Guest MrSpoons Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 don't know if I'm doing anything wrong but I can't get a picture out of this. It runs ok, picks up my converted Divx file (using 5.02 and virtualdub as in the instructions) then the screen goes white or black and I can hear the sound but I get no picture any ideas?
Guest akarno Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 don't know if I'm doing anything wrong but I can't get a picture out of this. It runs ok, picks up my converted Divx file (using 5.02 and virtualdub as in the instructions) then the screen goes white or black and I can hear the sound but I get no picture any ideas? I am getting the same problem even though I have swapped back from 5.03 to 5.02. I am going to look into this today, but I suspect it is to do with the codecs and filters I have loaded. Any ideas welcome. Is there any chance of support for Divx 5.03?
Guest stu_lowe2003 Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 if you are just getting a white/black screen then one thing to check is the number of passes you are doing when encoding the file. If it is set to 2 pass, make sure you encode the first pass (in the video ==> compression, options in virtualdub) then change it to do the second. If you only do the first you will get a blank screen and some sound. Test the video on your pc first, if it won't play on that then something is wrong in your encoding settings. This guide is useful, it is really for the pocketpc version, but some of the stuff is useful for the smartphone version. http://www.pocketmatrix.com/guides/dvd2div...ivx/#converting Just make sure to decimate by 2 or 3 when encoding and also change the keyframeinterval setting to 12, seems to help.
Guest DJHope Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 OMG this is about 50x better than any windows media s*it just used the decimate by 3, turned the sound bit rate down and it runs PERFECTLY! Thank you people! Starwars EP2 never looked so good :) DJ Hope
Guest MrSpoons Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 still can't get it to work even on 1-pass :) the files work fine on the pc where's the best place to put the files? i've dropped everything on Storage Card
Guest procalli Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 Yes it is full screen in landscape mode. Brilliant. Only problem is the backlight going off but is miles better than the media player.
Guest akarno Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 I'm also still having problems with getting sound but no picture. The sample I encoded plays fine on the PC but not the phone. When I download the sample someone posted it works fine on both the PC and the phone so it must be something to do with the codec I am using to encode. I have tried Divx 4.12, 5.02 and 5.03 but get the same result. Anyone got any other ideas I could try.
Guest MrSpoons Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 finally sorted it out, deleted the registry key (found it by searching on MVP) and reinstalled the software on the phone. Everything I've encoded works fine after that. Top work
Guest amo Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 which reg key did u delete to get it to work?
Guest MrSpoons Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 deleted the whole registry entry for the software, it reinstalls it next time it runs
Guest stillwaiting Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 Can anyone help, when i try to open a file (avi) i end up getting 'Error loading file reader'- any help would be greatly appreciated.
Guest casper508 Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 Can anyone help, when i try to open a file (avi) i end up getting  'Error loading file reader'- any help would be greatly appreciated. Same here. But in my case the phone died after diaplaying the error message and I had to restart. BUT guess what...it did a hard reset on its own. Now i'm going thru the decert procedure again. I hope i get it first time. Wish me luck! :wink: Cas
Guest kevlar Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 Where do you place this program and where do you place the avi files?. I can't find any instructions ( in english ) in fact I cant even find where I downloaded this from. :cry: , well it's been a long day!! Kevlar
Guest damianlewis Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 The instructions are on this thread, but here goes again: Copy all the PocketMPV files to Storage CardProgram FilesPDivx Create a shortcut to PocketMPV exe and place in IPSMWindowsStart Menu Rename you movie file to test.avi and copy to Storage Card Run the player and select File->Open->File(AVI) The movie plays automatically. I had the same problem reported above with the phone locking up and rebooting itself. Completely trashed my phone and had to decert, restore, etc. It appears to happen if you have too much stuff stored on your phone (vs. Storage Card) and not enough memory to run the movie properly. Buyer beware! Cheers, Damian
Guest casper508 Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 Same here. But in my case the phone died after diaplaying the error message and I had to restart. BUT guess what...it did a hard reset on its own. Now i'm going thru the decert procedure again. I hope i get it first time. Wish me luck! :wink: Cas Second time lucky ! But it works PUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRFECT! Just one prob now: 128SD is too small for a good quality movie! :) Cas
Guest Speedy Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 So how much does a full length movie take up of space using virtual dub? Think i will have a try when i get my 256 sd tomorrow, cant wait :)
Guest malloc Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 Has I said previously in this thread, I'll release the next version after this weekend. I'll try to fix some bugs, and add new features (like a small file explorer, a config dialog, and a seek). I've never seen the HardReset bug on my SPV (and honestly, I don't see what's causing this, I hope I'll find this one quickly...) malloc
Guest Ed Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 It's looking superb. Especially for an early build. If a future version can manage 22khz audio with 15+fps without dropping frames we'll have something very watchable indeed. My compliments to the chef.
Guest kevlar Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 This is superb! as someone else said it is 50 times better than media player. I have 2 problems with encoding though. I converted a movie which was in widescreen, obviously resizing has made everyone 6 foot 5 and 7 stone!. So how do you crop the fram so the size is correct but you don't lose the aspect ratio? The other problem is the audio, the settings mentioned in the tutorial are not there for me, I had to select 16khz mono, instead of 11 something. This obviously results in a slightly larger file size. Why haven't I got those settings? I'm using divx 5.02. cheers Kevlar
Guest Speedy Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 has anyone encoded at full length movie with virtual dub, how big is it??
Guest casper508 Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 has anyone encoded at full length movie with virtual dub, how big is it?? Not a whole movie but a 24 min episode of friends took 28 meg. So roughly its a 1.2 meg/min ratio. Cas
Guest kevlar Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 I encoded Bridget Jones's Diary, which is 1 hr 36 mins came out at 92 MB!, it did have the audio set at 16khz though. It's definately worth the extra filesize over wma, it looks superb, none of that juddering every few seconds. Kevlar
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