These should make their small EG-M34A a suitable bedroom streamer where you don’t need a AV amplifier to enjoy all the DTS goodness.

Notable changes include:

• DTS Stereo downmix supported
• Fixed long playback of some TS file causing system crash
• Fixed formatting SATA HDD failure on some large capacity HDD
• Fixed further DTS dropouts in MKV.
• Add Hebrew language.

Head over here to Egreatworld to download:

EG-M31B/M34A Firmware Download
http://www.egreatworld.com/en/Support31B34A.asp

EG-M32B Firmware Download
http://www.egreatworld.com/en/Support32B35A.asp

For faster links, choose EgreatHD, hosted at the United States:

http://egreathd.com/index.php?option=com…&Itemid=63

Enjoy

EG-M31B Features

* Sigma Designs 8635c CPU
* USB Slave (enable player to be just plugged into a PC to copy media files)
* 512mb RAM for future better firmware update
* HDMI 1.3
* Support Internal SATA I/II hard disk up to 1TB
* Esata connections for external eSATA drives
* Multiple languages (On Screen Display and Subtitles) support – (English,Dutch, Greek, Russian, Czech, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese Traditional , Chinese Simplified) More can be added in future firmwares.
* Power on/off switch
* Remote Control power off ability
* Gold plated connectors

Technical Specifications

Hardware

* CPU:SIGMA DESIGNS SMP8635

* DDR DRAM :Hynix 64-bit 512Mb

* External NOR Flash :Spansion 16-bit 256Mb

* LANCHIP: REATEK RTL8201CP

*Audio D/A CHIP: AKM  AK4420

* HDMI 1.3 CHIP: SILICON IMAGE SIL9134

* SATA TO USB: JMICRON  JM20335

*ESATA HOST: SUNPLUS SPIF225

*USB HOST: GENESYS GL850A

Video Output :

* HDMI 1.3 supportin

* Component (Y/Pb/Pr)

* Composite

Audio Output :

* Stereo

* SPDIF Digital audio output

* connector for optional DTS decode board has inside

Networking :

Ethernet interface, 10-baseT/100-baseT

Support USB WIFI,configue should be 802.11N

USB :

* USB 2.0 host 2 port

* USB 2.0 slave

* Device Classifications : Mass storage device

ESATA ports

*ESATA HOST*1

*ESATA SLAVE*1，rate is 3.0Gb/s

HDD Type：

* SATA â… /â…¡ HDD

FORMAT:

* EXT3

* NTFS/FAT32

Power on/off control by RC

* Add one MCU，then it can realize power on/off by RC

Power :

* adapter AC100~240 V,DC12V/2A &5V/3A

Human Interface Device :

* Handheld remote (standard)

* USB keyboard (optional)

Connectivity Protocol(s) Support :

Protocols :

* UPnP AV NMPR v2.1

* UPnP 1.0 (connect to myiHome Lite)

* Bonjour

NMT Streaming Application Specifications :

* Streaming via HTTP protocol over local network or the Internet

* WMS over HTTP support via the Internet

* RTSP over HTTP support via the Internet

* support recovery from firmware update fail

* support UI change

* support file delete/copy/paste

Media Container :

Video [extension(s)] :

* ASF/WMV [.asf, .wmv]

* MOV/MP4 [.mov, .mp4]

* MPEG2PS [.ps]

* MPEG2TS [.ts]

* AVI [.avi, divx]

* MPG [.mpg, .mpe, .mpeg, .m2v, .vob, .vro]

Audio [extension(s)] :

* WAV [.wav, .pcm]

* ADIF, ADTS [.aac]

* M4A [.m4a]

* O.G.G. [.ogg]

* ASF/WMA [.asf, .wma]

* FLAC [.flac]

Subtitle [extension(s)] :

* MicroDVD [.sub]

* SubRip [.srt]

* Sub Station Alpha [.ssa]

* Sami [.smi]

OSD Language:

English,Dutch, Greek, Russian, Czech, Portugese, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese Traditional , Chinese Simplified.

More may be added via future updates

Media Codecs :

Video :

* 4 standard definition streams (PAL and NTSC formats) in any of the following

format: H.264, VC-1,MPEG-4 and MPEG-2,MKV,M2TS,TS,AVI

* One high definition stream 1920 x 1080i(60), 1920 x 1080p (30), 1280 x720p

(60) and one standard definition stream simultaneously

* H.264 MP/HP @L4.1

* VC-1/WMV9 MP@HL, AP@L3

* MPEG-4 ASP @L5 1

* MPEG-2 MP@HL and MP@ML

Audio :

* MPEG 1/2 Audio Layers I, II, and III (MP3)

* Dolby Digital(R) (AC-3)

* PCM

* MPEG-2/4 AAC LC and HE

* Microsoft WMA and WMA Pro

* Supports the audio sampling rates at 8, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48, and 96KHz

* Audio samples at 16, 20, 24, and 32 bits per channel

* FLAC (software decode)

Note: Additional formats available in future firmware releases

Photo formats :

* JPEG (software decode)

* Animated GIF89a, BMP and PNG in browser mode

NAS + Media Server feature :

Protocols :

* DLNA v1.0 compliance on CTT test tools v1.0.

* UPnP AV NMPR v2.1

File Upload support :

* Samba version 3.0.21 (home-use)

* FTP for Digital Signage (commercial)

Download services :

* Bit Torrent btpd v0.12

NAS Management system :

* HDD format

* HDD partition create, copy, delete

* File transfer

* Password protection, etc.

Proprietary server :

* myiHome Lite (detection by Networked Media Tank slim client with UPnP 1.0)

Media Player extender :

* Supports any other DLNA compliant devices

Browser support :

* HTML 3.2 compliant and partial HTML 4.0 support

* Partial Javascript 1.5 support

* Partial CSS2 support

* Proprietary Consumer HTML support to ease navigation using a remote control

* Partial Cascading Style Sheet (CSS1)

* Partial Netscape and IE extensions including exception handling

* Cookies function support

* Full graphical frames

* Local file system implemented as disk on RAM and/or flash memory