Verbatim MediaStation Pro, review and resolution problems
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Loading ... The Verbatim MediaStation Pro is a media player with integrated 500-gigabyte hard drive. The player supports almost all audio and video digital compression, including MPEG 1,2,4 / 3,4,5,6 MP4/divx / HD-MPEG2/SD-MPEG2/XviD (except GMC option applied qpel) / WMV9 (WMV) / TS / TP / TRP / ISO / IFO / VOB. Even the audio is fully supported due to compatibility with MP3 / WMA / WAV / OGG Vorbis / AAC and is also full support for image formats with classic JPG / JPEG / PNG / BMP.
Unpacking
As shown in the photo below
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The product comes in a beautiful black box. The interior contains the MediaStation, support to hold the device, the wireless, the external power supply, CD with manual (in six languages, including Italian) and the USB driver for Windows 98/Me, the remote two batteries and all relevant cables to connect the product with the audio / video devices and the PC. Excludes the optical cable for connection to a Dolby Digital and the cable network.
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As seen from the back
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the product can be connected to video devices via HDMI port, SVGA port or by using the two holes you see jack and two centrally supplied cables to devices with composite or with the classic RCA.
To connect to the audio section there are the traditional left / right channel RCA output or otherwise, to support the Dolby and DTS tracks, you have the 'one optical or coaxial output.
To connect with the data on MediaStation has a LAN interface has a wireless 802.11b / g, can be connected to a computer via USB and has two USB ports for connecting additional external drives or USB sticks.
You can then add films / audio / pictures available on USB sticks or HD, you can connect this device via USB to a computer that will recognize it like any external hard drive to be closed inside our films, our images or however, any other files, and to use the device as external backup drive for our data.
Also seems possible, given the presence of network connectivity cable or wireless, you can also transfer those files using the network. Would say so too because otherwise why buy a device with network support. We will see shortly that, during the installation and use, things are not all rosy.
Installation
The first note that there are negative for the product is printed booklet contained inside the package and called "quick start guide". Usually the quickstart guide is the only thing you see because it contains patterns and step step by step to attach the device to other devices with the pattern of wiring between devices and the startup of the device.
This booklet instead, albeit translated into several languages, contains nothing. Couple of pages with the system requirements, limitations on guarantees and references to technical assistance
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I honestly expected more from this type of manual but this small flaw is balanced by an excellent manual on the CD that explains how to connect wire and sign the MediaStation in both the audio / video is that the part of the network.
And now the pain starts.
We MediaStation working. As we put the movies? Obviously I can connect via USB to your computer and put the movie on your hard drive but since the device has, as mentioned above, network interfaces, I use it as network attached storage .
The first idea, once identified the IP address obtained from the device by the DHCP server on my network, is that it has on shared network resources by the entire hard drive but unfortunately a search on the IP shares of MediaStation proves to be no active network server.
A little 'navigation within the setup menu bodes well given the presence of protocols such as SAMBA, FTP, NFS, and UPnP. But after a while 'I realize that all this stuff really need to see any shares in the external sense that if the network is a shared samba, ftp, nfs with in films, images sounds, MediaStation allows you to run these files remote, and then allows you to see on the big screen movies and all media content shared on the network and it also seems to work very well because the MediaStation immediately identifies and makes available all of the shares on my home computer. A useful feature, but is not what interests me now. How to put movies on the hard disk inside the MediaStation.
An "FTP Server" gives me hope, although I will be forced to use an FTP client, always better than having to always have the device near the computer connected to USB. Sets the data and I connect remotely. It seems to work, as well as if any attempt to go write fails. It seems as if the device is mounted read-only because any attempt to write to get a response like "access denied".
Disheartened after further tests, since the manual recommends it, try to see if there is a firmware upgrade on the site of verbatin not find any information regarding my product. Even more disheartened I lean on my google returns a link to this forum thread hardware upgrades which come to discover many interesting things.
Look at the picture below. There is family?
