Table of Contents Safety Notice ................5 Features ..................6 Specifications ................7 F10 ............................. 7 F11 ............................. 8 Description of Each Part ............. 9 Package Contents ..............10 Installation and Connection ............11 Initial Setup ................14 Language Setup ......................14 Video Output Setup ......................
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Execute Internet Browser ..................... 58 18.2 Control Internet Browser ....................58 19 Install and Execute Application ..........59 19.1 Move applications at Android Phone to TizzBird ............59 19.2 Execute Application ......................59 20 Settings ..................60 20.1 System ..........................60 20.2...
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24.3.1 Preparation ........................87 24.3.2 Entering System Recovery Mode .................. 87 25 GNU General Public License ............90...
1 Safety Notice Do not try to disassemble the unit. It may cause malfunction or fire. Keep away the unit from magnetized devices. It may erase the data stored in the HDD drive inside. Do not place the unit in places that are exposed to oil, water, dust, humidity, rain or wind.
Internet surfing even on the big screen TV. TizzBird playbacks high resolution photo images on TV. It can slideshow the photos while playing back the music in background. Transition effects such as fade-in-out or zooming can be applied during transition of each photo.
5 Package Contents The TizzBird package contains the following items. The shape of items described below may slightly different from the actual contents.
6 Installation and Connection Connecting the Video The TizzBird supports HDMI and Composite video output for connection to a TV, and each output needs to be configured in the settings browser depending on what cable is being used.
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Connecting the Audio The unit provides RCA analog stereo output and optical digital output and HDMI to connect the audio device like AV receiver and TV. Please connect to audio outputs to appropriate port of audio device. Please select the appropriate input at the audio device using remote controller after connection.
Connecting USB Device TizzBird provides three USB 2.0 host ports to connect various external devices, such as FLASH MEMORY drive, external USB HDD enclosure, digital camera/camcorder, keyboard & mouse, or Wi-Fi USB dongle. The rear-side lower USB host port is actually OTG port, and should be used MOUSE or KEYBOARD.
7 Initial Setup Initial setup consists of 6 steps of WIZARD style sequences. The sequence of WIZARD will be LANGUAGE SETUP VIDEO OUTPUT SETUP SCREEN FITTING NETWORK SETUP TIME&WEATHER SETUP THEME SETUP The PREV/ NEXT button on the top side of each screen will bring the PREV/ NEXT step. 7.1 Language Setup The first step is setup the menu language.
7.2 Video Output Setup The 2 setup is video output. Video output screen will pop up both COMPOSITE and HDMI screen. User can select one of these buttons with MOUSE or REMOTE. If user selects HDMI output then the screen resolution selection screen will appear as above.
7.3 Screen Fitting Setup The 3 step is fitting the screen size according to user’s TV. Clicking UP/DOWN button at left-bottom side will increase/ decrease the screen size accordingly. Press OK when done. 7.4 Network Setup The 4th step is setting up network. Both Wi-Fi and Ethernet can be configured here. If...
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Wi-Fi button were pressed, the following screen will enumerate all available Wi-Fi AP. Select one of them and click it. The next page screen will pop up to configure the Wi-Fi. Typing the password will finalize the Wi-Fi setup and Internet connection will be made.
7.5 Time & Weather Location Setup The next step is setting up time zone and weather location. Tizzbird provides automatic setup for those as long as network is connected. To setup the time-zone, select the Time-Zone button as above screen. Then select “AUTO” if...
Otherwise, you can manually input the weather-location. 7.6 Theme Setup The final step is setting up theme. Tizzbird provides two type of theme, one is the Android theme, the other is Tizzbird classic theme. If you are familiar with smart phone user interface, please choose “Android”.
8 Home Screen (Android Theme) The HOME SCREEN is very similar with smart phone. The APPs can be located at the surface of HOME SCREEN freely, while the specific browsers like MOVIE/ MUSIC/ PHOTO/ FILE/ WEB/ APP browser will stick as icons at the bottom side of HOME SCREEN. The several WIDGETs will help the user navigate thru the screen.
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CONTROL WIDGET lets users control the SCREEN and VOLUME by MOUSE. CONTROL WIDGET cannot be accessible by REMOTE. It’s because one of the nature of Android. It’s only accessible by MOUSE. The same functional buttons are on the remote already. Please use them. Power Volume Volume...
