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MP-578V: Revision 4

We have bought one of those small mp3 players with video which play "AMV"<http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/15431p1.html> semi format. It's a "S1MP3 device"<http://www.s1mp3.org/en/>.

Dependence on Windows suck, but you can pull few tricks by recoding your various formats into correct resolution before encoding them:

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ffmpeg -i source.avi -s 160x120 -r 16 -acodec copy /tmp/test.avi
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Here is alternative using `mencoder`

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mencoder -o /tmp/test.avi -ovc lavc -vf scale=160:120 -ofps 16 -oac copy source.avi
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This way ffmpeg will scale video to superb quality and `AVM Transform.exe` won't choke on them.

Following is content of `transformsetup.ini` to use native player's resoltion:

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[Setup]
Overwrite=TRUE
Insertwave=TRUE
Insertpic=FALSE
Transplay=TRUE
Trycode=FALSE
VFBS=high
VWH=160*120
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