Joe Emenaker wrote: > Okay... this is a long-shot, but it doesn't hurt to ask.... > > I've got one of those 2.5" laptop hard-drive enclosures that, in > addition to making it into an external drive, it also acts as a player > for your mp3's, jpegs, xvids, mpeg4's, etc. > > Here's a picture of the one I've got.... > http://www.eatools.com/~luke/mediaplayer/GP-MED25-S-A.jpg
Cool! > Anyway, the problem I'm having is that there are some videos which freak > it out. I power up the unit (in its "player" mode) and it just hangs at > "Scanning HDD...". If I take certain ones off of the drive (using as a > USB drive still works, mind you), then the player will scan the files > fine and then present me with the menu. This is not so unusual if you are talking about files that you have collected from various places via p2p. Things to watch out for are qpel, non-interleaved avi, b-frames, concatenation, broken headers and just plain old corrupt files. File corruption is very common with p2p derived material. When you just have a single dinky little chip to work with you don't have a lot of room for fancy heuristics. Or should I say, with a dinky little company you don't have the resources to hire good programmers. Still, that thing is cool. You can save yourself a lot of hassle by just reencoding everything to a known good format.
