Re: movies stop on pocket Pc.

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Hey... well I am getting closer to finally getting this sorted out... I
borrowed a MultiMedia card from a friend, used that in my pocket PC and it
worked a treat. No problems in WMP or betaplayer.

I checked my SD card for errors and it seems ok. It is a little weird that
it is only my PPC that has problems with this SD card as my PC and camera are
fine.

I'm wondering whether its the media I am using,

what is the difference between a SD card and a multimedia card?

"Tony A." wrote:

> Marc wrote:
> [...]
> > It seems that the video will play for a while then it just stops
> > (even in betaplayer)
> >
> > my guess is that is has something to do with the available memory on
> > my ppc.
> >
> > on average there is about 24 MB of memory free. it seems that the PPC
> > is fine until it has played about 24MB of the video from the SD card.
> > Once it gets to this point it just stops.
> >
> Not likely to be due to main memory, because a) betaplayer only uses around
> 3 or 4MB plus the buffer size, and b) all the memory it uses is allocated
> basically at the moment you press play, it doesn't need more as it plays
> because it just reads from and refills the buffer as it goes along. Sounds
> more like a section of the SD card is corrupt or unreadable.
>
> > There are some settings within Betaplayer that refer to Slow video
> > memory as well as buffer size and microdrive mode... would any of
> > these settings help me?
> >
> Unlikely - to be honest, from the fact that you seem to experience a similar
> problem with WMP and betaplayer, I'd tend to go back to a problem with the
> SD card, since that's about the only common factor. Have you tried
> error-checking the card from your desktop? Also, a lot of people have
> reported unreliable reading from SD cards due to insufficient pressure on
> the contacts when inserted - apparently sticking a piece of tape on the back
> side of the card to make it a bit thicker tends to fix that. See if you can
> borrow a card from somewhere, preferrably a different brand, see if you have
> the same problem.
>
> Tony
>
>
>
.

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