Cheap ebay portable DVD player (8 in 1) - AVI Q??

[Schoey]

Bought this cheap portable player off ebay. Not sure what make it is, but heres a link to the player... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15055&item=5876133636

It supposidly does TV, DVD, USB, AVIs, av in and out, pal/nsts, fairly good player or so I thought. Pretty much got all the functions working but not the avi player. Seems to play them ok for a few seconds, freezes, then continues to play them with the sound out of sync.

I don't know what format the avi's are in, or need to be.

Can anyone with a bit more experience let me know whats going on?

Thanks

[lordsmurf]

Standard for "AVI" is an MPEG-4 like XVID or DIVX.

[TBoneit]

Ok, Here is what I found......

Website for downloads and support since I'm not sure what model AESO portable you have.

http://www.aeso.net/cpjse.htm

Or at least the ones I've seen in the USA are marked AESO.

You could leave them a e-mail asking for the proper format mpeg4

On this page which looks like the model you linked to

http://www.aeso.net/pdvd8088.htm

for this particular model they show
"Support MPEG4 file, DIVX4.X, or DIVX 5.X"

As memory serves me I seem to recall that these had better quality DVD drives in them than some of the less expensive brand/models.

We had to have the manufacturer send some spare parts for warranty repairs. Drives, boards, screens etc. This model as I remember it is a tough once to work on as lots of connectors and wires routed all over the place inside.

Quick note the drives in these players are basic laser and motor assemblys that have all the electronics on the players mainboard. Typical would be three connections from the drive, 1 for spindle motor, one for data, and one for the motor that moves the laser assembly.

Bottom line I'd either use standard DVDs one these or make a plain vanilla DIVX 5 which should play as long as you don't get fancy

Hope this helps.

[Schoey]

Thats looks like the one! I did a little testing on it and found that it wasn't just the DVD drive that couldn't play the avi's, also the when I plugged in a usb harddrive in, it struggled too.

It does say it can play mpeg4, how do I find out which format the saved file is in?

[lordsmurf]

GSPOT

[TBoneit]

Divx 5 is usually a AVI file however a AVI file is not necessarily a DIVX5 file

You need to feed it a DIVX 5 AV file most likely plain generic with no fancy encoding tricks.

Drop the files that do not play into GSpot and see what it says they are.

You will note that it does not say plays AVI files since there are to many types of video that can put into an AVI. Instead it says support MPEG4 of the DIVX 4 or DIVX 5 type.

I'm guess that you may be trying to feed it XVID or OGM type AVIs?

[Schoey]

I ran it through gspot (thanks for the link smurf). Its an xvid! That explains that one then...

Can you suggest a tool to encode as divx (xvid to divx5)?

Thanks for the help guys.