xms-888 file reading problem

[SilentX]

I am having some wierd problems with my XMS-888. When I burn a cd with more than 1 file on it, the player will not always read the files as playable files even though they are. If i turn the player off and on again then some of the files may show up and others dont. It is totally random as to which files it wants to play. Has anyone else had this problem? I have tried multi-session cds as well as non-multisession cds. I have the v1.2 firmware

[davidf]

Originally Posted by SilentX

I am having some wierd problems with my XMS-888. When I burn a cd with more than 1 file on it, the player will not always read the files as playable files even though they are. If i turn the player off and on again then some of the files may show up and others dont. It is totally random as to which files it wants to play. Has anyone else had this problem? I have tried multi-session cds as well as non-multisession cds. I have the v1.2 firmware

What speed did you burn at ?

I find that limiting my burn speed to 24x has improved the cd reading of the xms dramatically.

[andw]

Originally Posted by davidf

What speed did you burn at ?

I find that limiting my burn speed to 24x has improved the cd reading of the xms dramatically.

I agree with davidf, the times I've had weird errors like that, are when I've been burning 'too fast'.
I'm not quite as brave as he though, as I keep my burn speed to 12x and under.

[SilentX]

I've been burning my cd's at 8x so that can't be the problem.

[andw]

Have you got any different brand / type media to try?

[SilentX]

I have tried 4 different brands, Sony, Kodak and Datastream and Opti Storage. All discs had the same problem. I'm starting to think that there may be a problem with the unit itself

[redbears]

Originally Posted by SilentX

I have tried 4 different brands, Sony, Kodak and Datastream and Opti Storage. All discs had the same problem. I'm starting to think that there may be a problem with the unit itself

What brand of writer is it? Some of the older 8x and 12x burners are a bit flaky compared to some of the more recent faster offerings.

[bwg]

Originally Posted by SilentX

I am having some wierd problems with my XMS-888. When I burn a cd with more than 1 file on it, the player will not always read the files as playable files even though they are. If i turn the player off and on again then some of the files may show up and others dont. It is totally random as to which files it wants to play. Has anyone else had this problem? I have tried multi-session cds as well as non-multisession cds. I have the v1.2 firmware

Could it be something to do with the files themselves? I mean how / what they were encoded with? If they work sometimes and not others, it may point to file properties that the xms-888 is a bit fussy with. Are they all files that you have created yourself? I'm assuming they're avi's? Are they all created in the same way?

I have one particular avi that 3 / 4 times will play with garbled colours on the screen, like it is not being rendered properly (not sure how to explain that any better, sorry) but if I'm persistent, switch on / off, then eventually it will play fine. It might be en-coded in some way that the xms doesn't really like, but there is something that will jog it and then it plays correctly. It's a mystery

[andw]

Or, you could take a couple of the discs down to your local Strathfield and try in a store player.
If they play fine there, you know it's just yours, and you could get it swapped over maybe?

[bernie]

I don't know why, but some VCDs that play fine on my other players have massive block noise on the 888. And FF sometimes jumps to end of movie. Also a disk full of jpegs gets nothing but errors. Is this sort of thing going to be fixed in future firmware or did I just waste my money? It's very nice that it'll play Divx, but it has to play all the other stuff as well.