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Guest flashfodder
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I've been a busy boy since I unlocked my phone. Thanks to those who replied on my previous posts. In the end, I used the info on the http://www.orangesp.co.uk. When I did, it worked first time. I then did my brothers & his worked first time as well!

I was feeling quite pleased with myself so I started filling up my 128 card. I got PocketMVP & 3 emulators. Now I got them, I'm getting frustrated all over again. You see.. I'm in new teritory here... Give me an AS400 or an NT Server or stuff like that & I'm your man! Gimme de/encoding for the Dix player & getting roms to work on the emulators & I'm totally lost!

Anyway... I have a coupla questions & I hope someone here can answer them..

My first is with converting Mpegs & avi's so I can watch them on my phone. I have a test mpeg called Ice Egg that I'm using. The original file is 1.85mb. No matter what I do, when I convert the file to 5.0.3, I can't get it below 13.2mb. I'm currently using VirtualDub & Divx Pro configuration. I noticed one of the problems is I can't get it to go mono! any ideas anyone on how I get this file down to at least the same size as the mpeg?

The other question I have is with the emulators. I've downloaded GNUboy, scummvm & PocketSNES. I've also downloaded roms for each of these in the form of .SBI's. I've copied these files to the same place as there relevant programs on my SD card. I've now tried opening each emulator but they don't detect the games. In fact, GNUboy even freezes.

I don't understand why it doesn't pick the roms up straight away. Does anyone know why?

Guest spacemonkey
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Not sure what you mean when you say you've got the files as .SBI's.

GnuBoy needs files called .gb and .gbc, PocketSnes needs files called .smc or .fig. Gnuboy probably hasn't frozen, I presume it's come up with a white screen with nothing in there. This is because it is not finding any roms. If you press the action button (middle of the joystick) it will select no-rom, and then exit cleanly.

As to virtual dub etc. Apparently divx 5.03 doesn't work with PocketMVP, you need to get the older divx 5.02 (I think it might be on www.monolithix.org). If you can't get the file to a smaller size, I am wondering, you presumably on the video menu have chosen full processing mode, gone to compression and picked divx and done some settings. Also on the video menu go filters, choose a resize filter and make it smaller for the spv screen (ie 176 x 220).

Maybe you are putting the audio in uncompressed? (This makes the audio portion of the clip very big). On the audio menu, pick full processing and again choose compression and pick/configure something in there.

Is any of this helpful?

For further information check the threads relevant to each product (ie PocketMVP/divx, gnuboy, pocketsnes) as they have a lot of detail covering all these points.

I imagine monolithix will be locking this thread soon :)

Guest Monolithix [MVP]
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Please take a look down the forum page or try a search and you'll see there plenty of threads offering tips for your problems, contiune with them for more help.

For encoding see these two, both in the top half of the software page:

http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=3850

http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=3590

You also may need to downgrade to Dvx 5.02.

edit: get it here: http://www.monolithix.org/DivX502Bundle.exe

For help with the GNUboy, see:

http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=3631

You need to give the files specific extensions (can't remember off the top of my head....), which are described in the above thread. Spacemonkey's site on the first page also has full instructions.

Hope this helps

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edit- (beat me to answering spacemonkey while i was digging out those links ;p)

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