ipod video mpeg player

[Llorean]

At the command prompt type:
ver
and hit enter, and paste for us what it says, I'm curious exactly what version of XP you're running according to your command prompt (like the version number)

[jacobts]

ok, llorean

when i type in cmd,

it brings me up all the good stuff, ill show youl.

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

[jacobts]

i still need an asnwer , im going on a roadtrip and wold like to make the videos small enough for my ipod.

vlc says this after i put in the code at the command prompt.
unable to open 'input.mpg

[xlarge]

1; copy your mpg movie to c:\program files\videolan\vlc\ with your windows explorer and rename the file to input.mpg.

[mnhnhyouh]

1; copy your mpg movie to c:\program files\videolan\vlc\ with your windows explorer and rename the file to input.mpg.

Because you didnt do this step it cant find the input.mpg file. If you do it, all will work.


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[jacobts]

ok, that is what i am saying, i did do that step but it wont find my video file,
ill try it again but just so you guys know
the video file is here ill show you where it is on my cmop.

c:\program files\videolan\vlc\input.mpg

i have even copied and pasted the name of the input.mpg in the  file but it still says unable to open input.mpg

[mnhnhyouh]

What do you see when you type

dir

?

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[gnu]

If i were you I would use the mvpd player in Ipodlinux; they've got audio (although it is uncompressed).

[jacobts]

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Scratchy>dir
 Volume in drive C is 200
 Volume Serial Number is 28D7-1E40

 Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Scratchy

11/16/2006  09:15 PM              .
11/16/2006  09:15 PM              ..
11/15/2006  05:49 PM                 0 CD
06/30/2006  10:27 PM              Contacts
11/16/2006  09:15 PM                90 default.pls
11/20/2006  01:41 PM              Desktop
11/03/2006  05:55 PM              Favorites
11/20/2006  01:41 PM              Incomplete
11/20/2006  06:10 PM              My Documents
11/20/2006  01:34 PM         3,670,016 NTUSER.DAT
11/20/2006  01:40 PM              Shared
10/04/2006  04:47 PM              Start Menu
               3 File(s)      3,670,106 bytes
              10 Dir(s)  44,094,808,064 bytes free

C:

[theli]

as for player implementation:
have anyone thought of using format similar to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDs-mPeG
this is used by Nintendo DS homebrew for playing videos...
it basically a mpeg1video + mp2 audio + custom header...
player is opensource and uses ARM9 (67 MHz) for video and ARM7 (33 MHz) for audio...

can't that be usefull? (especially for arm targets)

[Noxneo]

The problem is unchanged: we don't know how to access the secondary chip.

Until this problem is solved, mpeg player is very likely to not support sound.

[senab]

@Noxneo: You're very much wrong, (see the patch here). I'm guessing you're talking about the Broadcom chip, which is indeed unusable, but the PortalPlayer chips actually have two cores. Only one core is used by the Rockbox at the moment, and the second core is whats needed for video+audio playback. That patch above is the startings of utilising the second core.

[Noxneo]

My mistake.

[gnu]

@senab: Noxneo was right; he said "Until this problem is solved, mpeg player is very likely to not support sound" and since the problem isn't really solved yet, he is not "very much wrong". The second core can be accessed, but from what I've heard there are some odd problems, so the second core cannot be fully used to play the audio.

[Llorean]

I think senab was commenting on the distinction between a second chip, vs a second core (which is present on the same single portalplayer chip), the second chip being the broadcom one that only iPod Videos have.