[v0.4.1]video4fuze [Outdated]

well i wrote some nice comment and my PC BSOD’d so here i go again…

well, dude, i really apreciate your work, and we are all greatful for your software, but seriously, can’t you give me link to older version that may work better? for me i m quite dissapointed from this all ordeal, i had great expectations from the Fuze, and the most dissapponiting thing about this is that were are discussing it on sandisk’s forums, not anythingbutipod or any gadget related forum. official sandisk forum, and we got no single “sorry, we screwd up” message from the dev team or something like that. in my opinion i got somewhat ripped off, as tough it not marketed as a real PMP, more of enhanced DAP, it’s still very shameful. and if i would have bought it directly from sandisk, and not retailer (here in israel there no sansa store), i would have probably have sued sansa, or would have tried to get my money back with legal actions.

Achiron, why do you think anyone at a voluntary forum wants to hear your rants and threats?  From my experience, dev teams rarely visit the forums associated with the products for which they’re writing code.  They’re too busy.  Probably writing code.

Your first sentence tells me that your PC is a half-functional wreck.  It BSOD’s on a regular basis?  You think that might have something to do with the problems you’re experiencing?  I take care of my PC’s.  Haven’t seen a BSOD in a year or more.

ss has put his own time and effort into trying to help people, and it seems to me that we oughta be more thankful.  And more philosophical.  I mean, Microsoft can’t build software that runs on every PC on the planet.  

i take great care of my computer. it bsod’d because of the avast coliding with the NL as i tried to figure a solution instead of shutting the NL off. the avast tech support said get rid of the NL. what caan i do there are no decent substitutes. if the dev team are busy writing code, i would love to hear that they fixed theyr screwd up converter.

besides, my complaints went to sandisk. i was quite greatful for ss’s efforts, all i asked was for older version, as i couldnt figure out i can see older versions on the download page.

could you please define the commands? i love to play with those to make videos perfect.

i think video br shouldn’t pass 650kbps … what do you think?

-vf pp=li,expand

-af

harddup -

-ovc lavc

-lavcopts

vmax_b_frames=X:keyint=X   -  how far can you max them out? what does it do?

:turbo:

-srate

@bwxp2 wrote:

could you please define the commands? i love to play with those to make videos perfect.

i think video br shouldn’t pass 650kbps … what do you think?

  1. I’d like to encourage you to experiment by yourself. In this case your first stop is the mplayer/mencoder manual.

  2. I think you could use smaller video bitrate, say 500kbps without loosing any visible details.

I am new to the sansa community here myself. My 8 yo daughter bought the Fuze becuase she wanted an mp3 player and well this one is supposed to play video. After a few hours i was able to use any video converter and SMC to transfer 2 movies onto the Fuze. But since then i had to do a hard drive recovery, thanks kids, and now that same way will not work. I get the video onto the fuze or the memory card and it will play for a short time and then freeze up. I have downloaded a number of different programs and tried them. Such as Video4Fuze, DVDfab, Anyvideoconverter and they all end up doing the same thing. Im not sure what to do. i am not what you would call computer savy. Any help would be appreciated. I have read through and tried different things that have been posted. I don’t know what i am doing wrong. Thanks all.

Let me add thanks to those who are trying and have been able to come up with a way to make us able to go through this process without SMC or at least giving us a choice of which way to go. Unfortunately for me after a few more days of trying I still cannot get it to work with a movie. I have taken a disc that i had recorded different episodes of a cartoon on and ran it through DVDFab and then through SMC and it worked, but then tried a movie and yet again it decides to freeze up after sometimes just a few seconds but no more than a minute or so. I then tried it through Video4Fuze and it did the same thing. I a, you can say, computer illiterate so i don’t understand alot of what is being said about different codes and playing around with the different settings or whatever.

I guess my question is, is there something that i should be doing, or changing that maybe i am not? I have just opened the program and ran it through without changing things.

I just tried the video4fuze for Windows, and I was able finally get videos on my fuze! Thank you!

Hello and thanks for video4fuze.  It seems to work great but I have some problems with video results.

I tried adjusting the Preferences as described in one of the previous posts but I still get the same problems - fast forward by holding the ff button results in either a hang of the Fuze or the unsupported media message or simply a return to the list of videos.

The other way that I convert videos works quite well but requires the last step to be SMC (blah!).  Typically I use Handbrake, MPEG Stream Clip, SMC in sequence.   The resulting movie has no problems at all but it is a bit on the large size almost 600Mbytes for a 1.5hr movie and, as you can imagine, takes forever to produce. 

Has there been any recent developments on video4fuze or the parameters to get rid of the fast forward problem?

Thanks.

Hello and thanks for video4fuze.  It seems to work great but I have some problems with video results.

