Clie movie can only play long mode movie.

[caohotcool]

I converted some movies on CF card. However, only long mode movies can be play. Clie movie can't even play standard movies. Is there anyone who has the same problem.
I am wondering if it has nothing to the CF card read speed. I am using a sandisk 1GB CF card.

[bunkley32]

Im having the exact same problem with the exact same card.

[n2ifp]

Originally posted by bunkley32
Im having the exact same problem with the exact same card.

Have you tried using the slow mode??

[caohotcool]

I tried the slow mode. It doesn't work either.
I also converted a 40-minute movie to long mode (about 44M) but this time the movieplayer couldn't play the long mode movie. I have to cut it into two part (about 20M each) and converted them to the long mode movies that movieplayer can play them.
Does it have something to do with file size or movie length? Can you play the whole movie in standard mode or long mode?

[bunkley32]

i had about 20 videos in standard mode on my sandisk 1gb. All about 45Mb is size. All about 20 minutes in length. All recorded and encoded and in the exact same way in standard mode and only six of them work. I now have about 40 videos in long mode on my sandisk 1gb. All about 20 Mb is size. All about 20 minutes in length. All recorded and encoded in the exact same way in long mode and only 23 of them work. If i take any of the files that don't work and put them on my kingston 128Mb CF card they play fine. In standard or long mode. So I think is must be a problem with card type. In this case the Sandisk 1gb. And yes I have tried slow mode, slow mount, read only and every combination of the three. Can anyone please figure this out. The only reason that I wanted this CF drived is to play videos. Don't get me wrong... I love the driver and its works awesome except for movie playback...

[SwissDan]

How about the KINOMA? is it better to convert the movie using KINOMA?

dan

[Eddy]

I use SanDisk256 only, all of the short video clips are in "High-Quality" mode plays very smoothly.
CF Card driver setting:
no slow mode no slow mount.
But all the movies are very short movie trailers (max 4mins, 13MB).

This might sound stupid, but any relation with the format of the Card? Because the SanDisk256 I'm currently using is just plain FAT. Or does it have anything to do with the size of the CF Card?
I'm also very curious because the SanDisk 1G was what I was just about to buy!

[Eddy]

oh, one minor thing. I convert my video clips (with Image Converter) at High Quality mode, and transfer them directly to my SanDisk256 using a 6-in-1 Card Reader/Writer, without hotsync. does that have any influence?

[caohotcool]

I tried to convert more videos. Just like what bunkley32 mentioned, some videos can be played, some cannot.

My CF card is FAT. I tried formatting it as FAT32 that cannot be recognized. I also converted them directly to my card using a 6-in-1 Dazzle Card Reader.

I think it might have something to do with card size or card read speed.

[enigmaphi]

Have a the same problems with a Viking 512mb card.  I used image converter to process both quicktime and MPEG-1 files directly onto the CF card using a card reader and my clie will not play them.  If I copy them to memory stick they play just fine.  What gives?  This is a frustrating problem.  Eurware has been phenominal though, and I'm sure it will be corrected.

[Eddy]

everything was playing smoothly unitl ..... finally the same video problem has happened to me, I was using my SanDisk256. This happeded on one of my 5min MTV (10MB-standard quality), the video played until near to the very end of the clip then freezed (soft-reset).
Then the video right after that(taken by Clie long time ago on a MS), which was only 640KB, didn't play anymore no matter how many times I did a soft-reset. The reason I bring this up is because this very same 640KB clip was just playing fine on the SanDisk CF, least until I came into problem with the 10M-Standard MTV. I then transfered the 640KB file to MS and now it runs, strange isn't it?

[Eddy]

with the 5min MTV (10M-standard Quality), the problem was actually with the original Video data itself (before Image convertion). So that was my own fault in fact. It can still play just that I've to stop the clip before it reaches the end, because that's where the glitches are. :D

OK, now back to the issue with the 640KB short clip taken with my NX a while back stored in MS. It just refuse to play in my SanDisk256. I've tried it all (there was a thread about it, I forgot).

