Hi
Got a new player - menu looks exactly like the one shown on this player (
Album link). Same colour, same buttons, but the name of the player under the screen is slightly different.
Ok, so I got it on eBay and the seller said it played AMV/MTV/MP4. That was a lie. Player won't even recognise any video files exist if I place .AMV files in the MVIDEO sub-folder. Player came with one .SMV file already in the MVIDEO sub-folder - Britney Spears music video - I got that playing ok before I deleted it (as you would).
I have now used SMV Convert Tool 3.00 to convert one MPEG-1 file and one WMV file to 160x120 resolution. The conversion went through fine, and if I place the created .SMV files in the MVIDEO sub-folder, the player recognises that there are two videos available. However, pressing play just makes the screen briefly flash and nothing happens at all.
One weird thing is that the information on the video player screen shows the length of the file, but I don't know where it's getting the time from. It doesn't change when I flip between the two video files and it's not the correct time for either clip. If I delete the files using the player's menu, I get a message "No video exists" and then the video player screen shows a different time (like 6:01), even though there is no file to play. Sounds a bit buggy to me...
I have turned the player off for a while and then back on which doesn't make any difference (using the on/off switch at the top). The files I created aren't too big. They might be 10 or 20 minutes in length and about 20 to 30Mb each. Player plays MP3s fine and records and plays voice/FM radio fine.
Naturally I'm annoyed that I can't get any videos I've created working, but I'm more annoyed that .AMV files don't seem to be recognised - there seems to be a larger subset of tools available to handle AMV files and SMV doesn't sound too good.
Thanks in advance to anyone who responds with any ideas...