User’s Manual Smart Media Player TIZZBIRD™ F30
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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 .......................
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 15.1 15.2 Move Applications at Android Phone to TizzBird ....................................................... 44 Execute Application ..................................................................................................... 45 16. Settings .......................................................................................... 46 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.7 System .........................................................................................
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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 plays high resolution photo images back on TV.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 4. Description of Each Part Power Button Smart HDD Rack Turn ON/OFF power of the unit. Install/ Uninstall the HDD easily with Smart HDD 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 5. Package Contents 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 6. Installation and Connection Pedestal Assembly This is an assembly guide 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 follow the arrow indicated on the bottom side until the “CLICK” sound.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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 assemble them with two A bumps. Insert the HDD first on the side. Then assemble the bottom holes of HDD with two B bumps. Insert the rack smoothly into the main unit.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER Connecting the Video 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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. 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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TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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 chapter 6 “Initial Display Setup for TV”.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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 .
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 8.5 Audio & Visual Settings Please setup the to select most proper video resolution for the display. Select
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER When “Compressed” 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 8.6 Network Settings Network should be configured to surf Internet and to download movie poster automatically from Internet and do network game. There are two types of network setting. One is Wi-Fi (Wireless), and 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. Prepare it and connect it to USB host port of the unit.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER Select . If the configuration is “Auto IP”, the network connection will occur immediately. Otherwise, network setting should be manually configured by selecting . 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 9. Start-Up and End 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 9.2 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 9.3 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 1 st 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. 9.4 Terminate Press button on remote or key on the front will turn the unit be into STAND-BY status.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 10.2 Movie Browser Menu
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 10.3 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
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 10.4 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
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 10.5 Movie Playback Menu TizzBird provides various control functions during movie playback. These functions include
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 10.7 Searching Menu (Time, Chapter, Bookmark) Press
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 10.9 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%. 10.10 Audio Menu Select
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 10.11 Video Parameter Menu Select
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 11. 11.1 Listening Music Music Browser The following MUSIC BROWSER screen will appear if music files contain the album art with their tags. Press or keys to move each direction. Keep pressing arrow keys to browse continuously. The album-art screen will keep changing. Press
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 11.3 Music Playback Screen Select album art to playback the selected music. The following image will appear. Left pane: Shows album-art image, current playback status and position. Right pane: Shows list of songs, song information and album-art thumbnail. Press or arrow key to browse songs and press to start playback. Now playing music will be shown in YELLOW and selected music in LIGHT GREEN color.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 12.3 Photo Wall & Photo Stack The following screen will appear after selecting one of the folder thumbnails. The left pane is called “PHOTO STACK” and the right pane is called “PHOTO WALL”. The photo stack will show summary of photos, and photo wall can be used to select one of photos. Use arrow buttons to navigate the photos and press button to see the photo at full screen. 12.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 13. Using File Browser 13.1 File Browser Screen The following screen will appear when selecting FILE BROWSER. This is quite similar browser style of 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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 - .
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TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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. ※ 14.2 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 15.2 Execute Application The following image will appear when TizzBird runs APP BROWSER at home screen. Use arrow buttons to browse the application and press button to execute it.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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. Audio Output Select PCM or compressed output mode of audio output.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 16.3 Movie Resume Select resume method when start watching movie. Subtitle Language Select subtitle language. Subtitle Size Select size of subtitle. Subtitle Position Select position of subtitle. Subtitle Font Select font of subtitle. Font should be registered to use this. Subtitle Color Select default color of subtitle. Tinted subtitle is supported. Instant Skip Interval Select instant skip interval.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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. .
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 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.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 16.7 Cover-View The cover-view style can be configured for each browser.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 17. Firmware Upgrade 17.1 Local Upgrade Separately downloaded firmware (thru PC) can be upgraded like below. The upgrade will not take more than 1 minute. 17.1.1 Upgrade at Settings Screen 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 . - SETTINGS BROWSER will scan the new firmware automatically and pop-up window.
TizzBird – SMART MEDIA PLAYER 17.1.2 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. 17.2 Online Upgrade TizzBird will connect the firmware update server periodically and pop-up upgrade prompt window automatically, if new firmware is available.