But it is our Verbatim MediaStation Pro But no. It 's the MediaGate MG-350SHD of AL Tech.
What have they done so than Verbatim? They took a third-party product and have, as they say, rebrandizzato. Up to here nothing wrong except that the MediaGate has support for NDAS which is an evolution of the NAS developed by Ximeta that, even as proprietary implementation, can even see the remote storage like a local disk.
So if the MediaGate MediaStation and are the same person because I do not find in MediaGate NDAS support?
It is discovered by looking at the firmware version of the model Verbatin
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which contrasts sharply with the latest firmware that is seen to be the original 1.1.11. What then 1.1.12 this in my model? Most likely rebrandizzazione product has been made only outside but also inside with a firmware version specially created by Verbatim. Only in this version support the NDAS was not called.
Now, as for me, but I think for you, support the NDAS is essential, we put it back as returning the product "to the roots" by inserting the "old" original firmware.
Add support to NDAS MediaStation Pro Verbatim
To do this we download firmware 1.1.11 from the site of Al Tech and piazziamolo on a USB stick formatted VFAT / NTFS. Then enter the key on either doors MediaStation. To see the stick I had to power cycle the unit. Having identified the key entriamoci posizioniamoci with the cursor and update files
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and start the update by pressing the OK button on the remote.
When finished, by turning the MediaStation it magically becomes the MediaGate.
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This is where finally, in setup, the voice is that cDNAs can then activate.
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Also note the green skin of the original skin as opposed to blue than branded. Which you prefer? I do this here 
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Then just download the NDAS support for Windows XP / Vista PC and everything is finished? Unfortunately it is not so because to put a hand c''è again Verbatin branding.
To mount the remote device via NDAS is because you need to know two unique parameters of the device, its ID and the so-called "Write Key. In manual MediaGate c''è that these values are written on a label located underneath the device. And in the branded version from Verbatim? No trace of this fucking label.
How do? Helps us NDASSCAN , a software developed by a guy who is my greatest admiration, that, using the driver tries Ximeta NDAS devices on the network by removing the two pieces of information we need.
But some problems still before reaching the end of this ordeal. The needs of libraries NDASSCAN winpcap , and so far little bad, but it was developed for version 3.11 of Ximeta driver currently available in version 3.40 incompatible. NDDASCAN also search the library in C: \ Program Files \ NDAS \ System while we know that systems Italian drivers will be installed in C: \ Program Files \ NDAS \ ...
Let's see how to get out of this collapse.
Download and install the NDAS driver version 3.11 (icio60, in a comment , I noted that the 3.11 is no longer available at Ximeta. So you can find this version here .). At the end of the installation create the folder C: \ Program Files copiamoci and the whole folder C: \ Program Files \ NDAS \.
Dumping NDASSCAN and let us save directly in c: \ Program Files \ NDAS \ System.
Launch NDASSCAN
save the data ID and Wirt key, delete the folder C: \ Program Files created and uninstall the old drivers of Ximeta.
Then install the updated drivers. Appear in the system tray icon NAS Device Management, right click and "Register New Device." We complete all required fields and the result is finally a new disk on your computer's resources.
Conclusions
What can I say? What if you had made the Verbatim ** about her, would be a good product and still is to follow the guidance provided above, otherwise it is the usual external USB device to be moved from time to time we watch a movie on TV.
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Hello everyone. I performed the procedure on two different PCs, with a view, the other with xp. In both cases everything is ok, except that 'when I enter the NDAS ID and write key, the software searches for and finds the device, but it returns this message: "There is no mountable NDAS device at this time".
In fact, the menu of the device, the entries are "deregister" and "properties", but not to mount the hd. Does anyone have ideas of why '? Obviously I have tried both via wireless LAN, NDAS and the option of MediaStation 'on. Help!
