Hacking Tuna-viDS - Not working

[Timmyhawky]

Hi,
I've got a problem with Tuna-viDS. When I try to load a movie, converted with Magic Movie Converter, it says 'not enough video data'.

I've also converted a few movies before(with a other tool), and they worked fine on my M3 Real(Can't test them on the DSTT, I removed 'em).
These are the settings I used:
Divx codec, 256*192, 12FPS, 320kb/s bitrate, MP3 audio, 64kb/s bitrate

Has anyone a solution? I think it has something to do with the bad DLDI of the DSTT.
Thanks

 

[apocalypticvisio]

try using moonshell instead, the dstt is still a baby and the upgrades coming from ndstt.com are few and far between...moonshell is pretty much the universal player for all the carts...

 

[Timmyhawky]

try using moonshell instead, the dstt is still a baby and the upgrades coming from ndstt.com are few and far between...moonshell is pretty much the universal player for all the carts...

I wish to use DivX, because it is high quality in smaller sizes. I've also tried Moonshell with DPGbatch, but it wasn't that comfortable.

I found out that the normal version of Tuna-viDS has a GBA movie player DLDI patch. Now I changed it to Chism's no interface patch, but I still have the same problem

 

[Bri]

It sounds like a video conversion problem and not a DSTT problem. Unfortunately, I don't know much about it to know exactly what the problem is that you're having, but I believe that Tuna-viDS only plays AVI files that contain Xvid encoded video and MP3 encoded audio. Are your files AVI?

Why don't you try using that other tool that you had success with before to convert a video and see what happens?

Here's more info on converting files from the website:

Tuna-viDS plays videos with the following format:

* Video: 256px wide, up to 192px tall, up to 12fps, Xvid encoded, non-interlaced
* Audio: Mono MP3
* Container: AVI with chunk index, video must be the first stream (fourcc 00dc)

You can use ffmpeg to convert videos with this command (all one line):

ffmpeg -i -f avi -r 10 -s 256x192 -b 192k -bt 64k -vcodec libxvid -deinterlace -acodec libmp3lame -ar 32000 -ab 96k -ac 1 tuna-vids.avi

This encodes the video as Xvid at 256×192px, 10fps, 192±64kbps. You can try up to 12fps, but anything higher will slow down the decoder too much. It encodes the audio as MP3 at monaural, 32kHz, 96kbps. It muxes it into an AVI container with the filename "tuna-vids.avi". Feel free to experiment with bit rates, sample rates, and frame rates. Just keep the video exactly 256px wide and no more than 192px tall.

-Bri

 

[apocalypticvisio]

try using a different prog for encoding....like super...it will go to avi and just select the options you need for size and bitrate...i uset fory ds and my zune flawlessly

 

[DanTheManMS]

Try using ffmpeg like the webpage states, modifying parameters as necessary based on what you want. I believe there's also a tuna-viDS frontent that uses ffmpeg and can convert up to 9 videos at once, but I honestly have no clue where to find it. You could try the tuna-viDS thread at GBAdev, which may hold some clues.

 

[Timmyhawky]

They didn't work on my M3 aswell! So it has nothing to do with the DSTT. Does anyone know a tool which is easy to use(so with frontend, terminal things take too much time)?
Before I used a good FFmpeg frontend, but I can't find it anymore. I don't mean the big frontend projects, but just a very basic tool.

I'm not trying myself now, my 500mhz PC takes a lot of hours to convert a movie.

 

[apocalypticvisio]

the quote in bri's post seems to make the need of a frontend laughable since there is a run command there. the tools already stated in the post to this point are the only ones i have ever heard of for this use. super and ffmpeg. unless you would like to pay for a converter, which you would like at the divx main site, i think they list tools you could use as well as the wiki for .avi files.

 

[Timmyhawky]

Sorry for that, I didn't understand Super was a program(too general name).
Now I'm downloading it, thanks.