Videos with Rockbox/OF

[saxmaster765]

Do playing videos through Rockbox have any advantages over the original firmware, things such as sound quality, video quality, size, and most of all, un-syncing of the sound from the video?

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[skip252]

WinFF will convert for Rockbox. Use the Rockbox e200 setting. video4fuze works nicely for me for the OF.

Why don't you convert a few vids and let us know what your conclusions are?

[natabus]

Of course, Rockbox needs the videos to be MPEG2, rather than the (I think) mpg4 format used by the Sansa firmware.

I have had good luck converting just about any video format into standard MPEG-2 files with Media Coder, which is free and at...

http://www.mediacoderhq.com/index.htm

Be aware, Media Coder is a powerful multi-use tool, so there are lots of features and a little bit of a learning curve. It took me an hour or so of fiddling before I got good output.

Best results for me have been when output file is

Format: MPEG2,
Container: MPEG2

Video: resize to 220 X 176
Frame rate: 25.000

I haven't had a problem with audio sync. My presumption is that some people's problems with audio sync are because of bad conversions, or having too high a resolution and frame rate, and bogging the processor.

My most typical application is to convert various podcast music videos which are usually MP4's... though I have also converted various Xvid (divx) content.

Originally Posted by saxmaster765

Do playing videos through Rockbox have any advantages over the original firmware, things such as sound quality, video quality, size, and most of all, un-syncing of the sound from the video?

[saxmaster765]

Well, this answered my un-asked question of how to get video in the right size for it.

Thanks.