Try using DVDDecrypter and AutoGK (http://www.autogk.net/) together. Works great for getting a DVD into an avi file ready for the av420, and it is easy too.
There is an easy way of ripping DVDs to av400 Connect the av400 to the TV,make sure it is a older tv... , then connect the DVD player to the tv... turn DVD on and switch to proper video input, turn on the av400 and record the TV output... it does not copy the actual DVD, but the output images instead... using this process I was able to record, watch and display movies. Like I recorded the Matrix Revolutions from the DVD, then I could watch it on my TV. This works with all the movies I have recorded...
Does anyone know about the Pocket coverter for DVIX to AVEI which is less then 1 hour per movie for archos?
I use the pocket divx recorder for converting all my files which aren't VOB it's superb. There are no settings to mess around with, it does it all for you. I have achieved better results from this than from Dr.Divx. Sometimes videos are out of sync but i put that down to where i download them from and what that person used to rip them and how many times they have been converted before i got to them.
Hi all, great advice, used this forum before my purchase of the AV440 and movies etc are playing fine. What would be useful is any info on the best encoding using AutoGK. Eg. step 3 select output size is a predifined size i.e 2 cd's generally better than selecting custom size or target quality. In advanced setting Output resolution setting is it best to select a fixed width or maximum width to correspond to the compatibility of the Archos player? and if so which is the best width to select based on users experience. In the ctrl-F9 features are any of the hidden features really useful? Any info would be great. Cheers - Nash.
Hello everybody, I am a new owner of an Archos av480 and I was very happy with my video recorder until a recent firmware upgrade to (ver. 3.1.00). Since I have installed the new firware, I cannot have proper video images from an outside video source like a VCR or a TV tuner . I have good sound coming from the Video source but the lcd screen shows distortionned and colored horizontals lines . Something is wrong with the resolution and I have tried to fix it with the screen setup but nothing. If someone knows what to do to fix that , please contact me at koolverine@softhome.net. My archos is an AV480 and the Tv system here in CANADA is NTSC. Thanks in advance for your help Kathe.
Hi all, one silly question.. I'm trying to convert my DVD, DVX collection into something small and decent enough for my Archos AV 420 I wouldn't want to proceed to direct recording (play the file or the disc and record directly 'cause it takes too long and it means I have to look at all the movies ) One question.. how come a DIVX file that looks great on my computer simply does not play on my Archos AV400. Isn't the Archos supposed to support the DiVX format? (ps I found the DIVX file on the net) I tried to solve the problem by recoding the DIVX file with virtual dub but the result was terrible (the whole thing went out of synch) so I tried to recode it with Dr DIVX... same result. I tried resynching the movie but I'm not great at that and made things even worse. Moreover, reading through the forum I discovered that Dr.DIVX can't be used as a ripper (that's very sad 'cause I had in mind to use just that to rip my DVD and encode the files just right for my portable.. file size more or less 400 Megabytes) Any idea why all this happens and how to solve the problem? p.s. I recently discovered, alas, that the movie format produced by my Archos AV400 is NOT DIVX. I bought a pretty DIVX DVD player, burned a CD full of my Archos movies only to discover the .avi format the Archos produces is not supported It is always possible to recode the movies with Dr.Divx but it's a time wasting pain in the neck... I'm hoping the Archos guys will eventually release a firmware upgrade to solve the problem Thanks in advance
Odraode - they probably won't play either cos the resolution of the video is too high or the audio is not mp3 VBR or CBR, Auto GK works best for me in advanced setting fixed width of 512 and 128 - 320kb/s mp3 cbr. The AutoGK FAQ's will answer all your questions. Oh for the record I have the AV440 Also if I have an Xvid file or DivX with AC3 I find it best to convert to DVD (30mins)then convert back to DivX to prevent out of sync problems I get when trying to convert directly from Xvid to DivX. My AV440 does not like Xvid therefore I only encode in DivX. I had TV series converted to Xvid(before I purchased the Archos)then had to convert the lot to DivX :-(
Thanks for answering nash67 by the way, what sw are you using to conver files from divx to dvd? (i use nero or power producer but it takes ages for those applications to do that) I'll check the parameters again I'm almost sure resolution was not that high but whatever... you're probably right
So, does the AV400 series support GMC and QPel? Has anyone tried encoding with Nero in either SP or ASP? Has anyone figured a way to put codecs on the AV400 and trick the device into playing other formats? Has anyone tried AVC (MPEG4) just for the hell of it? Nero, XVID and DIVX all now have AVC codecs. Thanks in advance.
I've tried 'ripping' DVDs to AVI format with my Mac with 'MacTheRipper' but it takes forever and haven't yet seen the finished result! You can very easily just hook up your Archos to your DVD player and record that way but this means that a) the files are HUGE, b) it takes the length of time of the film (so you can't watch anything else whilst recording and c) it's just a pain in the ****! I have the AV480 and have 4 DVD films on there, a few hundred photos and MP3s and it's nearly full! Looks like you have to go through the laborious task of compressing your DVDs if you want to take many with you on your travels! Tres annoying! Why can't someone create a PVP that has an inbuilt 'converter' for DVDs - I guess because they're usually 'right protected' yet Archos have supposedly bought all the relevant rights so that you can copy DVDs - but be aware, you will ONLY be able to watch your 'ripped' DVDs on the Archos screen, not on your telly or anywhere else!
I've been messing around seeing how I can get my DVDs onto an AV560 but AutoGK won't convert them to DivX, I downloaded the 6.0 player but it is apparently unsupported. The site mentions a 15 day trial of the Pro version. Is this what I will need? Alternatively will it play the Xvid format files? Also people have mentioned Dr Divx is important in getting rid of playing errors but this is no longer available. Is this going to be a big problem?
