Anonimo said:
I am not able to copy certain file types to my MTP media player which is a
Samsung T10.
For example i can't copy Samsung's video (.svi), it will just say the file
type is unsupported.
On a Windwos 7 laptop i can do that tho.
Help
You could be using different versions of Windows Media Player in that case.
The version on Windows 7 might be one version newer, than the one on WinXP.
A really bad workaround would be:
1) Linux apparently supports MTP via libmtp.
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=71325
You could first experiment, and see whether you can sync to the device using Linux.
In that thread, you can see they have primitive abilities to query the device.
It could be some device policy, that makes a difference to this working.
2) Linux can be run within VirtualBox from Oracle/Sun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualbox
Virtualbox allows a guest OS to be run within Windows, in the same way as using VPC2007.
The difference is, you can set up VirtualBox, so it "redirects" a USB device
to the guest OS. This is based on the USB device VID and PID (plug and play info).
By doing that, WinXP can no longer "see" the device, when it is plugged
in and your VirtualBox Linux session are running.
(By the way, I tested VirtualBox on my Windows 7 laptop, and it was
quite difficult to get that USB feature working properly. No problem getting
an OS loaded, but the USB redirection feature wasn't exactly easy. It took
a few tries.)
The process for setting this up would be, to first test whether
Linux works any better at transferring the .svi or not. If booting
a Linux LiveCD native on your computer (so it is the only OS) and
testing it, does not lead to positive results, there is no point
in doing step 2. So you can verify step 1 first, without even
looking at VirtualBox. If Linux gives you the desired level of
control, then you can go back to WinXP, install VirtualBox, and
operate your Linux environment from inside there.
I use VPC2007 a lot on WinXP, but one thing it is missing, is the
ability to interact exclusively with USB devices. VirtualBox, on
the other hand, offers that capability.
MTP as a protocol sucks, when everything you need to do can be done
with USB Mass Storage protocol. And your experience (being denied the
ability to copy any arbitrary file to your device) is a classic
example of why MTP is a bad idea. It's just "DRM in a can".
Paul
