mike171562

Trans am WS6

TA Splash2.bmp

Ally, i have the Unit, I played around with different video formats and screen sizes, but really the USB/SD video playing sucks on this unit,

I got ahold of an Ipod touch with a broken screen for free and a cheap cable off ebay and just load video onto the ipod and play it on the unit, it works, much better. I can download youtube videos in mp4 format load them on the ipod and play them on the unit with no conversion.

thanks!

Trans AM

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Gibear, can you make some like that for the LS1 trans am?

Mine does.

This is usually a function of the BCM (Body Control Module) in your car

bah! thats what I was afraid of I found a swix for cheap, thanks for the info

I was looking into getting a PAC Swix to allow me to use my Steering Wheel controls on my avic-f700, but from what I am reading online it seems your stereo has to have a remote control to do the programming and my avic has no remote control, anyone have experience with this?

I would love to see some mods for the player, is this even possible?

I'd pay for software that added functionality to the player. The Nav is fine.

that pretty much answers my question, thanks.

anyone with a WM phone been able to get the "USB to PC" recognized as a USB device on their avic?

Haven't been having this problem much at all lately, once I learned which songs it doesnt like and removed them, SD works fine.

When this happens to me though, i cant switch out of SD mode because the screen does not respond, If i eject the SD card though it goes through the cycle quickly of every button i pushed while it was frozen, if i just re-insert the card it goes right back to the 'broken' song from the beginning and starts all over again. If you reboot the unit it goes right back to that song. Ugh!

I have been experimenting with this and it does seem for me to be certain songs that makes this unit get 'stuck on stupid'. When selecting a song the unit does not like, the song will play but the touchscreen will be unresponsive, sometimes for a minute or two sometimes longer. If you can get it to skip to the next track it will still show the previous song. All the symptons mentioned above. I have found turning the unit off and then on does not help It will still be this way when it boots back up. The only way to fix it is to reboot the unit with the reset button on the front of and let it boot up with the SD card ejected. then re-insert the SD card and everything is fine. What sucks is when you use the reset button you lose your Radio Pre-sets and your Audio settings.

Sprint Diamond here, I only have about 30 contacts, but they all transferred fine. If I remember correctly it took two tries though. Also, i updated Bluetooth to the most recent version from Pioneers website.

I was checking out the Ipod functions on my avic-f700 and they seem pretty smooth. Anyone know if you can emulate the ipod player on windows mobile/Sprint Diamond and get these player functions without an Ipod. It's cool, but I'm not going to blow 200 bucks for an Ipod just for an mp3 storage device.

could it be your nav cutting in with a 'over the speed limit' warning? YOu would barely hear it if the nav voice volume was turned down.

I have noticed this issue while playing certain songs and some videos. I have a 16G sandisk SD card full of songs and avi videos. Most videos play fine, but one video i noticed everytime it got it it would hang and be unresponsive until I ejected the SD card. When i re-inserted the card it wouldnt be recognized until i rebooted the unit. I also noticed there are some mp3 files that when it gets to them it will just hang and be unresponsive until I reboot. The annoying thing is when you reinsert it it goes back to the same song and hangs again. The problem persists until you delete the file off the card which you obviously cant do while your driving. Very Frustrating. I see alot of mods here for the Navigation but almost nothing for the player.

Edit: I also notice, when it boots up and I choose the SD card, sometimes it will freeze for a minute and then say "unplayable tracks skipped". So there seems to be some files it doesnt like, but it would be nice if it would list the files it skipped so I can remove them. I like this unit alot, but the player has some problems.

I have an 8G Cruzer, it would not get recognized after formatting. Theres a trick, you have to boot your unit then plug the Cruzer in just a little until the light comes on on the Cruzer, then quickly push it in the rest of the way. Then it will be recognized. This makes it pretty much useless to me as I'm not going to do that evertime i turn on my radio.

I found a bash script for Linux users that will batch convert flv files to avi that will play on the avic. I tweaked the options to change the ratio to fit on avic's screens. It can be called on one flv file or a whole list of files. I added a line to remove the flv when done so comment this out if you want to keep it. Uses mencoder

usage something like this:

#flv2xvid -xvid *.flv

or

#flv2xvid -xvid video.flv video1.flv video2.flv

#!/bin/sh

if [ -z "$1" ]; then

echo "Usage: $0 {-divx|-xvid} list_of_flv_files"

exit 1

fi

# video encoding bit rate

V_BITRATE=1000

while [ "$1" ]; do

case "$1" in

-divx)

MENC_OPTS="-ovc lavc -lavcopts \

vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=$V_BITRATE:mbd=2:v4mv:autoaspect"

;;

-xvid)

MENC_OPTS="-ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=$V_BITRATE:autoaspect"

;;

*)

if file "$1" | grep -q "Macromedia Flash Video"; then

mencoder "$1" $MENC_OPTS -vf scale=640:480 -oac mp3lame \

-lameopts fast:preset=standard -o \

"`basename $1 .flv`.avi"

rm `basename $1`

else

echo "$1 is not Flash Video. Skipping"

fi

;;

esac

shift

done

Elstad, that sucks, karma will catch up to these SOB's one day.

Itried this mod on my f700 and got an error about a missing bmp when the nav started up. Maps wouldnt load.

Edit: I tried again using the same steps and this time it worked. Thanks for the Mod.

What mods have you installed, I'm still un-modded since i copied over 3.01 and its working well. I'm wary now of doing any mods.