User’s Manual Smart Media Player TIZZBIRD™ F30 Rev 1.
Table of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Safety Notice ............................................................................. 4 Features .................................................................................... 5 Specifications ............................................................................ 6 Description of Each Part ............................................................. 7 Package Contents ......................................................................
13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 File Browser Screen ....................................................................................................... 43 Selecting Device at File Browser .................................................................................. 44 Register Subtitle Font File ............................................................................................. 44 Using File Operation ...................................................................................................
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. Keep away the unit from overheated areas, such as heaters. Place it well ventilated location. Ensure that a free airflow is maintained around the unit.
2. Features Tizzbird playbacks various full HD movie contents including HDMV and DVD backup formats as well as AVI, MKV, XVID and TS formats on TV. It supports most recent video formats such as H264 and VC-1. TizzBird provides a full web-browsing capability very similar like PC. Mouse and keyboard can be attached to support various inputs, which enable slick Internet surfing even on the big screen TV. TizzBird playbacks high resolution photo images on TV.
3. Specifications Model TizzBird F30 System TCC9302 1Ghz CPU/ 512M Memory/ 2GB NAND flash Booting time from stand-by is less than two seconds. OS Android Rev 2.3 Gingerbread Video Format: AVI/ MKV/ MPG/ WMV/ VOB/ TP/ TRP/ M2TS/ MOV/ FLV/ IFO/ ISO/ HDMV Codec: MPEG 1/2/4, H264, XVID, WMV9(MP@HL4.1) VC-1(AP@L3) Resolution: Max 1080p 60Hz Audio MP3/ OGG/ WAV/ AAC/ FLAC/ APE/ WMA Dolby Digital / DTS Down Mixing and Pass-thru Image JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIF Connection USB 2.
4. Description of Each Part Power Button Smart HDD Rack Turn ON/OFF power of the unit. Install/ uninstall the HDD easily with this RACK Connectors Please connect the unit to AV port of the TV or AV receiver. Please connect Ethernet cable or install the Wi-Fi USB dongle for connecting the network. * There’s another USB host port at the side.
5. Package Contents The TizzBird package contains the following items. The shape of items described below may slightly different from the actual contents. Main Unit Remote Controller USB 3.
6. Installation and Connection Pedestal Assembly This is a guide for assembly of pedestal into the main unit. No screw needed. Find out six bumps of the pedestal and assembly them with six holes of the bottom side of the main unit. Push the pedestal to the front side until the “CLICK” sound.
HDD Installation This is a guide for installation of HDD into the rack. No screw needed Before install the HDD into the rack, please check the four bumps on the rack. There are two A bumps on the side, and two B bumps on the bottom. Find out the side holes of HDD, and assembly them with two A bumps. Insert the HDD first on the side. Then assembly the bottom holes of HDD with two B bumps. Insert the rack smoothly into the main unit. Please make sure that handle of rack is open status, before insertion.
Connecting the Video The TizzBird supports HDMI, Component 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. Connection to HDMI Out Connection to Component Connection to Composite Out Connect the TizzBird output to your TV using an HDMI cable. 1080p full HD contents can be output as 1080p only thru HDMI. HDMI can also transfer the audio signal and no need to connect another cable for audio.
Connecting the Audio The unit provides RCA analog stereo output, coaxial 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. MOUSE/KBD Initial Display Setup for TV 1) Please connect AV cable with TV and connect the power supply cable to the unit. Turn on the power using button on remote or POWER key on the front side of the unit.
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8. Initial Screen 8.1 Turning On 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. LED will blink fast during the booting. LED will keep fade-in & out during normal operation after booting. 8.2 Setting TV Output The TV-OUTPUT selection screen will pop-up and switch various resolutions if TV-OUTPUT is not configured yet, like chapter6 “Initial Display Setup for TV”. Press button if screen is shown.
8.3 Setting Menu Language Please setup the menu language according to the country. HOME SCREEN Select “Settings Browser” as previous page’s image, then press button. The following screen will appear. Select “System” to enter the setting. “Language” menu at the top of the right pane will be shown. Select it and press button to change the menu language. Select appropriate language then press button.
8.4 Screen Alignment Please make sure that TV output is not configured as “OVER-SCAN” mode. It should be “ORIGINAL SCAN” or “NO OVERSCAN” mode to see the whole picture output of this unit. This setting can be changed on TV’s video output settings. If the whole screen cannot be seen or it’s not fit into TV screen, the screen size can be manually adjusted to fit in. Select .
8.5 Audio & Visual Settings Please setup the to select most proper video resolution for the display. Select
When “Digital” mode is selected, the pop-up will come out like following picture. The each audio format can be configured as ON/ OFF of pass-thru. Please choose appropriate “On” or “Off” status according to the capability of connected audio device. “HD-Audio” should be turned ON only when you have HDMI 1.3 capable of AV receiver.
