Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

Thanx

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

Hi. I got an Omega V89 player for christmas. I converted a film to avi using the aviconverter that came with it. The picture and audio are very good quality but after about a minute of playback they become very out of sync with each other.

Is my player faulty?

Should I use your software to do the conversion instead, will this help? Are there some settings I can change to improve the lip sync problem?

Many thanks for your help.

hi lokster, many thanks for your tool, before using it i must apply 2 conversions (from flv to avi and then aviconverter) to convert flv file for my rockchip player, and without drag&drop, loading one file at once... was very boring, really great tool.

but... i have a problem, many flv files don't resize correctly!
I have 0.53 version, and tried all 3 resize methods, but nothing.
The video below for example, source video is 320x262 flv file, i've setted vidrop with 224x176 resolution (only resolution suitable for my player), Mpeg2 audio (and other flv conversion goes fine with these setting):
- with pan&scan i obtain 214x176 output size
- with keep aspect and add border i obtain the same result, 224x184 output size

below a set of screenshots of that file conversion: my vidrop setting (with "add borders" setting as you can see), video source and output info (with Gspot), and mencoder log screenshot (note output size)

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7...tinglr2.th.gif http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1...urcesd4.th.gif http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/7...tputge5.th.gif http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7...rlogle0.th.gif

if you want try directly, the source file is this:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=CCq3BnEUb1s

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

mjjgirlie: Your player is likely OK. Desynching is a common complaint with XVid irrespective of the conversion program used. I've used various ones but my favourite is viDrop which you can find above or in the downloads section on this site. I'm not sure that it's actually the XVid codec because the quality and parameters of the source file seems to affect this.

I've converted some files with no desynching and others with it occuring. One thing that may minimize this is to convert at video 300 kbps with audio of 128 kbps or lower. I use these paramaters with a normalize boost routinely for my conversions and they work out well. Don't go higher on the video bit rate unless you find significant artifiacts due to a high degree of motion in the source vid like in an action scene. Segmenting a large file into 10 minute pieces during conversion may also help minimize desynching.

Lord Eriol: Firstly, thanks for your excellent description and documentation of your problem. I've run into the same problem as you previously and have come up with a solution that I've posted before and will do so below. I did test it on the youtube vid that you've had problems with to make sure it works in your case.

Before I forget, I checked out your conversion parameters on your screen captures, and would suggest you decrease the video bit rate and increase the audio as follows: video bit rate of 300 kbps and audio 128 kbps. If you have video artifacts in a high action scene experiment with a higher video bit rate and see if it helps. It may not. I convert all my vids at 300 / 128 with a normalize of 0.65 and generally find this works well as I like to listen through my Optimus Cobalt's built in speaker. The volume increases without distortion. I use the higher audio bit rate as I find it can make a difference if playing the audio through speakers or with earphones. I use my player primarily to watch video and as a picture viewer.

To solve the video dimension issue, I stripped out the dimension commands from the AVIConverter ini file in v4. I'll include the command lines below. Copy and paste them in the Extra mencoder parameter box at the bottom of the advanced settings tab page. This will overide any dimension settings so you don't need to click any boxes or change any dimensions on the page. The other advanced parameters can still be changed. On my computer, I've saved these settings using the presets window at the top of the program window, so I don't have to copy and paste them for every series of conversions. Try all three of these with your youtube vid to see the differences in the result.

Full aspect
-vf-add scale=224:176 -vf-add expand=224:176:-1:-1:1

4:3
-vf-add scale=224:168 -vf-add expand=224:176:-1:-1:1

16:9 (Borders)
-vf-add scale=224:126 -vf-add expand=224:176:-1:-1:1

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

is it possible to add a progress indicator?

tovmeod: I can't answer for Lokster in terms of additional ways to indicate progress however there are currently two ways to monitor progress.

You can tell which file is being processed by putting the mouse pointer over viDrop icon in taskbar lower right.

To see the progress on the current file click on the dos window viDrop icon on the taskbar and in this processing window it gives the % completed and the number of minutes remaining in the processing for that file.

I find the combination of these all I need for assessing progress. Is there something in addition to these that you would find helpful?

