AVI/Rockchip player question
 

OK, I know that Action based chipsets play AMV and cannot play AVI, but what I'm wondering is can Rockchips play both AVI and AMV? If so, how do you switch between the two?

The reason I'm asking is I have several movies converted to AMV that I'm wondering if I'm going to have to redo all of them. Probably a stupid question, but I can't recall seeing this addressed before. :?

Hi booboo.
Our players only handle .avi files. I had asked our vendor for info so I could start transcoding, but they had no info and the so-called manual was less than helpful. So, yes you will likely need to do it again. Sorry.

In fact, if you got the same one as me from our collective seller, it's quite picky about the settings. Unlike my other player, it has no wiggle room and only does XviD, not Divx. I downloaded the 320x240 .avi file from the downloads here and it works great. I used that as a model for setting up my Xvid encoder. For the record, my settings were:
video codec: XviD
video resolution: 320x240
video bitrate: 512
fps: 20

Audio codec: mp2/mpga
sample rate: 44100
bit rate: 128

half hour shows (commercials edited out) came in around 100MB. I can live with that as the battery will be dead before I can empty the memory ;-)

NOLA MPx Fan - I've been following you and booboo's convo about lotsall in another thread and decided not to comment because I had bought a rockchip (the same kind as yours, actually) from another seller, fortresshop for a friend. Mine came amazingly fast (shipped last Monday, came Saturday not counting the 4th of July). Anyway, the player's amazing and I promised my friend that I would put a couple of videos on it for her. However, with the exception of the sample video, every video I've converted has come horribly out of sync, getting progressively worse as the video moves forward. I'm going insane trying to correct the problem. And, unfortunately, I can't even find the information about the sample video because I was forced to format the player as it came with a couple of viruses and the computer wouldn't let me open the removable drive. Have you been having the same problem?

Well, no, actually. But that may stem from the way I've been using it as I watch a bit then have to stop and go do something. So when I come back I forward to where I need to be and watch another segment. I'm letting an episode run through now to test this out.

Not all converters are created equal, and I've seen some really bad jobs from free and paid ones. I'm also not on a windows computer, so none of the utils here work well for me. I'm having great success with one from mp4converter.net which also is available on windows.

As for the info, if you do have the same model as me, the info above is pulled from the 320x240 sample in the download section.

What are you using to convert? What settings can you adjust with it? How fast is your computer? Do the videos play properly on your PC all the way through?

I'm on the road Tues-Thurs, so I may not get back to you quickly, but I will get back.

NOLA MPx Fan - thanks for the quick reply. I'm using AVIConverter 4.0 with the pal2 converter patch from the downloads section. I'm not sure how fast my computer is, but they do play properly on my PC, so it has to be a discrepancy with the player's processor and the settings I used to convert. I'm no tech expert on encoding video, though, so I have no idea where to go from here. I searched on google and it looks like others have the same problem. Hopefully I'll find a solution.

Re: AVI/Rockchip player question
 

Come to think of it, the very first video I encoded I did on my work laptop with AV converter 4. It was horrid and the sound was off from the beginning. That said, I really, really think it is the software, not the player. Mainly because the only bad thing I noticed after watching two separate hour long episodes on my tiny little screen was a searing headache ;-) The videos were fine.

Try a couple other converters to see if they work. You can get a free trial of the one I'm using for Windows here.

You may also want to look at one based on the FFmpeg code. I use that all the time on my computer to do all kinds of things like transcoding, joining, splitting streams, muxing streams, and so on. Granted, FFmpegX is for OS X, but the underlying code is the same, and there are many projects for Windows you can easily find using Google.

At least try one with the same one I know works. That will let you know if it's your software or player.

Thanks for the info. After researching more in depth into the issue, it turns out that it's a problem particularly with DivX encoded files. Apparently the AVIConverter does something weird while encoding into the format for the player, and that results in the audio sync problem. I downloaded an avi to mpg converter, converted the DivX files to MPG, then encoded using AVIConverter, and the files played fine. Thank God! It took all day yesterday for me to finally figure that out. Thanks for your help too.

That's kind of going the long way 'round, but if you are happy with the result, then great! I knew it had to be the software ;-)

I'm glad it's working for you, and you are more than welcome for the help. Enjoy!