Ahhhhhhh lucky you ... you have these problems. ... I just purchased a MediaStation NDAS 500GB HD USB / LAN / Wi-Fi Media Player'm happy for the whole set and surprise surprise .... Nisba the remote is dead kaput. Verbatim phone and it will take 15 working days to change it. ... I have no words!
Hi, I bought myself the MediaStation Pro Wireless, the basic functions: network (wireless), reading common file (. Avi,. ... Mp3 etc.) seem fine. I tried to see some movies on the net and it seems ok. I note, however, 'problems in reading the file types:. Iso. Ifo (DVD). The first non-local disk reads dl, while remote from jerky but, for the second hand black screen with no response (from the local disk). The product 'declared compatible to read this type of files.
Any suggestions ..?
Thanks
Sebastian
I do not know if it comes to this but my MediaStation, upon acquisition, was not formatted in FAT32 then allows you to put files larger than 2Gbyte and if you try to put these files are still truncated to this value is so corrupt.
If you then try to add and view files. Iso. Ifo DVD which are usually larger than 4Gbyte and even inside your MediaStation HD is formatted FAT32 then it is normal that you can not see them because they are being truncated to 2Gbyte corrupt and therefore unreadable.
To resolve the MediaStation must format the disk using NTFS as the file system. Eye if you have already put stuff in MediaStation first save somewhere else because formatting erases everything on the disc.
Sebastian, wishing simply unzip the file. Iso in the classic AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders, so the files will always be 1048.
But ... investment, Emiliano, no hint that I mentioned a few days ago? Because while seeing the NDAS device, does not allow me to mount, and in fact I do not see in My Computer drive letter?
A first question, certainly a bullshit but better to be safe
. It is not by chance that the disc inside is not formatted. I mean, if you mount it via USB, do you see?
Rightly, we start with the basics!
The disk is formatted, I have in many files, and via USB everything goes perfectly. I assume that I am not a neophyte
The strange thing is that if I turn off the HD, the device icon in the menu is black, but if I switch it on is white.
Also see the device in the properties because he sees the mac address, and also the status is online.
But the menu, damn, has only two entries: "deregister" and "properties"
What rabbiaaaa!
Then, in words is difficult to understand. We see the differences with the images.
First version of the program that I have
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your equals? Here's what I see then is off when the MediaStation
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here's what I see when lit
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Note that differences from what you see?
Meanwhile, thanks for the help.
First image: the version is almost identical, I have the 3.40.1604.12136, nothing changes.
Second image (MediaStation off): exactly the same
Third image (MediaStation on): the box was black becomes white (like you). Pero ', and here comes the problem, the menu items you see are just "deregister" and "properties". Are neither the "Mount (Read-only)" that the "Mount (Read / Write). That 's what the problem, as I said! Why, despite seeing him on-line, does not allow me to mount? Please note that already during installation, as mentioned in previous post, I warned that "There is no mountable NDAS device at this time". I do not know where to turn.
Dunno, could be an attempt to uninstall and reinstall the application, but probably you did.
Try to install it on another PC on the network and see what happens?
Oh, yeah. We list the tests that I made without success, and that led me almost on the threshold of resignation
1) disinstalato and reinstalled the software, including various versions
2) carried out tests on 3 different PCs, both with XP or Vista
3) a formatted the PC and installed software to pc "virgin"
The only thing is I still groped MediaStation format but I have to save all data, and then .... May be due to the FAT partition and not NTFS? I'm not so 'safe ...
the fact remains that, even during the final installation of the new NDAS software, the final message is:
"You Have And The succesfully registered NDAS device is connected. However, there is no mountable NDAS device found at this time. Please check the status from the task bar icon menu
The question is just that! Because it connects but recognizes it as "not mountable"?? If you have ideas, you'll be grateful.
Do you think that directly connect the notebook to MediaStation with a cross cable may have results?
I do not. Mine has the default partition FAT32.
No, I no longer think that evidence.
I think not. I've got attacked by a switch with other stuff in between.
