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TinyTV & Tiny Video Player / Tiny TV converter 1.0.4 on M2 Mac 14.2.1 (23C71) cuts videos to 1.5 hours.

« on: January 30, 2024, 09:45:30 PM »

I think this is a new issue as I was able to make longer videos previously. I tried a few files & a reinstall. They all cut off at 1.5 hours of conversion. I'll try the same files on my PC tomorrow.

I'm trying to load some 5+ hour videos onto my TTV.

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New Product Ideas / Tiny "Retro Cable Box" for CRT televisions.

« on: January 10, 2024, 07:12:25 PM »

I have set up a few 13 inch CRT  televisions as novelty or decor items for my friends. I outfit them with an analog TV converter box with a USB media player. They play old video footage on USB.

The Tiny TV style player would be so much better for these things. Loading up a bank of retro "cable" channels, Startup and go with no menu diving (the menus the analog converters have are difficult to view on small CRT's anyway) and having the channel flipping action like the Tiny TV has would be awesome & nostalgic. My old analog converters work like a media player rather than a retro cable box.

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TinyTV & Tiny Video Player / My TinyTV 2 experience thus far:

« on: January 08, 2024, 02:38:32 PM »

A friend of mine who knows me very well got me this as a gift for Christmas. I love it. It combines my interest in retro stuff, gadgets, hacking, and novelty. 10/10

- I love the static and random start time elements. These really make the device.

I did manage to completely corrupt the original 8gb SD card. I could't get it to work at all. It just glitched out once when I started it up and wouldn't work from that point. I even removed it from the Tiny TV and it won't even register to Format when plugged into anything. I tried both my MacBook and a PC laptop. 

It's OK because I upgraded it to a SanDisk 64gb.

I have upgraded to the latest firmware (as of 1/8/24)

I did a lot of experimenting and I think that videos that are longer than 2 hours only start at the beginning. Hopefully this gets fixed because I really want to create a long music video channel that basically random plays.