I Downloaded The First One Off The Link And And It Is A RAR. File And When I Open It Ask Me What Program Do I Want To Open The File Where Is The zip, File Because I Dont See It
I Would Like To Thank tinm & Black-Rectangle For Being The Only Ones Helping Me With This
Video4Fuze Was A Big Success For Me And Works Perfectly The People Who Made This Should Show The Sandisk Company This You Never You Might Get Paid Because This Program Is Way Better Than SMC & Alot Easier
Hey guys,Does this program support WMV videos.Whenever i try to convert a WMV file it shows an error.
Thanks,
SR
From mplayer/mencoder manual:
… It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, ASF/WMA/ WMV , RM, QT/MOV/MP4, Ogg/OGM, MKV, VIVO, FLI, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, …
As WMV is a proprietary format, the library necessary to decode is not distributed with mencoder directly. But I assume you are running windows and have codecs installed. Also there are quite different WMV versions out there, e.g. a newer high definition version WMV-HD. Moreover the video could be DRM encrypted. Hard to know if some of these possible pitfalls apply to your case. Maybe you could provide the error messages from your failed mencoder call?
Also you could try the procedure described here. It uses the excellent free MediaCoder software (which in turn is based on mencoder, ffmpeg and many others) and might include the missing parts.
@struct: thank you, quite good fix, i’ll be implementing it as soon as i’ve some free time
@toniajackson wrote:
What about for luniux Fedora 11 can it be downloaded for this too?
Just do: a) download the tar.g, make sure you have all its dependencies installed (which is very probable if you use kde) and run video4fuze.pyw, OR b) download the deb package and convert it to rpm using alien, then install it. I reccommend a) until the fix from struct is implemented mainstream.
For those with weird problems in weird windows versions: in order to debug it, start video4fuze through a terminal window (cmd.exe is the windos built-in, but its very very very poor), and then paste here it’s output.
I read someone was trying to run video4fuze with pyrhon3: video4fuze is written in python 2, so it won’t work with python 3. If I port it to python3, it would be when eric4 fully supports pyqt4 with python3, and only if I have enough motivation and free time
Also, I would appreciate some help in the fixing of te unicode windows issue (unicode paths won’t work), as I have no clue about how to solve it.
This is a great program but I have 2 concerns with it:
My FUZE crashes whenver I FF a video and I reach the 5:00 mark (around there).The FUZE crashes and gives me the ‘This video format is not supported’ error. edit: I just tested another video, a music video, and it freezes @ the 06:38 mark. Now I have to turn off the the FUZE
Is it possible to change the aspect ratio trough the conversion process? Its kinda annoying watching a 16:9 video on a 4:3 screen, I want to change it to 4:3
Message Edited by smartinez281 on 09-03-2009 08:27 AM
For the aspedct ratio problem, just go to advanced>preferences and there you can freely edit mencoder parameters used by video4fuze. Google around which are the mencoder options you need, and try them in video4fuze.
The forward-freeze issue is strange… it has sure something to do with the mencoder options, but i think ewelot can help you better in that matter.
BTW, right now i’m uploading a new version which also creates the .thm thumbnails for the videos.
This is a great program but I have 2 concerns with it:
@My FUZE crashes whenver I FF a video and I reach the 5:00 mark (around there).The FUZE crashes and gives me the ‘This video format is not supported’ error. edit: I just tested another video, a music video, and it freezes @ the 06:38 mark. Now I have to turn off the the FUZE
Is it possible to change the aspect ratio trough the conversion process? Its kinda annoying watching a 16:9 video on a 4:3 screen, I want to change it to 4:3
Message Edited by smartinez281 on 09-03-2009 08:27 AM
I have had the FF problem until I figured out that I had to split OpenDML standard indexes every 4000 frames. This is achieved by AVI-Mux GUI with the correct settings (see here) and I believe has found its way into video4fuze. Also your 06:38 mark is indicative of the same issue (2x 4000 frames at 1/20 seconds is 06:40). Do you run the latest version of video4fuze?
Also, the aspect ratio should not be an issue. Only if you convert from anamorphic video sources (like many DVD’s) you must use an additional mencoder option: just add ‘-aspect 16:9’ to the command line.
I have had the FF problem until I figured out that I had to split OpenDML standard indexes every 4000 frames. This is achieved by AVI-Mux GUI with the correct settings (see here) and I believe has found its way into video4fuze. Also your 06:38 mark is indicative of the same issue (2x 4000 frames at 1/20 seconds is 06:40). Do you run the latest version of video4fuze?
Not only the latest, it’s been in the avi-mux GUI options that video4fuze uses since it’s beginnings, and it’s hard-coded, so that issue might be something new and different.
@smartinez28: Try converting a problematic video using one of the methods that ewelot explains on his thread, so we can find out if it’s aproblem in the mencoder command-line or avi-mux GUI options, or in video4fuze’s way to pass them to it’s respective backends.
I am a mac user with a Fuze. Can any of you help out with specific instructions on how to get this working on a mac?
Thanks!
Oh, a mac user!
Well, in theory you only need to make sure you have installed python 2.5, PyQt4, PIL, and wine (or darwine if you aren’t on an intel machine… but i’m not very sure if darwine with work out of the box with v4f). It looks like you might have to build them all from source unless you find binaries to install them.
Well, it seems that fink can (should) be your friend, just install with it the packages pil-py25, pyqt4-py25, ffmpeg, wine and mplayer (if mplayer packages includes mencoder, which I don’t know)
EDIT: I just noticed that fink’s PyQt4 version is based on X11 Qt4, not on Mac Qt4, so video4fuze won’t lookt like a native mac application with it. Try with darwinports or any other binaries you can find (being a mac user i assume you should know where to download software for your os). Darwinports PyQt4 version is newer, too. Please, report any failure/succes in mac, as I haven’t had any feedback from that platform.
Message Edited by ssorgatem on 09-04-2009 02:23 PM
Just installed the deb for video4fuze 0.3. Works perfectly. However, I would suggest to add a command line bash script to start fuze.py, similar to /usr/bin/video4fuze. Just in case someone wants to convert from command line and doesnt have pvc.sh installed.
Well–thanks for the quick reply. I am quite unfamiliar with the installation process for all of the items that you mention – but I am up for a challenge ( If I weren’t I may just as well have bought an iPod!).
I am running an Intel based mac. Also, I belive that python comes installed out of the box on a Mac ( so I have read but I haven’t used it). I looked into installing PyQT4, PIL and Wine … and the process look a bit complicated, but I will see what I can do – and do my best to document it if I get it working.
If I can successfully get this up and running I will post the steps that I took.
I’m having the same issue as kaneneville. It seems that, regardless of what output folder is selected, AVI MUX GUI looks for a final.avi in the user’s temp folder, does not find it, and crashes. There is a ‘video.temp.avi’ file that is created in the temp folder, but there seems to be a conflict between the output of mencoder and the input of avimuxgui.
Thanks for your work!
UPDATE: Just for fun, I renamed ‘video.temp.avi’ to ‘final.avi’ and executed the script again. It made it a little farther, but ran into a permissions problem when trying to write ‘video_fuse.avi’ to the drive. Then I changed the output folder to one explicitly in the user directory. It still crashes, but I get an output file. Unfortunately, the fuze says it’s unsupported.
Message Edited by almostpositive on 09-10-2009 11:47 AM
