creative zen vision w

schneidz · 10-29-2008, 08:08 PM

hi, i am running fc-9-live-cd. when i plug in my media player it shows an icon on my desktop (Creative Technology, Ltd Creative ZEN Vision W) and when i browse it i see all the video and music files.

the problem is when i drag a video file to my desktop, it creates the file but with 0 bytes (empty file). is there any way to have nautilus (or any software) copy the contents of music or videos to my hard drive ?

here is some info

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]# dmesg | tail
ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
ipw2200: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command.
usb 2-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 2-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 2-5: New USB device found, idVendor=041e, idProduct=4153
usb 2-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 2-5: Product: Creative ZEN Vision W
usb 2-5: Manufacturer: Creative Technology Ltd
usb 2-5: SerialNumber: FD64702065933ACF
[root@localhost ~]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 041e:4153 Creative Technology, Ltd 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

fyi, the location bar in nautilus displays this

Code:

gphoto2://[usb:002,002]/Video/bmw-films

thanks,

schneidz · 11-04-2008, 10:53 PM

i had to install mtpfs

pixellany · 11-06-2008, 08:03 AM

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jschiwal · 11-06-2008, 08:14 AM

How does this device vary from the Vision-M? For the Vision-M, a part of the drive can be reserved as a USB drive. However the files in this area aren't what the player sees. It's just a storage drive.
You can run "mtp-getfile <source>, <destination>" to retrieve files that are in the player part of the drive.

You could try mounting it using mtpfs. I've found that it is a bit flacky because the connection is broken after any file is deleted or moved.

the trooper · 11-06-2008, 12:51 PM

For the Zen vision m i use Gnomad2 for transfering music files to the player.
Also i needed to install the MTP-tools package.
Might be worth trying Gnomad2,i seem to remember it is in the Livna repository....
Although i can't say if this possible while booting from a live cd.

Regards.
The trooper.

schneidz · 11-06-2008, 05:12 PM

yeah, the problem i have now is that the live-usb (the part reserved for usb data) is running the os but then i want to mtp copy music or video so i have to disconnect the usb...

jschiwal · 11-07-2008, 01:48 AM

They are separate and the live-usb portion is at the end. The first part should still be able to be accessed via mtp. Try "mtp-detect".

(note: I'm basing this on my experience with my Vision-M.) You didn't resize the usb drive portion to the full size of the drive?

schneidz · 11-07-2008, 10:19 AM

i'll try it, but my zen vision-w is 32 - gig; the most you could dedicate to usb mass data storage is 16 gig.

i dont think it can see the media files side when in usb hard-drive mode. on the zen-vision-w, i must select 'removable disk' from the menu.