LG DV392H DivX player...?

Yip. :) That's what happened with my neice's digital camera. I think this thing with 21-day replacement idea kind of voids whatever guarantee/warranty the actual component comes with.
 
charlie_82 said:
Sounds like your unit is a lil dodgy with those power issues...
I have an LG DivX player, can't remember the model number off hand, and have never had a single issue with it.
Perhaps try taking it back?
Hi-Fi Corp has a nice Warfedale (I don't know how to spell that :p) with USB & SD slots & CD ripping for around R480 I think...
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I'm not so sure about Wharfdale. They seem to be a Hi-Fi corp brand. There's no sign of these things on the net.
 
Wharfdale is a very old brand. They've been around for ages. I do think, however, that they've become more a lower-end brand than what they used to be. But that's all good for the consumers like us. :)

Anyway, as with any brand out there, there's no guarantee on quality anymore.
 
But there's one irritating issue I've been wondering about. Has anyone experienced the following: when the unit powers itself off or sometimes been off for a while, it cannot be switched back on by remote or power switch without pulling out and plugging in the mains again? It's annoying seeing as my power plug is behind the stereo.
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I bought mine from Makro about 2 months ago - it did the same thing from day one.

Also, I have a 400GB 2.5" HDD....it always picks up the disk , but sometimes gets 'stuck' after 3 seconds of playing a file. If I copy the same "problematic" files to a 4GB USB flash drive , they play fine , so its not the codecs.

The instruction booklet for this DVD player says it can read the TOC for 650 files.......My 400GB currently has +- 400 avi files on it....so i have not breached that limitation.

It just seems like a piece of $hit player to me....I guess you get what you pay for. :(
 
Yip, indeed you get what you pay for. However, sometimes you pay alot and get into the same situation. :P

As for that HD issue, you might find that it doesn't have enough power on the USB port. Spec if 5V/500mA max, but it might not be putting that out when things get going. Depends on whether your 2.5" drive is USB powered or whether you are using an external power source. My colleague has one of those bare IDE/SATA to USB adapters which includes an internal power supply and in there it works fine.

Have you taken your player back to Makro?

Anyway... I have a 60GB iPod video on the way to me, so once that arrives I'll send in the LG for "repairs" and load the movies onto the iPod for viewing on TV through the jack plug. :P
 
I kinda figured it was a power issue (with the 2.5" HDD)....but am too lazy to try my 3.5" 500GB external disk. Its a pain to plug the AC Adaptor in ....need to move my plasma stand which is something i dont particularly like doing.

Ironically, the unit has been behaving flawlessly tongiht! I have been watching tv series back to back for the past few hours without any lockups......Murphey's law?

No, I didnt take the player back to makro - it works 100% fine with my 4GB flash disk. I bought it just because my son scratches his DVD movies....I just copied the main ones he watches to a flash disk and put the originals away. From that perspective, it serves us well.
 
So much for Murphey's Law - its up to its same ol tricks again this morning.
 
Feedback - I actually found a trend with the problem I am experiencing. If I watch a movie (one file in each folder) the it works 100% - I only have a problem with it getting 'stuck' when I attempt to play an avi which has several other files in the same folder (for example, a TV Series) Then, its just a matter of "pot-luck"..it works when it feels like it.

I will have to just copy my TV Series files onto a 4GB flash disk and watch those off that. A pain, but at least it will work.
 
Has anyone figured out what the maximum resolution is that this player can handle? I have a few downloaded movies that won't play because it "doesn't support HD video". If I need to recode them, what are the optimum parameters to use?
 
It's SD resolution for PAL or NTSC, nothing higher than that. PAL is 720x576 and NTSC is 720x480. Re-encode to 720 pixels wide and let the software figure the height based on the source video aspect ratio. It is barfs, then calculate the height yourself based on aspect ratio and try rounding off to an even number because DivX or XviD can be a bit picky on what resolutions it will output to.
 
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