Movie OK on Clie with MS but not CF.
Movie OK on PC with QuickTime, off the MS[b/].

I've tried to transfer the []playable clip from MS to CF in whatever way I can think of already....
MS to CF with NX/ PC's MQV to CF/ MS via PC to CF... none seemed to work.

Anyway, I've given up with it since it's not much important, & other videos are operating normal.

[lmame]

I did some tryes and I saw that ... it depends from the brand of the CF...

On Ramos I get no problems for movies in standard mode.
On another (cheap) one, the movie plays smoothly, but I get no access on movie controls until the end of the video...

[Eddy]

Well, the thing is it was working at the beginning for 2 days & such a small file. But maybe I did something wrong. who knows.

Last note: I've just tried to transfer the tiny 640KB clip to the CF from the working MS, then using QuickTime & the file saved in CF was playable, yet when I stick it back on the NX, same answer..failed.

Oh well.... so it seems that there's not one single CF that can run all the files eh? I'd sure like to buy that one. LOL :D

[caohotcool]

Originally posted by SwissDan
How about the KINOMA? is it better to convert the movie using KINOMA?

dan

I just tried Kinama (The player for palm is free, the producer has 2-day trial). It works fine except the movie quality is not good as clie movieplayer. I converted several videos (40-minute, 20-minute, 5-minute) to my sandisk 1GB CF card. Kinama can play them with no problem. However you cannot adjust video display size in kinoma.
Now I am wondering if clie movieplayer has some restrictions or CF driver has some bugs.

http://www.kinoma.com/

[caohotcool]

One more thing about Kinoma.
You don't have to use MS Masquerading. Kinoma can recognize second CF card as long as you mount it.

[Eddy]

Good point for playing movies, but that means we'd have to go back to using PictureGear Lite to extract the movies (*.prc format) to be playable for kinoma player.
hum.... :)

[zerocool]

I also have 1gig viking and i could not able to play more than half of my music video which I converted with image converter starndard mode. I am very disappointed right now. I hope we will have fix soon. I was able to even play high starndard in my MS.

[Eddy]

Originally posted by zerocool
I am very disappointed right now. I hope we will have fix soon.

I've read alot of posts saying that Viking was good for speed. I wasn't sure about the movies since I only have a SanDisk256. But one thing is that I'm able to play High-Quality movies on my current CF, which is pretty cool. I only store the movies I can't play in my MS.

Certainly there're many room for improvements on future upgrades, that's what we're entitled for as registered users. :D
So I wouldn't be so disappointed just yet, least it's a good start for us NX users.

[mikelantz]

I tried Kinoma and the video portion is great, but the sound is inferior. Anubody have any ideas on how to resolve the sound issues?

Thanks

[Eddy]

when you convert movies to Kinoma playable format, isn't there a setting that you can also adjust for sound quality as well? I'm not too sure about this though since I jumped from a N760C (using gMedia) right to the NX movie player. :)

[fergiefarfel]

i have spoken directly to the founder of eruware...he indicates that movies have to be less than 128 megs or movie player will not play them. find a splitter on the web (10 day free trial) and that should help.

i also found that the movies freeze even when in slow mode. even more annoying is that if multiple files are encoded with image converted, then on the cf card, one tends to see muptiple copies of the same file rather than the different ones.

yasim says this is a sony issue, though this does not happen with a mem stick.

will have to try kinoma

[zerocool]

Originally posted by fergiefarfel
i have spoken directly to the founder of eruware...he indicates that movies have to be less than 128 megs or movie player will not play them. find a splitter on the web (10 day free trial) and that should help.



That is not necessarily true..I convert 40 music video which are about 6 mb with image converter at standard quality and..only few of them can play.

