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Offline Notary Sojac

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Link broken on mpegplayer plugin page
« on: November 01, 2012, 10:23:45 AM »
Under the section on using Media Coder, I find:

"1) Download the latest version from their website and install, also download this .zip"

where "this.zip" refers to a file called "rockbox.zip" at a broken location.

Can someone point me to the correct location of this file and/or fix the link?

thanks!!
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Re: Link broken on mpegplayer plugin page
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2012, 07:51:37 PM »
Seth Johnson added that MediaCoder section and link on the 7th of May, 2007.

Seth Johnson does not list their nick on their wiki page, or on the IRC Nicks wiki page.

They were user johnson4 on Flyspray.

Forum user johnson4 hasn't logged into the forums since October 30th, 2008.

Nobody owns nettechglobal.ca currently.

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Offline Notary Sojac

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Re: Link broken on mpegplayer plugin page
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2012, 11:28:45 AM »
Here's the problem....

I have a DVD series with sixteen episodes.  Ripped them all to m4v with Handbrake using the default settings.

Now I am trying to convert them to mpeg2 for Rockbox on my Sansa Fuze.

Seven of them converted perfectly using winff, nine of them get an error message ("No such file" or something) in the command window that winff pops up.   

Same general results using VLC, conversion gave an unplayable result on the same files, although all sixteen original m4v's play fine in VLC.

Since they were all ripped from disk using the exact same program and settings, I have no way to know how to correct the source files. 

And since this is not the place for ffmpeg/VLC support, I thought I'd try all the conversion methods listed under Rockbox mpegplayer before giving up.

Post Merge: November 02, 2012, 01:04:19 PM
Soap:

Found the problem.  Handbrake had put some unreadable characters in the output filenames.  Renamed 'em and ffmpeg worked fine.  Thanks!
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Re: Link broken on mpegplayer plugin page
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2012, 03:02:27 PM »
I appreciate your attempts (and eventual success) to solve the problem.

I did remove the entire Media Coder section from the wiki.  Every link on it was wrong and the sole author of that section is long gone and not responding to contact attempts.

That said, it is a wiki, so if said author (or anybody else) desires to put it back (and fix the links) they can.

And I'm sorry for the brisk sounding tone of my previous post.  I was writing it line-by-line as I investigated the situation.  I greatly appreciate you bringing broken information to our attention.

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