Problems Encoding Movies

[TheCodeMan]

Is it just me or is it incredibly difficult to get movie playing correctly on a GP32? Don't get me wrong, I love my GP32 and bought it primarily for emulation. I now would like to experiment with movies. I have been ripping the same movie over and over several times for the past week and it seems every time, something goes wrong. I've read all the guides, and I'm going with (I think) the fairly standard settings of decimate by 2 and use V-Dub 1.4 and set Div-x 4.12 with bit rate of 256k. I am using 1 pass because imho when downsampling a movie to be viewed on the Gamepark, it seems like a complete waste of time to run 2 pass when the results aren't that much different.

The problems for me are in trying to play the d@mn files on my Gamepark. All of my rips turn out fine and play fine on my PC. When I copy them to my card for playback on GPCinema, I get mixed results. Sometimes the movie will start, and then crash several minutes later. Sometimes the GP will crash when starting GPCinema. I've tried everything I can think of. I have an external memory reader as well as a PCMCIA reader. I format all my cards using the GP Link method. I then use one of the readers to transfer my files. Occasionaly, after the crashes, I get bad blocks on the card, and have to reformat and start all over. I have yet to be able to watch a complete movie and it has become quite frustrating. Could it be the memory cards I am using? Dane 128mbs

Anyway, it seems that if the correct settings are used, and the bitrates defined correctly, you should be able to playback on the GP at default Cinema speed of 100 with no problems. It just hasn't worked that way for me.

Any suggestions would be more than welcome.

 

[lurch]

Sorry but I aint come across any of the problems you are having.The only real difference is that I put the bitrate to 80-100.Dunno if this would make a difference but it might be worth a try.Another thought is you have some sort of hardware/software problem as gp cinema has never corrupted my memory cards or even crashed (apart from when my batterys get low).Have you had any problems with other software?

 

[Dozer]

Sorry but I aint come across any of the problems you are having.The only real difference is that I put the bitrate to 80-100.Dunno if this would make a difference but it might be worth a try.Another thought is you have some sort of hardware/software problem as gp cinema has never corrupted my memory cards or even crashed (apart from when my batterys get low).Have you had any problems with other software?

doesnt a low bitrate like that look a bit crap? iv never tried that low. what sort of stuff do u do? like cartoons or films or what?

 

[lurch]

Cartoons and films-Even though the quality goes down you tend not to notice when you shrink the screen down to 320 X 240.try it-I shrank a 700 meg movie down to 70 meg using a low bitrate.