I tried adjusting the Preferences as described in one of the previous posts but I still get the same problems - fast forward by holding the ff button results in either a hang of the Fuze or the unsupported media message or simply a return to the list of videos.

The other way that I convert videos works quite well but requires the last step to be SMC (blah!).  Typically I use Handbrake, MPEG Stream Clip, SMC in sequence.   The resulting movie has no problems at all but it is a bit on the large size almost 600Mbytes for a 1.5hr movie and, as you can imagine, takes forever to produce. 

Has there been any recent developments on video4fuze or the parameters to get rid of the fast forward problem?

Thanks.

I forgot to mention that repeatedly clicking generally produces similar results.  Typically the fuze will hang. 

Thanks again,

– Chris

omg i have been trying for days to get video onto the fuze consistantly … like things that work all of a sudden dont work anymore… and i was all happy to find this thinking it would work for sure  so then i converted one video but then at the end it failed

ever since then whenever i hit the “convert” button, it says   An error has occured [error 193] %1 is not a valid win32 application.  ive uninstalled and reinstalled it so im thinking its gotta be the encoder or something? any suggestion on how to fix this thing?

I just signed up just to personally thank you. Its so much fast. Its only took 25 min for a 1 1/2 hour video. What you have done here is very much apperciated!

Message Edited by jchap01 on 12-13-2009 08:21 PM

@mj76 wrote:

omg i have been trying for days to get video onto the fuze consistantly … like things that work all of a sudden dont work anymore… and i was all happy to find this thinking it would work for sure  so then i converted one video but then at the end it failed

 

ever since then whenever i hit the “convert” button, it says   An error has occured [error 193] %1 is not a valid win32 application.  ive uninstalled and reinstalled it so im thinking its gotta be the encoder or something? any suggestion on how to fix this thing?

Hum, that’s a pretty obscure error. If only microsoft were more explicitly with ther error naming…

Open an issue in video4fuze’s googlecode site, describing your problem and reporting OS version and anything you could think might be useful.

ATM, I have no idea bout that problem…

There are also some people reporting an Error 02, in both windows and linux, but I haven’t still been able to reproduce it… (see issue 13 on video4fuze’s site)

About development: I’m busier than ever. I really wish I had time to invest in video4fuze’s development, but, ATM it’s not the case. You might see a new release this christmas, though :slight_smile:

hi, thanks for the reply and i didnt mean about how to fix your program, only about the error message i had.  it seems like it has been working good for most people here so i dont think its your program really lol. thanks for putting it out… anyways, i uninstalled SMC, v4Fuze, my k-lite mega codec pack, ran 3 different registry cleaners then reinstalled SMC, V4F, k-lite mega codec packs.  this time the when i hit the convert button the dos screen pops up and starts up mencoder and ffmpeg and what not… but then at the very end (i guess when its going to mux the video or something) i get this error message (see pic).  i guess its not recognizing the directory or wanting to create the file or something? seems like this might be something easy to get sorted out if i knew what i was doing.  not sure if it matters but im on hp hdx notebook/windows 7 ultimate (64 bit)/core2 quad cpu q9000/geforce9600/4gb ram  thanks alot for writing the program im sure i might eventually get it (or something working) i cant even get smc to accept any files after reencoding all files to 224x176 20 fps 500 bitrate and ive tried SUPER, media coder, xvid codec, divx codec, .mp4, mov, .wmv (i had .mov on media coder working for one file now SMC wont take those files anymore either lol… oh well  .

ssorgatem,

Thanks for coming up with this program.

I was having problems with the sound and video matching after converting videos with SMC. I downloaded video4fuze and was able to convert without that problem. Thanks.

The one bug I found while playing the video on the Fuze using video4fuze, is that when I fast forward the video stops at 3 min, 16 sec and goes back to the ‘Video List’. At that point if I re-select the video I was watching, it does not ask me if I want to ‘Resume Playback’ or ‘Start from the Beginning’. It just starts from the beginning.

If I let the video play at normal playback, it will play all the way through. If I stop the video during normal playback and go back to the video list, I do get the prompt asking if I want to ‘Resume Playback’ or ‘Start from the Beginning’. 

I am running Win XP SP2. I’ve tried this on video lengths from 5 min. to 2 hours. It also doesn’t seem to make a difference what format I am converting from.I have tried loading it into the 8gb internal memory as well as the 8gb transcend micro sc card.

I don’t know anything about writing code, but I bet it can get frustrating and time consuming.

Thanks for all your hard work and time putting this program together.

Wishing you and everyone on the board a great Holliday season.

Ring

I have MAC OS 10.4.  I ran Crossover for Mac which makes a kind of virtual WindowsXP environment in a “Bottle” where I ran the video4fuze.exe installer.  I successfully converted a video that was already an appropriate size for the Fuze, ie. dimensions 224x176, 20 fps, and the converter made a file that I dragged into the video folder of the Fuze, and it works well.  I am now attempting to convert a larger file to see if it forces the neccessary dimensions and so forth.

