Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
XVID Support?
Mikgerdan1991:
I don't know, I converted a 2 minute XVID movie (at 256 vid, 128 mp3 audio), which was around 3 MB, to MPG, and it became 7 MB. And it was even pretty bad quality....
Ok, forget about the iPod Video, then. Just XVID on any player maybe? I'd be willing to switch to anything for Rockbox, I just didn't want to convert ALL my videos to MPEG...and lose space or quality in the process.
cool_walking_:
As said above, XVID could be possible on some of the other targets, but it needs someone to code it. Rockbox developers are just individual people who work on whatever they want to work on.
Mikgerdan1991:
I know. ;)
It was just a suggestion, though. No big deal if I don't get my XVID. 8)
A very strong suggestion...But a suggestion, nonetheless.
Llorean:
It sounds like maybe you didn't use a good conversion tool/settings. Are you sure you converted to MPEG-2, not MPEG-1, and did you spend much time experimenting with settings? There's a lot of things about MPEG-2 you can tweak to get a bit more out of it for the bitrate.
Also, it really helps to watch them on an actual player. Because they're limited to 16-bit color, and much smaller screens, some of the quality differences just aren't nearly as visible on the actual portable player.
Mikgerdan1991:
Well, I went with your MPEG 2 suggestion. I got that same file i tried before down to about 5 MB, but still, at pretty bad quality. I can't try it on my player because it doesn't have MPEG 2 capability, but I tried it at just that size, and it wasn't great.
And yep, I have a pretty good converter, I can 'tweak' a lot of stuff, and it's still about 60% larger (in file size).
Maybe you can recommend the one you use?
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