MPEG on Sansa c200(2gb-c250)???

[charmed4good]

today i installed the lastest RockBox firmware onto my c250 mp3 player and put a video in it which i specially converted to the LCD size(138x80) and 23.97 fps
when i played it a menu cme to me saying something like play from beginning, resume from 0:0 , quit mpeg player or something, and so i selected the "play from beginning option". As a result my screen went black and i kept hearing the sound of the video.......

how can i play the video succesffully.....since it is supported as per
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginMpegplayer#Supported_Targets
and
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhyRockbox

[LambdaCalculus]

How did you convert the video?

Also, have a peek at the Mpegplayer wiki page for some tools and setting recommendations.

[charmed4good]

Advanced X Video Converter

*edit* and i had looked at that page b4 but it doesnt say much a bout sansa or sansa c200 for that matter

[LambdaCalculus]

Try using VLC instead. There's a batch file on that wiki you can easily edit to get the correct screen resolution for the c200.

[charmed4good]

and what about the framerate???what would be the correct one for the c200??

[charmed4good]

GUYZ HELP OUT PLEASE....

[crzyboyster]

Don't double post or post in caps. If you're a windows user, check this method out: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginMpegplayer#Using_WinFF_Windows_Linux

Painless and simple.

[charmed4good]

well.....it might be simple and painless but it doesnt have apreset for the SANSA c200 series....the one i want!!!!

[LambdaCalculus]

The c240's screen is 132x80, and set the FPS to 29.97.

[Llorean]

Nah, don't set the fps to anything. Leave it the same FPS as the source file.

But do "-strict -1" without the quotes in the additional options box.

[siber_cat314]

I figure that this is more of a bug in Rockbox for sansa c200's. I have noticed that Jewels and Star(two of the games) do this to the screen as well. It is probably an incorrect processor instruction that crashes the LCD driver.

[pixelma]

siber_cat314,

if I understand correctly what you mean and what I see on my c200: this is not a bug and it is something entirely different from what the original poster describes. There is no crash in the lcd driver - it's just the backlight turning off and it will turn back on when you press a button. A few of the plugins, including jewels and star, simply don't keep the backlight on as others do (like mpegplayer for example) and just use your system wide backlight settings. This applies to all targets (with backlight).

You can discuss if it makes sense or not but if you want to do that - please start it in a new thread...

[charmed4good]

@Llorean and LambaCalculus

tried your methods....got the same result as before....
any other suggestions???

[charmed4good]

Could it be that MPEF videoa simply cannot be played.......coz my mp3 player crashes....

[Llorean]

1) Please don't double post. The forum guidelines are posted in the Announcements forum, and the statement that they're heavily enforced here during registration was serious.

I have had no problems playing MPEG-2 video on my c200. Are you using an up to date build?