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Summary of Contents for Mede8er MED500X2
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Page 1: User Manual
User Manual Based on Firmware V2.0.0 21 November 2011 MED500X2 High Definition Multimedia Player... - Page 2 INDEX page 1 Index page 2 Introduction page 3 General Overview page 4 Installing a Hard Drive page 5 Connections page 6 Connections continued page 7 TV Output Settings page 8 Formatting the Hard Drive page 9 Remote Functionality page10 Wired Network Connection and Setup page11 Samba Network Setup...
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Page 3: Important Safety Instructions
Please check the Mede8er forum for the latest user guide. www.mede8erforum.com Warranty Mede8er products carry a 24 month from date of purchase warranty. In the event of warranty service please provide proof of purchase. Return your product to the store that it was purchased from or return it directly to Sanji Electronics (Pty) Ltd 68 Kyalami Boulevard, Kyalami Business Park, Kyalami, Gauteng, South Africa. -
Page 4: General Overview
GENERAL OVERVIEW USB Slave USB Host SD Card Up Down Left Right Enter Return Stop TV Out Status Led On/Off Analogue Audio Out Composite Video Out Component Video Page3... -
Page 5: Installing A Hard Drive
SATA data connector from the player to the hard drive diagram c. Re fit the hard drive cover into the Mede8er body and tighten the two securing screws x and y. To reduce hard drive vibration noise you can use optional Neoprene pads. Just peel of the adhesive side and stick onto the base as indicated in diagram d. - Page 6 For digital audio connection to your Home Theatre System you can either use the TOSLINK Optical or the Co-Ax Digital output. The MED500X2 supports both Passthrough and Downmix for both Dolby Digital and DTS signals. If you want your Home Theatre Amplifier to decode the surround sound stream you should use either Digital Audio output and set the Audio Output to SPDIF Passthrough in the Setup menu.
- Page 7 Press the On/Off button on the Mede8ers front panel and front facia LED will turn on Blue. You can put your Mede8er into standby by pressing the On/Off button on the remote. When in standby the front facia LED will turn Red.
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Page 8: Tv Output Settings
Connect the Mede8er to your TV by one of the connection options as shown on page 6 & 7 and change the input option on your TV to match the option you selected. If you do not get to see the Mede8er GUI on your... -
Page 9: Formatting The Hard Drive
The Hard Drive should be formatted in the Mede8er MED500X2 to ensure full functionality. A pre formatted Hard Drive can be used but you may not be able to use all the internal features of the MED500X2. To Format the internal Hard Drive select SETUP menu and then HDD Format. The Hard Drive format function can be protected by the built in “Pin Code Lock”... -
Page 10: Remote Functionality
REMOTE FUNCTIONALITY DVD Angle Audio Mute Setup On / Off TV System Media Library Shortcut - Devices Page Volume Up Numbers Fast Rewind Fast Forward Pause / Play Repeat Shuffle Slow Volume Up/Down Volume Down Next / Previous Fast Forward / Rewind Stop Play / Pause Return... -
Page 11: Wired Network Connection And Setup
Alternately you may have to enter your IP address, subnet mask, router, and DNS addresses manually. DHCP IP (AUTO) Choose this option if you want your router to assign a dynamic IP address to Mede8er. This option is easy to use and recommended for normal users. -
Page 12: Samba (Network Setup)
If your PC or NAS has shares setup to specific users then you will need to setup a shortcut on the X2 to each machine and specify the IP, Username and Password Setting up Samba shortcuts on the Mede8er Select ‘Network’ and then select the ‘My_Shortcuts’ icon. Now press the ‘Menu’ button and select ‘Add New Shortcut’... -
Page 13: Home Network Samba Server
The Mede8er has NAS (Network Attached Storage) functionality built in. And although it is limited in transfer speed compared to standalone NAS servers it performs very well if speed is not your major requirement. You can also use the MED500X2 as a Media Server and stream content to other Mede8er’s on your home network. -
Page 14: Wireless Network Connection
After approximately 15 seconds the LED on the Mede8er with flash blue and you will get a progress bar on your TV display (some TV's will not display this) wait until the Mede8er re boots itself +- 60 sec. Your Mede8er is now updated. - Page 15 HOME PAGE The Mede8er Home is the central point where you can launch all the user applications. Press the Right/Left Navigation buttons on the remote to navigate the Home Page and press “Enter” to launch the selected page. FAVOURITES Create, manage, apply Genre cover art to local and network folder shortcuts.
