Nazo
10th May 2006, 22:00
I'm having troubles finding exact specifics on the encoding used for the Sansa e250. It appears to be using QuickTime, but, it's not doing a good job of it with the program that comes with the player (the video is shrunk even smaller than the display, and the audio sounds like someone tried to record it on a microphone.) The official QuickTime player/encoder itself can't open hardly any of my AVI files (or, more importantly, it won't touch my AVISynth scripts at all -- even if I use MakeAVIS to add an AVI container to the scripts which fools most dumber programs.)
I'm hoping I can figure out a way to make my own encodes. I could easily make much better quality (especially the audio which is just terrible) if I could do any of it myself. I know it says it supports many formats in the details, but, I'm thinking they just mean their conversion program supports all these. Does anyone know where I might find more specific details about what it will support? Alternately, is there any way I can make QuickTime video files without QuickTime? I never thought it possible before I got this player, but, considering that their software isn't even made by Apple or anything (what with it being competition for the iPod and all) I really doubt that it in any way directly or indirectly uses the QuickTime player. I know some encoders like mencoder support a lot of formats and containers, but, I don't know if any at all can do the QuickTime MOV container. Or, better yet, if the player can actually do some other format besides that, then I'd be even better off obviously. Even if I can come up wtih something that supports the correct container, I need to know what codecs, video format, etc this thing requires. Honestly, SanDisk's information in this respect is sadly lacking.
I know video playback isn't worth much on these things with such a tiny display, and I may even give up on it for video (in which case I may have to just take it back since that was a large part of what I wanted) but, I'd like to at least try to see what it can do if the video is done correctly instead.
I'm hoping I can figure out a way to make my own encodes. I could easily make much better quality (especially the audio which is just terrible) if I could do any of it myself. I know it says it supports many formats in the details, but, I'm thinking they just mean their conversion program supports all these. Does anyone know where I might find more specific details about what it will support? Alternately, is there any way I can make QuickTime video files without QuickTime? I never thought it possible before I got this player, but, considering that their software isn't even made by Apple or anything (what with it being competition for the iPod and all) I really doubt that it in any way directly or indirectly uses the QuickTime player. I know some encoders like mencoder support a lot of formats and containers, but, I don't know if any at all can do the QuickTime MOV container. Or, better yet, if the player can actually do some other format besides that, then I'd be even better off obviously. Even if I can come up wtih something that supports the correct container, I need to know what codecs, video format, etc this thing requires. Honestly, SanDisk's information in this respect is sadly lacking.
I know video playback isn't worth much on these things with such a tiny display, and I may even give up on it for video (in which case I may have to just take it back since that was a large part of what I wanted) but, I'd like to at least try to see what it can do if the video is done correctly instead.