You are good people but you just complicate your life too much... Ok Im an owner of a Archos Gmini 402 and the first thing i asked myself was well how do i get this dvd in here?...but im just too lazy for programs with too much stuff to do so here is what i do. I went to some torrent site wich the name i will not tell (*cough*nova*cough*) so i got ImToo dvd ripper.I put the dvd i want in divx or xvid in the drive open the programs go to output options select subs video bitrate audio type and bitrate depending on the lenght of the movie i calculate with their respective bitrate calculator for xvid or divx i prefer divx,and blam in like 3 hours i have a 700mb movie totally playable in my gmini.good video,good audio. This has worked for me on every movie I have tried so far.Also this is not the only program to do this, There is also: (in order of what i liked the most) Ahead dvd ripper Easy DVD to DivX VCD SVCD Converter Divx DVD Ripper Hope this helps. Oh almost forgot! If you have sync problems maybe you got to chek the firmware of your device in www.archos.com and upgrade it to the latest if still having problems use the Virtualdub prepared software that comes in the gmini to recode the movie again it works fine.(if you deleted it you should find it in the site also.)
Hi--this is my first post to this thread--I mean it for everyone, hope it goes where it should. Wanted to thank one and all for your great help. I recently bought an Archos Gmini 402 (243 bucks at Buy.com!) not camcorder, for teenage son. Was impressed by everything--nice controls, sound, screen, etc., but knew putting DVDs on it would be a challenge. Read all the provided instructions, but my head was spinning. Downloaded a free conversion program called SUPER but I was just shooting in the dark on some of the settings, and then when it was finished the VOB files converted to DIVX avi wouldn't transfer into my Archos unit--Hold that thought. I kept Googling and found this forum. Read the posts about using DVDecrypter (which I've used for quite a while) and autoGK (never heard of it). My son is cracked on the movie Anchorman, so I put a copy on the hard drive using the IFO setting of DVD DEcrypter. Then started up autoGK, put in the suggested settings (50% quality target, 320 lines, 128 CBR, DIVX) and started it up. Then I drove 60 miles to my sons basketball game, came back, and it still read "one pass encoding." I know some of you are smiling. (1.8 gigaherz processor) After a while I poked around, wondering if anything was happening, and discovered, UNDERNEATH the autoGK window, a dialogue box for Virtual Dub, waiting for me to check an agreement box to run. Cursing, I did, and then an avi file started appearing. But it wasn't that long after that that it all finished, with a 1.5 gig avi file, and a note telling me it took 6 hours. (I'd be grateful to know the connection between Virtual Dub and the other program, and if only needed to run at the end or whatever. Hey, I said aI was a newbie!) The file played pefectly in Windows Media Player. Yippee! But when I, all excited, tried to transfer the file into the media directory of the archos, I got the same old message--not a playable file for this unit, and a suggestion to put it into Windows Media Player 10 and convert it. And I couldn't force the transfer--it would simply abort. I tried taking the extension completely off the file, still but no go. Then, pissed off, I copied the demo avi file that came in the Archos onto my hard drive, slightly altered the title but not the extension, and tried to copy it back. Same problem!--even though I knew it was a playable file. I thought for a while, and then tried copying the anchorman avi into a data directory on the archos. Success! But then, after disconnecting the USB cable I couldn't find it. But then I used the browser, and there it was, Anchorman, with the little quicktime logo. I pressed the enter button, and, lo and behold--the movie played like a charm, in brilliant color, crystalline stereo sound, with nary a blip or bleep. (An anticlimax for such a third-rate flick, you may be thinking!) So my workaround worked. Don't know why I can't put the media file into the media directory--apparently you can create or manipulate these directories at will, and there doesn't seem to be any properties in the setup section I can tweak. I'd be grateful for any speculation, but it's a minor annoyance, obviously. Any point in contacting Archos? And so thanks to all, and courage to those who might still be struggling with similar issues. I'm obviously not very techie(hey, I'm an English professor) but if I can help anyone, I will do my best. Regards, Steve in Virginia
Any of you heard about this player? http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=MEGA_View_588&class=mega I saw it at the last CES Snow in Vegas, and bought the first model earlier this year. Plays videos, MP3s, photo player, FM radio, and records TV directly from my satellite cable box. It plays any AVI file I throw at it, flawlessly. Kinda of funky GUI, but it's easy to use, just drag and drop files. I use Decrypter to rip an IFO file, then Fairuse Wizard to render the IFO to an AVI (Divx or Xvid, it doesn't matter to the player). DVD Decrypter takes about 30 minutes, and the AVI rendering about 3 hours. The wonder of free software!! I've ripped an entire DVD movie of 6 gb to 150 megs, and it plays perfectly. Plus, these AVI files play perfectly on my Treo 650 using MMPlayer, so I carry about 5-6 movies, 100 mp3s, and photos on my 1 gig SD card and always have entertainment. Thought I'd give my 2 cents worth
This is a correction to my earlier post from the 5th of December--the resulting .avi file was about 400 megabytes, not 1.5 gigabytes. A truly awesome reduction from a 6 gigabyte movie! The management regrets the error. The Mega View player in the last post sounds good. It would be nice if the Gmini 402 had direct record capabilities. Of course, it is more than a hundred dollars cheaper. S.
can someone help a newbie with the following problem? I am using dvdshrink to rip my dvd's and then using fairuse to convert to avi format for transfer to my archos av500 pmp. the only problem is that the g-damn letterbox black bars are still present on top and bottom of the movie, which in effect does not allow me to use the full screen of the archos? any fairuse guru's in here? thanks in advance.
