SDB:MP3Player

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Playing your video files on an TrekStor i.Beat motion MP3 player

You already bought an TrekStor i.Beat motion that can not only play music, but videos or you may consider to buy such a device and wonder whether or how to make your videos viewable on this MP3 video player with Linux?

Here comes the answer. The i.Beat motion reads AVI videos encoded with XviD. It does not understand DivX. What you need is MPlayer with xvid support. MPlayer provides a powerful tool named mencoder which you want to use to encode your existing videos. The following is the command you need, put it in one line:

Encoding your video

mencoder YOURVIDEO.AVI -o IBEATVIDEO.AVI -ofps 18 -vf-add scale=220:176, -vf-add expand=220:176:-1:-1:1,rotate=2,flip -srate 44100 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=700:max_bframes=0:quant_type=h263:me_quality=0 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=128

Now copy the resulting IBEATVIDEO.AVI to your i.Beat motion. Of course you can change this name while copying, just keep the .avi extension at the end.

Messages during the encoding process

Do not worry about the many "skipping frame" messages that may appear! This appears because the player will show your movies at 18 frames per second, whereas your original movie certainly had more frames per second. Mencoder scales down to 18 fps and so you see these messages. They are not error messages.

Second, your resulting IBEATVIDEO.AVI may not at all be playable on your computer or it may look strange and has no sound. Do not worry about this, nothing went wrong. When you copy it to your i.Beat motion it will just be fine. The resulting video has just now the unique format the i.Beat motion needs and on your desktop computer it just looks different than on your i.Beat motion.

Have a lot of fun!