Transferring Video onto mp3/video player

[green machine]

So I saw an add in Fry's for the Toshiba gigabeat, a 30 gig mp3/video player. I had been looking at the video ones for a while, and I figured for the price (150) it would be worth it. I read a couple reviews, seemed positive, and off I went to get it.

I get it home, charge it up, and am all ready to start loading videos and stuff and at this point I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it. It uses widows media player 11 (which I have but rarely use), and it says something about "synching" the files. Only the synching takes forever and sometimes shows a percentage, sometimes doesn't, and twice has actually left videos on the player. I'm not sure how, because nothing I saw indicated they made it. Nevermind the fact that the video was all choppy and not watchable...

Anyways, if I can't figure this out I think I'm going to take it back tomorrow. I'm fairly computer and gadget literate, and the fact that I am unable to get this thing working has me incredibly discouraged and frustrated. It has me yearning for Cardinals season to start. Not the draft, but the actual season.


Yes it's THAT bad.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Can you use Media Player 10?

I hate 11 with a passion, and so does Linderbee. If you could use that, I would try 10 instead.

 

[Linderbee]

Can you use Media Player 10?

I hate 11 with a passion, and so does Linderbee. If you could use that, I would try 10 instead.

I almost said something....

 

[Covert Rain]

You mean WMP 11.....that soul sucking......CPU resource hogging.....buggy software?

Nope. Never head of it.

 

[green machine]

Can you use Media Player 10?

I hate 11 with a passion, and so does Linderbee. If you could use that, I would try 10 instead.

I rolled it back to WMP 10 and I was able to load a Family Guy episode. It didn't take too long and it looks good on the player.

Thanks!

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Geez, it looks like I can solve half of the problems in this forum by saying. "Can you use WMP 10 instead?"

 

[Covert Rain]

Geez, it looks like I can solve half of the problems in this forum by saying. "Can you use WMP 10 instead?"

The most important option in Windows XP;

"ROLLBACK to WMP 10".

 

[green machine]

Geez, it looks like I can solve half of the problems in this forum by saying. "Can you use WMP 10 instead?"

Riddle me this: Some videos load, some songs load. But other times when I try to load a video like I did today (was trying to load a recording of the Suns/Mavs game) it goes all the way through and then aborts at the very end and I get nothing. Why does this happen?


And if you tell me to roll back to WMP 10...


just kidding, but any help on this would be appreciated.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Riddle me this: Some videos load, some songs load. But other times when I try to load a video like I did today (was trying to load a recording of the Suns/Mavs game) it goes all the way through and then aborts at the very end and I get nothing. Why does this happen?


And if you tell me to roll back to WMP 10...


just kidding, but any help on this would be appreciated.

What is the file extension of the videos? Are they all .avi? You may need to download come codecs because of the compression used.

 

[green machine]

Well the files are avi files that are being converted to wmv files. It just aborts them for some reason.

 

[green machine]

I'm going to take it back. Not worth the trouble at all.

 

[abomb]

I'm going to take it back. Not worth the trouble at all.

Get yourself an iPod. One with video. There are a multitude of tools to convert DVDs, DiVX, avi etc and put them on your iPod for viewing.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Get yourself an iPod. One with video. There are a multitude of tools to convert DVDs, DiVX, avi etc and put them on your iPod for viewing.

The multitude of accessories that you can find for iPods cheap, make up for their inflated prices.

 

[abomb]

The multitude of accessories that you can find for iPods cheap, make up for their inflated prices.

Yeah, the tools I spoke of are free.

I am still rocking my first gen Shuffle and hope to get a newer, video-capable iPod in the next 6 months or so.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Yeah, the tools I spoke of are free.

I am still rocking my first gen Shuffle and hope to get a newer, video-capable iPod in the next 6 months or so.

I meant, I bought AV cables to hook up to my home stereo receiver, a 3.5mm cable to hook up to the AUX port of my Pioneer car audio deck in my Scion, and an armband so my wife can use the iPod while working out for less than $10 shipped. The official link cables/speaker systems that they try to sell you to connect to your home theatre can be hundreds of dollars or more. (bose)

The ripping tools and such I didn't even begin to touch.