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Page 16: Home Page Strip
HOME PAGE STRIP The Home Page can be accessed at any time by pressing the “Home Page” button on the remote. The Home Page Strip will appear at the bottom of the page and allow you to make your selection using the Left / Right Navigation buttons on the remote. -
Page 17: Media Library
MEDIA LIBRARY The Mede8er Media Library has five built in standard views ie Movie View, Music View, Picture View, List View, List View and Preview View. The Media Library has been designed so that the view can be easily changed on the fly. In the Media Library you have the option of changing the Views Manually or you can enable the ‘Auto View’... - Page 18 MEDIA LIBRARY CONTINUED To change the View of the Media Library press the “View” button on the remote and the Media Library strip will light up. Press the ‘View’ button again and the focus will change to the next icon. Repeat pressing the ‘View’...
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Page 19: Media Library Metadata Display
MEDIA LIBRARY METADATA DISPLAY The Media Library will display basic Movie Metadata in all ‘Views’. This unique Mede8er functionality will greatly enhance your Media Library browsing experience and make it real easy for the whole family to enjoy. In order to take advantage of the advanced functionality you will need to scan your movie collection with Y2M (YAMJ to Mede8er) or Thumbgen in order to create the required xml files. -
Page 20: Adding Custom Backdrops And Skins
The skin option is community driven and we are expecting some unique designs to become available and these will be available for download from the Mede8er forum and website. To load a skin -- just download it and unzip /unrar it to a folder. In X2 navigate to this folder and press the ‘Menu’ button and select ‘Add to Skin Option’... - Page 21 Library Preparation for XML Search operation The Media Library must conform to the Mede8er standard with all the relevant movie file information in its own folder. A typical folder will contain - Video File - Folder.jpg - About.jpg - XML File - Subtitle file. Once you have arranged your Video Collection into individual folders you can use Y2M (YAMJ To Mede8er) or Thumbgen to scan the folders to make the requires images and xml files.
- Page 22 JukeBox View In Setup under ‘Misc Options’ you can select JukeBox View -- on/off JukeBox View ‘off’ - Favourite Links to a Jukebox will be presented in a normal structure and you can navigate the scanned Folders and Sub Folders folder as you normally would in the Media Library. JukeBox View ‘on’...
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Page 23: Media Library - Music Player
MEDIA LIBRARY - MUSIC PLAYER Select any supported music file and the Music Player Screen will launch. If the music file has embedded information tags and images then these will be displayed on the right hand side in the preview window area. If you do not want to use embedded mp3 art or you are using .m4a, ape or flac files you can save the Album Cover as a jpg file named ‘folder.jpg’... -
Page 24: Cover Art Preview In Media Library
COVER ART PREVIEW IN MEDIA LIBRARY The Mede8er has a built in facility to preview cover art and it will automatically read the folder.jpg and the about.jpg inside the movie folders. All you need to do in order to use this very useful feature is to arrange your collection with each video, in its own folder. -
Page 25: Play Folder
PLAY FOLDER Mede8er allows you to play a video file within a folder without the need to open the folder. Just focus on the required folder and press the ‘Play’ or ‘FF’ button. The first video file found in the folder will be played. The folder play will only work with video files. -
Page 26: Media Scanner
Search, Genre, Last Played etc. You can select “Auto Scan” options in the Setup menu. The Media Scanner will automatically update the database when the Mede8er is powered “on” or when an external USB Hard Drive is connected. It is important to let the scanner complete the scan if you intend to use this function. -
Page 27: Change Pin Code
LOCK FACILITY Mede8er has a built in Lock facility designed to restrict access to certain folders. Lock facility functions a. System access areas such as Hard Drive Format screen and File Manager. (Pin Protection) b. User Folders (Folder Protection) You can enable or disable these options in the Setup menu CHANGE PIN CODE The default 4 digit Pin Code is 0000. -
Page 28: Favourites Manager
FAVOURITES MANAGER The MED500X2 is equipped with a powerful function that we call Favourites. Basically it is a list of Shortcuts that you the user easily create yourself. The Favourite Link will work as a shortcut link to shared folder on your Local Hard Drive, hosted USB Drive, Samba and NFS Network Share. - Page 29 ADDING GENRE ARTWORK TO FAVOURITES You can easily add Genre artwork to each Favourite link. To add the cover artwork just focus on the Favourite thumbnail and press the “Menu” button on the remote control. The menu dialogue screen will open and now you can select the “Genre”...
