PLEASE HELP ME WITH MEDIA PLAYER!!

dave180

i just bought this media player from ebay .. . .
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Sumvision-Cyclone-Micro-Media-Player-FULL-1080P-HD-HDMI-/260834360458?pt=UK_AudioTVElectronics_Video_DVDPlayers_Recorders&hash=item3cbaf07c8a

it doesnt play the avi files i have stored on my hard drive for some reason. i also tried an avi movie from an sd card and it doesnt play that either . . . when i contacted the seller he said it might not have the software to play the media that the avi file has . . . . can someone please help. or if not , is there a media player that will deffinetly play all files.please help, thanks ,

yoyo

Try updating the firmware for it, look here

Nick

ScumLord

Flash it, go to the manufacturers website and find any updates for it. If that's the one they sell in Maplins they're not great and don't work well out of box.

dave180

i changed the video format to .mpg and it seems to work fine now with that . . . . if the video is .avi and i change it to .mpg , will that change the quality of the video? thanks

yoyo

dave180 wrote: »

i changed the video format to .mpg and it seems to work fine now with that . . . . if the video is .avi and i change it to .mpg , will that change the quality of the video? thanks

If you just renamed it no, if you re-encoded it probably, have you tried a firmware update? Avis which I assume use Divx/Xvid codec shouldn't be a problem

Nick

dave180

i just used a converter to convert the file format to mpg and when i put it back on hard drive as the mpg the media player plays it fine. but that wont make the quality of the video worse will it? changing it to an mpg from an avi . . . . .?

yoyo

dave180 wrote: »

i just used a converter to convert the file format to mpg and when i put it back on hard drive as the mpg the media player plays it fine. but that wont make the quality of the video worse will it? changing it to an mpg from an avi . . . . .?

Its time consuming and yes re-encoding will usually drop quality a bit, depends on the codec used how much this is done I would reccomend updating the firmware on the device, Avis should play fine

Nick

dave180

http://www.sumvision.com.cn/firmware.aspx#

which one do i download???? because i dont want to download the wrong one and damage it.

yoyo

dave180 wrote: »

http://www.sumvision.com.cn/firmware.aspx#

which one do i download???? because i dont want to download the wrong one and damage it.

I think this is it. If you have the original model you need this firmware, if you have the revised model no firmware is required and I would think the device is faulty, try other Avis too, maybe its just some which are faulty!
This is the comparison image from the firmware btw, I downloaded the pkg:


Nick

PapaQuebec

yoyo wrote: »

I think this is it. If you have the original model you need this firmware, if you have the revised model no firmware is required and I would think the device is faulty, try other Avis too, maybe its just some which are faulty!
This is the comparison image from the firmware btw, I downloaded the pkg:


Nick

I have the Cyclone 2 - on the left of the pic - and have never had a problem with it!!