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Jos
Asked: 2017-11-12 02:19:54 +0800 CST

WinFF problem with AVI

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I have an old DVD player that works best with AVI format. Now I have strange problem with WinFF. It works most of the time fine. But quite often conversions work fine on my computer, but in my DVD player it stops long before the movie is ended. The original format doesn't matter.

It's not much to go by, but what might be the reason?

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1 Answers

  1. I have a similar problem with an older device and to allow playback I devised a successful encode with FFmpeg that can easily enough be wrapped up in a WinFF preset.

    First make sure that you have a full WinFF installation:

    sudo apt-get install winff winff-doc ffmpeg libavcodec-extra

    Then create a file on your desktop called called torrent2tv.wff and copy and paste the following xml snippet into it:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<presets> 
  <TORRENT2TV>
    <label>Convert to avi for viewing through old device!</label>
    <params>-c:v mpeg4 -q:v 2 -vtag XVID -sn -mbd rd -flags +mv4+aic -trellis 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -g 300 -c:a libmp3lame -ac 2 -q:a 3 -ar 44100 </params>
    <extension>avi</extension>
    <category>My Presets</category>
  </TORRENT2TV>
</presets>

    Right click on this file and select 'Open With WinFF' and this will be enough to install your preset into a new category called 'My Presets'.

    Select this and run you input torrent files and hopefully your playback will be as good as mine on my own aged device :).

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