SMC video format e200v2

Another update… The following procedure has been giving consistently perfect results with large avi files (movies) on my Windows XP SP2 computer.

  1. Download and install AviDemux from here: Avidemux download

  2. Open the avi file in Avidemux and accept any suggestion to “fix” the avi. It may offer to unpack packed bitstreams, rebuild a frame index or something else: just accept it. It usually takes about one to two minutes to do its maintenance. Then, on the left side, make sure Video and Audio are set to “Copy” and Format is set to “AVI, unpack VOP.” See the image below. Press “Ctrl S” to save the video. It will take about 5 minutes to complete the job.

Avidemux

  1. Create a preset in WinFF as described by themichael and process the avi as fixed by Avidemux. It will take about 40 minutes on a dual core 3 GHz computer (your mileage may vary). Watch the DOS window: it should be very clean, with no error messages, like this:

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4.Run the output of the WinFF job through Sansa Media Converter to transfer it to your Sansa e200v.

For me, this is the end of “out of sync” videos.