9 Using Remote Controller Turn power ON/OFF Change the TV Output mode Input numbers Go to HOME screen Pop-up MENU screen Resume to previous screen Move to previous /next item (page) Move to each directed item Select Optional “hot” context button Play or Pause Fast-Forward and Rewind Volume Up/ Down...
10 Firmware Update & Installation of Apps new FIRMWARE can be updated by OTA (Over the Air) when there is new firmware available. The information dialog will be pop-up when there is new firmware. Here’s the step. 1) Prepare more than 128MB free space of USB flash drive or HDD. 2) Connect this flash drive or HDD to USB host port.
11 Initial Screen 11.1 Turning On Power <POWER> Press button on the remote or press the power key at front panel to turn on the power. The unit will start boot-up. Red color LED will blink fast during the booting. LED will turn into BLUE during normal operation after booting.
(Wireless), the other is Ethernet (Wired). The USB Wi-Fi dongle should be prepared to connect network thru Wi-Fi. This optional Wi-Fi dongle can be purchased thru TizzBird local dealer, or any USB Wi-Fi module that is using RealTEK RTL8188 or Ralink RT3070 as internal chipset can be used.
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This pop-up shows the wireless access points available. Select one of them that can be accessible. It shows the signal strength and prompts the password, if password is required like below picture. Password can be input by remote button if it’s composed of numbers. Or mouse or keyboard need to be used if the password is string.
11.3.2 Configure Ethernet Connection Gigabit Ethernet can be also used to connect wired network. Connect the network cable at the Ethernet network port at rear side of the unit. 1) Select <Settings Browser> <Network> <Ethernet connection>. 2) If the configuration is “Auto IP”, the network connection will occur immediately. 3) Otherwise, network setting should be manually configured by selecting <Ethernet Settings>.
11.4 Turning Power Off, Completely Power Off <POWER> To turn off the power, press button on the remote or press power key on the front panel. The LED will turn into RED status, and this shows the unit is in “STAND-BY” status.
Music Movie The default selection would be MOVIE BROWSER at first start-up. TizzBird is the unique unit compared to other units, since it retains consistent user-interface based on the powerful database feature of Android OS. TizzBird provides full featured cover-view and imaged oriented browsing, which is highly intuitive.
12.2 Cover-View Style TizzBird provides Open-GL 3D based Cover-View user interface. But unlike F30, F10 only provides the fixed mode of Cover-View style at each mode. 12.3 Movie Browser Movie browser will scan movie files on the devices when booting first or attaching external device thru USB.
12.4 Terminate <POWER> <POWER> Press button on remote or key on the front will turn the unit be into STAND-BY status. The unit will consume virtually nothing (less than 0.4W) in the STAND-BY status. The LED will turn into RED.
13 Watching Movie 13.1 Movie Browser If MOVIE BROWSER is selected and if the posters were already scraped or registered for movies, then the following screen will appear. This screen is called “MOVIE BROWSER” screen. Up to 15 movies can be browsed at once per page. Arrow keys can be used to navigate thru posters.
The control widget bar will appear to control the overall behavior of the browser. 13.3 Selecting Device The attached device can be selected by RED color button on the remote, like below picture. This kind of device selection can be also available at MUSIC and PHOTO BROWSER. [Device Selection] Selecting DATABASE will scan all the movie files on every device and show them.
13.4 Movie Browser Menu <MENU> button at “MOVIE BROWSER” can be used to do various actions including searching movies, scraping movie posters, jumping based on bookmarks & resuming lists. <MENU> Press button on the remote. “SEARCH” menu like above picture lets you search the movie quickly based on the title names and other information.
13.5 To Add Movie Poster Movie posters should be added to make fancy movie browser like following screen. TizzBird has built-in poster downloader inside called <SCRAPER> which means scraping the movie information from network. Network should be connected before scraping movie posters.
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The following screen will appear when start scraping. The scraping will be performed based on the file name, so there can be a chance the file name is not correct or not good enough. In this case, scraping can be tried again on the same file.
13.6 Synopsis Screen The scraping consistes of two steps. One is getting the movie poster, the other is getting the filmography including synopsis of the movie. If scraping is successful, the following screen will come out as a next when the poster is selected. It shows a synopsis, running time, release year, genre, director and actors.
