MediaMVP and Pre-recorded Video's

[Woodrow Collins]

Thanks for all the info! So far I am tinkering with various settings using the ffmpeg line give earlier in the thread. Since the MediaMVP has so much problems with anything other than MPG I believe I have decided to put an old xbox in my childrens room and convert all the cartoons to divx and have the xbox play the divx files and then encode all the parent video's into MPEG's for storage. But as I mentioned earlier I am still tinkering with various video settings etc so I may end up going all MPEG. I was afraid of something like this mainly cause I have probably a good 500+ episodes of various cartoons recorded and all converted into DivX format and to go back and re-encode them all into MPEG probably is not going to happen.

But once again thanks for all the help! If you guys have any more suggestings let me know.

[zehd]

Thanks for all the info! So far I am tinkering with various settings using the ffmpeg line give earlier in the thread. Since the MediaMVP has so much problems with anything other than MPG I believe I have decided to put an old xbox in my childrens room and convert all the cartoons to divx and have the xbox play the divx files and then encode all the parent video's into MPEG's for storage. But as I mentioned earlier I am still tinkering with various video settings etc so I may end up going all MPEG. I was afraid of something like this mainly cause I have probably a good 500+ episodes of various cartoons recorded and all converted into DivX format and to go back and re-encode them all into MPEG probably is not going to happen.

But once again thanks for all the help! If you guys have any more suggestings let me know.

You could probably batch transcode the AVIs to MVP MPGs

ZProcess uses a queue system. I may have to tweak it a bit better, to maybe take directory recursion into account, but transcoding 500 vids should be painless once the automation gets worked out...

[Woodrow Collins]

You could probably batch transcode the AVIs to MVP MPGs

ZProcess uses a queue system. I may have to tweak it a bit better, to maybe take directory recursion into account, but transcoding 500 vids should be painless once the automation gets worked out...

Yea I planned on writing some vbscripts to automate most of everything once I get all the processes worked out for what I am trying to do and were all the files I want to store goes. Writing something like that wont be very hard.

[SuMo]

Keeping in mind what Sub and the others said about transcoding back and forth I do understand why you wanted DivX for catoons, my kids collection keeps growing also, started out with SVCD mpeg2 files I kept changing/adding drives every 6 months, so the divx encoding made it all a bit easier.

I've got no clue why it's not working on your setup since I'm also using DivX for the kids stuff but my system is way less powerfull than yours
and yes.... it takes about 6 seconds between hitting play on the RC and the movie starts to play but the kids got used to that.
The only times DivX movies didn't play and crashed the MVP is when they were full screen, so I had them all downsized to 512x320 (PAL) 1000 kbps and audio mp3 128kbps.
I also changed the ffmpeg command line to the same dimentions so the files that are being transcoded on the fly don't have to be "resized". Not sure if this really helps but since I've changed this all movies are in sync (before about 25% wasn't)

Did you get the audio playback sorted out ? Can the two be related since they both use MP3 as audioformat.

[Woodrow Collins]

Keeping in mind what Sub and the others said about transcoding back and forth I do understand why you wanted DivX for catoons, my kids collection keeps growing also, started out with SVCD mpeg2 files I kept changing/adding drives every 6 months, so the divx encoding made it all a bit easier.

I've got no clue why it's not working on your setup since I'm also using DivX for the kids stuff but my system is way less powerfull than yours
and yes.... it takes about 6 seconds between hitting play on the RC and the movie starts to play but the kids got used to that.
The only times DivX movies didn't play and crashed the MVP is when they were full screen, so I had them all downsized to 512x320 (PAL) 1000 kbps and audio mp3 128kbps.
I also changed the ffmpeg command line to the same dimentions so the files that are being transcoded on the fly don't have to be "resized". Not sure if this really helps but since I've changed this all movies are in sync (before about 25% wasn't)

Did you get the audio playback sorted out ? Can the two be related since they both use MP3 as audioformat.

I havent even attempted to get back around to the MP3 problem I was having. Completly slipped my mind. My issue with the DivX might be similar to yours. Can you post your ffmpeg line so I can see what options you are using to encode the video's to DivX? Like I mentioned earlier in the post I use just the plain old DivX converter that came with there package to handle most the conversion but even trying to use other programs like virtualdub my settings obviously aren't working.

[zehd]

Keeping in mind what Sub and the others said about transcoding back and forth I do understand why you wanted DivX for catoons, my kids collection keeps growing also, started out with SVCD mpeg2 files I kept changing/adding drives every 6 months, so the divx encoding made it all a bit easier.

I've got no clue why it's not working on your setup since I'm also using DivX for the kids stuff but my system is way less powerfull than yours
and yes.... it takes about 6 seconds between hitting play on the RC and the movie starts to play but the kids got used to that.
The only times DivX movies didn't play and crashed the MVP is when they were full screen, so I had them all downsized to 512x320 (PAL) 1000 kbps and audio mp3 128kbps.
I also changed the ffmpeg command line to the same dimentions so the files that are being transcoded on the fly don't have to be "resized". Not sure if this really helps but since I've changed this all movies are in sync (before about 25% wasn't)

Did you get the audio playback sorted out ? Can the two be related since they both use MP3 as audioformat.

Hmmm. Gotta ask even though it's off topic... You're saying that if the source and destination is the same dimensions, (assuming the output dimension is one that the MVP can play) your on-the-fly transcode stays in sync! That's fantastic....

[SuMo]

Hmmm. Gotta ask even though it's off topic... You're saying that if the source and destination is the same dimensions, (assuming the output dimension is one that the MVP can play) your on-the-fly transcode stays in sync! That's fantastic....

I know don't play with ff/rew though !

[zehd]

I know don't play with ff/rew though !

Well that's easy. EVERYONE CAN DO THAT!. My car runs great too. Just don't drive it...

[SuMo]

I havent even attempted to get back around to the MP3 problem I was having. Completly slipped my mind. My issue with the DivX might be similar to yours. Can you post your ffmpeg line so I can see what options you are using to encode the video's to DivX? Like I mentioned earlier in the post I use just the plain old DivX converter that came with there package to handle most the conversion but even trying to use other programs like virtualdub my settings obviously aren't working.

Sorry I think I wasn't clear on that one, I don't use the divx converter that came with gbpvr, I'm using the "normal" divx converter, the "pocketDivxencoder" or virtual dub depending on the output I need.

They all support batch encoding.

I'll let you know what settings I'm using, keeps me wondering though if the audio problem isn't related to the divx problem you're having.

[SuMo]

Well that's easy. EVERYONE CAN DO THAT!. My car runs great too. Just don't drive it...

Ah here we go again, why is everybody always compairing things with cars ?
My car runs fine to, but not for 5 minutes in reverse........it gets out of sync with the cooling :p