Hi Guys; I'm here for the same reason, how to encode Xvid AVIs to play on this bloody player. There seems to be a generic type of player that many of these are cloned from. They all have similar case and the UI is always nearly the same. The Rockchip decoder seems to be commonly used.
Mine is a Mambo-Flix, and it came with an AVI converter, but it gives you very little in the way of tweaking options. Worse, it produces files around 300-400 MB, which is far too big.
I have been making AVIs to play on my Pocket PC, using very low bitrate 2-pass Xvid, and WMA for the audio at 22k. This works pretty well and a typical movie comes out around 65-75 MB. The picture quality is more than adequate for the small screen. I use V-Dub, as nothing else I've found has enough flexibility to do the job.
Unfortunately, these do not play on the Mambo-Flix. I have tried all sorts of other converters, but all suffer from the same lack of real options. Why would someone leave out the capacity to set the aspect ratio? At most, they let you set it to 16:9, but it's not enough. And the file sizes are still way too big. (200-300 MB)
Does anybody here know of a good solution, or know exactly why these players don't like normal Xvid encodes? Maybe there are tweaks for Xvid which will make it happy and I can still use my Xvid/WMA PPC movies. I make the rash assumption that if the player supports WMA audio, then it should support it as video soundtrack.
Anybody who wants to know how I got V-Dub to allow WMA for the audio codec, I will be happy to tell you. That is the real secret to getting movies below 100 MB. Besides frame decimation and 2-pass encoding.
TIA
Freddy
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