[Eddy]

Originally posted by zerocool
That is not necessarily true..I convert 40 music video which are about 6 mb with image converter at standard quality and..only few of them can play.

so I think what you meant by that is even short clips at 6M can't even play on the CF Card, right? Not to talk about video being at 128MB in size.
It goes back once again to the type/Brand of card issue, some claims they can play excellent movies on their cards, some can't. Whereas you place the exact same movie file on a different card it plays!
I personally have SanDisk256 CF & have stored around 8 movie clips there, average around 4MB in size each, with the biggest file at 13MB-HighQuality Mode & all plays fine, least up to this present moment, not sure if it'll go "Ca Put" tomorrow. :D

[Eddy]

unless if all fails, I personally wouldn't want to go back to using Kinoma, not that it's not good but then leaving Movie Player useless in the ROM. I don't see the point. I guess I should consider myself the lucky ones who can still least play some good video off my CF in MoviePlayer.

[caohotcool]

I already switched to kinoma. The biggest video in my CF card is about 100M. Kinoma can play it without any problems. It seems that kinoma producer can only convert audio to mono for NX, so the audio part is not good. However, it's good enough for my home videos or language learning courses. And it's ok for a movie while clie movieplayer can't play some of long mode movie clips from CF card.

[zerocool]

Originally posted by Eddy


I personally have SanDisk256 CF & have stored around 8 movie clips there, average around 4MB in size each, with the biggest file at 13MB-HighQuality Mode & all plays fine, least up to this present moment, not sure if it'll go "Ca Put" tomorrow. :D

I wonder if sandisk 1gb would be as good as your 256mb. I have 1 gb viking and ..so far no luck with music videos.:mad:

[bunkley32]

No...the Sandisk 1Gb is experiencing the same video playback problems as your 1Gb Viking.
Originally posted by zerocool


I wonder if sandisk 1gb would be as good as your 256mb. I have 1 gb viking and ..so far no luck with music videos.:mad:

[Unregistered]

Okay, I think I may have figured this out after experimenting with different formats using "image converter." First of all, I just bought and installed a Viking 1 Gig CF card. I primarily want it for music and movies. I have not tried High quality format for movies yet, but I tried long movie and standard. I think both formats will work in the movie player app. The trick is to not allow the the "image converter" to convert a movie longer than 1 hour or 127,000 Kb. The first two parts of my movies ran longer than 59 minutes or >127,000 kbs. However, the clips that were less than 1:00 hr or 125,000 kbs ran perfect I am currently watching the second half of the Fifth Element for the last 12 minutes, and not one hiccup. Could someone do some experimenting with this and let us all know if you are finding the same results? I hope this helps everyone. Stick with the Movie Player app because it works great! Better than the PPC Media player! You get about a 3 times larger screen! I compared my movie on my Clie to a friend of mine who has a PPC. He couldn't believe the difference! He said his version was barely viewable while mine was like watching a DVD! EUROWARE IS FANTASTIC!!! BUT PLEASE FIX THE DRIVERS TO REMOVE THESE LIMITATIONS!!! THANX

[bunkley32]

Originally posted by bunkley32
i had about 20 videos in standard mode on my sandisk 1gb. All about 45Mb is size. All about 20 minutes in length. All recorded and encoded and in the exact same way in standard mode and only six of them work. I now have about 40 videos in long mode on my sandisk 1gb. All about 20 Mb is size. All about 20 minutes in length. All recorded and encoded in the exact same way in long mode and only 23 of them work. If i take any of the files that don't work and put them on my kingston 128Mb CF card they play fine. In standard or long mode. So I think is must be a problem with card type. In this case the Sandisk 1gb. And yes I have tried slow mode, slow mount, read only and every combination of the three. Can anyone please figure this out. The only reason that I wanted this CF drived is to play videos. Don't get me wrong... I love the driver and its works awesome except for movie playback...

from my earlier post

[Eddy]

Originally posted by zerocool
I wonder if sandisk 1gb would be as good as your 256mb. I have 1 gb viking and ..so far no luck with music videos.

