Divx Zooming Size

[Desacrate]

Hey people, i just bought myself one of these cool dvd players, but the thing i was wondering is, can you edit the flash file in 1.2 to change how many zooms you have, cos i want the divx to have the 1.5x zoom aswell as just the 2.0x zoom, cos it is too big.

[andw]

Hi Desacrate, You really need to tell us which player you have, but taking a logical guess at the fact that your firmware is 1.2, and you only have 2x zoom, I would say it is an XMS-888.
However, no you can't edit the flash file.
Wait for the next firmware, and keep your fingures crossed.

[Desacrate]

Yeah sorry it is the Xms-888, but why isnt it possible to edit the firmware with a hexeditor and change afew values to make another zoom or change the original zoom.

[andw]

It would be similar to cludging your Windows XP to make it do things differently.
For a start, the firmware file is actually a few files 'zipped' up with a compression algorithm that has a small 'loader' at the start of it to load up the firmware into the players RAM. These have to be decompressed. Then you would have to be able to code in assembler for an ESS based chip. (different than Intel code). Then you would have to make sure all the checksums / offsets etc were all correct, recompress it without messing up the loader, and then load it back into the player.
Now, while 'technically' this is all possible, you would really need an ESS based cross compiler / decompiler to do it.
It's not really something you could 'cludge'.
(added to that the fact that if you were cludging your Windows XP, you could easily reload a 'real' XP, if it all went wrong. If you stuffed up something on the firmware that stopped the player seeing the disc loader or hung it or just about anything else, there would be no going back).
Not something that's worth messing with, unless you want to keep buying a new player every time you messed it up.