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MPEG player crashed everything
Demonic Goldfish:
[EDIT]: I managed to reboot it, but still no dice when it comes to playing this video: hangs indefinitely on a black screen.
Hi all. I have looked for similar problems, but have found none.
A few minutes ago I installed Rock Box on my iPod Nano, booted up, and everything was fine. So I stuck a newly converted 895MB .mpg file on there, and played it. The screen went black, and I realised I had no 'phones plugged in, so I plugged some in. I waited. The screen stayed black. No sound, nothing. So I rebooted the iPod, it booted back into Rock Box, everything was fine. Then I tried to play the video again, and the iPod rebooted. It's still stuck on the boot screen, where it shows the Apple logo, no backlight, and it is completely unresponsive. I can't boot into disk mode, it doesn't mount, nothing.
Does anyone know what could be going wrong here?
Cheers, DG :D
LambdaCalculus:
There's some information here you can read up on:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginMpegplayer
Also note that Mpegplayer still occasionally chokes on larger files. I've tested MPEGs up to 130MB in size (usually 22 minutes episodes of animated shows), and Mpegplayer runs nicely. But my iPod did choke when I tried a 1-hour movie that weighed in at around 760MB.
Try some smaller file sizes, but also try the Elephants Dream short that's available on the above page. It makes for a great benchmark tester, but it's also pretty entertaining to watch in its own right.
Llorean:
I've played movie files over 1.5gb without a problem while testing things.
AFAIK, anything over the initial buffer size should either work, or not work, any size beyond that should be irrelevant (I believe).
LambdaCalculus:
--- Quote from: Llorean on July 12, 2007, 10:55:43 PM ---I've played movie files over 1.5gb without a problem while testing things.
--- End quote ---
I guess mine was a case of "Your mileage may vary". Since I don't use Mpegplayer very often, I never bothered trying any larger files lately. Thanks for the insight, Llorean.
Llorean:
The large file that's giving problems may simply have something else about it that mpegplayer doesn't like, and it's merely coincidence that it's large.
I personally have almost exclusively used ffmpeg (by way of WinFF) to encode files I've actually used for either personal playback, or various framerate testing, etc. It's become very clear though that other encoders are very clever at finding ways to trip up mpegplayer (and ffmpeg was too, for that matter).
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