Playing Video from SD — AVIC411 Forum Archive

Posted Aug 30, 2008 · 01:30 UTC#1

Does anyone else notice that when playing video from the SD card the entire unit displays serious lag?

When I play from a dvd I can skip to next video / track almost immediately or bring up the menu, adjust volume etc.. when I play from the SD there is serious lag to the point that I wonder if the unit will respond.

Posted Aug 30, 2008 · 15:21 UTC#2

I had the same problem- I just figured I needed to format the disk, but I'm reading it's happening to others...

I wonder if you could just burn some mpegs (not as a DVD, but just as a data disk) on a DVD and play them. At a high quality of about 600mb each, you could fit several on one disk...

I'll try it later to see what happens

Posted Aug 30, 2008 · 17:44 UTC#3

I had the same problem- I just figured I needed to format the disk, but I'm reading it's happening to others...

I wonder if you could just burn some mpegs (not as a DVD, but just as a data disk) on a DVD and play them. At a high quality of about 600mb each, you could fit several on one disk...

I'll try it later to see what happens

The DVD drive will only play divx (avi) videos. If you want to use mpeg/mp4, you have to use either the SD card or USB.

Posted Aug 31, 2008 · 00:12 UTC#4

I have burned the same files to DVD as divx (avi) and there is no problem... just when reading from the SD... it screws up the entire navi

Posted Aug 31, 2008 · 00:44 UTC#5

I have burned the same files to DVD as divx (avi) and there is no problem... just when reading from the SD... it screws up the entire navi

Did you burn the files as a DVD or just avi files to the DVD as data?

Posted Aug 31, 2008 · 01:00 UTC#6

I have burned the same files to DVD as divx (avi) and there is no problem... just when reading from the SD... it screws up the entire navi

Did you burn the files as a DVD or just avi files to the DVD as data?

Just as a data disk is all you need.

Posted Dec 23, 2008 · 22:00 UTC#7

The videos I burned to dvd were mpeg, and they play fine..

Posted Dec 25, 2008 · 03:53 UTC#8

SD card is slow for some reason...it has about a 10-15 second lag on my unit. When using a USB card with the same media files, the lag is only about 2 seconds.

Posted Dec 25, 2008 · 05:57 UTC#9

can someone tell me how you change the aspect ratio for divx files? I can only find options for normal or wide. If watching a 16x9 divx file it places black bars at the top and bottom squishing the video. Am I missing something obvious?

Posted Dec 27, 2008 · 16:06 UTC#10

I changed all of mine using a computer program. I do not know what the program is called. There are several of them available, just search for media converters. I am not sure if there is an easier way.

Posted Dec 28, 2008 · 05:19 UTC#11

i just tried burning a data cd with wma files, with no luck, same with a few mpeg files a few weeks prior same thing they just wont play . what the hell is wrong here can someone tell me what im doing wrong?

Posted Dec 28, 2008 · 18:27 UTC#12

I'm actually experiencing the opposite of this. My SD card is super fast compared to my USB stick. This is honestly so irritating.

Posted Dec 29, 2008 · 09:43 UTC#13

SD card is slow for some reason...it has about a 10-15 second lag on my unit. When using a USB card with the same media files, the lag is only about 2 seconds.

Kind of a newbie here, but what is the class rating on your SD card? Perhaps your using a slow SD card? I bought a 4Gb class 6 card for $14 but haven't tried it yet.

I may be way off base here, but wouldn't the class of the card have an effect?