iriverter - A Simple Cross-Platform Video Converter

[debaire]

For me, I did Options -> Advanced -> Audio Sync and did 200ms before the video because it was a bit off. I don't know how much yours is off but you will need to experiment.

[BlaqReaper]

Originally Posted by Nickc

Hey people i only just got an iriver the other day and iv updated the firmware to verson 1.29 and it can play videos but the audio is out of time with the video and i was wondering if anyone could help me. i am using VD for all my videos.
Thanks Nick

To get the best (in general audio sync) go under options > bitrate and set video to 322 and audio to 128. Under advanced options there should also be an auto sync. Try that and it should be fairly good.

[thugzlife]

I'm having a problem with ireverter. I am trying to copy a DVD and when I select the dvd function it checks all the titles or chapters and will show the chapters in the chapters function but when I hit the convert button the pop up comes up and says it's gathering info from the dvd but it never does anything. That pop up stays up indefinately but never shows anything in the status bar. The dvd drive light stays on for a minute then goes off and that's it. I let it run for hours and nothing. No error, no movement in the status bar and no conversion. I deleted my old ireverter and d/l ed the newest one, I reinstalled the x-vid codec, I tried it on other computers, I even tried to convert a dvd I had already converted succesfully but no dice. Any help would be appreciated. J

[Souljacker13]

would it be possible to be able to convert RMVB files on the iriverter program? im completely hopeless on a pc, so bear with me and my lack of computer literacy. if there is anyway or if you could make it functional that would be great. thanks for ya time.

[DD]

Originally Posted by BlaqReaper

To get the best (in general audio sync) go under options > bitrate and set video to 322 and audio to 128. Under advanced options there should also be an auto sync. Try that and it should be fairly good.

He said he's using Virtual Dub (VD) not iriverter. Why he posted that in the iriverter thread ?

@nickc...
Try using iriverter (what this thread is about) and use the settings BlaqReaper used above. It should work a treat.

[Raz]

i used hte porgram but my mp3 doesn't recognise it. I'm using rockbox.

[Jolt]

I'm using rockbox.

That right there would be your main problem.

RockBox does not support video playback as of yet, and may not for a while.

Try using your converted files with the Iriver Firmware

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[Raz]

thx that explains it.

[crescendo]

Originally Posted by Drummo

Last night i spent near 2 hours sifting through this thread looking for a solution to my problem. The problem was that converted .WMV files were ending up greyscale and running at about 0.3 fps.

I was running ver 1.25 of the firmware on my h340 and version .14 of iRiverter.

The solution i found after reading a helpful post ( i appologise for forgetting the posters name ) was to remove version .14 of iRiverter and instead run .13r1. At first i had an issue as i downloaded version .13 which ended up giving me an entirely new issue, i did manage to track down version .13r1 ( i am not aware of any links to hosts of older versions of iRiverter ) on sourceforge by going to the .14 download screen and editing the filename in the url. I just needed to change the 14.exe to 13r1.exe and this gave me the d/l page for the version i needed.

Since running 13r1 i have had no issues with wmv files or any other format. They have all converted fine, and there are no greyscale / poor fps issues.

I downloaded various animation content from the web (mostly quicktime) and they all seemed to work fine except this one: http://video.blur.com/quicktime/480x..._broke_480.mov. The colors at the beginning and occasionally in the middle would turn yellow. If you compare the original .mov to the smaller .avi, you can clearly see a difference. Switched back to .13r1 and it made all the difference.

I gave up on iriverter for a while because of this problem and tried exploring other options to get content on my portable player, but after resolving this, I am very glad to be back. iriverter is a really great piece of software - easy to use but lots of functionality. Great design and implementation!

Question for Mr. Static Void - You developed with Java and SWT, right? How did you get the EXE wrapper around Java? Is the code all pure Java or, as someone mentioned, does it also use the .NET framework?

[flostre]

I've searched this thread, but there seems to be nothing about my problem:

With Version 0.14 under Windows XP, mencoder keeps crashing. I haven't yet encoded a single file. I was going to try different versions of mencoder, but found out I couldn't tell how to tell iriverter which mencoder.exe to choose. At one time, I had the files C:\Program Files\mplayer-newest\mencoder.exe and C:\Program Files\mplayer-dev\mencoder.exe and still iriverter neither encountered problems finding an mencoder.exe, neither did it tell me which one it picked.

