Help with videos

[exemike]

Hi, i got myself a quick 2gig memory card today and want to put some of my movies on it, i have 2 questions


What is a decent converter that i can use?

What settings would run on Universal smooth?


Thanks all

[jumanji1212]

Normally works without converted it, in ac format 1,5Gb of movie it will be played smoothly, if not try google to find some converter bc right now i can´t remember any.

hope this help

regards

[exemike]

thanks a million, some tweaking to the player and im fixed


thanks again mate :D

[exemike]

what you said works, but i have no quality and it keeps sticking my video, any ideas why?

[XTCrefugee]

I went through the various options for this a few months ago. In TCPMP, set the following for best performance:

In Video:
Smooth video (only 50%)
Quality: Normal
Video driver: Intel XScale

In Settings - DirectDraw
Overlay with colorkey

In Settings - Intel XScale
Everything selected

Leave all other video settings off or at the default settings.

Unfortunately, the universal can't manage any video (XviD, MP4 or WMV) I've tried at the native resolution of 640x480 without some serious frame skipping. But it seems to cope well with videos I've encoded for my Archos, which are XviD or DivX, 320x240, and are encoded at 1000 kbps or less. You can use B-Frames (they don't take much processing power and give a significant performance increase), but don't use GMC or Q-Pel.

As for converters/encoders, take your pick. There are loads. Dr DivX is pretty simple to use, but IIRC isn't available any more. Your best bet is to follow one of the guides at doom9.org.

[exemike]

thanks, its ashame my mp cant read it because i prefer the interface on windows media player then core media player aswel as my playlists, thanks again, hope some update for the codecs or something comes out soon

[pug]

Why not try Windows Media Encoder if you are just converting from one format to another (don't know if you can rip DVD, never tried). The built in profiles are good enough for the Uni's screen. To rip from DVD I use IMTOO dvd ripper. Just create a profile as listed above and away you go.....Good luck,Pug

[yarser]

TCPMP+PocketDivxEncoder (http://divx.ppccool.com) ... for the best results!

[mitchwyle@gmail.com]

TCPMP+PocketDivxEncoder (http://divx.ppccool.com) ... for the best results!

Is it better than DrDivx? I have had some good success with DrDivx. The problem is that it wastes some space for the widescreen formats and I would prefer to use every single pixel available. Is there a setting in DrDivx that reformats the movie to fit exactly in the Tornado screen?

[enigma1nz]

Fox Video Converter. Virtually any format with any setting and you can adjust any of the settings to suit yourself. Generally a 700Mb Divx converts into a roughtly 250-300Mb WMV or ASF or whatever you want. Then TCPMP.