I wasn't too sure why & how I got the 13MB-HighQuality movie clip to run, it just happened! (Using my SanDisk256MB in FAT) I just put the original *.avi clip that I wanted through ImageConverter as I normally would with a MS & it just runs off in High-Quality mode.
Out of the 8 clips I have 5 of them are in High-Quality Mode. One clip was the MatrixReloaded Trailer which came in HighQuality-9MB (those trailers don't look as good when in othermodes when you really want to have a flawless video) & I realize that it was mentioned "only standard/Long mode" would work, so I'm not too sure what I can say. I guess I would consider myself lucky so far.
one last thing, I convert the movies directly to the CF using a 6-in-1 Card Reader/Writer, I'm not sure if that had made a difference but I doubt it.

[cliedino]

I posted this on a new thread before I read about the sam issue here:

"Recently, my Movie Player won't recognize movie clips I have stored on my MS. If I unmont the CF card, the movie player sees them on the MS and will play them. Also, my Clie Viewer used to see both the MS and CF card and now won't identify the movies on either. In fact when I had the frisbee dog video (my son likes it, no really), on my MS and jpgs on my CF card, and it saw both pic files and the movie and offered them for play. Confusing? Basically, I can't access my movies from my MS via clie viewer or movie player. Maybe I'll try moving the videos to CF? Any thoughts? "

Seems I am not alone, and I too have a SanDisk 256 card. It's weird...When the CF is not masquerading (i.e. using the MS card by itself) the movies play fine. The other weird thing is that they both worked in masquerade mode only a few days ago, but only through the Cliew Viewer.

R/
D

[Eddy]

cliedino, good to know that I'm not the only one with the SanDisk256 (n2ifp has same card as well). well, the main thing here is not trying to promote the "Brand" of the card, hope others don't get me wrong. :)

Have you ever tried the TRICK to recognize both MS & CF? Sounds to me you've tried that already.

Tried a soft-reset? Or worst yet, though I don't usually recommend this but if all else fails, backup all your data in a regular MS then try hard-reset. As this is only the last alternative I can think of for now. That might get things back to normal, but I've never encountered your situation yet on my NX.

Personally I don't recommend using ClieViewer to watch movie because that means you have ClieViewer running on the back & on top of that you are playing movie at the same time, I found that a little complex & might cause the NX to freeze. Actually that happened to me infact.

All the movies play fine on my MoviePlayer, or you might want to use Kinoma, there's been some recommendation on that, but I haven't got the need to use that just yet.

seems your Clie has gone to the unimaginable, my worst nightmare, I have a hinch that this might also happen to me, just a matter of time. But I'd surely like to see what the outcome from your testing though. Or would my clie just beat you to it. :D

I gotta run, so either PM me, or just post it here again. cheers:D

[zerocool]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Okay, I think I may have figured this out after experimenting with different formats using "image converter." First of all, I just bought and installed a Viking 1 Gig CF card. I primarily want it for music and movies. I have not tried High quality format for movies yet, but I tried long movie and standard. I think both formats will work in the movie player app. The trick is to not allow the the "image converter" to convert a movie longer than 1 hour or 127,000 Kb. The first two parts of my movies ran longer than 59 minutes or >127,000 kbs. However, the clips that were less than 1:00 hr or 125,000 kbs ran perfect I am currently watching the second half of the Fifth Element for the last 12 minutes, and not one hiccup. Could someone do some experimenting with this and let us all know if you are finding the same results? I hope this helps everyone. Stick with the Movie Player app because it works great! Better than the PPC Media player! You get about a 3 times larger screen! I compared my movie on my Clie to a friend of mine who has a PPC. He couldn't believe the difference! He said his version was barely viewable while mine was like watching a DVD! EUROWARE IS FANTASTIC!!! BUT PLEASE FIX THE DRIVERS TO REMOVE THESE LIMITATIONS!!! THANX



How could I know if standard is more than 127,000 kbs or not?

[Unregistered]

I want to correct an original post regarding the size of the video. After looking at all of the different formats, I noticed that as long as the video is under 1:00 hr, it should work! You can check the info by going to the thumbnail view and clicking on the icon just left of the thumbnail.