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

the dos windows basically gives me this, adding new lines while it converts the file:

Skipping frame!
Error while decoding frame!8.48fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.019 [220:95]
Pos: 123.8s 3711f ( 0%) 18.50fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.022 [220:95]
Skipping frame!
Error while decoding frame!8.50fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.022 [220:95]
[h264 @ 00AF21A0]concealing 960 DC, 960 AC, 960 MV errorsV:0.021 [220:95]

Skipping frame!
Error while decoding frame!8.51fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.021 [220:95]
[h264 @ 00AF21A0]concealing 960 DC, 960 AC, 960 MV errorsV:0.021 [220:95]

Skipping frame!
[h264 @ 00AF21A0]concealing 960 DC, 960 AC, 960 MV errorsV:0.020 [220:95]

Skipping frame!
[h264 @ 00AF21A0]concealing 960 DC, 960 AC, 960 MV errorsV:0.018 [220:95]

Skipping frame!
Pos: 124.7s 3737f ( 0%) 18.53fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [220:95]
Skipping frame!
Error while decoding frame!8.53fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.018 [220:95]
Pos: 125.0s 3745f ( 0%) 18.54fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.017 [220:95]
Skipping frame!
Error while decoding frame!8.54fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.018 [220:95]
Pos: 125.1s 3750f ( 0%) 18.55fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.020 [220:95]

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

btw, I went to the mencoder site (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html), the latest release is rc2 while vidrop comes with rc1, any particular reason?

I looked at their changelog, it doesn't seems to be just a small fix.

I noticed that mencoder.exe and mplayer.exe that comes with vidrop has 3.83 and 3.94 Mb, while the rc2 that I downloaded has 11.6 and 12.2 Mb, did you built from the source removing the stuff vidrop doesn't use? why the size difference is so big?

Tanks jp! I used your full aspect mencode setting, and all is OK now!
I've used other your suggested settings too, 300kbps bitrate and 128kbps and goes fine too.

@lockster
Now i think i've the near-perfect coverter for my mp4 player, just only one thing remain to fix... and i hope you can fix it in next version: vidrop should not add "_converted" to output files by default.
i think is useless.... you can choose a different folder output (to avoid files overwriting). Maybe that can be leaved as an option.
However this is a little detail... many thank for your great work :)

Lord Eriol: Glad my suggestions work for you. Since using them I haven't had a problem with dimensions.

I like the automatic addition of "_converted" to output files as I always know where the converted files will end up. Plus I usually convert a number of files at once, sometimes when I'm away from my computer for extended periods or overnight. If I drag and drop batches from various folders and then process all the batches together, the converted files are deposited back into the appropriate folders. And I don't have to worry about renaming each of the output files.

With respect to your suggestion to lokster, currently you can name the output file and choose where you want it to go. To do this, on the main settings tab page uncheck the auto add to batch checkbox, drop in your file and go down to the Output A/V file area and use the folder selection button on the right side of the program window to select the desination folder and to name the output file. Once you're finished, click the add button and continue on adding and naming other files. Then click Run to convert the batch. Hope this helps.

Further to your naming idea, it would be handy to be able to change the "_convert" to whatever the user would like. For instance, I would be tempted to add the date to make the converted files more searchable.

1st: at the time when I uploaded version 0.53 of viDrop, rc1 was the latest release. If you wish, you can download the latest mencoder/mplayer and replace those in the viDrop folder.

2nd: The files are smaller because they are UPX compressed. I didn't compile mencoder myself.

---
About the "_converted" file suffix: in the next version I will ad an option to change it (if you dont like it - you will be able just to use empty suffix)

Lokster... are you sort expert in conversions or you simply are really good programming the front-end? :)

I really like your viDrop and it's my preferred converter... but I have a doubt concerning out-of-synch issue.

Kindly read this taken from other forum:

This is more or less clear for me... second method seems to be more precise but requires a player that use it.
This of timestamps is done by Mencoder or is you who have add this feature in some way in Mencoder?
I ask you because your viDrop have always produced in-synch videos for a player I have that seems to use this method...
Will it work well if a player doesn't use this second method?

Thanks for your answer in advance

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

@lokster: You've done a very good job with viDrop !

@jp: I'll prefer only -vf-add expand=224:176:-1:-1:1 as an Extra Mencoder parameter. By doin it this way, i can change Width and Height to every Size i like - below of 224x176 ;-D

I am just programming the frontend, and I am not a conversion expert. Not at all... :) I am not sure which method mencoder uses, and absolutely not sure how a specific player will perform in either of the cases... It depends from the player.
I never had out-of-sync issues with viDrop, and maybe if somebody has this problem, its because the bitrate is too high and the player can't handle it.

