Touch screen 4gb (all over ebay now)

[Hawk]

I bought one of these 4gb touchscreens last week but not from the site in the web link, I bought on ebay - [web:384b230f45]http://www.globalsourcesdirect.com/servlet/the-3898/MP4-Player-4GB-Touchpad/Detail[/web:384b230f45]

The software it came with was useless and I spent 3 days just trying loads of different converters out, all to no avail. All I was getting was "file format error". Songs were ok, I just couldnt get the video to work.

Eventually I stumbled upon this forum and (every player should be sold with a address of this place to make everybodys life easier) found LOCKSTERS software, VIDROP.

Wow, it worked 1st time, I couldnt believe my luck and not only did it work but the video was much better than the video bundled with the player, the picture is very very good for the money I paid for the player.

After getting over my initial jubilation I noticed that the picture would jerk in quite a few spots during films, so I spent time changing FPS, bitrate etc but the jerking remained and voice synq went out of the window.
I thought it might be the player but thankfully it isnt because the same jerkiness occurs when playing the video back on the Pc, so now Im left with a player that has great video but jerks the picture as if there are frames missing from the conversion.

Has anybody else had similar problems and can reccommend any other software that will work for this player as it is definately quite choosey what it likes to play conversions for.

Another big thank you to Lockster for the Vidrop software.

[lca77]

Dear Hawk,

try this value as an "Extra Mencoder Parameter" in viDrop:

-speed 0.96

And set the "Framerate" as 24fps, this combination should solve the Sync-problem.

regards, lca77

[Hawk]

Thank you very much lca77,

I have had to start using DVD Ripper 2.25 due to vidrop not decoding certain dvd,s for some reason?

I downloaded to the mpg4 format and then converted to Avi using Vidrop and your parameters, the video is now very clear and very smooth with NO skipping or jerkng at all in the playback and no audio synq problems. Ive only tested on 10 minutes of video so far and am currently converting a full 2 hour movie to see how the synqing holds up.

Ill let everyone know how it goes in this thread once its complete.

[Hawk]

Well, after doing a full 2.5 hour conversion the video and sound came out perfectly, so a big thumbs up.

The trouble is now I think the codecs are corrupted, vidrop wont work at all, Avi converter 4 wont work.

Vidrop doesnt let me access the dvd section at all, Dvd ripper always asks me to run "Power DVD" before it will let me access Ripper ? Maybe something to do with encryptions.

So I managed to get 1 perfect conversion done before all the conversion/ripping software somehow became corrupted.

I tried deleting everything to do with Avi/converters/dvd rippers etc but some files I could not delete. Also tried system restore, so something has gone amiss on my pc that I cannot detect and, not sure I want to delete the media packages on that came with the pc but have a feeling the code could be altered in them in some way now (after DVD Ripper telling me to run Power dvd which came in the bundle).

Anyway, the parameters for the above player worked perfectly (while it lasted) if anyone else is having problems with stuttery videos.

[lca77]

IMO viDrop .55 is coming with a buggy MEncoder.exe that should be better replaced by an older version. At first use i've missed the mp2-sound in videos - after I've exchanged Mencoder.exe in viDops installationdir, this problem would'nt be seen anymore.

I don't know much about dvd-rippings with or without viDrop; the css encryption maybe running viDrop into some troubles - like you mentioned. Try the ripping again with a DVD without encryption and ask lockster himself for a helping hand.

[Hawk]

Thanks for all the help lca77, much appreciated!

I ended up wiping everything off the pc that had anything to do with codecs and ripping etc, I then had to re-install the mpeg4 codec to get windows media player to play video again. I then installed xvid and vidx codecs. Then I re-downloaded vidrop.
After doing that I tried converting a film to avi from the source file I used to make the perfect copy with, what happened is when I double clicked the "new made" avi file it tried to load up in media player and a box appeared like a graph whith a horizontal line going through it, this is what was worded above it -

AVI Chunk viewer

This avi file was not prepared for sequential reading, the alternative "avi splitter" will now let the default one handle it. The complete reinterleavng of the file is strongly reccomended before burning it onto a slow medium like a cd rom.

Ok, the file I made was a standard file with no added parameters but it deffinately looks like im missing some kind of code from somewhere.

[Hawk]

Just closed the Avi chunk box and the video has started to play, doubt it will work on a mp4 player though.

[maikuu]

hey, i have the same mp4 player too, but am having issues with conversion of video files. they all seem to be losing sync. ive tried using aviconverter 4 with all the different frame rate settings, and vidrop, to no avail. the sound seems to be like a second or so ahead of the video. please help someone =[

[lca77]

Originally Posted by lca77";p=&quot

try this value as an "Extra Mencoder Parameter" in viDrop:

-speed 0.96

And set the "Framerate" as 24fps, this combination should solve the Sync-problem.

Dear maikuu,

didi you really tried viDrop with my quoted values ? If this won't help try another, additional Extra Mencoder parameter: -delay +-value like this example: -delay -0.2
Use it in steps by 0.1 in both directions, until Sound and Picture fits perfectly together :-)

Good luck and rgrds,

lca77

[sumbody]

I just uploaded the AVI Converter program 3.0 320x240 and was successful in converting flv to avi and then avi to avi for this unit. Onda Clone 858 (LE) 320x240 2.8" screen.

I get music and video in sync. There are two versions a 20 fps and 22 fps that came with my unit. Don't know it the 20fps made it up here or not, but the 22fps is posted.

Was also successful in converting a DIVX AVI movie to avi format with this program.