Media Converter 256CDG Issues

SanDisk MP3 players Sansa® Fuze™
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I am running Media Converter version 256CDG (The newest version) on the most recent firmware. My OS is Windows XP SP3 (a fresh install). I have windows media player 11 and am running k-lite codec pack 5.00 along with DirectX9c. I have read over the forums and have tried to troubleshoot this issue before posting this.

My main issue is this:

The media converter will not convert avi files encoded with xvid or divx. Pretty much any avi i try to convert pops up as Unfinished with no reason why after about 3 seconds. It hangs on mov files before hitting 100%, it hangs on 0% on mp4 files. Pretty much the only format that seems to work is wmv. This pretty much stinks because 95% of my video library is in avi and I have nearly NO wmv (i stay away from MS formats). Any help would be appreciated. I am planning a trip and would like to have this sorted. Thanks!

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Do you have Quicktime installed? It has a codec apparently needed, but not included in the K-Lite pack.

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Yes. I forgot to mention that. I have Quicktime 7 installed.

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So no one has a solution for this? Honestly, why won’t sandisk just allow drag and drop to prevent ■■■■ like this?

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Have you tried the same files with a different encoder? Xvid and Divix are part of the SMC software. I wonder if you dont have a newer encoder and the SMC versions of the same codecs dont play well together. 

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When you install Sansa Media Converter it comes with the codecs it needs.  But if you then install a codec pack, or already have a newer version of mpeg-4 codec then you may find that SMC fails.  I don’t use K-Lite, preferring the Combined Community Codec Pack http://cccp-project.net/  whose installer detects this and advises you of the possible conflict between the two mpeg-4 encoders.  Probably the best thing to do is to re-install SMC.  If that doesn’t work then uninstall K-Lite codec pack and then re-install SMC and see if that works.  I had some movies fail to convert but all seems OK now after installing CCCP and then installing SMC again afterwards. 

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In my opinion, the full K-Lite is a little bulky, whereas CCCP seems to support everything I need it to with a small list of filters/players/other stuff.  I especially enjoy ffdshow (which I knew nothing about untill I installed CCCP), because of the large number of formats supported.  This ffdshow codec is amazing, to say the least.