good video converter software?

anyone got good video converter software to reccomend? the one came with m3 only can put 20 frames per seconds.. m3 max is 25.. so i'm looking for converter tat can convert 25frames per sec.. thx..

I have been trying to convert a video on Linux with no success. I used avidemux2 and selected "xvid" video codec with "copy" (mp3) audio. I selected resize video also. But every time I try to play it back on the M3, it fails. Nothing appears.

Has anyone been able to convert a video on Linux? If so, could you tell me how. I am using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.

i dont really think 25 fps is needed to play on the M3... since the screen is so small, it'll just take up useful memory space. stick to 15-18fps. BatMan is a good converter program. It is the only one i've used so far that DOESNT have audio sync problems.

Does BatMan run on Linux?

Hi, Borat. BatMan is made for Windows only. But it has very good chances to run on Linux' WINE. You can give it a try, I hope you know how to use and configure WINE.

Other than that, can the M3 REALLY play 25 fps I always thought it is the same video chip as the M6 just with another screen attached.
Where have you got that information from ? Do you have an m3 demo movie with 25 fps ?

Originally Posted by BobbyQ

Other than that, can the M3 REALLY play 25 fps I always thought it is the same video chip as the M6 just with another screen attached.
Where have you got that information from ? Do you have an m3 demo movie with 25 fps ?

The M3 handles 25fps beautifully.

Sample

That is really interesting ! And since it's the same chip, I assume that they just capped the M6's one to 20 fps because they know that it is not strong enough for 25@320x240. With the M3 having only half that resolution it's apparantly no problem. I will put that into future versions of BatMan.
To get the 25 fps now, you can use BatMan's custom profile and just enter 25 as framerate. Tell me how it worked !

Originally Posted by BobbyQ

Hi, Borat. BatMan is made for Windows only. But it has very good chances to run on Linux' WINE. You can give it a try, I hope you know how to use and configure WINE.

No luck using it under WINE. I might try Codeweavers Crossover or Cedega.

I could not get BatMan to work under Linux, so I checked the M6 forum for ideas. I found a post by quatrecouleurs with a shell command for encoding video to M6 specs. I have changed it slightly to allow this to work for the M3.

mencoder /media/sdc1/Music/Videos/video1.mpg -idx -noodml -ofps 25 -vf scale=176:-2,expand=:128:::1,crop=176:128 -ovc lavc -ffourcc XVID -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=384:vmax_b_frames=0:vhq -sws 9 -srate 44100 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128:mode=0 -o /home/borat/123.avi

This is a basic command to get some kind of video working.

how far have you come with BatMan under WINE ? maybe it's just a minor problem and we can fix it together.

1. installation : the .exe is a WinRAR self-extracting. In case that doesn't work with WINE, you can unrar it manually.
2. the program needs to be installed in %ProgramFiles%\Batman. If WINE doesn't have %ProgramFiles% set correctly, you maybe have to manually adjust that in WINE
3. the program shouldn't be much of a problem since I know that WINE supports cmd.exe and drag and drop functions.

Thanks for your help with this

OK this is what i did:

1. Extracted the zip file.
2. Ran the exe with wine (see screenshot)
3. Selected the left option (in German).
4. I get a quick flash on the screen like something is being installed or extracted.
5. I then browse to the Program Files directory and type the command (see screenshot).
6. Nothing happens... It simply returns to the command line.

okay, step 1 seems to have successfully made.
Next is to modify the WINE environment so that the environment variable %ProgramFiles% would point to the BatMan directory.
I cannot help you with this since I wether have Linux nor WINE, but as far as I know nearly everything works under WINE after some tweaking.

I also get an BatMan icon on my desktop. It points to:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/borat/.wine" wine "C:\Program Files\Batman\BatMan.exe"

That seems ok. But nothing happens if I double-click it.

If you don't mind using command line, there is ffmpeg :
(The following is a rapid translation from french of http://www.meizume.com/french/1936-encoder-une-video-sous-linux.html#post32616)

For those who do not have windows, it is easy to encode video from the command line using ffmpeg (it is obviously necessary that it is installed). Open a terminal and type the following command:

ffmpeg -i fichier_source.avi -f avi -vcodec xvid -s 176x128 -b 250k -r 18 -ab 128 fichier_destination.avi

Replace "fichier_destination.avi" by the new file you are going to create

The -f option force avi container

The -vcodec option must be "xvid" (or libxvid, I don't remember)

The -s option is the destination video size (M3 is 132 pixel high but this is not a multiple of 16)

The -b option is the bitrate (here you can increase it to 350k but above you may have slowdowns)

The -r option is the number of frames per second (18 to 25)

The -ab option is audio bitrate(from 64 to 256)

Replace fichier_destination.avi with the destination filename you like.

ffmpeg is also available for windows (ask google for windows binaries)

Hope this helps

Have a look at this thread for my recommendation :-

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