What to say. ... Thank you anyway, sooner or later I will understand what is due and write.
Absolutely. If you are curious to know solve the problem was.
Hello Mr. Brown, I ask a favor, how to fix the factor jerky video? Kindly help me as I am already a little bit of DivX HD and someone goes sometimes ... ... .. Verbatin MediaStation Pro Buy 1st October 2008. The Ringrazzzzzio advance.
So far I've never seen a movie shots. If you send me a link (via private e-mail) of a film that you see shots I try to download it (for testing) and do the test.
As you can see already above, in the comments, this thing was out of film shooting and yet the film to which reference was made I saw no problem
Strange to say, but I happened to be a friend, and the cause was a bad HDMI cable.
Hello Emiliano,
I have a Medistation Pro 500 GB (199 euros, Ipercoop).
I'd like to know if there is a way to read MKV files. Other media players support this "container" and wanted to know if there is hope for Verbatin.
Thank you!
Dennis
Dunno, I did the test but does not seem to be supported. If you see them is probably not supported and therefore can not work now or ever unless, in future firmware updates, decide to add support. But nobody knows at present.
If so, (and I intend to do the test at home with a mkv), the only way you have to see those movies with the MediaStation is to convert them to other formats.
Guide useful, are days that go crazy trying to see the disk from the network ... ... Thank you!
Thank you, you know that is not a supported format. In reality, often within the mkv video file is encoded in h264 and MediaStation Pro does not support this codec. I have read here and that even with firmware upgrades, the chip would not be able to support decoding.
However, taking advantage of your kindness, I ask if you know (or if anyone knows) a good software to convert.
Thanks
Dennis
Essert was happy to help.
So, I usually use one of them.
- Super (c) - http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
- MediaCoder - http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
- VirtualDub - http://www.virtualdub.org
I resolved "processing" the DivX files with Avidemux (they are Linux user).
Many have DivX compressed data packet, so the video is jerky. Once you remove this type of compression is all fluid.
If you are looking for eg. google packed bitstream will see that there are a lot of posts.
Hello everyone, I also like Luke the MediaStation alias MG-35S. In particular I noticed that while the manual verbatim, no reference to the files. ISO, seems MG35S support them. Honestly I have not done any testing, I have a few days. Someone has already tried?
I asked Luke if he tried to use the MediaGate firmware and how it goes. thanks
We know if the Verbatim Medistation AL Tech MediaGate or if you prefer, maybe someone is developing alternative firmware to load a linux system?
x Maximilian attention too ... I've got slammed by default is disabled on the NDAS MediaStation, go to the configuration of the network and activate it! I hope it is just that, or so I solved my problem ... rather for those formatted to NTFS, the MediaStation has no problem reading this file system?
Thanks
I answer myself
Once reformatted to NTFS, also MediaStation "non pro" reads quietly. Iso file Hooray!
Excellent news. I was one of those who had not noticed the FAT32 and I had already put stuff in MediaStation but now I tried this week, to copy everything to another HD and reformat to NTFS, but everything I had some doubts.
Now I have them removed.
Thanks William but .... Is activated and how. The last and only obstacle could be the fact that they are all connected Hugo Fastweb, I do not know what kind of management they face. Just put his hand on a normal router do the test.
Maximilian, you have personal firewall software such as mica activated? or perhaps that of XP / Vista? have tried to disable them? sometimes the antivirus firewall features ... try a little ...
Hello and good luck
I'm speechless I paid 239.00 euros in the shop first thing I noticed that I could not get it to work without connecting to the computer. 2 l.ho tried and it seems to work. 3 within the internet and read. after I read everything including the comments I wondered turns you turn. Mison I got a great inc ... and I bought ... a bitch. comunq hope not in both cases. will be 'good or not?
Merry Christmas and hello to everyone.