13.7 Resume and Bookmark TizzBird provides RESUME function to the last playback position of movie, so it’s not <MENU> necessary to search it again manually. Press button at MOVIE BROWSER and select <RESUME> menu to pop-up the resuming list. The resume list will appear like following image.
BLUE color button: Select video parameters and 3D movie types. YELLOW color button: Show movie playback information. TizzBird provides various control functions during movie playback. These functions include <TIME/CHAPTER SEARCH>, <INFO>, <SUBTITLE>, <AUDIO> and <VIDEO> settings. Most of functions can be activated by pressing <MENU>...
13.9 Playback Speed Control TizzBird provides various playback speeds and skip controls during playback including PAUSE/ FAST-FORWARD/ REWIND/ PREVIOUS/ NEXT. Press <PLAY/PAUSE> button to play or pause the playback. Press <PREV> or <NEXT> button to skip to previous or next chapter.
13.11 Playback Information Menu Select <INFO> image at movie playback menu to confirm the movie playback information. Select <INFO> image. The movie information and current playback position will appear like following image. 13.12 Subtitle Menu Select <SUBTITLE> image at movie playback menu to control the subtitle language, position, size, sync and font Select <SUBTITLE>...
13.15 Playback 3D Format Movies TizzBird supports 3D files, if 3D display is available. The supported formats are SIDE-BY- SIDE and TOP-AND-BOTTOM. If file name contains 3D and SBS (or TNB) string, then it will turn TV into 3D mode automatically.
13.17 Movie Playback Controller The MOVIE PLAYBACK screen was changed as well to support the MOUSE. The LEFT CLICK MOUSE CONTROLLER will pop up when button. Minimize button Mute button + Menu Playback Volume Bar buttons control buttons Scrollbar Click to move position MENU BUTTON group consists of several menu buttons.
Listening Music 14.1 Music Browser The following MUSIC BROWSER screen will appear if music files contain the album art at their tags. Press <LEFT> <RIGHT> keys to move each direction. Keep pressing arrow keys to browsing continuously. The album-art screen will keep changing. <MENU>...
Music files at large capacity hard drive need to be sorted since it’s easy to organize and search. TizzBird provides various “SORTING” functions based on the powerful Android database. Press GREEN color button on remote to sort by ALBUM, ARTIST, TITLE or YEAR.
Watching Photo 15.1 Photo Browser The following PHOTO BROWSER screen will appear when selecting PHOTO BROWSER. It’s composed of superb folder thumbnails COVER-VIEW which is quite neat and intuitive. Each image shows thumbnails of photos that folder contains. 15.2 Photo Browsing Menu <MENU>...
15.4 Photo Playback Screen Photo slide show will start automatically, so next photos will keep appearing with transition effect. The various TRANSITION EFFECTS can be configured at <SETTINGS BROWSER> <PHOTO>. 15.5 Slideshow Control Slideshow can be controlled by arrow and <PLAY/PAUSE> buttons. Press <PLAY/PAUSE> button to pause or resume to playback.
16 Posters, Album Art and Photo Arrangements The arrangement of each browser and shape of each item can be configured at each browser. For example, you can change the number of items of movie browsers and shape of posters. Press <Menu> button on the remote at Movie Browser. The <Movie Settings> Menu was added to configure the movie browser directly.
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Mode> and <Browser Item Mode>. You can configure layouts of browsers at <Browser Mode> and configure shape of each item at <Browser Shape Mode>. For example, the <Browser Item Mode> will bring you the following screen to configure the border type, border alpha value, width, radius and item alpha.
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This kind of configuration is also possible at MUSIC and PHOTO BROWSER. Please notice the following screen-shots.
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For example, configure 6x3, rounded border and border width 3 will give you something like this music browser. Here’s the photo setting:...
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For example, configure 7x3, rounded border and border width 3 will give you something like this photo browser.
Using File Browser 17.1 File Browser Screen The following screen will appear when selecting FILE BROWSER. This is quite similar browser user interface that legacy media players provided before. Folder or file based browsing is possible on this browser, and selecting and playback the file directly. The left pane is FOLDER PANE, and the right pane is FILE PANE.
