Stormz
04-01-2006, 03:50 PM
Hi all,
Checked out this forum when I was researching this dvd/mp3/divx player and it generally got good feedback. I then bought 4 off ebay as presents from OzAuction. Around $60 each inc postage. Only one I know of has been installed and used so far, but this one freezes about half-way through a commercial dvd, and also part-way through some mpeg files (downloaded from **edited**).
When the freeze happens, there is nothing you can press on the remote or the unit itself, to get any reaction.... except the power button. When you switch it off and then on again, and fast-forward to the point just before the initial freeze, the unit will happily play the rest of the file/dvd without any more freezing.
Is this something someone has come across before? If so, can it be fixed somehow before I have to send it back under warranty (postage at my expense).
My thoughts (so far) on this are:
- it`s not the discs. It`s happened on all discs that it`s been asked to play (burned mpeg`s and commercial dvd`s). Brand new discs without scratches.
- could it be a heat problem? The unit has no air vents on the top, so I`m assuming they are at the back, and would be quite small.
- It could have been when the commercial dvd jumps to the 2nd layer (about half way through), but that wouldn`t be the case with the .mpeg single-layer dvd`s.
- somethings buggered and it has to go back.
Checked out this forum when I was researching this dvd/mp3/divx player and it generally got good feedback. I then bought 4 off ebay as presents from OzAuction. Around $60 each inc postage. Only one I know of has been installed and used so far, but this one freezes about half-way through a commercial dvd, and also part-way through some mpeg files (downloaded from **edited**).
When the freeze happens, there is nothing you can press on the remote or the unit itself, to get any reaction.... except the power button. When you switch it off and then on again, and fast-forward to the point just before the initial freeze, the unit will happily play the rest of the file/dvd without any more freezing.
Is this something someone has come across before? If so, can it be fixed somehow before I have to send it back under warranty (postage at my expense).
My thoughts (so far) on this are:
- it`s not the discs. It`s happened on all discs that it`s been asked to play (burned mpeg`s and commercial dvd`s). Brand new discs without scratches.
- could it be a heat problem? The unit has no air vents on the top, so I`m assuming they are at the back, and would be quite small.
- It could have been when the commercial dvd jumps to the 2nd layer (about half way through), but that wouldn`t be the case with the .mpeg single-layer dvd`s.
- somethings buggered and it has to go back.