alkizmo
16th March 2007, 15:52
Hi! Long time reader, first time poster. I have no choice but to post since I couldnt find the answer from searching the forums :p
I got this cheap hard drive media player from ebay. It obviously had no branding, no real user's manual and... well... it was really cheap to buy :p
I can play a lot of divx/xvid videos I got, but when a video does not work, I can't seem to make it work by converting it!
Most of the videos that don't work actually will play for a few seconds and then stop. If I use fast foward, I can resume the playback beyond the specific point where it would stop. However, it will eventually stop playing again. The points where the video playback is interupted are fixed (fixed per unique video file, it is not the same point globally)
Another type of incompatibility is that the video will play without interuption, but there will be a SIGNIFICANT blue tint to everything. It's either a blue tint, or some sort of reversed coloring that makes everything look blue-ish.
No matter which codec I use to reencode the videos, the problem stays. Same "stop" point, or same blue-ish tint. It's as if the problem is deeper than just the codec.
I can't use any other converter than Xilisoft or JetAudio because those are the only ones that seem to work on my computer. After 3 different clean installation of windows, I can't seem to shake off an encoding problem I face when using WinAVI or GordiaKnot.
The problem is that the conversion will ONLY do audio! WinAVI will show me a good preview as it converts, but it's converting at 150-350FPS... and the resulting file is audio only :| That is the same whether I use FFDSHOW or Divx or Xvid.
So im thinking that the video files have some incompatible data inside of them that is kept throughout encodings.
If you want to know which HDD Media player I use, I tried to ID the chipset on the board, all I could come up with was that "SIPURA" made it. I couldn't read more on it because the whole chipset's surface was sanded down to actually erase all information on it. I could only faintly read "SIPURA" on it :p Yet SIPURA only makes VoIP chipsets :O
The control menu when usin the HDD player looks like this
http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/dfw2u/L69C.jpg
I dont know if anyone can identify this firmware :p
I got this cheap hard drive media player from ebay. It obviously had no branding, no real user's manual and... well... it was really cheap to buy :p
I can play a lot of divx/xvid videos I got, but when a video does not work, I can't seem to make it work by converting it!
Most of the videos that don't work actually will play for a few seconds and then stop. If I use fast foward, I can resume the playback beyond the specific point where it would stop. However, it will eventually stop playing again. The points where the video playback is interupted are fixed (fixed per unique video file, it is not the same point globally)
Another type of incompatibility is that the video will play without interuption, but there will be a SIGNIFICANT blue tint to everything. It's either a blue tint, or some sort of reversed coloring that makes everything look blue-ish.
No matter which codec I use to reencode the videos, the problem stays. Same "stop" point, or same blue-ish tint. It's as if the problem is deeper than just the codec.
I can't use any other converter than Xilisoft or JetAudio because those are the only ones that seem to work on my computer. After 3 different clean installation of windows, I can't seem to shake off an encoding problem I face when using WinAVI or GordiaKnot.
The problem is that the conversion will ONLY do audio! WinAVI will show me a good preview as it converts, but it's converting at 150-350FPS... and the resulting file is audio only :| That is the same whether I use FFDSHOW or Divx or Xvid.
So im thinking that the video files have some incompatible data inside of them that is kept throughout encodings.
If you want to know which HDD Media player I use, I tried to ID the chipset on the board, all I could come up with was that "SIPURA" made it. I couldn't read more on it because the whole chipset's surface was sanded down to actually erase all information on it. I could only faintly read "SIPURA" on it :p Yet SIPURA only makes VoIP chipsets :O
The control menu when usin the HDD player looks like this
http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/dfw2u/L69C.jpg
I dont know if anyone can identify this firmware :p