Watching Videos On The Wiz

[blueshift]

I went to watch some Xvid AVI files that were around 170MB in size and 490x368 and while the audio played the picture kept getting really blocky and weird. I'm assuming it's because I didn't encode the videos down to the Wiz's native resolution of 320x240.

I hate looking around and trying a whole bunch of different video encoders. What's a good video encoder for Linux that'll let me quickly and easily encode video files? The more lightweight the better, as I don't need all of the features of a full video editing application.

 

[Yorper]

I find handbrake to be pretty simple and easy to use. You can grab it at the link below.

Hope it helps...

http://handbrake.fr/

 

[blueshift]

I find handbrake to be pretty simple and easy to use. You can grab it at the link below.

Hope it helps...

http://handbrake.fr/

I used that app awhile ago on OSX, but forgot about it. I didn't realize there were non-OSX versions, thanks. It's a great app.

I think that has something to do with Xvid sucking rather than it not being encoded. Because I watched a video of the same length that was in much higher quality (about 2x the resolution) today and it ran completely fine, and it was encoded using Divx.

 

[Yorper]

Your problem most likely was due to poor encoding techniques by whomever did the video. But it doesnt hurt to re-encode everything down to the resolution of the wiz, saves alot of SD space but it just takes some time. Hope you don't mind the waiting