8.6 Network Settings Network should be configured to surf Internet and download movie poster automatically from Internet and do network game. There are two types of network setting. One is Wi-Fi (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.
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. To maximize the performance of wireless connection, 802.11n mode is recommended. 1080p MKV movie or HD broadcasting stream can be streamed without stuttering.
8.6.2 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 . 2) If the configuration is “Auto IP”, the network connection will occur immediately. 3) Otherwise, network setting should be manually configured by selecting . 8.6.
8.7 Turning Power Off, Completely Power Off To turn off the power, press button on the remote or press power key on the front panel. The LED will turn into slightly dimming status, and this shows the unit is in “STAND-BY” status. Press power button on remote control more than 1 second will bring up the following POWER-OFF DIALOG BOX. Power Off Turn off power completely Reboot Reboot the system Suspend Make it suspend mode This unit consumes quite little power which is less than 0.
※ The status of LED lighting is like below Initial booting Blinks fast Operation Stays at maximum bright.
9. Start-Up and Terminate 9.1 Home Screen The below HOME SCREEN will appear after booting up. It shows 7 different items. The each item can do the each designated browsing. For example, movies can be browsed at MOVIE BROWSER. HOME SCREEN consists of 7 browsers including (from left to right) FILE/ PHOTO/ MOVIE/ MUSIC/ SETTINGS/ APP/ WEB browsers. To execute each browser, select the browser by arrow buttons on the remote and press button.
9.2 Status Bar and Weather Widget Status Weather Home screen also contains status bar and weather widget. The status bar shows current status of each device. Highlighting of each icon means it’s active or mounted. Wi-Fi HDD USB SD Card Network Server The weather widget shows current date, time and weather.
9.3 Change Cover-View Style TizzBird provides Open-GL 3D based Cover-View user interface. One of six different styles of cover-view can be selected as a view-style. Press “BLUE” color button on the remote. The cover-view selection pane will pop-up and let you select one of them. This kind of selection is also available at MOVIE/ MUSIC/ PHOTO/SETTINGS browser, and one of them can be chosen always by pressing “BLUE” color button on remote.
9.4 Movie Browser Movie browser will scan movie files on the devices when booting first or attaching external device thru USB. It will take several minutes (depends on size of HDD) for the 1st scanning. Once it’s scanned, it will take much less time on next boot. If movie posters are available for the movies, then cover-view screen like below will appear. 9.5 Terminate Press button on remote or key on the front will turn the unit be into STAND-BY status.
10. Watching Movie 10.1 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. Keep press arrow key to browse continuously. Once the end of the page is reached, then arrow image will appear on the screen. Select it to see the next page.
10.2 Selecting Device and View The device and view can be selected at movie browser. This type of device and view selection can be done on music and photo browser as well. Press RED COLOR remote button to select the device. The RED circle on the above picture shows current selected device. The DATABASE, HDD, external USB or NETWORK DRIVE can be selected if they are available. The top icon below represents the DATABASE.
10.3 Movie Browser Menu
10.4 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 which means scraping the movie information from network. Network should be connected before scraping movie posters. Please refer to section 8.8 to configure network settings. If movie does not have poster, the default image will appear like following screen. Press
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. The dialog box will be pop-up to enter or revise the file name to scrape. Click the dialog box with mouse to bring the virtual keyboard, so the scraping file name can be changed.
10.5 Resume and Bookmark TizzBird provides RESUME function to the last playback position of movie, so it’s not necessary to search it again manually. Press
10.6 Movie Playback Menu The information pane will appear at bottom side of screen as soon as movie starts like below picture. It will show title, running time, video and audio types. It also shows color buttons on the remote that can be used to control movie playback. RED color button: Select audio GREEN color button: Select and control subtitle parameters. BLUE color button: Select video parameters and 3D movie types.
10.7 Playback Speed Control TizzBird provides various playback speeds and skip controls during playback including PAUSE/ FAST-FORWARD/ REWIND/ PREVIOUS/ NEXT. Press button to play or pause the playback. Press or button to skip to previous or next chapter. Press button to fast-forward playback. It will change from 4x > 8x > 16x > 32x then again 4x if press continuously Press button to rewind playback. It will change -4x > -8x> … 10.
10.9 Playback Information Menu Select image at movie playback menu to confirm the movie playback information. Select image. The movie information and current playback position will appear like following image. 10.10 Subtitle Menu Select image at movie playback menu to control the subtitle language, position, size, sync and font Select image. The subtitle position would be lowest bottom side at 100% and would be top at 0%. 10.
Press after selecting audio format or language audio to change the audio track. 10.12 Video Parameter Menu Select
11. Listening Music 11.1 Music Browser The following MUSIC BROWSER screen will appear if music files contain the album art at their tags. Press or keys to move each direction. Keep pressing arrow keys to browsing continuously. The album-art screen will keep changing. Press
11.2 Sorting Music 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. The following two images show SORT BY GENRE and SORT BY YEAR. SORT BY GENRE 11.3 SORT BY YEAR Music Playback Screen Select album art to playback the selected music. The following image will appear.
