Problem: Resets on Move player option

relaxxx · #1 (**permalink**) 21st Apr 2006, 4:12 pm

OK, I have the silver 1.5” screen MP4 player, don’t know what model/brand ??
It has 2 little speakers on the bottom sides. Here’s the Firmware Version:

MP3 Player
SC85052C
2006/03/27
ACT_V3.5.35

So I was trying to figure out how to make these AMV files and DL’d some apps and demo AMV here. Only a few worked, the rest said an error message about formatting or something. At this point it still played the few AMV’s no problem. Then I tried to make a few of my own, copied tem over to the player in a movie folder I had placed the other AMV’s. I also deleted a few that I know would not play. Then I boot up the Movie player option , this time it just shows “Initializing” for a second and goes black and then an hourglass and reboots. It will no longer go to move player at all. Also it looks like it tries to replace 3 of my deleted files with 0 Kb files?

Anyone know what’s going on with this thing?? Please don’t tell me to format, scared of what I’ve been reading!

admin · #2 (**permalink**) 22nd Apr 2006, 1:01 pm

relaxxx,

Can your computer still 'detect' your player when plugged into the USB port? If so, I would suggest you delete a few more files off your player and see what happens.

What I think might be the reason is that you might have been ripped off with a 'hacked' player. One that has been ridged to show more memory storage than it actually has. But try deleting most if not all your files from your player and see if that then works....

relaxxx · #3 (**permalink**) 23rd Apr 2006, 4:10 am

Ok, I tested the memory by filling it up with some mp3’s. Looks like its all there. It’s a 1GB player and it’s now 961MB full. I also got it to go back in the Movie player! I tried to replace the Three 0KB AMV files with good ones and windows said “Can’t delete corrupted data”. So I renamed their folder to XBAD and put the original demo AMV it the root and the player started working.

So it looks like my flash is partly corrupted and this probably happened at work on my Win98 computer. This is the computer I downloaded and installed the AMV tools on because it would not install here on my XP machine. Then what I did was copy the Player utilities 3.68 folder in the program files and copied them to my XP. The software seems to run on XP and I’ve created some AMV, some work and some don’t “Formatting error”. I can play all of them with the AMV player utility.

If I do a format, can’t I just use XP format option on the removable drive or should I use the player utilities and what are the odds I totally mess this up by formatting?

admin · #4 (**permalink**) 24th Apr 2006, 2:23 pm

relaxxx,

If you have problems installing the Convert Tool on the WinXP machine, try this Knowledge Base: How to: Solve problems installing AMV/MTV Converting Tool

Yeh, I've read a lot of post with people losing memory storage after formatting, but then again, after formatting will probably bring the player back to it's ORIGINAL memory size that's on the player. There has been a few dodgy people who 'hack' it to show up more memory than what is actually on the player and that's half the problems people get as they try to fill up their player but obviously it can't hold that much.

You can try formatting using the Format tool from the "MP3 Player Utilities 3.68".

relaxxx · #5 (**permalink**) 5th May 2006, 3:14 pm

I formatted the player, it is a true 1GB.

I’ve installed and uninstalled Utilities 3.57 and 3.68 many times now, trying to make various AMV files and no matter what I try about half of the AMV files I make will crash my player, “format error”. There’s something in the encoding that my player doesn’t like. The files that do work, work all the time. I can make copies and rename and play them 4 dozen times without a crash and the files that do crash, crash ever time, even if I encode them 6 times with different mode and resolution combinations, the result is always a crash.

admin · #6 (**permalink**) 5th May 2006, 5:48 pm

relaxxx,

It's strange that.

I've got a few players here and none hasn't crashed on the amv files I have.

Can you UPLOAD one of the amv files that crash on your player to our site? I might try it on my players and see what happens.

Have you tried our sample .AMV files on your player? Does that crash your player too?

relaxxx · #7 (**permalink**) 6th May 2006, 4:51 am

I'll try to Upload monday as I only have dialup here.

A few samples worked, but many did not...

The "Bud light" and "Sport bloopers" worked

"Over the hedge" and "Ice age" did not. Those are the only ones I remember for sure.

admin · #8 (**permalink**) 7th May 2006, 1:35 am

relaxxx,

Humm, sounds like a faulty player if it can play some but can't play others. I've converted it the same way and all play fine on my players.......

Does anyone else have problems playing the "Over the hedge" and "Ice age" sample amv files?

Is your player still in warranty?

relaxxx · #9 (**permalink**) 7th May 2006, 10:24 am

It's probably not worth return shipping to China as the player was $20 plus $40 shipping on ebay!

admin · #10 (**permalink**) 7th May 2006, 9:19 pm

relaxxx,

*ouch*

I encoded all the AMV's using the same settings, so it can't be the encoding process as it also works on all my other players.

Here's something to try:
1. Delete EVERYTHING in your player.
2. Then copy over just the "Over the hedge" and "Ice age" .AMV files and see if they play on your player.

Let me know what happens. I would be interested to know what the result it.