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

Im having bad luck with this player. The video/sound are out of sync basically 100% of the time now and no matter what format i convert from the sound is always out of sync at least a little bit if not an unbearable amount. Please help

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

Im having bad luck with this player. The video/sound are out of sync basically 100% of the time now and no matter what format i convert from the sound is always out of sync at least a little bit if not an unbearable amount. Please help

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

Dear cyfi, wich version of AVIConverter is on the Cd to your Rockchip-Player ? Is it Version 2, 3 or 4 ? Or try this: Start your AViConverter and post the shown resolution here. I will tell you then which parameters you should use in viDrop - and hopefully will work. rgrds, lca77

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It's not bad luck...
It's a matter of play with a couple of values: bitrate and FPS.
reduce bitrate to about 600
and FPS to 20

You can play with both values until you get a good image
FPS will bring a fluent motion
bitrate will bring more details in image.

I think that video bitrate @600 kb/s is still very high fot our players. Most of the videos I convert with viDrop for my 320x240 Rockchip are at 300 kb/s video and 112 kb/s audio, with Motion search precision 6 and 22 FPS. The results are very good, and I never have out-of-sync problems with these values.

And finally: beware! viDrop 0.54 is comming in the next few days! With lots of old bugs fixed, and a lots of new ones... :)
And some new features (like downloading directly from youtube)

It's just mention that values to show that is not a problem of converter but of parameters... your converter works fine in more difficult players as it is Cowon D2 where I've some musical videos at video: 800 kbps/30FPS with audio: 192 kbps, absolutely in-sync. D2 is a powerful processor anyway

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@lokster: Both of my Rockchip-Players with RK2606A-Chip are only playing Videos with 20FPS or 24FPS - 22FPS sadly didn't work on my players. I've tried all the range from 10FPS until 25FPS ...

@lca77 this is stragne- my player is also with RK2606A and the original sample video that was on it was @22 fps.
But...most of the time it's a matter of trial-and-error to get the correct format for specific player :)

dude, i dont own a rockchip player but this works perfectly with my anyka player.

THANKS! +1 Internets to you

I present to you: viDrop 0.54!
 

With great enthusiasm, I must say, that viDrop 0.54 is finally out!

I added a lot of new functions, and made a lot of improvements from the previous version.

Screenshots:
* Main settings
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8...p0541enid6.png
* Advanced settings
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6...p0542endp2.png

Here is a quick list:
- fully functional DVD RIP-ing. From the interface you can select the DVD title/chapter, audio language, subtitle language...

- multiple output formats. Now, you can make not only .avi (and OpenDML avi) files, but also mpg, asf, flv, rm, nut, mov, mp4, dv.
- multiple video codecs - encode your video with xvid, iso mpeg4, x264, flv, mjpeg, h261, h263, h263p, msmpeg4, msmpeg4v2, wmv1, wmv2, mpeg1video, mpeg2video, ffvhuff

- multiple audio codecs - mp2, mp3, pcm(wav), aac, ac3

- web video download - tou can now download videos from sites like youtube. Supported sites are:
* http://vbox7.com (bulgarian site)
* http://vbox.bg (bulgarian site)
* http://youtube.com
* http://video.google.com
* http://www.metacafe.com
Support for new sites will be added in the next version. For example, if you are watching some video at you tube (something like http://youtube.com/watch?v=A5Yj6ImVc1k), copy the address from the browser, and then click "Online video download" in viDrop. In the next dialog box, paste the addres, and click OK. viDrop will try to find the real URL of the video file, and will ask you where to download it. Then the download will start, and you will see graphical indication of the download progress. When the download is over, the .flv file will be opened in viDrop. Now you can just watch it (by pressing the ">" button), or convert it to a more common format (like avi).

- multi-language interface - now, you can switch the language of the program interface in just a few clicks. The translation is stored in plain text files named language.lang.txt. Currently there are translations for Bulgarian, English and Russian. The russian translation is very bad (i made it using google translator because I can only read russian, and not write...), so if there are Russians amongst you, please make some corrections where needed, and send me the language file.
Any other translations are also very welcome. I will include them in the next versions.
The language is selected on the "Other..." tab, from the "Language" listbox.

- full automatic updates. On every start, the program checks if there is an update available, and if "yes" it will ask you to download and install the update.

- playback of lots of multimedia files via mplayer. Just open the file with viDrop, and click the ">" button, on the right pf the "Input A/V File".

And yes, viDrop still continues to be freeware ;)

Download it from http://learnfree.eu/vidrop/download/vidrop-0.54-install.msi (9.23 MB)

Some very important note, which I forgot to mention before: viDrop is written in the scripting language AutoIt. Some buggy Antivirus programs still report AutoIt compiled executables as a viruses.
I guarantee you that if you download viDrop from the link above it IS NOT a virus/infected. If you downloaded it from other sites... well I can't guarantee for them...

