[v0.4.1]video4fuze [Outdated]

Though this may not help at all, dvdfab or dvdfad (not exactly sure what the name is) is a great program my mom uses to rip her dvds. I’m not sure where you can download it but i know its free. Theres plenty of dvdrippers available on the internet. Just make sure that the you use video4fuze in the finally conversion. By the way, does anyone know if video4fuze can convert .rmvb files?

What file format is the video your trying to convert? Another program i recommend is alltoavi. It literally converts any video format (that i know of -_-') to avi so that you can then use video4fuze

Momz–

Don’t buy a video converter. There are lots of free ones. 

@nameee wrote:

ok i figured out how to do this, at least with these programs and OS, i followed mostly this tutorial but did some modifying:

 

first i used mediacoder 7.2.4550 + the latest  avimux-gui 1.17.8 (ran in winxp sp2 compatability with vista)

 

you can get the version of mediacoder here and avimux here

 

for the video settings i changed some things like a 2pass encoding and used mp3 instead of aac, also the video aspect …download the preset here

 

so basically install mediacoder and then load this preset and add some video files… then just click start… 

 

then open up avimux-gui and  change the settings to this:

 

 

drag and drop the videos that mediacoder converted, then just highlight the video,press generate data source from files, then click start…

 

 thats pretty much it, just drag the finished video to the fuze video folder and thats about it…

 

you can also make some changes to the video settings if you want to: 

 

if maybe you have a slow pc you can always change the encoder settings to constant bitrate if you just want it to encode the video 1 times, but the file sizes might come out a little bit bigger, also you can change the video bitrate if you want smaller files, i tried making the bitrate smaller for videos with a lot of bright colors and lots of movement but that doesnt seem to stop the fuze from laggin a bit:

 

 

for the video ratio i made it so the whole video will fit and include letterbars so it wont look streched, you can change the settings to make it stretched or letterbox it so you get the whole screen with picture… you can do whatever you want:

 

 

 

i havent tried these other video settings so i dont know if theyll work but you always try em, also i have no idea how make thumbnails on either the videos or music, so dont expect any :frowning:

i made a video tutorial for this post

Whoa… this is getting kinda exciting…

momz,

You can accomplish this with the free WinX DVD Ripper software, don’t know why this seemed to appear otherwise…  see  http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-ripper/   

Use the Free Download Tab about halfway down the page, right next to the User Guide Tab which gives basic instructions on how to use.

You can also Google topics such as best free DVD Rippers, DVD ripper tutorials, DVD Ripper wiki to obtain more general info about DVD ripping operations and software options…

Message Edited by Bucko on 01-29-2010 12:17 PM

Thank you all so much!  Although I haven’t been able to successfully convert a dvd and transfer it to the Fuze, I am sure in time I’ll get it!  I am having trouble finding a dvd in our collection that is not encrypted (when I place a dvd in the computer the WinX dvd ripper says that the free edition does not support this encrypted disc, for that I must upgrade to Platinum)- is there a way around this or is there some kind of notation on the disc that I should be looking for?  Again, I appreciate all of you who have taken your time to explain and show me how to do this.  I won’t give up!  The more information shared, the better!  With my utmost gratitude- Momz

I haven’t run into this issue although admittedly I rip very little video for such a tiny screen as the Fuze, mostly I wanted to learn the process.

From what you have said it appears that one option would be the WinX DVD Ripper Platinum upgrade (assuming this works for you) or choose different free DVD ripper software. Getting the DVD video converted and installed on any of the media players (not just the Fuze) does require this initial ripping process so you have to discover the tools to make this work for the DVD sources that interest you.

