Corrupted movie files

npoon · 11-29-03, 12:17 PM

I use fribizio's guide to encode movies for my ax. What I have noticed is that some encoded movies get corrupted. I will encode the movie and save on my hard drive, copy to a cf card and then when I go back the movie will show a "windows media player" icon and I can't play it anymore. I can't even open the sub directory to look at the other files without a window popping up asking me whether I want to send the "error file" to microsoft. Has anyone had this "arbitrary" problem?

bigds63 · 11-29-03, 10:48 PM

Maybe try using my guides and see if it is doing the same thing. BigDs Video Encoding Guides Also what Ver. of Divx are you using? I recommend 5.0 because it seems to have alot less bugs, at least until they get 5.1 fixed right...You can find all the tools/links including Divx5.0 needed for my guides at my site.

Spikes · 11-30-03, 02:10 PM

Are you using a Sandisk CF card to store the movies on? I've had problems playing Windows Media files from Scamdisk cards but found they play fine on non-sandisk cards.

Magicmonger · 12-01-03, 06:50 PM

SPikes I didn't think people had problems with Sandisk CF cards. I knew about the sd card problems but not the cf card problems.

npoon · 12-01-03, 08:18 PM

That is the odd part. The files are saved on my hard drive and that is where they get corrupted. Someone suggested that I do a chkdsk (scandisk) for xp and a defrag....so I'll see if that helps