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

Wow, thank you very much. I havent had time to download it and try it yet but im impressed with the new features. Thanks for offering this to the community its the only converter i have gotten to work for my silly player.

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

lokster:

Fantastic!!! You've created and continue to improve an extremely useful program to the benefit of all.

Many, many thanks.

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

the link is dead for me? mirror anyone?

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

just realized that the previous version doesn't have an uninstaller, what I need to remove exactly?

Thanks lokster,

You are more than welcome to upload viDrop to this site as well as a mirror to your backup.

Done! I have uploaded it :)
http://www.mympxplayer.org/tool-vidr...ter-df785.html

Edit: I encourage anyone who uses viDrop with his/her player to send me the preset which works for it. Just enter the name of your player in the "Preset" input box, and hit "Save preset" button. Then go to the directory where you installed viDrop, go to "presets" subdirectory and locate the preset that you have just saved. Then send it to me (in PM or e-mail).

I think it will be very useful if I can include as many as I can working presets for different devices.

Just delete the whole directory where it is installed (but you can keep vidrop.ini file and "presets" sub-directory - they contain your settings/presets)

Edit: Here is a working preset for Onda VX747 player. Just copy all the text between the "------", create empty text file in the presets folder of viDrop, give it some name (for example "Onda VX747.ini"), and then paste in it the copyed text.

------
[settings]
RebuildIndex=1
AutoAddOnOpen=1
Normalize=1
NormalizeAmount=0.25
ExtraStereo=0
SRate=44100
VideoCodec=xvid
container=avi
fourcc=
AudioCodec=mp3
VideoBitrate=502
AudioBitrate=128
MotionEst=6
Width=400
Height=240
SubFont=.\mplayer\subfont.ttf
SubCP=cp1251
SupPos=100
SubWidth=100
SubSize=5
CmdLine=-audio-preload 0.8 -delay 0.1
MplayerCmdLine=
FPS=30
AudioNCh=joint-stereo
pp=1
pp=0
smartblur=0
smartblur-amount=0
rotate=0
gamma=1
contrast=1
brightness=0
saturation=1
flip=0
ResizeMethod=1
PostExec=
suffix=_converted
------

Just wondering - Would you be planning to make provision for Xvid 2-pass encode in the future? Doing this, you can halve the bitrate (and so the filesize) and still get the same picture quality. With limited storage, this makes a big difference.

Also, when I tried to use the program today, it skipped nearly all frames and created a large blank output file. I couldn't see what might be wrong. I thought maybe incomplete specified program path to MEncoder, so I put the complete path; the program crashed then as soon as the "DOS" box opened.

Maybe your input file is broken? Have you tried with different input files? And also, what settings do you use?

Note: the path to mencoder/mplayer CAN be incomplete. In the matter of fact, I purposely set the default path to mplayer/mencoder to be relative (incomplete), so you can move the viDrop install folder without breaking the functionality.

Maybe your input file is broken? Have you tried with different input files? And also, what settings do you use?

Note: the path to mencoder/mplayer CAN be incomplete. In the matter of fact, I purposely set the default path to mplayer/mencoder to be relative (incomplete), so you can move the viDrop install folder without breaking the functionality.

