Best format for video playback?

[dhausle]

:confused: Any recommendations on the best format or methods for video playback of long files from the memory card. I'm trying to put one hour programs or movies on the 770 and play them. I've got room on my 2gb card but no good results yet.
Short clips are hit and miss. Long clips, no success yet.

Suggestions??

[tirabosco]

mplayer
Just look for info on the forums here for threads about mplayer and here are some of my bookmarks about it.
http://mplayer.garage.maemo.org/
http://mplayer.garage.maemo.org/maemo-options.html
http://www.internettablettalk.com/wiki/index.php/Multimedia:Converting_videos_to_Nokia_770_format

Bye, tira.

[becksvector]

I have encoded lots of longish titles south park etc. but I am finding the audio out of sync any ideas?

[Serge]

I have encoded lots of longish titles south park etc. but I am finding the audio out of sync any ideas?
Reporting a bug maybe?

If you decide to report a bug, providing detailed information is very important. For example knowing whether you are using default nokia 770 player or mplayer is critical. You should also include the information about what software was used for encoding video and its settings. Also some description about the steps needed to reproduce the problem would really help.

Anyway, until the bug is known to developers, chances that it will get magically fixed itself are pretty low :)

[dhausle]

Can't seem to get media player to boot up on my desktop (where my video is stored). Downloaded fine.... seemed to install fine but now I can't find any icon that will launch it. All the icons take me to the zipped media player.

Possible problems/: very low free memory, old Java and install X versions (difficulty installing new)

Any thoughts....solutions???

[gigabites]

I hated getting video to work. Often it was very cryptic or long drawn out cli methodologies to accomplish what is a simple task.

i have full movies and tv eps playing on both the crappy internal player and the less crappy but still crappy mPlayer.

using a windows box:
- get gspot(it's free) http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
- transfer from your 770 the video "Discovery.avi"
- put vid in gspot
- then get Super (it's free) http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
- drop any video you want into super, and match as close as possible the setting you see on gspot.
- encode. upload to 770 and enjoy

I tried the nokia media converter, it's crap and video either looked horrid or went out of sync after 30 mins. That is if it even played at all "video not supported" was a common error on the crappy video player.

so to review,
Discovery.avi = known video that works
Gspot = find out what settings Discovery.avi uses
Super = free video converter
2gig card = full of crap to watch

yes folks, it's that easy.

[SeRi@lDiE]

I use DVDCatalyst for all my encoding... never had any issues... One thing it is not free.

[bac522]

I use avidemux, nice programs works on m$-windows and linux

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/