After converting 3 movies my SMC refused to convert further files. Everything looks nice, but “converting file” progress bar freezez at 0% for any AVI movie (application does not freeze and seems to look normally), even for the files that were successfully converted earlier. MPEG files are converted normally. I tried the following solutions (without success):
fact is the sansa media converter is a POS(being kind) it dosnt like some files, it JUST WONT WORK with them.
best option I have found is to first convert to another format using another program, If you have an nvidia g92/g94/g98(or better/newer) videocard you can do what I do, use badaboom to convert to ipod nano format, THEN drop those files into the sansa media converter and let it convert them to fuze format, its extra work but it does the trick, IF you dont have a newer nvidia card, then your best bet is to grab MediaCoder and use it to convert the files to another format(all using the same settings) then let sansa converter do its job.
sansa should publish the information needed to allow badaboom and mediacoder and the rest support the fuze directly, it would take an extra UN-NEEDED step out of the prosess and also let us not use the crappy converter thats full of bugs
I’m amused by the fact that there is a SMC “2” and still it apparently blows. Is it better, worse, or the same as the old one I gave up on last December? (I’ve only used my Fuze for audio and an occasional photo since then…no SMC required)
sansa should publish the information needed to allow badaboom and mediacoder and the rest support the fuze directly, it would take an extra UN-NEEDED step out of the prosess and also let us not use the crappy converter thats full of bugs
As far as I know the video formats supported on the Fuze were annouced before the Fuze even shipped. Its plain divx mpeg4-sp video with mp3 audio in an AVI file. Theres probably thousands of ways to generate such video . . .
you can also use the Rhapsody software to transfer the video to the fuze in any case there’s a problem with Sansa Media Converter. just make sure that the player is set to MTP mode so rhapsody will be able to know what will be the proper format the video should be converted to…
Theres probably thousands of ways to generate such video . . .
Unfortunately not. The files made by SMC (an InterVideo proprietary application) put an identifier in the header which the Fuze requires, and which nobody has yet managed to duplicate. There are hundreds of ways to make files with the same video and audio codecs, bitrate, resolution, size etc etc etc but if you want the video to actually play on the Fuze it’s SMC or Rhapsody or forget it. Sandisk have said they intend to change this in a future firmware upgrade so that video encoded with all the usual tools will be playable on the Fuze.
god i hope thats true, from what i understan the fuze should beable to support more then just divx/xvid formats, the v1 rockbox’ed ones can play mpeg2 videos, It would be nice to have other options, mediacoder or other apps would be alot better then being FORCED to use SMC
