Weeeee I just bought a new sansa fuze yesterday along with a pair of V-moda Vibes and I’m loving it! 2nd sandisk sansa product :smileyvery-happy:. Anyways I’m new to these forums and I had some question’s About the video on the fuze…I know there are a lot of other topics on this…so err sorry for buggin if I am, soz :-[. Anyways My question are 1. Are you able to make the video’s Full screen withouth the black bars on the top and bottom :-[?(Like the e200 v1’s where you change the folder thingy in the sansa media converter folder to make the video size different?) 2. Anyway to get around the small lag video’s have? (I can live with it if you can’t i guess :X)
err that’s all I can think of now…agian sorry if I’m being annoying :\ I hope no one yells at me .
Ok, your question then is about letterboxing to start with and there is no way I have found to adjust SMC (SAnsa Media Converter)output. Simply said if what youre watching starts with full screen, you will watch it full screen on the fuze.
The lag issue, I assume you mean how the sound falls out of synch with the video you are watching over time, I have seen a lot of discussion on the boards about it and everyone assumes its a firmware glitch. I am not convinced that it is and the reason I say that is I dont see it happen with any rhyme or reason.
I watch ‘Family Guy’ episodes, they are 21 mins long on average. Now about half will be out of synch just a little bit to where its noticable at about min 7 or 8, but the other half play just fine. I watch an episode of ‘Scrubs’, also 21 mins long and I thought I was watching badly dubbed asian television from the very beginning of the show, it was horribly out of whack.
I watched ‘The Dark Knight’ on the Fuze, all 2 1/2 hrs and it never acted up during the whole thing, it was letterboxed and very very tiny but played fine. And that movie is so good, that I was almost half way through it, totally engrossed in it, when a passerby pointed out the letterboxing, I hadnt even noticed it. But it played back beautifully.
So based on that, I dont think its the Fuze itself causing the problem, I think it the SMC causing all the headaches, it is totally inconsistant and unreliable. Half of the videos it converts dont even work. Its made to do one thing, change x parameters to xyz parameters and it can’t do it reliably.
ahh Ok thxs :D…yah the audio sync thingy doesn’t bug me that much :\ i was watching House on it and the video was like 47 mins long about half played fine up until the video got to like 27 mins the audio went out of sync very little didin’t bug me that much cause I was paying more attention on the video then the audio ^^ and I guess I can live with the letterbox stuff on the video. at least the video playback is better then my e200 I’m loving this fuze ! Thxs for the answer and not yelling at me .
I’m glad you got your answer so nicely and quickly.
Just so you know it’s not SMC that’s causing the audio video lag. It’s a conversion to a smaller or condensed format. My coworkers ipod does the same thing and she uses anydvdconverter and it has a setting specific for ipods (of course:neutral_face:) and she has the lag too. Now a player specific for movies or maybe with higher quality might not have the lag. I personally don’t find it too annoying, especially if I’ve saw the movie before. I like watching movies on my Fuze.
Well, when I play some videos, (Happy tree Friends, don’t make any comments about me because of this) I experienced some really bad video lag. I’m not looking at this as a bad thing, it doesn’t overshadow the Fuze’s greatness, but is it the Fuze, or the video? Or more detailed, the video format?
Idk, but since you guys are enjoying watching movies on your Fuzes, I’m thinking about buying a big micro SD card, and put some videos on it, as well as more music.
I don’t think it’s the video format, as I’ve stated before, ipods use a somewhat different format and have the lag too.
I found 8gb cards work good for holding videos, I can get about 10+ movies on there (12 if they’re about 90 minutes each). I haven’t tried a 16gb becuase they’re expensive right now and I can get a few 8gb for the same price.
I don’t think it’s the video format, as I’ve stated before, ipods use a somewhat different format and have the lag too.
I found 8gb cards work good for holding videos, I can get about 10+ movies on there (12 if they’re about 90 minutes each). I haven’t tried a 16gb becuase they’re expensive right now and I can get a few 8gb for the same price.
I can’t wait for a $20 16GB card! Oh wait…I have no choice…lol
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! Thxs for the answer 
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