User’s Manual Smart TV Stick TIZZBIRD™ N1 Rev 3.
Table of Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Safety Notice ............................................................................. 4 Features .................................................................................... 5 Specifications ............................................................................ 6 Description of Each Part ............................................................. 7 Package Contents ......................................................................
15 Using File Browser ................................................................... 47 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 File Browser Screen ....................................................................................................... 47 Selecting Device at File Browser .................................................................................. 48 Register Subtitle Font File ............................................................................................. 48 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 N1 is so small that let you install it directly to HDMI port of any TV. The power will be supplied by USB port of TV, so no need to install another power adapter. Tizzbird playbacks various full HD movie contents including 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.
3 Specifications Model TizzBird Stick N1 System TCC8925 Cortex-A5 800Mhz CPU/ 256KB L2 Cache 512M Memory(N1M model)/ 1GB Memory(N1G model)/ 4GB T-flash Booting time from stand-by is less than three seconds. OS Android Rev 4.0 Ice cream sandwich Video Format: AVI/ MKV/ MPG/ WMV/ VOB/ TP/ TRP/ M2TS/ MOV/ FLV/ IFO/ ISO Codec: MPEG 1/2/4, H264, XVID, WMV9(MP@HL4.
4 Description of Each Part Micro USB port HDMI port To connect power and IR receiver cable To connect TV. Connectors Please connect the unit to HDMI port of the TV. Please connect the FLASH DRIVE, MOUSE or KEYBOARD on the USB host port. Please connect MOUSE or KEYBOARD on the USB OTG port. * USB host DOES NOT PROVIDE enough POWER to drive 2.5” HDD. Please use HDD drive with external power supply. * USB OTG port only allows connection of MOUSE or KEYBOARD.
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 to TV The TizzBird supports HDMI audio and video output for connection to a TV. Connection to HDMI Out Power Cable Connection Connect the TizzBird N1 HDMI to your TV. HDMI can also transfer the audio signal and no need to connect another cable for audio. Connect the power cable of TizzBird N1 to the TV USB port like below. If you experience some problem during playback, you may connect supplied power adapter.
Connecting to AV Receiver Tizzbird N1 can be connected to HDMI input AV receiver. Please select the appropriate input at the audio receiver using remote controller after connection. Connection to AV Receiver Connect the Tizzbird N1 HDMI to your AV receivers’ HDMI input. Then connect the AV receivers’ HDMI output to the TV input.
Connecting USB Device TizzBird 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 USB video-cam & microphone. Caution!! To connect any external 2.5” HDD drive, please DO USE EXTERNAL POWER SUPPLY of HDD or Y-CABLE for that. The N1 does not guarantee the power to drive the external HDD under any circumstances.
7 Initial Setup Wizard 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 1) Language Setup The first step is setup the menu language. The setup wizard will enumerate all the languages available at this moment. Please select one of the menu languages for your use.
2) Video Output Setup The video resolution selection screen will appear as above. Please select the appropriate video output for the display. If you select, the pop-up will ask you keep resolution change or not. If the pop-up screen will appear, please select “Keep It”.
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. 4) Network Setup The 4th step is setting up network. Wi-Fi 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.
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.
5) Time Zone & 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 TimeZone button as above screen. Then select “AUTO” if Internet is connected. Otherwise, you can manually input the time-zone. The weather location setup is almost the same. Select “Weather Location” then select “Auto” button if network is connected.
6) Theme Setup The final step is setting up theme. Tizzbird N1 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”. If you are more familiar with multimedia player, then choose TizzBird theme. The theme can be selected freely at settings later.
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9 The 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. Weather Widget shows the weather, calendar and time. Click the WEATHER WIDGET will bring the configuration screen of location and time-zone.
The CONTROL WIDGET lets users control the SCREEN and VOLUME by MOUSE. The 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 Off Back Home Menu Volume Down Volume Up The STATUS WIDGET shows current status of each device. It will highlight when activated.
10 Start Up and Terminate 10.1 Home Screen (Tizzbird Theme) 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.
10.2 Cover-View Style TizzBird provides Open-GL 3D based Cover-View user interface. But unlike F20 and F30, N1 only provides the fixed mode of Cover-View style at each mode. 10.3 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.
10.4 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 unit will be 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 supports high speed booting mode from STAND-BY.
11 Watching Movie 11.1 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. 11.2 Control Widget at Browser Screen The each specific browser was changed to support the control widget.
The control widget bar will appear to control the overall behavior of the browser. 11.3 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. Selecting each device like HDD, USB or NETWORK DRIVE will just show the folders on that device.