[clownfish]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Okay, I think I may have figured this out after experimenting with different formats using "image converter." First of all, I just bought and installed a Viking 1 Gig CF card. I primarily want it for music and movies. I have not tried High quality format for movies yet, but I tried long movie and standard. I think both formats will work in the movie player app. The trick is to not allow the the "image converter" to convert a movie longer than 1 hour or 127,000 Kb. The first two parts of my movies ran longer than 59 minutes or >127,000 kbs. However, the clips that were less than 1:00 hr or 125,000 kbs ran perfect I am currently watching the second half of the Fifth Element for the last 12 minutes, and not one hiccup. Could someone do some experimenting with this and let us all know if you are finding the same results? I hope this helps everyone. Stick with the Movie Player app because it works great! Better than the PPC Media player! You get about a 3 times larger screen! I compared my movie on my Clie to a friend of mine who has a PPC. He couldn't believe the difference! He said his version was barely viewable while mine was like watching a DVD! EUROWARE IS FANTASTIC!!! BUT PLEASE FIX THE DRIVERS TO REMOVE THESE LIMITATIONS!!! THANX

I just tried the information listed above for a Sandisk 1GB card and I still get freezes. I've ripped Fifth Element from DVD to MPEG1 in sections each one under 128 MB and then ran them through Image Converter. Only the first file (~32 MB as MPEG1) played while all the others (~100MB) won't play. I'm going to continue experimenting with different sizes but hopefully the new version of the driver (in Beta test now !!!) will help fix this. . .

[ashVID]

Even MS pro cannot play movie files over 128mb, may be a software problem and not fixable via the driver...



ash =o)

[clownfish]

I just confirmed that for my problem at least the issue doesn't appear to be the size of the file, if I take a single 80 MB MPEG1 encoded file and encode it with Image Converter at high quality, it won't play from my SanDisk 1GB card, but plays fine from the Memory Stick. GRRRR. . . .I'm gonna keep trying other clips and settings, and maybe borrow a few friends CF cards to see if it is related to the specific brand or size of the CF card.

[takaki]

I use the NX-70V + Transcend 30X 1GB CF

I can only play Fine mode movie but all tung standard/long will hang~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Cymril]

Also have a 1 GB sandisk. I have been able to convert the complete Triple X movie in standard mode in image converter. I did have to pull a view tricks and I still have some problems. But it does play on my NZ90
First of all movie player will not play anything above 110mb as near as I can tell. I used DVDx to rip the movie off the DVD in 3 files, the biggest being 104mb (after conversion to MQV). I also tried 114mb and that didn't work so the max must be around 110mb.
OK outstanding problems still to solve:
The first of the 3 segments plays absolutly perfect. The second and the third however do play but they are a little more jerky then the first and I loose all control ability during playback. Once the movie is over the clie returns control to me and I can resume my usual work. But while it is playing I can't even turn the clie off!!!
I'm still figuring this out, I don't know if the problem lies in the image converter or the ripping software.

[Unregistered]

I hate posting solutions on this because every time I do, it backfires on me... however let me tell you what has been working for me (at least for the past couple of days!). Try doing the CF/MS trick to get both cards to be read at the same time by the OS. Once you do that, use the Clie Viewer instead of the Movie Player directly. Also, I noticed that movies that are less than 20 minutes in length do not seem to work, while movies that are longer (like one hour) seem to work in both Standard and High Quality mode.

[Eddy]

Originally posted by Cymril
Once the movie is over the clie returns control to me and I can resume my usual work. But while it is playing I can't even turn the clie off!!!
I'm still figuring this out, I don't know if the problem lies in the image converter or the ripping software.