Here’s more of a step by step using WinX DVD Ripper Platinum.  Start WinX DVD Ripper Platinum.  Put a DVD in your computer’s CD/DVD drive (close any extra windows like WMP or windows explorer that come up).  In WinX, click on ‘DVD Disk’ to load the disk into the ripper.  Sometimes WinX will recognize the DVD without you doing anything, especially if you put the DVD into your computer after you’ve launched WinX.  To the right of the little viewing screen in WinX, select the ‘Title’ you want to rip in the title column.  Hint, it’s usually the longest title on the DVD, WinX should find the right one. Just below that but still to the right of the screen, select the Output Folder for where you want to put the ripped video file so you can find it later.  WinX will name the file based on the Title you selected in the previous step.  Below the little screen in WinX, click on the ‘To MP4’ tab and enter the following settings:

Audio Quality: 128

Audio Sample Rate: 44100

Volume: + 2 db

Format: aac

Video quality: 700 Kbps

Video Frame Rate: 23.97

Format: MPEG4

Output Image Setting: Custom Size and Keep Aspect Ratio

Video Resolution 320:240

Click ‘Start’  Another window should open indicating WinX is ripping.  Once it’s done, the main folder should open.  Click on the appropriate subfolder and find the new file WinX just created.  The file name should look something like the name of the title you ripped.

Open video4fuze.  Click on ‘Add Files…’ and locate your ripped video file from the location you entered in one of the above steps, a double click should add it to the list in video4fuze.  Click on the ‘Select output folder’ in the next button, locate the folder where you want to put the Fuze video file and click OK. Press the ‘Convert’ button below the picture of the Fuze and wait.  video4fuze will open a couple of windows while it’s doing it’s thing, some of them will say ‘skipping frame’ over and over again.  Ignore all of those.  Once video4fuze is done, you should be able to find a file with the same name of the video you want converted except ‘_fuze’ has been added to the file name.  Drag/drop or otherwise relocate this file to your fuze and it should play.

Message Edited by TomJensen on 02-22-2010 10:12 AM

TomJensen wrote: With the Fuze 220x176 res, you probably won’t notice much difference anyway.

That and the 20fps mean it’s better to do it simple and cheap than get uptight about fidelity.  Momz have you got this working yet?

Message Edited by Rob22315 on 01-30-2010 10:45 AM

Message Edited by Rob22315 on 01-30-2010 10:47 AM

i run on vista and dont know how to “run it under Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode”, can someone explain this to me?  i have had my fuze for over a year and have yet to figure out how to run videos on it, but i am determined to learn how…

Hi, I downloaded this to help put my movies onto the sansa or a memory card and all I get is error messages. I have tried so many ways to do this and have failed at all! I must be missing something…

Can you help, if you have time?:neutral_face:

What have you tried (which apps, what steps) and where did they fail?  Since I use two steps when I convert, I can verify the first step (DVD rip) worked by playing the video in WMP.  For the second step (convert to fuze), the converters are a little quirky but the resulting video can also be played in WMP to test them out.  I guess there’s a third step too - loading into the fuze.

You’ll have to provide a little more info to figure out what’s not working.

Hi there all!  Thank you so much for the help and words of wisdom!  I haven’t had the time to sit down and go through the process yet, but I am eager to try!  I will give it a go this Friday and let you all know how it turns out.  Again thank you all, I am sure others who were in my position find all your kindness very helpful too!  Most sincerely- momz

Speaking as a guy with little understanding of codecs and video coding, and program coding, I have several .flv music videos… will V4F convert those? And will it keep the aspect ratio?

  1. Maybe. Mencoder, the actual tool which V4F is a front-end for, can handle FLVs and most every other container and codec known to man. But V4F’s implementation is very limited, probably only to AVIs. It didn’t work with VOB when I tried.

  2. No. V4F by default will stretch widescreen vids vertically to fit Fuze’s 4:3 LCD. Typically, 16:9 is handled on 4:3 screens w/ letterboxing. The mencoder command for this is

-vf scale=224:128 -vf-add expand=:176    (for 16:9 AR)
-vf scale=224:96  -vf-add expand=:176    (for 2.35 AR)

You’ll need to replace relevant parts of V4F’s default params. For more info, look up mencoder docs.

After a long time trying i finally figured out how to solve the 3 minutes seek barrier (seeking with the forward button pressed would crash at 3:20).

The problem was in the default AVIMux script used by video4fuze.

I just had to change three lines:

AVI FIXDX50 0

AVI RIFFAVISIZE 1024

STDIDX 3072 FRAMES

To find these three lines was a lot of work!

Try it out guys! If this works for everyone, let’s hope it will be in the next version of video4fuze.

Message Edited by TomJensen on 05-03-2010 06:21 PM