- .TTF extension) to the USB drive or internal HDD from PC, then connect the drive to TizzBird. Press <RED> button to select drive and navigate into the folder that font file was copied. The font file will appear like the following image.
17.4 Using File Operation Rev 1.12 firmware provides the “File Operation” capability which enables COPY, MOVE, DELETE, RENAME and NEW FOLDER functions. Press “MENU” button on the remote then select the “File Operation” ICON at the pop-up window to enter this mode. This will bring the following screen.
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Pressing BOOKMARK button will check the selected item like below picture. The check icon will appear on the small box at left side of item. The total size of selected item will be also calculated whenever BOOKMARK button is pressed. It will take some time if there are many items at selected folder. Pressing MENU button will bring the following POP-UP menu to select the function.
Connecting Internet 18.1 Execute Internet Browser Web browser will appear if WEB BROWSER was selected at HOME SCREEN and network was connected like following image. ※ Using mouse is highly recommended at WEB BROWSING. Wireless RF or USB mouse can be used. Web address or other information can be entered thru virtual keyboard with mouse.
19 Install and Execute Application 19.1 Move applications at Android Phone to TizzBird The applications on the Android smart phone can be installed on this unit. The procedures are like this. 1) Download or move the applications on the Android smart phone at USB flash drive.
20 Settings Various set-ups can be configured at SETTINGS BROWSER. 20.1 System Menu language, date & time, system information, firmware information and update can be set-up at this menu. <OK> Language Select menu language. Press to bring the pop-up. Date &...
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Setup the TizzRemote by QR code and setup the System name for TizzRemote searching. The TizzRemote™ is the remote application for TizzBird which can replace keyboard, mouse and keyboard. There are two methods to install the TizzRemote™. The TizzRemote™ itself is already on the Google Market, so you can directly download it at your smart phone.
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TizzRemote™ APP will be automatically download and installed on your smart phone. External Kbd Layout Select between QWERTY or AZERTY type key board. System Theme Select launcher between TizzBird theme and Android theme Advanced Setting Show advanced (not for casual use) setting. Device Scanning ...
20.2 Audio and Visual Video Output Select video output port. Resolution Select resolution of the video output. Native Frame Rate Turn On/Off of original frame rate of the source Cinema Original (24p) Enable/ Disable cinema frame rate TV Original (1080i 60Hz) ...
Blue Button Mode Blue color button on remote can be configured “3D mode change” button or “Repeat mode” button. Show Playback Info Turn on/off the information window when movie start-up. Continuous Movie Playback Turn on/off successive movie playback, if any. 20.4 Music Instant Skip Interval ...
20.5 Photo Transition Effect Select transition effects of slideshow. Slideshow Interval Select transition interval of slideshow. Slideshow Mode Select showing order of slideshow. Sort Type Select sorting type of photos. Order Type Select ordering type of photos. Photo Frame Layout &...
Please download the “ ” server at Internet at the PC. Please visit our WEB-site (http://www.tizzbird.com) to download the TizzNFS program. Please install it after downloading it. The TizzNFS has following features. Runs on Windows™ XP/ Vista/ 7 (both 32 bit and 64bit) ...
21.1.3 Downloading other NFS Server Please download the “freeNFS” or “Allegro” NFS server at Internet at the PC. The “freeNFS” and “Allegro” NFS server was confirmed by TizzBird. The “freeNFS” software can be downloadable at following URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenfs/files/FreeNFS.exe/download FreeNFS can be executed without specific installation.
21.1.5 Connecting NFS Server at Device Select <Settings Browser Network Network Server Connection”. This will bring the following dialog box. Up to 4 network servers can be connected at this version, and the number of connectable server will be increased at next version. Please select one of the network drive number then press OK.
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The available NFS servers will appear with names or IP addresses. The “+” sign on the left side of server name means it has exported folders. There can be no “+” sign server which is not exporting the EXPORT NAMES. If PC runs Windows OS, the PC name can also appear like above picture.
21.2 Network Connection using Samba The following section explains how to connect the shared PC folders or NAS (Network Attached Storage) which runs Samba Server. 21.2.1 Activating PC Share Click right mouse button on the folder which will be shared. Select “Property” then “Sharing”...
