It’s a good job I don’t mind showing my technical ineptness around here, innit?
From the top – I got an MP4 player, 8Gb a couple of weeks ago. It’s the Chinese copy version – a ME2/Actions USB. Yeah, yeah, ok, I know, but it was the only type I could afford, so it had to be an eBay cheapie….
I had a fiddle around (!) with it last weekend, and managed to download some MP3 audio onto it. No problems, once I’d solved the usual write protection problems inherent in SP2. Was actually quite pleased with myself at the time, sadly.
I hadn’t read up much on codecs, converters et al so left the video side until today. Now I have a major problem
I’ve got the darn thing plugged in, hooked up and it’s just bloody well sitting there. It looks as if it’s frozen solid – all I have is the eggtimer on the MP4 screen, looking at me, daring me to throw it out of the window. It doesn’t have a reset button, only an on/off switch, and earphone and usb mini sockets. It *should* be fully charged (don’t know/can’t tell, can’t get it switched on to find out….aarrgh!) as it hasn’t been used since I successfully did the MP3s last weekend.
The other problem, as if that wasn’t enough, is a wierd one. The “safe eject” button knows that the MP4 player is there, but if I go into explorer, it’s not showing in the tree under the my computer icon. I’ve got everything else I should there, but not the MP4 player.
As a “Certain Person” has just blown up the office computer, I can’t check the MP4 player in another device at present, but will do as soon as I get the chance, and report what happens from there.
As always, any help or advice more than gratefully received – apart from the bit that says continue throwing it out of the window …..
thanks in advance, mates.
GG
Edited cos my triping has lost the ploot I’m so miffed.