Problem Playing Movies From Micro SD Card (Restarting)

[mymp5]

Hi,

I have a 4.3" Touchscreen MP5 player which I have to say works really well, except if I play a movie from the SD card?? It will play approx 30 seconds to one minute before automatically skipping to the next movie on the card or if it is the sole movie on the card it will just restart the movie again. I have tried the following....

Please note that everything works as normal from the internal memory

Same Movie On Internal Memory as on SD Card
different movie on SD Card
2 different 4GB Micro SD Cards
A 8GB Micro SD Card
placing the movie on the root of the card & in folders on the card
3 different movie encoders & formats

Any Help would be greatly appreciated!!

[flasher86]

Format the Card using different cluster size. Perhaphs the Card has unusal FAT32 format. You have a lot of options to check, format format and check.

[mymp5]

Hi

Many Thanks For Your Reply....

I have tried what you said & tried formatting the card using the following settings

FAT (All Allocation Unit Sizes)
FAT32 (All Allocation Unit Sizes)
NTFS (Card Not Recognized)
exFAT (Card Not Recognized)

Unfortunately there is no difference.....The movie will play for maybe 10 seconds then restart, maybe 3 minutes.....maybe 5 minutes...but will just restart if it is the only movie on the card or move on to the next movie if there are more than one on the card..

Any other suggestions?

Cheers

[flasher86]

you bought cheap player with buggy firmware, that's a problem. I don't think you can overcome those problems, as I assume there is no further support for your player regarding firmware updates. You may experiment with RK27 SDK. I don't know if your player is RK27 or RK28 but some people claimed the firmware has the same structure in both types. Another clue for supporting that hypothesis is that they both have ARM processor (RK27 has ARM7, and RK28 has ARM9?) and therefore ARM7 instructions should work on ARM9.

As you can see it's very complicated, so I can't tell you anything optimistic.

You may also give a shot with different firmwares. Try looking for player with similar keyboard, screen and such (only if you can restore your original firmware).

[mymp5]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply, I have the RK27 SDK & the hardware ID is 100111 & the Major Version ID is 2.4, I have tried to see the hidden partition by placing the file on the root of the flash memory but nothing ever appears...so I guess that there is nothing I can do???

[flasher86]

try using different name for file. default is rkusb.tag but it may be different. Look up this forum, there was a list of alternatives for this file somewhere.