CrossOver is a trademark of CodeWeavers, Inc

Unfortunately, under these conditions, the buttons have no text, but the left one allows you to select a file to convert, the middle selects the destination, and the right one removes files from the list.  The one on the bottom initiates the conversion, subsequently a window appears showing the progress of the conversion until it finishes.  You can go to the output directory through a standard finder window and move/copy/manipulate the file.

I just finished converting a widescreen 600MB video file with this converter and it made a 317MB file doing an excellent job reducing the size to fit.  THe picture quality is very good, of course it is 317mb.  This conversion took about 10-15 minutes for movie of 1hr 17 min duration.   I am very impressed.

Message Edited by mightyfletch on 12-23-2009 08:20 AM

Hi, Ringwood -

I also posted regarding this problem.  If you read back you’ll see it’s a shared glitch.  Who knows if the root of the problem is in the Sansa’s brains or in the vid4fuze code or what.  There are so many moving parts involved in getting from Point A to Point B!

It’s not a deal-breaker for me.  It’d be great to have the problem go away, but until then I’m just thankful for a tool I can use in Linux or Windows.

BTW, how come you’re still running SP2 instead of SP3?

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I am always a little hesitant to do windows upgrade untill I know all the benifits. I just haven’t really looked into the benifits of SP3. Do you have any insite or advice in the differances between SP2 and SP3? Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks, Happy holidays and Happy New Year.

Ring

Telkwa and Ringwood, I’ve run into the three minute problem on my v2 Fuz, but not on my v1. I use 2.02.26 and 1.02.28 respectively, as those are the newest clean firmware versions. I hope that the cleaned-up 2.02.28 is available soon.

Anyway, the same video gives me different results depending on Fuze firmware.

Great work!

i also found out something intresting, you can encode to 1000kbps bitrate and play it back on fuze, its only restricted to 20fps framerate

atm am playing a 1000kbps DX50 file with 64kbps mp3 audio, i also tested a 500kbps DX50 file with 64kbps audio to

both encoded with video4fuze 

Message Edited by wiak on 12-29-2009 12:40 AM

First of all, thanks a lot for this nice program ssorgatem. All videos I have thrown at it converted nicely and played well on my Fuze.

Please allow me to make a couple of suggestions/observations that would make v4f even better for me personally (all these apply to the Windows version):

  • Provide a version without an installer. Just a zip would be fine. The installer adds little and for me has no added value.

  • Don’t use the registry for storing your settings. An ini file in the application’s folder would work just as well.

  • The vcredist_x86.exe in the installer leaves 24 (temporary) files in my system disks’s ‘root’. You must have included it for a reason, but this is fixed in the ‘2008 SP1’ package (which unfortunately is 4MB big now).

  • Why are files created with v4f titled ‘boladedracz’? 

That’s all really. Great work and don’t take my remarks the wrong way :slight_smile:

@7o9 wrote:

First of all, thanks a lot for this nice program ssorgatem. All videos I have thrown at it converted nicely and played well on my Fuze.

 

Please allow me to make a couple of suggestions/observations that would make v4f even better for me personally (all these apply to the Windows version):

 

  • Provide a version without an installer. Just a zip would be fine. The installer adds little and for me has no added value.
  • Don’t use the registry for storing your settings. An ini file in the application’s folder would work just as well.
  • The vcredist_x86.exe in the installer leaves 24 (temporary) files in my system disks’s ‘root’. You must have included it for a reason, but this is fixed in the ‘2008 SP1’ package (which unfortunately is 4MB big now).
  • Why are files created with v4f titled ‘boladedracz’? 

 

That’s all really. Great work and don’t take my remarks the wrong way :slight_smile:

Wow, that title issue really surprises me. I think I had a video named boladedracz.mp4 which was one of the first tests I threw at v4f. But I have no clue about how has it’s name been conserved… xD

Python 2.6 requires vcredist_x86 to be installed, so that’s why it is included.  I’ll look into including that newer version if it fixes that.

Using a INI file instead of using the registry is an easy one, shoulnd’t take more than10 lines of code. It already uses INI files on non-windows non-OSX OSes.

I already provide a version without installer, without python, without PyQt, without mencoder, without ffmpeg, without and well, just only v4f itself…  but I see that a zip like previous versions would be more useful ;).

Unfortunately I’m not having as many time these days as I had expected to, and therefore you shouldn’t expect any development until late january or early february (I’m having exams in january, so I practically won’t be a person until I’ve done them).

However, i encourage everyone to post any issue or suggestion for v4f in it’s issue tracker in googlecode, because there it’s far easier to track, sort, and see them.

Oh, and have a happy new year :wink: