Owner’s Guide TIZZBIRD™ Hybrid PVR S20 Series Rev 1.
Table of Contents 1 2 3 Safety Notice ............................................................................. 4 Features .................................................................................... 5 Specifications ............................................................................ 6 3.1 3.2 4 5 6 Description of Each Part ............................................................. 8 Package Contents ......................................................................
13.13 13.14 13.15 13.16 Video Parameter Menu .................................................................................................. 40 Playback 3D Format Movies .......................................................................................... 40 Skip Playback Position ................................................................................................... 40 Movie Playback Controller ............................................................................................
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 connected HDD drive. 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. . Do not drop or shock the unit from heights.
2 Features Tizzbird receives and playbacks the terrestrial digital TV at your country. It also supports recording of digital TV program directly or thru EPG. You will not miss any of your favorite programs. 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.
3 Specifications 3.1 S20T Specifications Item System Input & Output Features (PVR) Features (Tizzbird) File System LAN Connectivity Dimension Bundles 1 Ghz Dual-core Cortex-A9 processor (TCC8935) with Mali400MP2 4,000+ DMIPS computing power 512KB L2 Cache/ 1GB RAM/ 4GB T-flash memory Android 4.2 (Jelly-Bean) operating system 802.11n Wi-Fi for 2.
3.2 S20A Specifications Item System Input & Output Features (PVR) Features (Tizzbird) File System LAN Connectivity Dimension Bundles 1 Ghz Dual-core Cortex-A9 processor (TCC8935) with Mali400MP2 4,000+ DMIPS computing power 512KB L2 Cache/ 1GB RAM/ 4GB T-flash memory Android 4.2 (Jelly-Bean) operating system 802.11n Wi-Fi for 2.
4 Description of Each Part 1) Power Button 5) Optical Output 9) AV Output 2) LED#1 / 6) Micro SD Slot 10) HDMI Output 3) LED #2 7) Micro USB 11) Ethernet 4) USB Port IR 12) Antenna In 8) DC Input 8 13) Antenna Output
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 6.1 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. Connection to HDMI Output Connection to Composite Output Connect the device output to your TV using HDMI cable. 1080p full HD contents can be output as full-HD only thru HDMI. HDMI can also output the audio signal so no need to connect another cable for audio.
6.2 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. Connection to TV Connection to AV Receiver Connect the two audio cables of AV cable, the white one at left channel and the red one at right channel to appropriate terminal on your TV.
6.3 Connecting USB Device This device provides two 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.
7 Initial Setup 1.1 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. The setup wizard will enumerate all the languages available at the device.
7.2 Video Output Setup The 2nd 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 3rd 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 Wi-Fi button were pressed, the following screen will enumerate all available Wi-Fi AP. Select one of them and click it.
After selection of appropriate Wi-Fi access point, 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 automatically, select the “AUTO” button as above screen, if Internet is connected. Otherwise, you can manually input the time-zone or 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 “Multimedia” theme. If you are familiar with smart phone user interface, please choose “Android”. If you are more familiar with multimedia player, then choose “Multimedia” theme. The theme can be selected freely at settings later.
8 Using Remote Controller 1 2 3 2 4 2 5 9 7 6 8 10 11 12 15 14 13 17 16 14 18 19 Power On/ Off 2 Go to HOME screen 3 Pop-up MENU 4 Go to PREVIOUS screen 5 Up Arrow 6 Left Arrow 7 Right Arrow 8 Down Arrow 9 Select 10 Select Previous (Chapter/ Item) 11 Select Next (Chapter/ Item) 12 Volume Up 13 Volume Down 14 Mute / Mouse On-Off (Long pressed) 15 Channel Up 16 Channel Down 17 Color Key – Red (Context Sensitive) 18 Color Key – Green (Context Sensitive) 19 Colo
9 Firmware Update & Installation of Apps The 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. Go to “Settings” icon “System Tab” and select “Firmware Upgrade”. If you download many applications from market, internal memory can be full. In this case you need to install the extra micro-SD card into the micro-SD slot for more applications. Then more application can be downloaded and installed.
10 Initial Screen 10.1 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. The circle around power button will blink fast during the booting. LED will turn into BLUE during normal operation after booting. 10.2 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.
10.3 Audio Settings Audio output should be configured as “Digital” mode to connect AV receiver. Select
10.4 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). Prepare keyboard or mouse if the password of Wi-Fi is string. Below mouse or keyboard is compatible with this unit. Keyboard: USB type or Wireless RF type Mouse: USB type or Wireless RF type 10.4.
