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Astone Media Gear AP-32B Media Player

Astone Media Gear AP-32B Media Player - A HDMI media player for under $100 bucks. Bargain. Sure it doesn't do 1080p but 1080i is still a great picture. No MKV or H264 support at this price but for Divx and MPEG movies its perfect.

Astone Media Gear AP-32B is a affordable High Definition multimedia player (up to 1080i) for high quality home entertainment. It can playback the Multimedia files in external storage device through USB interface. AP-32B is able to playback HD MPEG2/MPEG4-ASP Xvid / DivX videos and outputs to HDTV with HDMI interface. Not only for HD movie, it is also able to playback photo and music. Astone Media Gear AP-32B is a great product for enjoyment of high definition media content.

Feature

• Decode and output High Definition 1080i video and Photo. Various formats of HD video are supported.
• Within the next generation interface - HDMI output.
• High performance video playback. Experience fluent playback control like Zoom-in, Pan the picture, Fast Forward, Fast Reverse, Slow-motion.
• Fully supports the subtitle format. Dynamically change the subtitle display by remote control.
• Photo playback via HD. Supports Up to 4 mega-pixel photo files, 16X Zoom in, 3-direction rotation.
• Slide show mode with 8 kinds of transition effect. Background music playback is supported.
• Rich types of music file. The playback function includes Fast Forward, Fast Reverse, Repeat, Shuffle and Shuffle Repeat.
• Within USB 2.0 port, plug-and-play the USB Flash Drive, USB Mobile Hard Disk Drive and USB Card Reader. (All optional extras)
• Supports all most all formats of HDD and has the most interchangeability.
• Easy to use and intuitive control. Change to setup menu at any time even in media playing to provide the fluent control.

Specification

• Model name: AP-32B
• Disc format: FAT16/FAT32/NTFS (Read only)/UDF/EXT3
• Subtitle: Chinese Traditional/Chinese Simplified/UTF8
• Aspect ratio: Pan Scan 4:3 / Letterbox 4:3 /16:9
• Video: 1x CVBS composite RCA Video 480i, 1x Y/Pb/Pr Up to HD 720P/1080i, 1x HDMI Up to HD 720P/1080i
• Audio: 1x AUDIO L/R RCA
• USB: 1x USB 2.0, 5V - 1000mA
• Video format: MPEG1 (DAT / MPG / MPEG), MPEG2 (MPG / MPEG / VOB / ISO / IFO / TS / TP) MPEG4, MJPEG (MP4 / AVI), DivX 3/4/5/6/HD, Xvid (AVI / MKV¹), Real Video 9/10 (RM / RMVB)²
• Audio format: MP3, WMA, WAV,ASF, AAC, OGG Vorbis, MP4, M4A(AAC), M3U(Playlist), Dolby Digital AC3/DTS, Real Audio(RM)
• Photo format: jpg(JPEG), bmp(BMP), jpg(40-mega pixel)
• Subtitle format: srt, sub, smi, *idx+sub, ssa, DVD subtitle, DivX subtitle
• Housing: Power rating: 12v, 1.5A
• Power consumption: Operation: 4.8W (USB device consumption not included); Standby: 1W
• Size: 101mm x 146mm x 30.6mm (L x W x H)
• Operation temperature: 40 Celsius

Note:
1. H.264 or MPEG-4 AVC encoding files are not supported by AP-32B
2. The Real Video 9 &10 compressed with 2-pass Video encoding option are supported, RPR (Reference Picture Resampling) option isn't supported when playing the Real video

*When playing the HD video, the display position of the subtitle could be in the higher part of the TV picture. Only the subtitle format "idx + sub" can maintain the same position as playing in the SD video. We recommend using this kind of subtitle format.

Package Contents

• AP-32B HD Media Player
• Power adapter
• Remote control unit
• AAA batteries
• YPbPr cable
• RCA cable
• User's manual
• Quick installation guide

Video Codec Support

Audio Codec Support

Codec	Feature	File Container
MPEG-1 Layer 3	2 channels 8 - 320kbps, VBR	mp3, m3u (MP3 list)
WMA	WMA ver. 9.1, CBR up to 320kbps, VBR up to 256kbps	wmv asf
WAV	Microsoft PCM only	wav
AAC	MPEG-2/4 LC/HE profile, AAC+ ver 1/2 UP to 288 kbps	aac mp4 m4a
OGG Vorbis	-	ogg
Dolby Digital AC3	AC3 5.1	Included in the video only
DTS	DTS 5.1	Included in the video only

General Notes:

    * Some files may not stream over a wireless network
    * Hard drives are not included (unless otherwise specified)
    * Generally any B-Frame, QPEL and GMC options in DivX files are unsupported.
    * If shown, gigabit support depends on switch or router compatibility
    * Due to various encoding options some files might not play even if the codec and file format is shown as supported.