Is there a way to avoid these mencoder-crashes?

flostre

PS: Since this thread has 1100+ replies, wouldn't it be appropriate to make some new folders in the forum like "iriverter windows problems", "iriverter mac problems", "iriverter praise", "iriverter suggestions/feature requests"?

[ramian]

Hi,

I've been using iRiverter to convert vids for my ZVM and I've got a question. I've created a profile for my player by copying the pmp.profile and changing a few things.

The question I have is about the line:
dimensions=320x240 512x384 640x480
and how it works within the program itself.

Under options > Video Size >, I can tick all three video sizes (instead of the norm in most other programs where I'd just be able to select 1 option). Does having all 3 ticked mean the program will detect the original video dimensions and encode it accordingly?

Take for example if I have 2 videos in a directory, A (320x240) and B (512x384). Regardless of the way I select the videos to be converted (either by selecting the directory or by selecting 2 single files), if I have both the video sizes ticked (320x240 and 512x384), would iRiverter be able to output video A and B to their respective sizes?

Let's say I only tick (512x384), am I right to assume that both video A and B would be resized to the ticked video size and likewise if I were to only tick (320x240) or (640x480)?

Thanks!

[Maneesh]

I downloaded IRiverter 0.15 and it just keeps crashing....just wouldn't run. It worked perfectly fine earlier (before I re-installed Windows XP)

Please help....any suggestions

[Awesomeman]

I've just recently bought a PMP 120 and have all my music working fine on it. I've used iriverter to convert my video files (i've used it for avi, wmv and rmbv files) but while the picture comes up perfectly clear, the sound is scratchy and distorted. Almost exactly like the sound from a dodgy NES emulator.
The machine is fantastic but it's disappointing not being able to play video's on it .
Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Megami]

I'm having quite a bit of problems getting this to work on my H320; details follow:

1.29k firmware (converted from 1.04US)
Themed for the blood theme
Iriverter v0.15
And a small music video of about 50MB

I've converted the video with the specs listed in the IRiverter helpfile,
and that turns out excellent. The problem is when I store it on the H320
and then go find it... it doesn't even show anything there.
I made a couple folders in the process "videos/CoF/musicvideo here"

Nothing I try seems to work right
Please help if you can

[DD]

Are you going into video mode through the functions menu (holding down record)? As of 1.29 you don't play video through the music mode/menu/whatever you call it.

[Megami]

I never knew there was one... I only had the info on the US version
That works

Although.. I think the audio may be a little too fast for the video.. I dunno for sure.. is there something to check this and fix it?

I know this is a bit off-topic but it seems the only place to get an answer
I know for a fact the H320 plays .m3u playlists... but I can never get to
them so I can use them... They are sitting in the root dir and in the the music folder

[Adreacia]

I got my iRiver H340 a few days ago, and I'm trying to get movies on it. I downloaded iRiverter and put all the info in, but it seems to be taking forever... Is this normal?

At the bottom of the conversion window, it says: Converting at 14 FPS with about 195 minutes remaining. 0.o That's just over 3 hrs!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Astec]

Depending on your PC it will take a varying amount of time, basically you computer has to pain each individual frame of the film each time. bit by bit It is intense on the PC. Also running other things will add to the time taken, most swear by just doing it overnight. PCs of about 3 years will do it in the time you suggest newer ones can do a DVD in anything up to 45 minutes. Also it depends on the length of the film as to how long it takes. My PC isnt amazing but can do all the films I have thrown at it in under an hour. It basically comes down to raw processing power.

[Adreacia]

Thanks. My computer is at least 6 yrs old... lol. It's been upgraded a few times since then, so I don't think it's quite so bad. Yeh, the movie is about an hour and a half long, at least... Laputa - Castle in the sky... lol.

Thanks again.

[Astec]

No problem, then the age of the PC sounds about right for the time it says it will take.

The only real thing that will make it faster is a better processor so I doubt that will have been done.

[audionut]

Do you need to convert divX to avi for playing on H340