I have a MediaStation I configured and working with NDAS. Since yesterday evening following a block view of a photograph (using film and watching photos on TV but disconnected from the network) I had to turn off the power. Now I can only access the hard drive via USB, read the data and see the content (on PC) but I can not connect to the TV (so no setup) and even over the network because the box stays on the LED (blue) power flashing POWER LED (red) flashing and blinking LED hd. I have the feeling that you have damaged some part of SW that controls the output device to the TV, but I have no idea how to restore or where to find it ... ... Can anybody help before I throw it out the window in a truck? (I doubt I did a very good buy, now I'm sure). Thanks to those who want help.
The first thing I suggest is to try to toss them back into the MediaStation firmware branded or original.
It happened to me.
If you have the USB cable connected to the PC. Staccati, turn it off and riavvilo wireless USB, should now start properly!
Hello Guys, I just bought a 500 GB MediaStation and saw that is formatted in FAT32, but I have the need to have the HD NTFS to copy files larger than 4 GB, not to cause damage, I ask you first surely you have already done some formatting on NTFS, we come to the point, if I format the HD, the risk of losing the preinstalled software to use the MediaStation with TV? software that once connected the MediaStation on TV, allows you to setup and navigate the menus, then access the various folders to view movies, photos, etc. ... to understand, or can I safely format without the risk of losing this software? if someone is kind enough to give me a clear answer various questions, thanks and Happy New Year
hello mark even now I have noticed the same problem if I format from FAT to NTFS always work functions that had previously resolved the media if you answer me thanks maurizio
Mark let me know how you solved your problem because I have the same maurizio
two months ago, just bought, I formatted in NTFS, you do not lose anything and everything runs smoothly, so you can transfer an entire DVD with no prob. If you have already loaded a lot of stuff might be a little more lengthy and risky procedure.
Hello Captain
no longer able to download the NDAS driver ver. 3.11.
Ximeta site are available only ones to date (3.40, 3.41).
How?
PS: for the moment I help with FileZilla but is a pain because you constantly repeats the message:
Response: 530 Server is busy, sorry.
Error: Catastrophic failure
Error: Unable to connect to server
Only after several attempts and I can transfer (wireless) a file at a time.
Assistance Verbatim groping in total darkness.
Thanks for reporting. I updated the article with a link to version 3.11 works.
Thanks Velner information, then I can easily be formatted in NTFS, and copy DVD movies and watch them on TV also keeping safely used as the features and HD Multimedia Station with the various menu options for searching and viewing files?
Thanks again
Go quiet, alone with the hassles with the various network settings that are not the brightest, as opposed to if it sells Verbatim. I use FTP NDAS.Comunque others are quite happy with the item, for the moment is almost what I ask, expecting a new firmware.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.
I enjoyed reading the guide, which besides being well made is also supported by good reviews.
I got the Verbatim MediaStation (without WiFi), I have uploaded a lot of trinkets via USB and discover that you have checked the formatting, if it was in FAT32 or NTFS ... patience, if you must reformat the disk and reload the film.
but now I am puzzled with the FTP connection.
I installed its software NDAS, put the appropriate key, the Save As default but if you look at the properties of the device can not find any HD installed (it is the fault of the formatting? not think!) in risorese computer can not find any new device.
I tried Filezilla (which already use to manage Your Website a) but would not know what parameters to use for login (I tried those Altech but not good)
NDAS is the parameter to ON, the IP is static and responds to ping, in short, I forgot something?
by Valter
Hello and New Year's greetings!
I have a problem
I had the unfortunate idea of buying a MediaStation pro, just the last year. Ok now it is gone.
I had the same problems posted on the blog.
I faithfully followed the instructions to update the firmware again and all ok.
The problem occurred in the next step: I downloaded the software and libraries following step by step instructions, I will charge NDAS. God dos prompt ndasscan launch the application but, after all the routine, he writes the following string: "Listen period expired"
"No NDAS HELO packets received"
and with this I can not see the NPE NDAS device ID, nor even the write key.
Can you help? Where did I go wrong?
A warm greeting
Giancarlo