is there anyway that larger videos (4+gb) would be usable be the andor1?
You could set up a looping playlist with your video in chunks I think. What’s the duration and resolution of the source material?
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it is a blue ray rip of Metropolis 1920 x 1080
breaking it into smaller chunks makes sense that is doable
thanks
I haven’t actually set up a playlist yet on the andor that will be a good excuse to learn more about it
Large files should work, you just have to reformat your USB drive as NTFS, HFS+, or EXT instead of FAT32.
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so here is what I ended up doing
open VLC
file => convert/stream
drag/open media file in question
mp4 profile
save wherever you want
I didn’t think it was working at first as there is no progress bar (that I could see) but when I went to test the video some time later it ended up being nearly 2 hours of the 2 and a half hour long movie and went from 11 gigs to 3
so I’ll try again with a shorter video to make sure it works fully
then try again with more time for this long one
I’ve been having a lot of trouble getting this to work on my Andor 1 with a 19 Gb h.264 mp4 that is 1 hour 43 mins. At first, I stress tested it and it played the whole file in a loop fine. When I got to the gig though it glitched out and would only play first two minutes and then restart. Nothing helped.
A few days later I updated the firmware to 1.044, and it worked great again. But once I tested a power cycle, it started doing a different glitch. Now it plays the whole file, but drops frames to black screen for about 1 second, every 1 - 2 minutes, and video continues not from where it glitched but where it would be if it hadn’t glitched, like it keeps playing in black.
I also get a warning in the menu my Usb stick is read only, but it isn’t, this didn’t appear on the previous firmware. But I had deleted the config file on the usb stick previously in attempts to fix the glitch. The 1.044 firmware was supposed to set the sync setting to Off by default, but it’s going back to on when I power cycle. Turning it back off may have stopped this dropped frames issue momentarily, but it comes back after a power cycle.
Perhaps I have a bad batch unit? @paulslocum let’s get in touch
I was able to get this file to play reliably with a different usb stick, but the sync setting and “read only” error issue remains, I have to use a keyboard to turn off Sync every boot, but at least it works. Hope another future firmware update could fix this issue.