Please Help With Regards To Video

[Vimacs]

did you extract both the mencoder.exe and the target.bat in the same folder?

Pocket divx probably chooses a vbr, check if theres a option to set it to cbr.

 

[martymcfly]

Its okay, that media player you recommended plays anything i throw at it.
Pocket divx only gives these options for audio:
Direct audio stream copy
"live" effect
No audio
Audio normalisation (which is ticked by default)

Any ideas? Thanks alot for all of your guidance.

 

[Vimacs]

no sorry, never used that thing.

 

[martymcfly]

Any ideas with what you use?

 

[PokeParadox]

OK I can give a suggestion on what the settings mean:

Direct audio stream copy - This will copy the input audio directly (keep it as AC3 without re-encoding)
"live" effect - I'm guessing this will process sound to sound like it's in an open space (recommend unchecking)
No audio - Obvious
Audio normalisation (which is ticked by default) - I'd untick this. Basically it will normalise the sound to a certain level (generally speaking it makes it quieter)

 

[Vimacs]

i usaly use mencoder, which can be a bit tricky for inexperienced people,
You should try into getting into virtualdub at first, its pretty easy and gives good results.

 

[martymcfly]

Cheers you two, i'm gona use the direct audio stream option: video will be gp2x screen size meaning no scaling is required, and i still get my good quality ac3 sound, and it will all play on the media player i downloaded!
We got there in the end haha, thanks guys.

Edit: worked a treat, can play it in the lowest power mode with no stuttering!

 

[Fishbong]

Well, but then it won´t look as good on the TV screen. However, it´s of course easier and faster to encode the videos to a lower resolution so you don´t have to worry about a high bitrate.

EDIT: Oh blast, i thought you were complaining about the low video quality that Pocketdivx gave you. Should have read the thread more thoroughly. If its only the audio quality, that´s easir to fix than encoding a 720x480 file without having it stuttering on the ´2x.

 

[thumpgun]

i use shampoo shrink and burn 2....

 

[martymcfly]

I have found that the alternate media player will play anything i throw at it, no stuttering. That will be for tv out running off the mains in my gfs.
Otherwise, i use pocketdivx to rescale the video ONLY for the gp2x, and keep the audio at high quality ac3(because it just sounds better).
Now im a happy guy indeed, films 300meg with great sound and video, and the original files now work as well if i need them.