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Page 30: Goto Search
Time, Title or Chapter. Once the function is selected press the Up/Down Navigation button to select the numeric value you require and then press the “Enter” button and the Mede8er will jump to the time you selected in the Video. -
Page 31: Screen Calibration
TV screen. You can then do a fine adjustment to move the red rectangle so that it is just not visible. ZOOM The Mede8er is equipped with advanced zoom functionality and once your screen is calibrated you can zoom intuitively to either WIDTH or HEIGHT or XY of the video. -
Page 32: Custom Fonts
SUBTITLES Mede8er supports various types of subtitle files. If the subtitle is embedded into the video file it will automatically be available on the Subtitle Dialogue Screen. External Subtitles must be placed into the same folder as the video file and must be named to be exactly the same name as the video file eg Cloudy.With.A.Chance.Of.Meatballs.2009.720p.BluRay.HebDub.x264-WiKi.mkv... -
Page 33: Music Playlists
FILE MANAGER The Mede8er has a built in File Manager to manage and transfer files between your media sources. The File Manager is launched by pressing the “Edit” button on the remote Control while you are Media Library. -
Page 34: File Manager - Multiple Files
FILE MANAGER - MULTIPLE FILES To Copy, Delete, Move or Rename multiple files just press the “Edit” button on the remote control while you are in Media Library view. Select “Multiple Select” and a new dialogue screen will open. Navigate to the files or folders on the left screen “A” that you want to perform the action on and press the “Play/Pause”... - Page 35 PICTURES Press the “View” button on the remote and the Icon strip will light up. Now select the Picture Icon. The page will re-arrange into a image grid that is optimized for image thumbnail viewing. The X2 supports full Slideshow functions and you must enable the ‘Slideshow’...
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Page 36: Plasma Mode / Video Screen Transparency
“autoplay” folder. The contents will be played with the “Repeat All” as default. If a USB Drive is plugged into the Mede8er it will auto scan for the “Autoplay” folder and if found it will start the Autoplay function. -
Page 37: Important Note
‘Flow Control problems by using a managed switch. If you are streaming from a Windows PC you will require a NFS client to be running on the host PC. The Mede8er has been tested and verified with HaneWin but other NFS Servers should work equally as well. You can download HaneWin at http://www.hanewin.net/nfs-e.htm... - Page 38 Select the “Open” Icon and screen dialogue will open. Now navigate to the torrent file on your PC and then select “Upload”. The torrent file will be uploaded to the Mede8er and a progress bar will be displayed on the Transmission screen.
- Page 39 Setup Setup Main Page Menu Language Menu Language. Text Encoding Text Encoding for Subtitles. Time Set the Time / Time Zone and daylight saving. DVD Auto-Play Option for USB DVD drive. If enabled the DVD will Auto Play when inserted. Screen Saver Set the Screen Saver time period and type of Screen Saver.
- Page 40 High Definition Multimedia Player MED500X2 www.mede8erforum.com www.mede8er.com www.mede8er.eu For more information or support please visit www.mede8er.eu/support/ or call +31(0)10-7142861 during business hours. Sanji Electronics (Pty) Ltd 68 Kyalami Boulevard, Kyalami Business Park, Kyalami, Gauteng, South Africa. Tel: 27-11-8750000 Fax: 27-11-4660286 Email sales@mede8er.com...
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