Video chop??

Ok sounds strange.

I've recently aquired a new MP4 player (unbranded, of course), and I was up to converting some vids; where i noticed something strange.

My player is 128 X 128, which is what i'm converting my vids to, but I saw on the player that the right most part of the video was missing. So i tried verifying it with the amv player, and saw that the problem's in the coversion, and it happens there too.

What's effectively happening is that the rightmost 1/6 th part of the video is being chopped off when i convert it to 128 X 128. Is this a known bug in the conversion tool, or am i missing something?

Thanks,
Don

[admin]

Don,

What happens when you convert it with 128 x 96 resolution instead?

Try also downloading our sample .AMV files from our site as well and see how they play on your player. Have a look here: http://www.mympxplayer.com/dload.php...gory&cat_id=11

Tell me what happens when you play our samples on your player. They are converted with 128 x 96 resolution.

Thanx Mr. Admin,

Well, firstly I'm not sure you got the problem right. The player doesn't even come into question. All I do is convert a .avi file to .amv file @ 128 X 128, and just play it with the AMV player. Both the converter & player are downloaded from this site. And the video is chopped; so is there a solution to that?

And I tried the 128 X 96, and there's no chop! It's perfect, just that there's two black patches at the top and bottom, when i play it on my player. So that resolution is no good.

Thanks again,
Don

Don,

Try uninstalling, then reinstall amvtools. Which version do you have?
Please post results.


Iridium

Well,

Thanx Iridium. I tried reinstalling the tools, and it's no good. Version 3.68, but i see that 4.00 is out, I will try and out and post later

..try that* out and post later :-P

Ok,

Back on it.. Well, i tried converter tool 4.00, and it's still the same. In fact, I just cannot see how others are not having this problem, as it is happening at the conversion level, and not at the player level.

Let me detail out what I do. I first run my standard mpeg video, with resolution say, 350X280, through Open Video Converter (http://www.008soft.com/products/open..._converter.htm), which saves the result as a .avi file, with a customizable frame rate, which I choose 12Hz. This entire deal is done so as to avoid the jumps or jerks in the video after conversion.

The resulting file is fed to amv convertor, which converts the 350X280@12Hz avi file to an 128X128@12Hz amv file. Now this file has a verticle strip at the rightmost part chopped. And before you ask, if I skip the frame rate conversion, it's not any better. It's both jerky and chopped!

I'd really like people to try out conversion, by looking closely at the source and final videos and tell me if there's no chopping happening.

Thanx,
Don

[admin]

Don

Have you tried VirtualDub to resize and change the frame rate of your video file instead?

Hey,

I did try virtual Dub, but that software's operation was beyond my comprehension. It was storing back avi's which were thousands of gigs in size.

Even ignoring the frame rate and resize issue, somebody, please tell me if this chop is there at all, or is it specific to my computer or *copy of of the amv converter tool*.. ha ha

Don

[Iridium]

Well,

try playing converted file back in AMVplayer. as movie is playing, right click on it. go to 'property' and post results back here. e.g. 128x96 12fps etc.
We need to know how the player is reading the file. if it is the full 128x128, or whatever parameters you originally entered, but is showing only part of pic, then i would go back to original file, right click and post results so we can compare...
i have not heard of this before.

i.