Trouble with video formats

[PacShady]

Hey all

Just got a hold of one of them iPod Nano clones from Hong Kong, 1GB, firmware 3.5.35 (turns out it's the one I apparently can't do much with in themes etc :x) and I'm having a little trouble with videos.

It's details say it can play several movie types including WMV, AMV, and of course it's called an MP4 player so one would assume it also plays MP4 files. However, so far the only files I've been able to get it to play are AMV files downloaded from this site. MP4, WMV, MPG, whatever else I call the files, no matter how I seem to encode them, the player returns "No files!" when I try to acces the Movie section.

I'd just convert what files I have to AMV using the little tool available on this site, but it requires Windows Media Player 9 or 10 to use, and on my Windows box (which I try to use sparingly) I don't have anything higher than the OLD WMP, and I use another player altogether for all my media needs. So is there a tool available that can convert to AMV WITHOUT the need for WMP, or even better, a Linux version that converts to AMV?

'Shady

[admin]

PacShady

To answer your questions:

1. It can play .WMV and .MP4, but failed to mention that it needs to be CONVERTED to .AMV files firstly before it can play them. A little catch I know, but that is the case. It won't play .WMV probably because of royality and patent issues with Micrsoft.

2. I have Windows 2000 installed and the older WMP 9 and it works fine. I think it needs for certain codecs for the AMV Converter to decode.

You can try installing the codec pack and see if that helps.

3. So far, no there is no Linux or Mac version of the AMV Convert Tool unfortunately. The only solution so far is to get an Windows Emulator installed on Linux or Mac so you can install the AMV Converter.

Hope this answers your questions.

[PacShady]

Thanks for your help, I thought something like that would have to be the case. A bit silly of them though, calling it an MP4 player and it doesn't play MP4 files though :x

Also, I should point out, my version of WMP isn't the version 9 that comes with XP. I'm talking the OLD version, version 6.4, like the old one that came with Windows 98. That version actually comes with XP, but it's just wasted space since XP also comes with version 9 as standard. Since I've butchered my copy of XP using nLite to cut out most of the crap XP tries to put on my system, I don't have that version of WMP.

As for codec packs, I've currently got K-Lite installed. If I can get AMV COnvert to ignore the fact I don't have WMP then it should read from that hopefully!

'Shady