[Eeglablist] FW: [EXTERNAL] JAVA exception while trying to import EGI/Philips MFF format file

Wed Feb 26 15:52:09 PST 2020

Hi Jeff,

Yes dropbox is fine.
Thanks Jeff,

Arno

> On Feb 26, 2020, at 5:27 PM, Eriksen, Jeff :LGS Neurodiagnostics <JEriksen at LHS.ORG> wrote:
> 
> Hi Arno,
> 
> What method would work for you? Dropbox? I will create a small MFF file and post. I will send the link to your email, not the list I presume.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Delorme, Arnaud <adelorme at ucsd.edu> 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:39 AM
> To: Eriksen, Jeff :LGS Neurodiagnostics <JEriksen at LHS.ORG>
> Cc: eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: [Eeglablist] FW: [EXTERNAL] JAVA exception while trying to import EGI/Philips MFF format file
> 
> Dear Jeff,
> 
> Could you send us the data file?
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Arno
> 
>> On Feb 25, 2020, at 5:42 PM, Eriksen, Jeff :LGS Neurodiagnostics <JEriksen at LHS.ORG> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi again,
>> 
>> No one responded to my email of Feb 7. Any EGI/Philips MFF file format users out there?
>> I am now using v3.0 of MFFMatlabIO, no improvement, same error.
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -Jeff
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: eeglablist <eeglablist-bounces at sccn.ucsd.edu> On Behalf Of 
>> Eriksen, Jeff :LGS Neurodiagnostics
>> Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2020 5:32 PM
>> To: EEGLAB List <eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu>
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Eeglablist] JAVA exception while trying to import 
>> EGI/Philips MFF format file
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have not used EEGlab for several years. I am now using an older EGI NA200 system, 256 channels, running NetStation 4.3 to acquire data. I use another computer with NetStation 4.5 to convert the native files to MFF format. When I tried to import one of these using File:Import data:Using EEGLAB...:Import Philips .mff file, I get this message:
>> 
>> JAVA exception occurred
>> [4 lines of JAVA details] (cannot copy and paste this text) Error 
>> occurred in function mff_importevents() at line 62
>> 
>> And here is the command window output:
>> 
>> clear
>> eeglab
>> Some menus items hidden. Use Preference menu to show them all.
>> eeglab: options file is C:\Users\jeriksen\eeg_options.m Retrieving plugin versions from server...
>> Retreiving download statistics...
>> EEGLAB: adding "ICLabel" v1.2.4 (see >> help eegplugin_iclabel) - new 
>> version 1.1 available
>> WARNING: for plugin "MFFMatlabIO" version in the folder name "2.01" 
>> and in the eegplugin_ file "2.02" differ
>> EEGLAB: adding "MFFMatlabIO" v2.01 (see >> help eegplugin_mffmatlabio) 
>> - new version 3.0 available
>> EEGLAB: adding "clean_rawdata" v2.0 (see >> help 
>> eegplugin_clean_rawdata) - new version 2.1 available
>> EEGLAB: adding "dipfit" v3.3 (see >> help eegplugin_dipfit)
>> EEGLAB: adding "firfilt" v2.4 (see >> help eegplugin_firfilt) - new version 2.3 available You are using the latest version of EEGLAB.
>> Make sure you call this function with the full MFF ressource path name 
>> ****** Signal Block Version Number: 1 Signal Block Data Size: 4210688 
>> Signal Block Header size. 2100 Number of Signals: 257 Signal Block 
>> Samples: 4096 Sample Rate: 1000 Signal Depth: 32
>> ---------------------------------
>> Optional Header type: 1
>> Optional Header number of blocks total: 170 Optional Header number of 
>> Samples total: 693273 Optional Header number of Signals: 257
>> ------------------------------------------
>> eeg_checkset note: upper time limit (xmax) adjusted so (xmax-xmin)*srate+1 = number of frames Calibrating data...
>> MFF Version: 3
>> File's Recording Time: 2019-12-20T16:01:45.852000-08:00 Coordinate acquisition Time: 2006-04-28T15:32:00.000000-08:00 Coordinate acquisition Method: An Average of Many Data Sets Coordinate Layout Name: HydroCel GSN 256 1.0 Note for expert users: Nose direction is now set from '+Y' to default +X in EEG.chanlocs [Fatal Error] Events_DIN_1.xml:11:26: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
>> 
>> MFFRootDoc: error: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/D:/Research/StudyData/Sorg%202019_1220/Session%202019_1220_1522.mff/Events_DIN_1.xml; lineNumber: 11; columnNumber: 26; Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.
>> 
>> My JAVA heap is 2.013 MB.
>> Matlab is v9.6/R2019a.
>> EEGlab is v2019.1
>> 
>> Any suggestions on what I might do next to troubleshoot this problem?
>> 
>> -Jeff Eriksen
>> 
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