Help with external SD card.

[emil_maiden]

i unzipped tomplayer_v0.131 into tomtom root (not extern sd card)
and now i want to open videos and musics from a extern SD card.

how should i do?

[wolfgar]

Please read :

http://tomplayer.net/wiki/doku.php?id=en:doc

and this topic which describes similar pb :

http://www.tomplayer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=136

If you cant get it to work after these readings, then come back and ask again...

[emil_maiden]

Please read :

http://tomplayer.net/wiki/doku.php?id=en:doc

and this topic which describes similar pb :

http://www.tomplayer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=136

If you cant get it to work after these readings, then come back and ask again...

i cant get it to work i want it to read the videos and my music from my external SD card.

[wolfgar]

Edit tomplayer.ini :
video_dir=/mnt/movinand/video
audio_dir=/mnt/movinand/audio

[emil_maiden]

i already doing that, i cant find the program on my tomtom.

i have a TomTom One XL

[wolfgar]

OK !
On ONE XL you cannot use the external card at the same time than the internal one. But you have to use it instead of the internal !
This is a limit of your hardware. (only GO support concurrent use of the two cards)
Maybe the stand alone image is the solution you are looking after (it enables to have tomplayer on an dedicated external card) ?

[emil_maiden]

its working now But the movie is Lagging :S

Thanks

[wolfgar]

OK it is working by having the files on the same card isn't it ?
For lagging : try other encodings parameters : XL are not so fast and cannot handle high bitrate...

[emil_maiden]

yes it working, i putt everything on the external SD card.

Thanks for the help

[wolfgar]

happy to hear it
you re welcome

[Keith Beef]

Hello, Wolfgar.

I found your Tomplayer when I went looking for a way to play OGG music files on my Tomtom 920.

Here is how I installed the application.

1 - I put a 1GB SD card into the Tomtom slot.
2 - I downloaded the ZIP archive to my Windows XP laptop and unpacked it.
3 - I connected the Tomtom to the computer and quit Tomtom Home.
4 - I copied the whole of the tomplayer directory to the SD card, and copied the SDKRegistry to the root of the Tomtom internal memory.

Now, when I start up my Tomtom, I can go to a fourth screen and see a Tomplayer icon.
When I had copied the two files from the SDKRegistry folder into the root of the internal memory without the folder, this fourth screen did not appear.

I've read the different descriptions for installing on the internal memory and on an SD card, and I was still a little confused by the terminology... especially references to /mnt/movinand and to /mnt/sdcard. It seems like:

1 - /mnt/movinand refers to the removable storage (i.e., SD card)
2 - /mnt/sdcard refers to the internal memory.

On the Windows laptop, these show up as external drives H: and I: respectively.

So when I modified the configuration files taking these assumptions into consideration, Tomplayer worked correctly.

H:tomplayerconf looks like this:

[general]
loading = ./skins/loading.bmp
exiting = ./skins/exiting.bmp
filter_video = ^.*.(mpeg|mpg|avi)$
filter_audio = ^.*.(mp3|ogg)$
video_dir = /mnt/movinand/mp3
audio_dir = /mnt/movinand/xvid
screen_saver_to = 10
fm_transmitter = 0

[video_skin]
filename = ./skins/video/video_blue.zip

[audio_skin]
filename = ./skins/audio/audio_blue.zip

I:SDKRegistry looks like this:

Version|100|
AppName|tomplayergui.sh|
AppPath|/mnt/movinand/tomplayer/|
AppIconFile|tomplayer.bmp|
AppMainTitle|tomplayer|
AppPort|2001|
COMMAND|CMD||tomplayer.bmp|tomplayer|


So far, this is great. I've listened to a few tracks of music, to verify that OGG files now play correctly. I don't have a prepared video file to test.

But is there any way to listen to an OGG file while using the navigation software at the same time, like it is possible to listen to an MP3 file while using the navigation software?


Keith.

[wolfgar]

Nice to read you have managed to install tomplayer in the navigation menu...
I know that installing tomplayer this way is quite confusing especially with the two different mount points (movinand and sdcard).
Besides, it does not behave the same according to the TT series (we never have movinand on the ONE series), that 's partly because of this mess that i promote the standalone version (even if i understand that some users prefer to use the integrated version)

Anyway, let's come back to your question : I'm sorry but there is no way to listen to ogg file with tomplayer while using navigation (there is an audio resource share issue that i have not been able to solve)

[costez]

OK !
On ONE XL you cannot use the external card at the same time than the internal one. But you have to use it instead of the internal !
This is a limit of your hardware. (only GO support concurrent use of the two cards)
Maybe the stand alone image is the solution you are looking after (it enables to have tomplayer on an dedicated external card) ?

Hi Wolfgar (and everybody).
I have the same problem with an SD card. What "the stand alone image" exactly means?
I have a TT One XL ver. 8.016.
Many thanks

[wolfgar]

Hi costez,

I call standalone image , the use of tomplayer on a dedicated sdcard : when you copy the whole distrib folder including my ttsystem on this dedicated sdcard...
Then when you boot from thi ssdcard tomplayer boots directly...

Regards,

Stephan

[costez]

Hi costez,

I call standalone image , the use of tomplayer on a dedicated sdcard : when you copy the whole distrib folder including my ttsystem on this dedicated sdcard...
Then when you boot from thi ssdcard tomplayer boots directly...

Regards,

Stephan

Thanks for your reply.
Actually that's what I had previously done but it didn't work: at boot, the splash screen started moving quickly up and down and after some seconds TT swirched off.
Since I had used an old SD card, I thought it could be a problem of compatibility, so today a bought a new Toshiba 2Gb card, I followed your instructions but nothing changed.
Any idea?
Thank again
costez