Well, so far I've only done video clips mainly containing movie trailers but they're all in High-Quality Mode playing off my CF. I do also get the same jerky (flickering screen from the same clips ocassionally), the movie seems to skip frames & like you mentioned, your clie goes out of control. But most of the time those very same movie clips plays just fine & very smooth, so I don't think it has any relation to the ImageConverter or the ripping softwares you were mentioning about. Sometimes it just happens out of the blue, & either you just soft-reset or just let the movie finishes then you gain control of your clie again. & did you noticed that while the movie goes out of control, the "seek bar" just seem to be stuck at a certain point not moving but the movie just keeps going. :D

[omu]

from what I read here it seems to be at least partly a software-problem with the movie-player.

It doesn't seem to be about the card-size, because 256 MB is also problematic.

Could it be about the card speed as well?

I bought a 1gb toshiba-produced "Xtra green storage" in Germany and I got the same mentioned problems with movies.
My card is supposed to be "fast" as well. Could that be part of it?

[clownfish]

Well, I don't know about card speed, but I can confirm that the same movie clip performs very differently on different cards. A Lexar 256MB that I borrowed from a friend allowed a 29MB movie to play but froze everything else about the palm (the movie continued to play but all other controls were frozen until the movie finished playing), where on either of two different 1GB cards the movie wouldn't play at all and it would simply freeze the unit.

[Cymril]

Reply to Eddy,

Yes I saw the same thing in high quality mode. However I think that has to do with the card speed. It looks to me like the system just can keep up with the amount of data.
Yes the seeker bar gets completely stuck. weird thing is that just be for the end of the clip (fraction of a second) the seeker bar seems to jump to the end.

Reply to unregistered guest,

Dude that works!!! It seem that viewer is usfull after all. Once I selected the clip of Triple X that I could view but not control in movie player through viewer it worked and gave me control.
Eddy, give that a try and report back if it worked for you as well.

[eddy]

Originally posted by Cymril
weird thing is that just be for the end of the clip (fraction of a second) the seeker bar seems to jump to the end.

yep, that's exactly what happens. Thanks for the suggestion of using the ClieViewer, I'll give that a try later once I get all my things settled with my new 1G SanDisk. :D

[Cymril]

OK been playing around some more.

It seems that this is a card problem. I have transfered a non controlable file from the CF card (1gb sandisk) to the MS and everything worked fine on the MS. But when I copied it back it still did not work. It also seems now that after a lot of deletions and other things I can't play any new clips off of the CF card. The ones that were already on there stil function fine but all new stuff just freezes the clie as soon as I want to play them.
Can a CF card we reformatted? and if yes how?

[Unregistered]

I have the exact same problem. I was able to get two videos on my CF card, but the third movie (formatted exactly as the others) will not play. It just freezes when I click on it. Any ideas on how to work around this problem??? How the heck is it possible for the other movies to keep playing flawlessly and the new movie not work at all??

[eddy]

Originally posted by Cymril
Can a CF card we reformatted? and if yes how?

yes, a CF card be reformatted but only in FAT. FAT32 is not supported by the driver, although I knew about this, I've tried it anyway on my newly arrived SanDisk1G, just wanted to try it out, nothing much. (FAT32 didn't work) :D

Just a curiousity, my SanDisk1GB arrived in RAW format, I checked the compact flash with my PC (6-in-1 Card Reader/Writer).
Was it suppose to come in pre-formatted? Because when I got my previous SanDisk256M it was already in FAT format.
the 256M has always worked like a charm. I was able to play High-Quality movies through MoviePlayer without any problems.

The problem now...
All the same movies from (256M CF) I copied over to (1G CF), all ended up not playing, NX just freeze with need of soft-reset. I've tried both MoviePlayer/ClieViewer method to play those clips but nothing worked, only the original movie clips taken from the Clie worked.

I think many factors are affecting the way movies play here. But the most obvious one is that movie plays better (whatever quality) on a smaller Compact Flash Card.
Another thing I've noticed is that pictures loads up faster with my Sandisk1G, whereas the exact photos loads up slower on the SanDisk256MB??? wierd eh?

So for now I still can't get any of my movies working on my new SanDisk1G.

