Playing Avis

[modex]

Hi all,

I am very new to the GP32x, in fact Ive only had it a couple of days. Im very impressed, but Ive hit a little snag in that one of the main reasons for purchase was to play my AVI's without conversion. I transferred a bunch of them to a SD card to try out the GP32x, but on many of them I am getting "This format is not supported yet", which was a real shock and disappointment. My firmware version is V3.3.

My question is, is this normal, is there a later firmware or is there an application or additional codecs I can install on the device in order to get these AVI's to play.

I beleive that all my AVI's are either Divx or Xvid, a lot of which I have encoded myself from my DVD's.

Thanks for any help, as Im totally lost on this machine at the moement
cheers

ModeX

 

[Miika]

Firmware V3.3? :huh: GP32x? :blink:
It's GP2X. Try to re-encode the movies. Try with MPEG4 video and MP3 audio codec.

 

[modex]

Firmware V3.3? :huh: GP32x? :blink:
It's GP2X. Try to re-encode the movies. Try with MPEG4 video and MP3 audio codec.

Hi Miika

Sorry, about the facts there, not quite awake, I did mean GP2X and firmware 3.0, sorry about that.
So it looks like I am going to have to re-encode after all. Thats such a shame. I thought, Id be able to just copy what I wanted to watch and it would just work, as its based on Linux and Im very familiar with VLC media player that plays everthing.

Oh well, you cant win them all, looks like I'll have to still lug my laptop around when I travel.

Anyway, thanks for the advice.

Cheers

ModeX

 

[Miika]

Hi, I recommend you the ImTOO video converter, you can select which codec to use for video and audio, and you can at the same time resize it to native GP2X resolution so it takes less space, it is very easy to use! No need to carry a laptop with you if you want to watch movies Just remember next time, MPEG4 and MP3 worked for me. I converted a video to xvid too before, and it worked fine.

 

[stevegb13]

Hi all,

I am very new to the GP32x, in fact Ive only had it a couple of days. Im very impressed, but Ive hit a little snag in that one of the main reasons for purchase was to play my AVI's without conversion. I transferred a bunch of them to a SD card to try out the GP32x, but on many of them I am getting "This format is not supported yet", which was a real shock and disappointment. My firmware version is V3.3.

My question is, is this normal, is there a later firmware or is there an application or additional codecs I can install on the device in order to get these AVI's to play.

I beleive that all my AVI's are either Divx or Xvid, a lot of which I have encoded myself from my DVD's.

Thanks for any help, as Im totally lost on this machine at the moement
cheers

ModeX

Hi,

I'm new too and suffered from the same error. Turns out for me the resolution of the video file exceeds the max for the GP2X.

I have found that by encoding so that the width is always 320 you get a pretty decent play back. Of course if you want the divx to be multi purpose it looks a bit small of my Mac and on the TV a bit low quality.

Regards

Steve

 

[mrsnature]

its well worth re-encoding them anyway, saves tonnes of space! I've found http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/ works well, for a one-step solution.

A shame it didn't just play them, there seems to be a lot of discrepancies between different divx/xvid avis, resolution, sound encoding, codec version no. etc!

 

[Aries]

Try Mp2x, it's a modified version of the internal player, I successfully played avi that didnt worked with the firmware player