SMV format description

[yurac]

See version 0.55. Is it ok now?

[Nekow42]

Hi I just gave 0.55 a try with my smv-video-only Sylvania SMPK2066.

Many fruitless attempts to get the many proprietary converters working in wine. GUI pops up, but convert button always crashes it.

I finally stumbed across this thread after some google-search-kung-fu.

I tried yurac's program, the GUI, and it works great! Videos convert fast, decent file sizes, and they work on the player. Also, the GUI is very nice, better than the proprietary GUIs.

Paremeters I used for the Sylvania SMPK2066 player were:
Geometry 128x128
Framerate 10
Tile factor 5
Rotate degree 0
Image quality 41

Thanks yurac, and thanks GregorR of course for cracking the format.

One thing I wanted to point out, yurac, is if the file name or path contains spaces, the GUI will not work. I think this could be fixed by passing the path and file name to smv_encode with the path and filename surrounded by double quotes.
Example: smv_encode -b -g 128x128 -f 10 -n 5 -r -1 -q 41 "/home/username/Some File.mpg"


Great work, and thanks again.

[yurac]

Thanks!!

I will fix the bug.

[masmiguel]

hello , first of all thanks yurak i have tested smv convert 0.55 with a philips sa 3485 and work perfet with this parametres:

smv_encode -b -g 220x176 -f 24 -n 11 -r -1 -q 80

thanks for your work. hugs masmiguel

[erik258]

Hi all. I know it's been a while since this thread has grown, but I wanted to declare my intentions to use smv_gui, or at least the underlying tools, to convert video for a Phillips GoGear ViBE, which also plays (only) smv videos, just so people knew I was doing it.

I'll be attempting to do so on a 64-bit computer too, to make things interesting, and I'll be using gentoo.

So Far I've been able to build .58 and have received the error 'combine failed' in the progress meter. Looking into the matter.