Hi.

When recording a movie, why will my VP8870-640 HD only record to a maximum of 2045mb, then start recording again. It records the entire time it is set for but does it in 2 parts.

ALSO when recording a second program it records sound only & no picture. Futhermore a 3rd recording is ok with picture & sound??? With more playing I found every 2nd recording has a blank picture.

Breakdown.

Rec 1- 2045mb & balance of time. All OK.
Rec 2 - 2045mb & balance of time BUT with no picture (sound ok)
Rec 3- 2045mb & balance of time. All OK.
Rec 4 - 2045mb & balance of time BUT with no picture (sound ok)
And so on...

A comment

The instruction indicates the AV/OUT socket to play videos. Difficult when there isn't an AV/OUT socket!
I struggled comprehending the notion that the video out is the earphone socket. I would have thought that the AV/IN socket would work wichever way the device was operating at the time.Works fine once I checked this forum.

Otherwise I love this gadget. I show it off everwhere I go. Better than using a laptop & external HD for backup & storage.

Just need a mini projector to complement it. That would be cool!!

Dear kaiojim,

At first,Thanks for your support.

We've tested almost 3.4 hours and played the video files.Everything is fine, it didn't happen that the situation you met. Would you please tell me what your using way is and how to recording?
Please help us to check of this then try again.







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Hi.

I attach the AV cables to video out on our sky decoder and check for a picture & sound on the VP8870. Then set the sky decoder to the channel/s & time/s that I wish to record and then go to the scheduling part in the VP8870 and set up the times/s to record the programmes.

Every 2nd recording - sound but no picture.

In the meantime to over come the problem, I have been setting the device to record for 1 minute between the actual recordings that I am wanting. This seems the fool the device and I can just delete the 1min sections that have a blank screen & I get the result that I want.

Also It won’t read a 1GB SD card from the SD slot. A 128MB card works OK??

Again I can fool the device by attaching the Host USB cable to the USB/MINI USB and plug it into a card reader & it will read the 1GB card. All other 1GB cards I use (CF & XD) work ok in the devices slots??

I set an extended recording time overnight of about 5 hours. It recorded both sound & picture on 4 sections. 3 at 2045MB and a smaller part. Not 1 continual recording.

Dear kaiojim,

We've been testing pre-recording about 1.5hour,and interval about 30minutes and continue recording again(This process has been repeaded 4~5 times) . After all of this and then play the recording video, it works fine so please make sure your video source.

Q : Also It won’t read a 1GB SD card from the SD slot. A 128MB card works OK??


A : Did you find the same issue with the other SD card?Could you help us to try another SD card?








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I haven't yet tried another SD card. I will post a result as soon as I can get a card to try.

I have tried video outputs from other components and get the same result. I'm not too concerned, as it doesn’t take much effort to select the second part of a movie and set it playing. A bit annoying but I’ll cope.

Cheers Jim

it sounds suspiciously like your hard drive is formatted to fat32 which would allow 2GB files max. is it?

edit: i just checked, the vp8870 only works with FAT32 which should support 4GB files. FAT16 does 2GB files. Maybe they're being careful and splitting it at 2GB.

Dear kaiojim,

Q:Re: Recording Time

by eug on 2010/7/22 22:18:59

it sounds suspiciously like your hard drive is formatted to fat32 which would allow 2GB files max. is it?

edit: i just checked, the vp8870 only works with FAT32 which should support 4GB files. FAT16 does 2GB files. Maybe they're being careful and splitting it at 2GB.


A:Yes,The maximum of recording is 2GB and it is compatibility with FAT16

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