MPEG player crashed everything

[LambdaCalculus]

Try the direct link here:

http://download.rockbox.org/mpeg/elephantsdream-q6-176x128-310kbps.mpg

That's already encoded for the nano. Download it and give it the old whirly.

[cpchan]

I tried to DL elephant's dream, but if I clicked any of the links, I crashed, and it says the torrent is missing. Any ideas?

You are using the wrong link. You don't have bittorrent installed. Here are the direct links for the Nano:

4:3- http://download.rockbox.org/mpeg/elephantsdream-q6-176x128-310kbps.mpg

16:9- http://download.rockbox.org/mpeg/elephantsdream-q6-176x96-229kbps.mpg

Charles

[Demonic Goldfish]

I do have Bittorrent installed, but when I select the Torrent, the whole progress bar (in detailed mode) is coloured red, denoting missing files.

And when I try clicking on any of those, the quicktime "Q" comes up, but nothing else happens. Any ideas?

Also, I tried a different converter and converted a few more files, but most of the time, it locks up on a screen (not black this time) which is mainly grey, but at the top there are several horizontal green bars stretching across the length of the screen and the bottom 1/2 cm or so is black. Once I got sound, but no picture, and on the screen was a white message saying "Undefined command at (a number I forgot)". But that was a one off.

Thanks for the help though,
DG

[Febs]

And when I try clicking on any of those, the quicktime "Q" comes up, but nothing else happens. Any ideas?

Right-click on the file and then save the file using the "save link as" or "save file as" option (the exact wording may vary depending on which browser you are using).

[Demonic Goldfish]

Hehe thanks that sorted it. My stupid mistake ^_^

Well I can watch that no problem. I wonder why I can't watch any of the stuff I encode...

Anyone know a decent, free avi to mpg converter?

[bascule]

WinFF works fine for me...

[Demonic Goldfish]

Hmmm... When I click decode, a command prompt comes up and tells me either that it can't find the file or that it can't be decoded...

Well thanks anyway, I'll keep trying to get it working

[Demonic Goldfish]

OK, I've managed to get any avi I want encoded so that it works well with my Nano. But the problem is all my avi's seem to run at a different sample rate to the player: Everything happens about twice as fast as usual (not a problem as it's all animé, meaning that it in fact looks a bit better when it's faster, as everything happens slowly and at a low framerate), but the sound is all really fast and high-pitched.

Is there such thing as a sample rate converter that'll sort this problem?

Thanks for all your help so far,
DG

[soap]

The tracker is working properly.
I'm assuming your problem with BitTorrent is that I am often the only seeder, and I bet the power went out long enough at home for the UPS to trigger a power-down.

EDIT:  and I'll be out of town for another week.

[cpchan]

Is there such thing as a sample rate converter that'll sort this problem?

There should be a resample option in the program that you are using.

Charles