button Description PLAY/PAUSE...
  • Page 29 7.1.2 Movies Settings Menu During video playback, additional controls are available through the movie settings menu. To access the settings menu, press the MENU button while a video is playing. The available settings have the following functionality: Setting Description BD Navigation Access the BD navigation menu.
  • Page 30 Swap L&R – Swap the left and right frames for current 3D video. Depth – Adjust the 3D effect depth for 3D Simulated playback. 7.1.3 Subtitles When subtitles are available for the currently playing video, pressing the SUBTITLE button on the remote control will cycle through the available subtitle tracks.
  • Page 31 Setting Description Subtitle I/II The player can display two different subtitles at the same time. For example, both the English and Spanish subtitles can be displayed at the same time. Therefore two subtitle settings menus are available. Subtitle Track Displays a list of available subtitles for the current video. The current subtitle is highlighted in yellow.

  • Page 32: Playing Music

    7.2 Playing Music During music playback, the following remote control commands are available: Button Description PLAY/PAUSE Press to begin playback, press again to pause. STOP Press to stop playback. FAST FORWARD Press to fast forward the current playback. Press repeatedly to change fast forward speed.
  • Page 33 NEXT Press to go to the next photo. ZOOM When not viewing a slideshow, press to zoom in or out the image. DISPLAY Press to display information about the current photo. The photo settings menu provides on-screen access to additional photo viewing options. To use the photo settings menu, press the MENU button while viewing a photo full screen.

  • Page 34: Additional Features

    “Network” item in the left column. A list of detected network devices will be listed on the right. 2) Find the DLNA Device Name that was configured for the player (“EP950” by default), right-click on it, and select “Install” from the context menu. The player will now be installed as a recognized DLNA DMR device.

  • Page 35: Bittorrent Client

    Internet sites, or local UPnP servers. 4) After selecting a media file to play, iMediaShre lists available DLNA DMR devices detected, which should include “EP950” (or the DLNA Device Name configured). 5) Select the player as the playback device.
  • Page 36 a. User Name: admin b. Password: 123 5) Click on the “BitTorrent Download link. 6) The BitTorrent screen will be displayed. 7) Click “Add new torrent” to add a new torrent file for downloading. 8) Click “Browse” and locate the torrent file on the computer. 9) Select the Device/Partition to save the downloaded files to.

  • Page 37: Web Browser

    Setting Access the BitTorrent client settings menu Add new torrent Add a new torrent file for download The BitTorrent client settings menu provide configurations for how the client functions when downloading torrents. The available settings are as follows: Setting Description Max download The maximum download rate in KB/s.
  • Page 38 To input text, first click on the text box using the mouse, then press OK/ENTER on the remote control to bring up the mini on-screen keyboard. Use the remote control to enter characters. If a USB keyboard is attached to the player, text can be typed in from the keyboard while the mini on-screen keyboard is displayed.
  • Page 39 Use the UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT and ENTER buttons on the remote to browse different content providers. Note: The availability of Internet media content depends on providers, their policy, state of their equipment, and their network interface. There are no guarantees that the Internet media content provider links will play or will continue to play in the future.

  • Page 40: System Settings

    9 Settings The Setup menu allows users to personalize and configure usage preferences for the player. To go into the setup menu, select the Setup icon on the main menu, or press the SETUP button on the remote control. Use the directional LEFT/RIGHT and UP/DOWN buttons on the remote control to select options and press OK/ENTER to confirm.
  • Page 41 Japanese (S-JIS), Korean (EUC-KR), Western, Turkish, Central European, South-East European, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic (MS-1256), Thai (MS-874). 9.1.3 Time This setting configures the time zone, date, and time of the player’s internal clock. Setting Description Manual Manually set the date and time of the player’s internal clock. Time Zone Sets the time zone relative to GMT.
  • Page 42 9.1.9 Resume Play This setting configures whether the player will offer to resume playback at the last stop point when the user plays a video that was partially played previously. When turned on, the player will prompt the user to resume play back or cancel and start playing from the beginning of the video. Available settings: On, Off 9.1.10 Safety Poweroff This setting configures whether the player will use safe power-off mode.

  • Page 43: Audio Settings

    media library database features. After clearing the database, generate the database again by following the directions in ‘6.1 Media Library – Setup’. In rare cases, clearing the media library database is not enough to fix corrupted database errors. In this case, the database must be manually deleted using a computer. To do so, attach the storage device to a computer and delete the “.Theatter”...
  • Page 44 Audio is sent without being decoded by the player. The TV or home theater receiver must be able to decode the audio, otherwise there will be no audio playback. 9.2.3 SPDIF Output SPDIF Output sets the format of the digital audio carried over the player’s SPDIF coaxial or optical outputs.

  • Page 45: Video Settings

    Audio is sent without being decoded by the player. The home theater receiver must be able to decode the audio, otherwise there will be no audio playback. 9.2.7 AAC Output This setting specifies the audio output format for AAC audio tracks. Setting Description LPCM...

  • Page 46: Network Settings

    configure the player’s Video System setting to match the highest quality setting supported by the TV/HDTV. “HDMI Auto” is recommended when the player is connected to the TV using an HDMI cable. Available settings: NTSC / PAL / 480P / 576P / 720P 50HZ / 720P 60HZ / 1080I 50HZ / 1080I 60HZ / 1080P 50HZ / 1080P 60HZ 9.3.3 Video Zoom This setting applies a slight zoom-out to compensates for the over-scan behavior of certain TV...
  • Page 47 network capabilities function. 9.4.1 Wired LAN Setup If the player is connected to a LAN/Internet with an Ethernet cable, there typically is no need for making any settings changes as the player will automatically detect and use the network connection. However, advanced users can use these settings to adjust the player’s network settings.
  • Page 48 5) If the WPA/WEP key was entered correctly, the player will receive an IP address and connection settings from the access point router. These settings will be displayed on the screen; press the OK/ENTER key on the remote control to continue. 6) Once the WLAN setup has been completed successfully, press the RETURN button on the remote control to go back to the Network Settings screen.
  • Page 49 To delete Wi-Fi settings, reset the player to factory default through the System Settings menu. 9.4.3 PPPoE Setup If the player is connected directly to a PPPoE connection, such as DSL modem, the player can be configured with the PPPoE user name and password. Setting Description Wired or Wireless...
  • Page 50 customize the player’s settings. 9.5.1 Function of navigation key This setting configures the behavior of the LEFT/RIGHT directional keys on the remote control during video playback. Setting Description Subtitle The LEFT/RIGHT buttons on the remote control will change the subtitle Adjustment text size.

  • Page 51: Misc. Settings

    Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic. 9.5.6 BDMV Default Audio This setting configures the default audio track language for BD-ISO and BD Folder videos. Available settings: English, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic. 9.5.7 Subtitle Automation Recognition When this setting is turned on, the player will automatically detect the text encoding for the subtitle.
  • Page 52 9.6.1 Version Info This setting displays the current firmware version. 9.6.2 Kernel Info This setting displays the current firmware kernel version. 9.6.3 USB Upgrade When new firmware becomes available, the player can be updated with this setting. To update the firmware, follow these steps: 1) Download the firmware and place the “install.img”...
  • Page 53 Information in this manual is believed to be accurate and reliable but Micca Ltd assumes no responsibility for its use nor for any infringement of patents or other rights of third parties which may result from the use of this manual or the product. Micca reserves the right to change product specifications at any time without notice.

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