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Is it me, has anyone else experienced issues with playing music files on efika.
1) the mplayer would stutter back and forth playing a dvd mostly a few seconds to a minute ahead of the view which lagged
2) my aminetradio mildly does the same
3)mplayer with selected mp3's from folder

funny thing is thing though is that if files are selected highlighted from the folder and opened to play, there isn't an issue tends to sound better too.

has anyone burned anything? I may need to try a new usbdvdrw as upon insertion of a blank cd, it hangs the system, only on blanks huummm.

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2008/9/25 0:19 ]

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2008/9/25 0:21 ]

Don't expect mplayer to read dvd correctly on efika (unless you use -vo null :)).

[ Edited by Fab on 2008/9/15 12:54 ]

ANR do stutter for me to , but songplayer works fine.

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I was shopping for a USB DVD-RW external drive yesterday and wondering since all the ones I could find are USB 2.0, do they all automatically have a fall back mode to USB1.1? Will they work on the EFIKA?

I saw a nice LightScribe slim external unit at TigerDirect for $69 US dollars, which seemed like a good price and I could use it on my MacBook and my Dell PC running XP Pro and Ubuntu8.04 to burn CDs and DVDs as well as burn labels on them, which would be so much better than writing on them with a marker, or using paper labels that stick on.

Songplayer works nice here, too. But only as long as the VU-meters are disabled (bar graph). When they are enabed, there's a *really strong* noise on the sound signal. Anyone else observed this?
At least my Efika has *very strong* noise related to hdd activity and gfx operations.

Yes, any USB2.0 device can be used on USB1.1.

Geit

Yea i think i'm ordering that now too. now the hpdvd630e gives me a read write error when accessing audio cd's this is annoying, i know it worked before.

Re: the earlier response to efika2 and pegs successor not sure which forum it was on so post it here since it pertained to me anyway


http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=8621

http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2007/08/efika2-4u.html

can't find the link to pegs successor but it was to be demo'ed at some show this year. if i'm wrong, i'm wrong.

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2008/9/20 18:05 ]

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2008/9/25 0:24 ]

ok got mine in and it does the same thing that the mentioned hp630dlrw did hangs with the power cord inserted, but without the power cord (usb feed) I get a poseidon error trying to mount unit 0 via morphos moount.library
scsi_read capacity failed45

warning over and over after each failed seek
the drive seems to try to access as you hear the motor cycling.

Again..I'm tired of losing money on this system?

Anyone got the efika to burn?

Edit: playing around with it returned a msd lun0 available throughusbscsi.device unit0!
great, but frying pan hung-up

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2008/9/24 23:53 ]

Don't get me wrong ... but why does someone want to burn discs with an Efika while having more performerant machines ? It's not designed for that and it only results in frustration IMHO .

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I do agree.

Burning over USB1.1? WTF?

USB1.1 Fullspeed is 1.5Mb/s

Burning a DVD ~= 4500 Mb

4500 / 1.5 = 3000s which is 50mn.

This is a best case scenario... A full DVD needs around one hour to be burnt.

For CD : 700 / 1.5 = 466s which is around 8mn.

I can live with a 10mn burning time for a CD. Can't stand one hour for a DVD... Do you ? :)

Czk

but... why not, when it's possible? i will try to make it working also... cdrom works with no troubles...

i spent lots of hours burning cds on amiga... this isn't a real problem :)

bye, MarK.

That's my point!! Because it should besides,it should be any different than burning on a 1200, which i do, or will have to do. i burn on my slow 1200 with subway, and posiedon, because i can the wait is longer, but it gets it done!

Efika should be able to do this task being a newer system/board/setup, with a more modern OS. referencing specifically to Morphos2.1

i knew it was going to be a "just because"

I actually never realized that a USBburner was getting recognized a such by Amiga burning software. So when connecting a usb cdrom it gets recognized as an optical drive ? Never tested that.

the drive information gets imported to frying pan but i think it hangs the program after trying to access speed info, or burn space ect. when the drive hangs if blank disk is inserted. the issue seems technical. This would have to be looked at if one is to take these miinimicro's seriously

And yes we love amiga...just because....

usually no response means no one has a clue to the problem,.....usually hope the weekend techs are in

Hey EFIKA owners, I am shopping for my USB external DVD/CD drive to use with my EFIKA and want your advice and comments.

