glms: understood, I wouldn't spend money not knowing if it works either. Fortunately, the one I mentioned has a demo ;-)
When I first tried to set up my players, I noticed, like you, that these players can be incredibly picky. I suspect that the ones you've made with the right size had something else incorrect, Quite possible an audio setting. One of my players wants the audio onlt as mp3, 128Kbps, 441000 setting for sampling. The other player wants "mp2" (mpga), 96Kbps, 41000. That second one would play the video from the first, but no sound. The first would play absolutely nothing formatted for the second. Maddening!
To set up my converter, I played the working test piece in VLC. Using the information menu item, I noted the size, the codecs for the streams, the bitrate for each stream, the sampling for the audio, pretty much every bit of info there.
When I then set up a custom profile, I plugged all those values in and let it rip. The output worked like a charm.
I just tried, and I was able to create a video resolution of 176x220 using the "custom" option. If you want to give it a go, I'd be happy to answer any questions about settings on that app for you.
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