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

made a quick translation to Brazilian Portuguese

[strings]
INFORMATION=Tradução para portugês brasileiro por tovmeod :)
Button1=...
Button2=...
Button3=...
Button4=Adicionar
Button5=Rodar
Button6=Limpar
Button7=...
Button8=i
Button9=Converter
Button10=Pre-visualizar
Button11=Apagar
Button12=Salvar
Button13=Padrão
Button14=Verificar atualizações
Button15=Baixar video da web...
Button16=Fazer donativo!
Button17=Cancelar
Checkbox1=Reconstruir índice AVI
Checkbox2=Auto adicionar à lista batch
Checkbox3=Normalizar
Checkbox4=Stereo extra
Checkbox5=Desabilitar
Checkbox6=Usar intervalo de tempo selecionado
Checkbox7=Sharpen/Blur
Checkbox8=Flip
Combo5=|desabilitado|90 deg. sentido horário|90 deg. sentido anti-horário
Group1=Video
Group2=Audio
Group3=Legendas
Group4=Arquivo A/V de entrada
Group5=Arquivo A/V de saída
Group6=Parâmetros extras
Group7=Metodo de redimensionamento
Group8=Legenda de entrada
Group9=Batch
Group10=Arquivo atual
Group11=Propriedades da imagem
Group12=Intervalo de tempo
Group13=Opções de DVD / Streams alternativos
Group14=Versão
Group15=Filtros de vídeo
Group16=MPlayer path
Group17=MEncoder path
Group18=Após conversão executar...
Group19=Língua
Label2=Gamma
Label4=Bitrate
Label6=Bitrate
Label7=Baixando atualização
Label8=Largura
Label9=Altura
Label10=Motion search precision
Label12=Fonte
Label13=FPS
Label14=SRate
Label15=Codec
Label16=Codec
Label17=Encoding
Label18=Posição (%)
Label19=Largura (%)
Label23=Pre-configurações:
Label24=Contraste
Label26=Brilho
Label28=Saturação
Label32=Tamanho (%)
Label34=Rotação
Label36=Diretório (se não definido o mesmo diretório do arquivo de entrada é usado)
Label37=Nome do arquivo (sem diretório)
Label38=Sufixo do nome do arquivo
Label39=Canais
Radio1=Pan&Scan
Radio2=Manter aspecto
Radio3=Adicionar bordas
Radio4=Não redimensionar
TabSheet1=Configurações principais
TabSheet2=Configurações avançadas
TabSheet3=Outros...
TabSheet4=Informação
Label41=Selecionar arquivo A/V de entrada
Label42=Sites suportados: \n http://vbox.bg \n http://vbox7.com \n http://youtube.com \n http://video.google.com \n http://www.metacafe.com\n\nEnter the video URL (something like http://youtube.com/watch?v=A5Yj6ImVc1k)\nO video será baixada e então aberto no viDrop
Label43=Limpar list batch?
Label45=Tamanho de saída
Label46=Carregando. por favor aguarde...
Label47=Convertendo arquivo
Label48= of
Label49=Rodando batch
Label50=Erro
Label51=Confirmar
Label52=Nenhum perfil escolhido.
Label53=Apagar esse perfil?
Label54=Nenhum nome fornecido!
Label55=Erro ao verificar por atualizações! Será que sua internet não está funcionando?
Label56=Pergunta
Label57=A seguinte atualização está disponível.Deseja baixar?
Label58=Informação
Label60=A atualização não foi baixada corretamente. Por favor tente novamente.
Label61=A atualização foi baixada. Deseja instalar?(Nota: A versão antiga do viDrop será apagada.)
Label62=Aonde deseja salvar esse arquivo?
Label63=Erro sobreescrevendo o arquivo selecionado!
Label64=URL incorreta ou falha na conexão à internet.

Edit3=Esse programa é FREEWARE e sempre será. É distribuido de acordo com os termos da licença GPL v3. Portanto se você gostar, é possível fazer um donativo para sustentar o autor e futuro desenvolvimento. Donativos são aceitos via PayPal.
Label65=Localidade
Label66=Licença GPL:
Label41=Stream de audio
Label44=Legendas

Label67=Título / Capítulo
Label68=FourCC code
Label69=Formato
Label72=A resolução de video selecionada não é válida para esse codec! Resoluções válidas são 176x144 e 352x288. A resolução será corrigida.
Label73=O FPS selecionado não é válido para esse codec de video. Valores válidos são: 5,10,12,15,24,25,30. O FPS será corrigido.

Re: Free Open-Source converter for RockChip MPEG4 (XVID) pla
 

Link for viDrop v0.55

http://skss.freehostia.com/go.php?ht...55-install.msi

please put multipass support in so we may experiment with it. also i cant seem to get it to recognize dvd.

I will add multipass support in some future version.

As for the dvd problem:
HOW TO RIP A DVD:
1. Select you DVD drive location, by clicking the "..." button in "DVD Settings / Alternate streams" -> "Location". For example, "E:".
2. Click the "DVD" button in "Input A/V file".
3. Now, in "DVD Settings / Alternate streams", in the "Title / Chapter" drop-down list you will see a list of all titles/chapters on the DVD. To rip only a specific title or chapter - select it from the list.
In "Audio stream" there is a list of the available audio languages for this DVD. Select the language you want.
In "Subtitles" is the list of the available subtitle languages. Select your subtitle language.
4. Now, you must select where the DVD will be rip-ed as .avi file. This is done from "Output A/V file" -> "Directory" (by clicking the "..." button).
5. You are ready! Now click the "Convert" button in "Current file", and wait for the DVD to be riped to .avi.

thank you worked like a charm!