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Select “Samba” at dialog box. This will bring the SAMBA BROWSING dialog box like below. If the wanted SAMBA SERVER name is not appeared, please press RED button on remote. The SAMBA server list will appear according to the PC-names or IP address. The “+” sign means it has several shared folders.
If the selected folder requires ACCESS RIGHT to connect it, the following dialog box will pop-up to enter the log-in account information. Input the “User name” and “Password” using virtual keyboard. Please check “Remember account” checkbox to by-pass this log-in procedure at next connection. The connection will be made after pressing “Connect”...
21.4 File Copy Example from PC to Network Drive Here’s an example of how to copy files from PC to network connected drive. You need to make an network server connection before proceed. 1) Please go to the File Browser and select Network Device. 2) Press <Menu>...
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4) Select folder to copy by <Bookmark> button and press <MENU> button again to select one of the operation. 5) Select “File Copy” will start the copying operation.
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6) “File Copy Operation” status dialog will pop-up and show the status.
The most important DLNA stack here can be DMR. Because SMART PHONE or TABLET can be used as controller (DMC) and playback can be done on TizzBird. So users can easily browse contents on server or their phones, and see the contents on BIG SCREEN TV.
Preparation for DMR Preparing TizzBird & Access-Point Prepare TizzBird F12 or N1 for demonstrating DMR with Rev 2.90 or later firmware. Connect the Wi-Fi or Ethernet with prepared Access-Point. Enable the DLNA at “Settings Browser Network DLNA”...
22.2 Sending Smartphone’s Contents - iMediaShare APP iMediaShare is a good example of DMC, DMS and connects contents to DMR. It has several on-line-site DLNA server examples, which are very good to demonstrate, and some of them are in High-Definition. iMediaShare is also available on iPhone. Execute the iMediaShare APP ...
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“Victoria’s Secret” on-line DLNA server. Click one of the contents. Select the final renderer. If you click one of the contents, and TizzBird settings are correct, the “RENDERER” selection pane will pop-up. Select “TizzBird DLNA Renderer”. Demonstrating Smart Phone local contents to Tizzbird...
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Select the contents on the SMART PHONE. Select “My Videos” on the menu. Then following screen will pop-up Select one of the movies you want to playback and Tizzbird will start playback. It’s so- called DMR (Digital Media Renderer).
22.3 Sending Smartphone’s Contents - TWONKY APP Twonky is a powerful DLNA app which let you browse overall DLNA server on your local network. It also provides playback controller which is very stable. Run Twonky Select categories of contents that you want to playback. Then select one of the contents ...
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Designate the renderer. Then the Tizzbird will start playback. ...
23.1 Online Upgrade (O.T.A – Over the Air Upgrade) TizzBird will connect the firmware update server periodically (once a week) and pop-up upgrade prompt window automatically, if new firmware is available. If TizzBird is connected to the network, the upgrade can be performed as following.
23.2.2 Upgrade at File Browser Copy or move the latest firmware to the root folder of USB flash or HDD drive. Connect the drive to USB port of the unit. Select <FILLE BROWSER> at HOME SCREEN. . Browse the firmware file and press <OK>...
24 How to Fix Booting Failure This documentation is intended to provide repairing guide in case of booting failure of TizzBird. TizzBird F10/F11/F20/F30 is based on Android Gingerbread This repairing method is only applied from firmware revision 2.0.6 or later for F10/ F11/ F20/ F30.
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2) As soon as you turn on power, press <RED> button on remote twice within 3 seconds. The following screen will come out (Require revision 2.0.6 or later firmware) 3) There are four menus. If you want to factory reset status, then select “wipe data/ factory reset”. This will help the situation when some applications you installed cause a problem.
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6) On the following screen, select “update.zip” on the drive. 7) The system will erase whole area of internal flash and start to update like below picture. The progress bar will show the current progress.
Free Software Foundation, Inc. and the program is licensed “AS IS” without warranty of any kind. Users are free to download the base source code of the TizzBird players at the following address: http://www.tizzbird.com/eng/index.php?mm_code=752&sm_code=754 The source code can be sent to your address via airmail for a charge of actual expense executed.
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or not licensed at all. The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow. TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION 0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License.
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executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;...
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contest validity of any such claims; this section has the sole purpose of protecting the integrity of the free software distribution system, which is implemented by public license practices. Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system;...
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