MPEG Player Does not show my movie file?

[SataniK]

Sorry for the double post in advance.  OK I downloaded the entire Elephants Dream movie select in my Win FF converter iPod 16:9 converted it and took that .mpg and put it in my video folder on the root of my iPod then went into the file browser and tried to play it.  It looked like it was going to play the screen went black for just a second and then it went back to the menu...  What gives?

[Llorean]

Does the Elephants Dream provided by us that's already the right resolution work for you?

[SataniK]

Llorean it turns out the movie does not even play on computer.  I tried your link it took me to the elephants dream site so I tried to download it and the only one that worked was a torrent.  No big deal I downloaded the torrent and it downloaded as a .avi file and it does not play when it is on my computer.  What is the deal?

[Llorean]

I don't believe I gave you a link anywhere, and I know that I didn't give you a link to the official elephant's dream site. You're supposed to be using the files we provide for testing.

If there's a link it's http://download.rockbox.org/mpeg/

[ComposerDude]

SataniK: If I were in your shoes, I would follow these couple of steps as a rule of thumb...

Fro the purpose of trouble-shooting, make sure you have the elephabt's dream from the mpegplayer page.
Determine if your installed media player has all necessary codecs.
Give up on that, and download VLC player here and install.
Try playing it again in VLC.
If it's still messed up, either your computer is too slow to handle conversion, or you need to make sure that either WinFF or the VLC .bat file are configured properly. The link above for mpegplayer has detailed instructions on how to use both VLC and WinFF.

Hope it goes well, fellow traveler.
ComposerDude

[soap]

If it's still messed up, either your computer is too slow to handle conversion,

/me is proof that no computer is too slow to handle conversion.

[Llorean]

No, the link in the post above you has sample files. This link has detailed instructions: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginMpegplayer

[ComposerDude]

That's the link I gave you, SataniK. I hope it goes well.

Soap: Don't laugh... I have a 300 Mh cpu with 400 ram on my linux box. Hence the seeming personal knowledge that if a compy's too slow, it won't convert. Or, if I play with it , it'll sit there for 4 days locked up while converting. Ok, you can laugh now.

SataniK: You may have read my post before i edited it, my apologies for the "post above me" directions.

tata,
ComposerDude

[soap]

I have used WinFF (the frontend for ffmpeg) on a Windows 2000 box that is only 133mhz.  

[SataniK]

Actually Llorean if I click on this link http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginMpegplayer#Elephants_Dream the I click on Elephants Dream I am taken here http://orange.blender.org/ Which would actually be the main site for the movie.

ComposerDude I have both VLC and WinFF I am sure that my Windows Media Player has everything needed to the files, as I use it every day.  I think that the problem was I was going to the wrong link I will try this again and give you an update

[soap]

Actually Llorean if I click on this link http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginMpegplayer#Elephants_Dream the I click on Elephants Dream I am taken here http://orange.blender.org/ Which would actually be the main site for the movie.

If you click on one of the links to the right of your player's name instead of the attribution link...

[SataniK]

Oh ok I see where you are going now.