[Eddy]

ah... why am I always logged in as Guest, sorry guys, cookies... :D

As I was mentioning, both Compact Flash Card of the Same Brand SanDisk, 1 being 256MB, the other being 1G. turning out to operate in totally different ways.

I guess I'll stick with my 256M when dealing with movies becoz I can't compromise the High-Quality for playing movie clips. Now to think of what to do with the new 1Giger....

perhaps for the price of the 1G CF, I could've gotten the MS Pro256, so MS Pro256+CF 256=512MB, so I can play good movies yet also increase the overall size of the NX without having to switch around with different cards.

[ibooyaka]

Originally posted by Eddy
ah... why am I always logged in as Guest, sorry guys, cookies... :D

As I was mentioning, both Compact Flash Card of the Same Brand SanDisk, 1 being 256MB, the other being 1G. turning out to operate in totally different ways.

I guess I'll stick with my 256M when dealing with movies becoz I can't compromise the High-Quality for playing movie clips. Now to think of what to do with the new 1Giger....

perhaps for the price of the 1G CF, I could've gotten the MS Pro256, so MS Pro256+CF 256=512MB, so I can play good movies yet also increase the overall size of the NX without having to switch around with different cards.

I say you keep the 1Giger... because I'm sure eventually this driver will sort out the problems associated with this movie stuff. If there was official word that there was no way a 1gb card can work flawlessly with movies, etc, then maybe I would try to get rid of it for something better.. just my .02 :)

[Eddy]

Dear ibooyaka, thks for that msg there, as I just feel so disappointed since I can't play movies off the 1G, (I'm more of a video & audio user rather than plain mp3 music) but seems that apparently I can only use the 1G to store mp3s & applications. I do agree like you were saying, I should keep it, since I got it for a very good price at $179.99 free shipping at amazon.com & should just hope for the improvement on the future upgrade. :D

[Cymril]

I now have two full movies playing on my NZ90 using a 1gb Sandsik card. It however does not seem to be an exact science. After I finallly got triple X on there in three parts I could not load any other clip at all. What I then remebered is that image converter creates its own new directory on a drive when initiated, when the correct directory does not exist yet . So what I did was rename the directory that stores the movies MQ_ROOT to MQ_ROOT1. I then had image converter convert the second movie (treasure planet) directly to the CF card using a 1 in 6 card reader/writer. Image converter created a new MQ_ROOT dirtectory and the the movie worked. However when I tried to put the second half of the movie on the CF card it froze again. I just tried this over and over again and after the fifth try it did work. I did not change anything critical the fifth time so it seems that the conversion is not always consitent. After this I moved all the movies back to the correct directory and everything works.
It might have something to do with where the movie is located on the CF card. It is very inconsistent and there does not seem to be reason why it does certain things. The only that seems to be consistent is that all the movies I tried do work on the MS when converted directly to it. So its either a card issue but more likely a driver issue. Eruware is working on an update so hopefully it will get better soon.

[pathjoel]

How do you rip a DVD into three smaller sections?
When I rip a DVD movie it converts into one file.

Then when I imager convert that file, it turns into a 1.2 GB file and a .76 GB file (in standard form)--two files for one movie. The .76 GB works great on the clie movie player, but the 1.2 GB freezes up.

I think if I could rip the DVD into two smaller files, and then image convert, the smaller files will work on my clie. But I don't know how to rip the DVD into two smaller files...

[clownfish]

Pathjoel, I use DVDx available at http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/ to rip my DVD's. In it's output settings there is an option to limit the size of the output file based either upon a filesize or upon Chapters in the DVD.

[pathjoel]

i did do that and it divided the movie into three parts. the first two parts worked well on my CF card and NZ90. but the third part didn't work. when i transferred the third part of the movie to a memory card it worked... strange?

[clownfish]

That's exactly the behavior I've been seeing too, along with several others here. It seems to be dependent not only on the file but also the CF card, but everyone is getting slightly different results. We haven't been able to determine if there is anything in common yet but I think most people are waiting until the latest beta version of the CF driver goes public to see if that fixes the issues.