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. Wireless AP should be configured like below. Mode 11n Only Encryption WPA/2PSK 10.4.2 Configure Ethernet Connection Gigabit Ethernet can be also used to connect wired network.
10.4.3 Configure Manual-IP Ethernet To configure the manual-IP, select “Manual IP” like following picture then select “Next” button. The following dialog box will appear. Enter the each digit by pressing number buttons on remote controller. Or you can use the mouse to enter the number. The virtual keyboard will appear if you click the field to enter.
10.5 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 RED 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 Stand-by Make it suspend mode This unit consumes quite little power which is less than 0.
11 Start-Up and Terminate 11.1 Home Screen Please refer to section 10.2 for Home screen. The default selection would be DTV BROWSER at first start-up. TizzBird is a 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. The other units can only provide user interface, mostly text based information with additional images.
11.2 Movie Browser If you select movie browser, the following screen will appears. If you select an appropriate device that attached, and you already have movie posters, the following screen will appear. 11.3 Terminate 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.
12 Watching & Recording Digital TV 12.1 Scanning Channels Select “Broadcast” will bring the channel scanning dialog, if the device is not scanned before. This will bring the “Auto Scan” menu of setup. Auto scanning of channels will begin, and show the current status of scanning like below. Progress Scanned Channel List RF Channel No & Frequency Press the button to stop the channel scanning.
12.2 Watching Digital TV Select “Broadcast” at home screen will bring the digital TV channel like below. Station Name + Logical Channel Number To change channel, please use channel up/down button on the remote. Or you can directly enter the number button on the remote. When you enter the number button, the pop-up window of channel will appear. Select button (Yellow color button) will bring the electronic program guide (aka EPG) like below.
12.3 Recording and Time-Shifting Press
13 Watching Movie 13.1 Selecting Device The attached device can be selected at following device-selection screen of each browser, like below picture. This kind of device selection can be also available at MUSIC and PHOTO BROWSER. 13.2 Movie Browser If MOVIE BROWSER is selected and if the posters were already scraped or registered for movies, then the second picture of section 11.2 will appear. This screen is called “MOVIE BROWSER” screen.
13.3 Movie Browser Menu
13.4 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. If movie does not have poster, the default image will appear like following screen. Press
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. Press button on remote or click button on the dialog to restart the scraping.
Synopsis Audio Codec Container Resolution Rating The bottom side of the synopsis screen shows the additional movie information like rating, movie format & resolution and audio information. Click the left button of mouse on the synopsis screen or press “OK” button on remote to start playback movie. 13.6 Resume and Bookmark TizzBird provides RESUME function to the last playback position of movie, so it’s not necessary to search it again manually.
Resume Bookmark Select wanted movie & scene to resume to last playback position. Tizzbird makes thumbnail all the time for resume the exact position that stopped previously. TizzBird also provides BOOKMARK function to memorize the scene position of movie. Press button to memorize at wanted scene when playback the movie. Press
13.7 Color Buttons at Movie Playback The color buttons on the remote can be used to control movie playback. RED: Select audio GREEN: Select and control subtitle parameters. YELLOW: Browse movie and other folder even when you playback TizzBird provides various control functions during movie playback. These functions include
13.8 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 빨리 감기(FF) Button을 누르면 배속으 Press button누르면 to rewind 로 재생합니다. 연속으로 4x playback.
13.10 Playback Information Menu Select
13.13 Video Parameter Menu Select
13.16 Movie Playback Controller The MOVIE PLAYBACK screen was changed as well to support the MOUSE. The CONTROLLER will pop up when LEFT CLICK MOUSE button.
14 Listening Music 14.1 Music Browser After device selection screen like section 12.1, 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
14.2 Music Playback Screen Select album art to playback the selected music. The following image will appear. Filename Scrollbar Elapsed/ Total Time 14.3 Repeat/ Random Playback Control Buttons Info Music Playback Menu Available button when playback music is like this: Stop Press Pause Next Browser button during music playback brings you the following screen. The music keeps going on.
15 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. button on remote bring the different view as follows.
15.2 Photo Browsing Menu Press
16 Using File Browser 16.1 File Browser & Selecting Device Please select the at home screen. External USB, internal HDD storage device, or network drive can be selected at first FILE BROWSER screen. After selecting wanted device, the following screen will appear.
