CF multimedia woes

[Juryrigger]

First, let me say that I am very appreciative of the work Eruware has done on trying to make the Sony-Hobbled CF slot useable. (As it should have been in the first place, shame on you Sony!) A great service to the community! Kudos, and thank you!

But... I was mainly interested in the vast storage space increase for multimedia purposes... movies and music. (As I imagine most people were)

I can not watch movies off my CF card unless they are in the lowest quality setting... ok, I am praying this is something that is fixable from the driver side of things, and that it is not a movie player issue. (Cause you KNOW Sony is not going to fix the issue if it is on their end) I could watch these movies off my MS before... I was hoping I could finally load a whole movie with a HIGH QUALITY setting! But not yet.

So last night I ripped about 10 CD's to mp3's and loaded them onto my new 1gig transcend card... and when I go to play, each song cuts out about a minute or two in, and the player skips to the next song, OR the song gets all garbled and then my NX-70V locks up and needs a soft reset.

Has anyone come across this last problem? Any solutions? I tried the obvious... slow mode / slow mount both enabled and disabled. Hmmm.

Between the 1 gig card, CF reader, and driver I feel a bit like I am sitting on a $300 mistake right now. :(

-Juryrigger

[Silverback]

I had the "garbled and lockup problem".

What fixed it for me was to install the WL100 drivers. Even if you have no plans on using Sony's WiFI 802.11b card, install them anyway.

I have a 1GB SanDisk and before I installed the WL100 drivers I had problems. After installation, the problems when away.

This did NOT affect my 256MB SanDisk card. It worked with or without the WL100 drivers. Go Figure. :confused:

Please post if this helps you or not.

Thanks.

[Cert]

I have the same problem with the garbled tracks when I play my mp3s on my NZ. I first loaded one song to see if it plays from the CF and it did, now that I have about 30 songs, it's garbled. I do use the WL100 card for wireless use so the driver is there. What do to????

[Juryrigger]

Hmm, I was one of the lucky saps who got the $17 wifi card from Best Buy, so I already had the drivers installed. :(

I'm going to try some other ideas this weekend and see if they make a difference, thanks for the tip though, glad it worked for you!

-Jury

[srodsimpson]

I've seen a couple of other threads that mentioned settings for Mp3's had to be 41Khz with no variable bit rate (or something like that). ...Could that be the problem? I've only got about 12-15 MP3's on my 1GB Sandisk CF right now but they all play just fine.

[Juryrigger]

Yeah, I thought of that too... I ripped em just like the doctor ordered, but no go. Hmmm....

-Jury

[Silverback]

I also have the System Update Patch and the MS Pro Patch installed.

That's all I can think of for you to try right now. If you already have both of those installed, I'm back to head scratch mode:D

Let us know if either or both of those worked for you.

[frasej]

And then there's me, who doesn't have the system patch or the MS Pro patch and have over 200 mp3's on my CF and it all works flawlessly.

[Cert]

YES! I doubled check to see which patch I downloaded and after reading couple of the lastest posts, I thought I download the MS Pro patch again and viola! It worked! I must have missed that one. Thanks you guys. Juryrigger: Hope you get yours working soon.

[Alistar]

I have the system update patch only and everything works as it should with my 1GB sandisk.

[Cert]

But seriously, with all these patches and updates, the 16mb of internal will be full before we load any programs!