viDrop - free open-source converter for RockChip players

Fluffbutt · #**291** (**permalink**) 28th Mar 2009, 6:45 am

Here's my preset for the newer rockship 640x480 capable players: (mine actually plays full dvd size vob files.. it's a waste though - the screen shows no more detail from a dvd size than it does the 640x480 size).

[settings]
RebuildIndex=1
AutoAddOnOpen=0
Normalize=1
NormalizeAmount=0.25
ExtraStereo=1
SRate=44100
VideoCodec=xvid
container=avi
fourcc=XVID
AudioCodec=mp3
VideoBitrate=1000
AudioBitrate=160
MotionEst=6
Width=640
Height=480
SubFontASS=Arial
SubCP=cp1251
SupPos=100
SubWidth=100
SubSize=5
CmdLine=
MplayerCmdLine=
FPS=24
AudioNCh=stereo
pp=4
pp=1
smartblur=0
TwoPass=1
smartblur-amount=0
rotate=0
gamma=1.1
contrast=1
brightness=0
saturation=1.2
flip=0
ResizeMethod=1
PostExec=
suffix=_high
ass-color=FFFFFF00
ass-border-color=00000000

admin · #**292** (**permalink**) 28th Mar 2009, 2:53 pm

Thanks Fluffbutt,

Phew, full VOB files, that would take abit of storage space on your player for sure!

Do you have details about your player or a link?
Would be interested to know more about it.

ariel56 · #**293** (**permalink**) 28th Mar 2009, 6:28 pm

Hi Lokster,

Unfortunately I have to once more confirm that version 0.57.2 consistently does not work well with subs. They are absolutely unreadable.
Does anyone else have the same problem?

lokster · #**294** (**permalink**) 2nd Apr 2009, 6:22 am

viDrop 0.57.3 is out. I hope the problems with the subtitles are fixed now, as well as some other problems.

I hope...

Check out the new "Split" feature too.

http://www.vidrop.vpunk.co.uk/vidrop-0.57.3-install.msi
ftp://guest%40learnfree%2Eeu:guest@l....3-install.msi

makd511 · #**295** (**permalink**) 2nd Apr 2009, 3:53 pm

hi lokster

having probs with severl new DVD (UK PAL), they wont get rocognised by vidrop or get recognised bit wont let me select language

any idea??
vids are school of rock (UK) loads but cant select language
batman dark knigh - wont load

cheers

ariel56 · #**296** (**permalink**) 2nd Apr 2009, 11:12 pm

Dear lokster,

Thank you very much for your great job!

Quote:

Originally Posted by lokster";p=&quot

viDrop 0.57.3 is out. I hope the problems with the subtitles are fixed now, as well as some other problems.

Unfortunately the problem with subs is still here. It seems that it does not appear in the "PanScan" mode, but persists in the "Add borders" mode, which I like most of all. In that mode subs are added in the lower border, and they remain (are not removed). When new subs appear, they appear over the old ones, producing a real mess.

Hopefully, it is not very difficult to correct.

I don't know whether it is important. The movie to be converted is in the mkv format with subs installed in the file. There are subs in 2 languages, from which viDrop automatically chooses the first (no options are available). The very possibility to install these subs is excellent, since 0.57.1 cannot do it.

Thanks!

Fluffbutt · #**297** (**permalink**) 4th Apr 2009, 12:34 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by admin";p=&quot

Thanks Fluffbutt,

Phew, full VOB files, that would take abit of storage space on your player for sure!

Do you have details about your player or a link?
Would be interested to know more about it.

It's this one (the top one)

[web:87c5f26e20]http://www.ultra-imagination.com/Multimedia.htm[/web:87c5f26e20]

Yes, full vobs take space - but you can shrink them to 4G or about 2.5G minimum. It's not very space effective, because the higher resolution does not get any better on the 640x480 screen. It's better to change them to some other codec at 640x380 res. Mkv works fine, good resolution and the quality is great.

I was just amazed that it played vob full res!

(edited for typos - I'm a cat after all, paws donna work on keyboards well!!)

ajsmicko · #**298** (**permalink**) 7th Apr 2009, 9:03 am

When i insert subtitle using ViDrop....is it possible when you use "keep aspect" or "add borders" for resize method to put subtitle under the video ???
:roll:

lokster · #**299** (**permalink**) 7th Apr 2009, 11:13 pm

ajsmicko it depends from the type of the subtitles. If the subtitles are embedded in VOB (DVD) or Matroska file, then it's not possible.
Also, it's not possible for the "Keep aspect" resize method, because in this method there is no black space under the video (your player adds black space if necessary, but the video itself does not have black space).
The subtitles can be under the video only when using "Add borders" resize method.
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And this is for everyone: I just released another update for viDrop - http://www.vidrop.vpunk.co.uk/vidrop-0.57.4-install.msi

I had some reports of mencoder.exe suddenly disappearing from the viDrop installation folder.
I suspect this is due to some stupid Antivirus programs detecting mencoder.exe as false positive, because it's UPX compressed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upx ).
This is why mencoder.exe and mplayer.exe are no longer compressed. This will lead to a bigger installation size ( ~10MB bigger), but I hope it will solve the problem.

Fluffbutt · #**300** (**permalink**) 8th Apr 2009, 2:06 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by lokster";p=&quot

And this is for everyone: I just released another update for viDrop - http://www.vidrop.vpunk.co.uk/vidrop-0.57.4-install.msi

I had some reports of mencoder.exe suddenly disappearing from the viDrop installation folder.
I suspect this is due to some stupid Antivirus programs detecting mencoder.exe as false positive, because it's UPX compressed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upx ).
This is why mencoder.exe and mplayer.exe are no longer compressed. This will lead to a bigger installation size ( ~10MB bigger), but I hope it will solve the problem.

Is that the only change? Meaning: If we don't have this problem, do we need to get this update?