Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
On 10/17/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK so there are threads on here about the video ipod so I thought this one is ok too. My son was recently given a little mp3 player sourced in Hong Kong. It has a little screen and can play videos as well as music. There is a sample video on the machine when you buy it, and it plays tolerably well. Trouble is i cannot figure out the file format or codecs used so that i can encode video for it. There are some programs on the accompanying CD, but they are all chinese language and for windows. The file has the suffix .mtv and running file on it simply gives the result data. mplayer, xine, ffmpeg, tcprobe all fail to recognise it. The device is branged mp4 and was made somewhere in asia. Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? Have you looked at this thread? http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/7595p1.html ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
Nick Rout wrote: OK so there are threads on here about the video ipod so I thought this one is ok too. My son was recently given a little mp3 player sourced in Hong Kong. It has a little screen and can play videos as well as music. There is a sample video on the machine when you buy it, and it plays tolerably well. Trouble is i cannot figure out the file format or codecs used so that i can encode video for it. There are some programs on the accompanying CD, but they are all chinese language and for windows. The file has the suffix .mtv and running file on it simply gives the result data. mplayer, xine, ffmpeg, tcprobe all fail to recognise it. The device is branged mp4 and was made somewhere in asia. Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? Quote of some stuff I found with Google: The most so called china mp4 devices I'm aware of, support only variations of mtv like dmv or mpx. There is no chance at all to play native wmv or mpg without prior conversion because those devices have neither hardware nor software decoding support. The concept of the mtv format (and all derivates) is, to have an mp3 stream that carries image information that is allready in the format of the display hardware (uncompressed). A hardware mp3 decoder is already in place, the display hardware only need to point to the memory adress of the next image (simple implementation in soft- and hardware). Hope this will help... Gert ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
On 10/17/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK so there are threads on here about the video ipod so I thought this one is ok too. My son was recently given a little mp3 player sourced in Hong Kong. It has a little screen and can play videos as well as music. There is a sample video on the machine when you buy it, and it plays tolerably well. Trouble is i cannot figure out the file format or codecs used so that i can encode video for it. There are some programs on the accompanying CD, but they are all chinese language and for windows. The file has the suffix .mtv and running file on it simply gives the result data. mplayer, xine, ffmpeg, tcprobe all fail to recognise it. The device is branged mp4 and was made somewhere in asia. Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? Do you have access to any windows machine? If so you could use gspot: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:45:42 +0200 Gert van der Knokke wrote: Nick Rout wrote: OK so there are threads on here about the video ipod so I thought this one is ok too. My son was recently given a little mp3 player sourced in Hong Kong. It has a little screen and can play videos as well as music. There is a sample video on the machine when you buy it, and it plays tolerably well. Trouble is i cannot figure out the file format or codecs used so that i can encode video for it. There are some programs on the accompanying CD, but they are all chinese language and for windows. The file has the suffix .mtv and running file on it simply gives the result data. mplayer, xine, ffmpeg, tcprobe all fail to recognise it. The device is branged mp4 and was made somewhere in asia. Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? Quote of some stuff I found with Google: The most so called china mp4 devices I'm aware of, support only variations of mtv like dmv or mpx. There is no chance at all to play native wmv or mpg without prior conversion because those devices have neither hardware nor software decoding support. The concept of the mtv format (and all derivates) is, to have an mp3 stream that carries image information that is allready in the format of the display hardware (uncompressed). A hardware mp3 decoder is already in place, the display hardware only need to point to the memory adress of the next image (simple implementation in soft- and hardware). Hope this will help... Gert Thanks Gert, that makes sense as i have seen people complain that their video files get bigger when theey convert them for use on these devices! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:07:59 -0700 Asher Schaffer wrote: Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? Do you have access to any windows machine? If so you could use gspot: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ gspot cannot figure it out either. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
On 10/19/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:07:59 -0700Asher Schaffer wrote: Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? Do you have access to any windows machine?If so you could use gspot: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/gspot cannot figure it out either. Does mplayer handle it? mplayer will usually give you some clues about the file when it plays it. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:22:45 -0400 Jeff Simpson wrote: On 10/19/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:07:59 -0700 Asher Schaffer wrote: Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? Do you have access to any windows machine? If so you could use gspot: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ gspot cannot figure it out either. Does mplayer handle it? mplayer will usually give you some clues about the file when it plays it. negative -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Way OT but...
OK so there are threads on here about the video ipod so I thought this one is ok too. My son was recently given a little mp3 player sourced in Hong Kong. It has a little screen and can play videos as well as music. There is a sample video on the machine when you buy it, and it plays tolerably well. Trouble is i cannot figure out the file format or codecs used so that i can encode video for it. There are some programs on the accompanying CD, but they are all chinese language and for windows. The file has the suffix .mtv and running file on it simply gives the result data. mplayer, xine, ffmpeg, tcprobe all fail to recognise it. The device is branged mp4 and was made somewhere in asia. Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
run strings filename or look at the first part of the file using a hex editor BillK On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 14:15 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: OK so there are threads on here about the video ipod so I thought this one is ok too. My son was recently given a little mp3 player sourced in Hong Kong. It has a little screen and can play videos as well as music. There is a sample video on the machine when you buy it, and it plays tolerably well. Trouble is i cannot figure out the file format or codecs used so that i can encode video for it. There are some programs on the accompanying CD, but they are all chinese language and for windows. The file has the suffix .mtv and running file on it simply gives the result data. mplayer, xine, ffmpeg, tcprobe all fail to recognise it. The device is branged mp4 and was made somewhere in asia. Any ideas on how to figure out how this stuff is encoded and packaged? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Way OT but...
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:44:09 +0800
W.Kenworthy wrote:
run strings filename
or look at the first part of the file using a hex editor
BillK
AMVC{binary garbage}ACTIONS{binary garbage}.TL2005/05/11/10:09:54
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