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

[charmed4good]

sorry for double posting

and if by build you mean firmware...then yes i am using the latest firmware

how do you convert your videos???

[AlexP]

Can you post the version number of the build you are using?  The 'latest' build changes several times per day.

[charmed4good]

r15994-080103

EDIT: I recently upgraded to r16132-080121 and still no change

if only you could give me clear instructions as to what resolution and frame rate i have to convert it to.....

[Llorean]

You were already told exactly what resolution it needs, and frame rate shouldn't matter as long as it's a valid MPEG-2 frame rate.

You said this didn't work: Since they work for us, you're doing something else wrong too. Us telling you again that those resolutions and frame rates work perfectly fine isn't going to solve your problem, so I really don't understand why you're asking again.

[pixelma]

As a simple and quick test you could try the widescreen version for the Ipod Mini of the elephantsdream sample video that's available from http://download.rockbox.org/mpeg/ (I mean the elephantsdream-q6-144x80-131kbps.mpg). Currently there is no version prepared which is exactly the c200's resolution but this one is close enough for testing and runs very well on my c250.

[charmed4good]

Well, again......this failed to run on my c250

the screen went blank, i could hear the sounds, and the player had to be switched off.....

[MPeGieC240]

I am having the same problem for my c240. Would the Sansa firmware from Sandisk make a difference? Just as charmed4good posted, I hear audio but see no video... then it freezes... and then have to hold down the power button to restart. Llorean and pixelma says that theirs work but how come not ours... Odd?

[siber_cat314]

Well, my C240 hasn't crashed while running videos. I just can't see what I am doing after I try to play one. But I usually give up before I get too far in, so I'll try playing through one of my movies.

[Llorean]

siber_cat: Try playing the files that you copied to your c200 on your computer.

[siber_cat314]

I downloaded the "Elephants Dream" recommended above, to test alongside the two that I ran through WinFF (I think. It was one of the recommended tools, though). All three played fine in VLC (had to adjust the aspect ratio on mine), but the two I encoded are a garbled mess in Windows Media Player 11 (Sound was fine).
All three movies showed the same behavior in Rockbox: A solid black screen with the backlight on with the audio still working.

[pixelma]

Well, my C240 hasn't crashed while running videos. I just can't see what I am doing after I try to play one.

So you mean it's the backlight turning off and it actually plays the video and you just can't see it? I can read the display without backlight in certain light conditions (e.g. holding a torch light on it).

Just an idea... there were changes in the backlight settings and how they are stored in the beginning of December, I had no problems with the transition but maybe you have. Could you try with a current build, reset your settings then play the video again?

[charmed4good]

Well, i tried resetting the settings(with the current build) an tried to play it again. with the same disappointing results.

Well, let me try to explain it this way, you know the screen that comes for a very short interval of time, when you switch of your Sansa(which comes after the Shutting Down... message) it is that screen which we experience as soon as we play the file(after the initial start up screen)
So thereafter, the sound keeps playing and pressing any button does not make a difference...(you can pause it , rewind it, forward it, increase the volume of the audio), but you just cannot get back to the menu, all we can see is the blackish screen......

[siber_cat314]

Actually, you can even navigate the menus in Rockbox, if you know how the menus are set up. I've even gone back out of the mpegplayer, and played one of my music playlists. Rockbox still works, but the screen is stuck black, with the backlight still working correctly.

[charmed4good]

Yes, that is true...i just realized
because when i pressed the record button, i could tell it went to the recording mode.......but the screen was all black

So that means that RockBox stays fully active, but the display does not come back.....

UGH!!! this is so frustrating, i mean, when its working for the other people, why can't it work for us???The player remains the same right???

Maybe its in the settings?? i mean Dithering, Limit FPS etc......the default on mine was-
ALL:OFF except Limit FPS which was on.........

I've tried all combinations, but still, maybe there could be something we are missing.....

[siber_cat314]

Two things:
charmed4good, have you tried either jewels or star to see if the same black screen thing happens. Not to hijack the thread, mind you, but I've noticed the same behavior in these plugins as well.
Since it was suggested that, for some reason, the original (Sandisk) firmware might be to blame, my original firmware is 1.00.00A.