My DVD player says it will play MP3 tracks but doesn't!

[TV - Cameraman]

Hi everyone

I have a Naiko 2001B DVD player it says it will play all of the following:
DVD, SVCD, CVCD, VCD, MP3, CD, CD-R, CD-RW. It was part of the reason that I bought the player so I could put all my MP3 files on to one CD and have hours of music!

The DVD is great so is the Music CD, but it will ONLY play the first 1:05 min of an MP3 track for some strange reason! Is it a fault or am I doing something stupid? It has a ROOT "folder" and the mp3 files are chopped up into chunks of 1:05 min.

So has anyone any any great ideas as to why it should only play 1:05 min of the mp3 track before I have to select another "folder"?

I tried putting mp3 tracks into separate "folders" on the cd but still no use the longest I gan get it to play is 1:05 min. Its very annoying and totally useless as an mp3 player unless you only want to play short jingles!

Any help and suggestions would be welcome...

Tim

[WizyWyg]

Uh, why are you complaining here? Did you bother to try and call the Customer Support of the company that made it? They will have your answers. If you just bought it, you're under warranty.

[TV - Cameraman]

Thanks for the reply..

Good point!

I actually bought it from a supermarket and they know sod all about electrical goods! I tried to find the UK distributers and even the overseas manufacturers on the internet without success.

As you know getting intouch with some little known Japanese company is pretty impossible... Maybe thats the price for getting something cheap!!!

But its brilliant in every other respect...

[Anquera]

Perhaps you're trying to play vbr bitrates and your player only supports cbr bitrates

[TV - Cameraman]

Thanks Anquera

Thats an even better point!

Answer is I dunno but will find out even though I dont understand what vbr bitrates and cbr bitrates are...

It seems that whatever mp3's I have downloaded from the internet is not compatible with my player can I convert them to cbr bitrate?

This is over my head now...

But thanks anyway!

Tim

[Anquera]

Hi,

VBR means Variable BitRate and
CBR means Constant BitRate.

a MP3 is coded in blocks of data, in a vbr-mp3 each block can be coded at a diffrent data rate it is possible that your player supports the first blocks of data and then crashes as the rate goes beyond its capabillities.

And yes, you can recode them.
If you can't find the supported bitrates, try it at 44.100 khz - 128 kb/s that is a pretty save value or something higher for more quality.
I suggest razorlame for this:
http://www.dors.de/razorlame/

[TV - Cameraman]

Thanks

Ah! This is the rate that the majority of the mp3 files have been downloaded (it says so on my WinAmp) and ALL mp3 files are broken up into 1:05 min.

Have recently made contact with another Naiko DVD owner and he says his files play fine!

Am trying to find the importes to see if they can help.

Thanks again

Tim