I want a LightScribe drive, as I will also be using it with my MacBook and Dell tower to burn labels on discs.

The three models I am reviewing at the moment are:

HP DVD1040e LightScribe SuperMulti $59.99
Kanguru U2-DVDRW-20LS DVD?RW Lightscribe Burner $64.95
Lite-On DX-8A1H LightScribe Slim External Burner $69.99

Please give me your opinions and if any of you own any of these drives, please give me a review. Specially if you use it on your EFIKA!

Just out of curiosity, did anyone try burning with an Efika with Linux installed ?

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But why, only becouse "it's possible"?

Guess I could connect a DVD burner to IDE64 connected to Commodore 64 aswell, and write a DVD burning program... But why, even if it IS possible?

the issue is using its capabilities to the fullest
not sure if it burns under linux, but i had no success under morph, as stated it reads mounts but hangs on blank cds. I wasn't trying to do dvd's just cd's.
the problem also is it gives a read/write error on any access of music cd's so i can't even play a regular music cd. data, however is no issue. both hp630 or lite-on work the same, hp is faster, lite-on is slimmer, none will burn or play music cd's.

recently i've been trying to play games on cd's, no luck yet, and i take it cd32 games wont work.....i tried!

Well, I decided to try the Kanguru U2-DVDRW-20LS DVD?RW Lightscribe Burner and it is on its way to my door as I write this.

I will report if it works any better than the others that have been tried by xyphoid.

Edit: It appears to be a standard drive in a 5.25" enclosure with a USB interface and PSU, so I can perhaps swap the Kanguru drive with Lightscribe for the DVDRW drive that is currently in my Dell tower PC where the Lightscribe drive will be usable and put to good use. I think the DVDRW from the Dell is a Toshiba model, but will have to confirm that.

[ Edited by amigadave on 2008/10/1 20:04 ]

[ Edited by amigadave on 2008/10/1 20:06 ]

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Well any success? if not I hope the powers that be can come up with a solution for running music cd's, and burning on efika

That burning doesn't work ... ok. But playing musiccd's is a problem ?

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Due to my back problems and being unable to sit, stand or walk, I have been unable to test the Kanguru drive with the EFIKA until yesterday for only a couple of minutes. I was extremely disappointed in the results of just trying to copy some files from an Amiga Future CD to the hdd. The USB wireless mouse would not respond while the CD was spinning 90% of the time. So, as soon as I would open a different directory on the CD, I would have to wait until the CD stopped spinning again to select the files I wanted to copy.

I don't understand why it was behaving that way.

strange indeed! I can atleast open the cd and the folder, but i find myself waiting not not annoy the system into locking up. what your are experiencing may just be the usb1.1, I on the other hand can copy to the drive 10% of the time, before it freezes during mid copy, if it doesn't then I get the hour glass processing. The AF33 cd had mortal kombash or something, and i can't get it to cross successfully. could be a large file issue?
On the positive note though the drive isn't slow ..just wish i could play music cd's and burn! wonder how extensive the tests were on usb cd drives?

i find that even my seagate ext drive at times behaves erratically(locks up) when copying to it, but it does copy, after a few tries.

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2008/10/12 20:04 ]

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2008/10/12 20:06 ]

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Probably "not much at all", I guess. Considering how pointless it is.

It has been said many times that due to usb 1.1 speed, it's not really too usable, especially with burning. And with Pegasos (where you could use a PCI USB2 card) it makes even less sense, as you can just plug it to internal IDE bus.

But indeed, there have been some major issues with USB massstorage devices (or rather, with USB support in general), maybe that's your problem? Tried any USB memory sticks btw?

Oh, and as you have problems reading discs, you surely have already looked at poseidon log? It can give some hints about what is wrong (other than slow speed). You can see it at the bottom of USB prefs window.