11.4 Movie Browser Menu
11.5 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 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.
11.6 Synopsis Screen The scraping consists 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.
11.7 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
11.8 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. YELLOW color button: Show movie playback information.
11.9 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> … 11.
11.11 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. 11.12 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%. 11.
Press after selecting audio format or language audio to change the audio track. 11.14 Video Parameter Menu Select
11.17 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. Minimize button Menu buttons Playback control buttons Mute button + Volume Bar Scrollbar Click to move position The MENU BUTTON group consists of several menu buttons.
12 Listening Music 12.1 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
12.2 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 12.3 SORT BY YEAR Music Playback Screen Select album art to playback the selected music. The following image will appear.
13 Watching Photo 13.1 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. 13.2 Photo Browsing Menu Press
13.4 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 . 13.5 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.
14 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
Mode> and . You can configure layouts of browsers at and configure shape of each item at . For example, the will bring you the following screen to configure the border type, border alpha value, width, radius and item alpha. Alpha is transparency rate. For example, configure 8x3, rounded border and border width 3 will give you something like this movie browser.
This kind of configuration is also possible at MUSIC and PHOTO BROWSER. Please notice the following screen-shots.
For example, configure 6x3, rounded border and border width 3 will give you something like this music browser.
For example, configure 7x3, rounded border and border width 3 will give you something like this photo browser.
15 Using File Browser 15.1 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.
15.2 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. 15.3 Register Subtitle Font File Subtitle font file can be selected at file browser. Copy or move the font file (true-type font file - .
15.4 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.
16 Connecting Internet 16.1 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. 16.
17 Install and Execute Application 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.
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 time & weather location, manually or automatically. Network should be configured and connected to get time & weather location automatically. System Information Show current system information like firmware version.
TizzRemote 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 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.
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 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.
18.2 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.
18.3 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. “On” Automatic resume without asking. “Off” Always startup without resuming. Pop-up Pop window up to ask resume or not. 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.
Poster layout and Poster Shape Please refer to chapter 15. Advanced setting contains more special settings for movie. Blue Button Mode Blue color button on remote can be configured “3D mode change” button or “Repeat mode” button. Show Playback Information up. Turn on/off the information window when movie start- Continuous Movie Playback Turn on/off successive movie playback, if any. 18.4 Music Instant Skip Interval Lyric Mode Select instant skip interval.
18.5 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 & Shape Please refer to chapter 15. Wallpaper Mode Keep the aspect ratio or stretching to “Fullscreen” Restore wallpaper Restore default wallpaper if background was changed.
18.6 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 Network Server … Please see chapter 20 and 20.1.5 for configuration DLNA Turn On/Off the DLNA. See chapter 21 for usage of DLNA. YouTube Cache Size Determine the cache size for YouTube real-time streaming. Network Information Show current connected network information. 18.
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 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.
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.
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. 19.3 Accessing Network Drive at File/ Media Browser The shared folder connected thru can be accessible at .
20 Using DLNA Tizzbird fully implements several DLNA stacks includes DMP (Digital Media Player), DMS (Digital Media Server) and DMR (Digital Media Renderer). It can be used very flexibly several ways. DMP (Digital Media Player) TizzBird can browse other DMS (Digital Media Server) servers including DLNA enabled PC, Smart Phone and NAS, and be able to playback the contents on the designated server.
20.1 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” Preparing Smart Phone. Prepare Android Smart Phone (Gingerbread or later) or iPhone and connect the same Access-Point as Tizzbird connected. Download the iMediaShare or Twonky app from the market.
21.1 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 The iMediaShare startup screen will come up like below. Select the online site example Select one of the on-line site examples. Below screen shows some candidates.
“My Photos”, “My Music”, “My Videos” show local contents on your phones. Below screen shows the “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”.
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 socalled DMR (Digital Media Renderer).
21.2 Sending Smartphone’s Contents - Using 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.
Designate the renderer. Then the Tizzbird will start playback.
22 Firmware Upgrade 22.1 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.
22.2.2 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.
23 Using N1 as a Mass Storage TizzBird N1 contains T-flash memory which is mainly used for Android system image and working area. Some part of T-flash area is assigned to SD-card area which is used by Android system as an external memory. This SD-card area can be accessible by PC as a USB mass storage device (UMS). So if you have 8G/ 16G/ 32GB version of TizzBird N1, you can use more extra SD card area for storing various multimedia contents. Here’s the procedure to access.
