PrettyboyTim said:
Hmm - I tried to record my journey home, but the same thing happened as happened on the way in - the camera turned off before I finished my journey, and when I looked on the memory stick later, there was just an .avi file 0 bytes in size.
Any ideas what might be wrong?
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that happened to me a few times, basically it turned off about a couple of minutes in, but for me it still did record what had happened up to the point where it turned off.
Did it beep at the point of turning itself off?
My guess is, either the batteries are low, OR, what I suspect is more likely, that the memory card has become fragmented. Repeated deleting and re-recording will cause it to become fragmented, and if the protocol that writes the captured video recording to the card is fairly low level, then it could stop when it's reached the end of the current 'block' that it's recording to, even if there does happen to be another block somewhere else.
Check the batteries but if they are ok, then format the memory card (as FAT/FAT16 I think) every time you transfer your videos off it onto your computer before putting it back in the camera.
mangatom might confirm or deny this, I could be talking bollocks i don't know but it sounds plausible to me.
Of course, I didn't have this idea soon enough to test it, so assuming you haven't formatted it, it's possible that near to the end of my usage of it it was becoming slightly fragmented, and by the time I passed it on to you, it is now VERY fragmented, which may explain why you are getting zero length files but I got a few minutes.
I haven't formatted the card in all the time I had it. Maybe you could give this a try? but check the batteries first.
let us know how it goes?