USB memory stick poser

[Taf]

I have a new DVD player which can also play AVI files directly from USB memory sticks or external USB drive.

AVI files (DivX, Xvid, MP4, etc) on my PC HD are determined as OK by GSpot (a facilty which checks to find CODECS, etc).

Copy them to another HD or CD/DVD and GSpot says they are still OK.

Copy them to any one of my USB memory sticks and many of them are reported as bad (no CODECS) by GSpot. Still the same file size though. A file converter also reports the same.

Copy back from any USB stick and they are still faulty according to GSpot and the file converter.

So something is happening as they copy to USB memory sticks... but what?

[Ian]

  I've had similar problems with USB sticks.  Some of them are decidedly hokey, when transferring files between machines.  Sometimes, (not always) it helps to put each .av file into it's own little folder.  Also, I often end up having to split the damned sticks into several partitions to get results.  Why, I don't know.

[Baron de Fluffington Kat Shit]

How odd. My stick's a cheapo and it doesn't do that.



Just did a bit of research.

Are these files encoded with DivX?

If so, try converting them to XVid.

http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html

I find XVid better than DivX, anyway.

[Taf]

The idea is to play them on my new DVD player.. which doesn't support Xvid apparently (according to the box blurb). Will give it a try anyway.

[Taf]

Scrap that, just found the spec...

Playability:
DVD - DVD+/-R
DVD+/-RW
CD R - CD RW
CD AUDIO/VIDEO
JPEG
HDCD
SVCD
Kodak Picture
Divx 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
XVID
MP3
MPEG-4

[Taf]

Well I've tried reformatting the sticks to different sector sizes, tried xvid and divx, and they still screw up...

Running Flash Drive Tester on them now... the first few all check out OK (not duff or bogus Chinese counterfeits).

[Baron de Fluffington Kat Shit]

* Baron Kat de Fluffington thinks Taf's got a lemon.

[Pegasus]

Taf.

Take You USB Stick to someone else Computer & try copying files to it, Then Check them Out!

Q?  Has Your DVD Player got an Alternate USB Port You can Use?

P.S.

I bought My son one of those DVD (+USB) Players, He got in a right mood because when He put his USB Stick in it he could not find it in the menu (it should have been Item 5, the menu only showed the first 5 Items).

Item 1 was DVD, 2 was His External Harddisk (split into 4 Partitions

[Taf]

I tried it on 4 different PCs with different file formats... still no go.

Then I updated the memory stick tester... and all the memory I bought from a reputable High Street store are all 2Gb and not 16GB... took them back, explained, had to talk with Head Office, offered exchanges., tested them on one of their PCs.... exactly the same!! They had been sold memory from China with internal compression not real memory. All now off the shelves.

Full refund at the price I paid (luckily I keep receipts).

Replacement sticks from another store were cheaper and all work perfectly.

Moral: watch out for cheap Chinese crap!!!

[Pegasus]

Taf.

I wonder If this is related/conected to the story I read re: Conterfiet Intel Chips?

Look on:

http://hardocp.com/article/2010/03/05/newegg_selling_fake_intel_cpus

[Taf]

Sounds like the sort of fiddle that is going on.... RAM is expensive and prices fluctuate like gold...