12. Watching Photo 12.1 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. 12.2 Photo Browsing Menu Press
12.4 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 . 12.5 Slideshow Control Slideshow can be controlled by arrow and buttons. Press button to pause or resume to playback. Use arrow keys to change the slide direction.
13. Using File Browser 13.1 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. Folders can be browsed by arrow keys and press button to select that folder.
13.2 Selecting Device at File Browser External USB, internal HDD storage device, or network drive can be selected at FILE BROWSER. Press button on the remote and the device drop-down list will pop-up like following image. Use or arrow key to browse devices. Choose one of them then press to select it. 13.3 Register Subtitle Font File Subtitle font file can be selected at file browser. Copy or move the font file (true-type font file - .
13.4 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. The left pane is source window and the right pane is target window. The “File Operation” will function from left pane to right pane. The following remote buttons can be used.
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. The COPY, MOVE, DELETE, SELECT ALL, CANCEL, RENAME, NEW FOLDER can be selected.
14. Connecting Internet 14.1 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. Wanted article or link can be clicked with mouse as well. 14.
15. Install & Execute Applications The most different part of TizzBird compared to legacy devices is favorite applications can be installed and run anytime like SMART PHONE. So it’s called SMART MEDIA PLAYER. The genuine smart device let users install and run their own favorite applications. 15.1 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.
15.2 Execute Application The following image will appear when run APP BROWSER at home screen. Use arrow buttons to browse the application and press button to execute it.
16. Settings Various set-ups can be configured at SETTINGS BROWSER. 16.1 System Menu language, date & time, system information, firmware information and update can be set-up at this menu. Language Select menu language. Press to bring the pop-up. Date & Time Set up the date & time, manually or automatically. Network should be configured and connected to get time information automatically. System Information Show current system information like firmware version.
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. The other way is using the QR code. If you select the above item at the dialog box, the following dialog box will pop-up.
Device Scanning Select between scanning device “Always”, “New Device Only” and “Never”. It will determine the scanner for database will be applied always or new device only or never. Scanning Filename Display It will determine display file name during device scanning or not. Power Button Select between “Power Off” and “Suspend” when pressing power button. If “Power Off” selected, the system will completely be powered off when POWER button pressed.
16.2 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) Enable/ Disable TV frame rate.
Brightness Change brightness of video. Contrast Change contrast of video. Hue Change hue of video.
16.3 Movie Subtitle Language Select subtitle language. Subtitle Setting Select size, position, font, color of subtitle. Please refer 10.10. Resume Select resume screen pop-up method. Instant Skip Interval Select instant skip interval. Instant skip will occur when pressing or key at movie playback. Sort Type Select sorting type of movie. Order Type Select ordering type of movie browser. Movie Scraper Select movie scraping data base.
16.4 Music Instant Skip Interval Select instant skip interval. Instant skip will occur when pressing or key at movie playback. Sort Type Select sorting type of music. Order Type Select ordering type of music browser. .
16.5 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. Transition Effect 16.6 Network Refer to section 8.6.
16.7 Cover-View The cover-view style can be configured for each browser.
17. Connecting Network Server or NAS This device provides powerful network browsing and connection capability from Rev 1.12 firmware. This includes multiple mountings of network drives for both SAMBA and NFS. The high performance NFS server software for PC, the TizzNFS will be also provided thru TizzBird WEB-site 17.1 Network connection using NFS The NFS (Network File System) is a simple but powerful networking file system originally created by Sun Microsystems™.
Please press button to share the folder. The folder selecting dialog box will appear so the wanted folder can be selected. Please repeat this procedure to select all other desirable folders to share. Please press button to unselect the folder, after clicking the row of unwanted folder at the dialog box. The balloon help will pop-up when pressing OK button like below picture. The TizzNFS will automatically run whenever log-on the PC, so shared folders will be maintained. 17.1.
17.1.5 Connecting NFS Server at Device Select
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. If the wanted server list is not appeared, please try RED button on remote to refresh the NFS server list. Please select one of the server then press OK, the exported folders will appear like below picture.
17.2 Network Connection using Samba The following section explains how to connect the shared PC folders or NAS (Network Attached Storage) which runs Samba Server. 17.2.1 Activating PC Share - Click right mouse button on the folder which will be shared. Select “Property” then “Sharing” TAB on the dialog box. - Select “Share this folder” button on the dialog box - The shared folder can be notified at file explorer, since the shared icon will appear on the left side of folder icon. 17.2.
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. Press OK button to unfold the server folder list, then select one of the folder to connect.
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” button. 17.3 Accessing Network Drive at File/ Media Browser The shared folder connected thru can be accessible at .
18. Firmware Upgrade 18.1 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. 1) Prompt the firmware if new version is available.
18.2.2 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 at HOME SCREEN. . - Browse the firmware file and press to start upgrade.