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 Folders can be browsed by arrow keys and press button to select that folder. Select the file and press to start playback that file. 16.2 Register Subtitle Font File Subtitle font file can be selected at file browser. Copy or move the font file (true-type font file - .
16.3 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. File Operation 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.
OK button Browse and enter the folder. Bookmark button Select the item to operate. Menu button Pop-up the FILE OPERATING ICONs. Please use left or right arrow button to move left or right pane. 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.
17.1 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. - Move the applications on the smart phone to SD card. This can be done by Android application like “App Monster”. This kind of application let user backup their APP to SD card. - Move the APP at SD card to USB flash drive. Attach the USB flash drive to the unit.
18 Settings Various set-ups can be configured at SETTINGS BROWSER. 18.1 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. Time & Weather Set up the date, time and weather, manually or automatically. Network should be configured and connected to get time information automatically. System Information Show current system information like firmware version.
Screen Resize Configure the size of graphic user interface screen. Remote Setting 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. It also supports streaming contents from your phone, PC & NAS. 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.
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. System will boot up completely from initial stage when next POWER-ON. (COLDBOOT) Disk Format Initialize the attached hard disk drive.
[Audio Format Selection] [Configuration for each format] In “Digital (Compressed)” output mode, each format (AC3/ DTS/ AAC/ HD-Audio) can be configured as On/Off independently. It’s because the capability of connected audio device is quite different.
18.3 Network Wi-Fi Connection Turn On/Off the Wi-Fi connection Wi-Fi Setting Select Wi-Fi Access Point and configure the SSID and password Ethernet Connection Turn On/Off Ethernet connection Ethernet Setting Please refer to chapter 11 and 11.3 section. Network Information Show current network information including IP address.
18.4 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. Blu-ray Region Code Sort Type Select sorting type of movie. Order Type Select ordering type of movie browser. Movie Scraper Select movie scraping data base.
18.5 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. Album Jacket Layout & Shape Please refer to chapter16. 18.6 Photo Transition Effect Select transition effects of slideshow. Slideshow Interval Select transition interval of slideshow. Slideshow Mode Select showing order of slideshow.
18.7 Broadcast Audio Language Default audio language for multi-lingual broadcast Input Source Air/ Cable (ATSC only) Channel Key Select key will work all or favorite channels Record & Capture St.. Select storage for recording & time-shifting Country Code Select broadcasting location country Channel Management Automatic Scanning / Editing channels 18.8 Android Setting This will bring the Android setting menu for normal Android device.
19 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 19.1 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. 19.1.
19.1.5 Connecting NFS Server at Device Each browser has device list and “Network Server Management” as last item like below picture. Enter this menu will bring the following screen. Select “Add NFS Server” item to add the NFS server as network drive, like below picture. Please choose NFS. This will start the SERVER BROWSING dialog box and start browsing of available NFS server at the local network. The upper right small circle shows the browsing is in progress.
The available NFS servers will appear with names or IP addresses. If NFS server is available, it will appear like below. If PC runs Windows OS, the PC name can also appear like above picture. If the wanted server list is not appeared, please try
The device list will include “Network1” as a one of device that can be accessed. The “Network . . .” device can be used as just like local device.
19.2 Network Connection using Samba The following section explains how to connect the shared PC folders or NAS (Network Attached Storage) which runs Samba Server. 19.2.1 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.
19.2.2 Connecting Samba Server at Device Each browser has device list and “Network Server Management” as last item like below picture. Enter this menu will bring the following screen. Select “Add Samba Server” item to add the Samba server as network drive, like below picture. Please select “Add SAMBA Server”. This will start the SERVER BROWSING dialog box and start browsing of available NFS server at the local network. The upper right small circle shows the browsing is in progress.
The available NFS servers will appear with names or IP addresses. If NFS server is available, it will appear like below. If PC runs Windows OS, the PC name can also appear like above picture. If the wanted server list is not appeared, please try
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. If it’s successful, the device list will include “Network1” as a one of device that can be accessed. The “Network . . .” device can be used as just like local device.
20 Firmware Upgrade 20.1 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. 2) Select 3) Setting browser will can the new firmware available on network and pop-up the window.
20.2.2 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.
21 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. 21.1 Abstract The symptom of booting failure looks like as below.
2) As soon as you turn on power, press 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. 4) Apply “wipe cache partition” first.
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.
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