Hi Buzzygirl,

Xilisoft do offer a free trial on their dvd2mp4 converter ( found here http://www.xilisoft.com/dvd-to-mp4-suite.html )

The trial is fully functional, apart from it'll only allow you to convert the first 5 minutes of a movie.

Therefore, you should not need to buy it, until you have had success with the trial.

For me, it's been the perfect partner for both my 224x176 players, and my 320x240 players.

It'll put subtitles in (if you want), it can convert directly from a DVD (even many originals), and you can decide if you want to end up with one long movie, or chunks of your own prefered size ( I like 30 mins, as this is not too much to fast forward thru'!).

Please give the trial a try, using these settings:

For the 2" (and 2.2") players (224x176) :

First, select 'XviD' as the Profile.

For Video Size, manually type "224x176" - on my version (4.0.83 build 0178) this size doesn't appear in the drop-down, but manually typing it as I have shown here, works. You must not put any spaces between the 224, the x and the 176. i.e. just put 224x176

Bit Rate - I have found that 512 works 100%.

Frame Rate - at 20FPS, the sound and video remain in sync. Higher FPS ratings result in a slightly smoother video, but the sound lags behind.

Aspect - Auto

Same Quality - False

Audio Codec - MP2 - Important Note! Although Rockchip players handle MP3 Music fantastically, the video audio must be encoded as MP2 it seems. Xilisost are one of the only ppl who realise this!!

Bit Rate - 128 works for me everytime.

Sample Rate - 44100 - ditto!

Channels - Stereo

Disable Audio - False


For the 2.4" Rockchip players, do exactly as above, but select a video size of "320x240"

I think this should work, and please let us know how you get on !! :) :)

I will try Xilisoft. So far, I haven't been able to get ANYTHING to work. I know my player will play videos, as I've put some of the converter clips on it from this site, but I have not been able to get a simple .avi file converted. This shouldn't be that hard, should it?

If I can't get Xilisoft to work, perhaps I could send this file to someone and maybe see if they have any luck at getting it to convert?

Re: AVI Converter problems
 

FINALLY!

Xilisoft did the trick. I now have a working movie on my player-- well, at least the first five minutes of a working movie. Evidently, my player has some very particular settings that must be specified in the conversion software. My video works when I put in the exact parameters as listed above, but it seems illogical that the software that came with the player would not convert videos to put on the player.

Thanks for your help, all... I need to check out the Xilisoft website and choose a suite to buy. All I really need is the video conversion software, nothing else.

Re: AVI Converter problems
 

One more post on my video conversion adventure. I worked with viDrop a bit more to get the settings I need for my player. I was happy to see that viDrop will allow you to save many different profiles for video conversion for more than one type of player. I attempted to convert the movie again and YES!, it works!

viDrop is very simple to use; I just had to make a few more changes to the settings. So I got a working converter and did not have to pay anything, although Xilisoft sure does a lot. I am sure it's worth the money paid, but I'm a thrifty sort of person, so I'll always try to work with the cheaper solutions first. :)

Now, on to putting movies on my player. I'll write a little review on my Rockchip player shortly.