[MEncoder-users] Encoding for thinkgeek's mp4 watch

[Eric Anopolsky]

On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 20:37 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I received a gift of a watch whose small display can play videos. 
> thinkgeek.com sells this watch in the US.
> 
> Its rather garbled manual claims that the watch can play mp4 or wmv videos. 
> I've tried using various mencoder options to generate either mp4 or wmv 
> videos, but had no luck -- the watch doesn't play them.
> 
> Does anyone have this watch, and can share working options for mencoder to 
> generate suitable video? The only hint I have is that the there's a small 
> video file that came with a watch, with a .smv extension, and "file" says 
> this about it:
> 
> baxiesan.smv: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM, stereo 11025 Hz
> 
> I've poured over mencoder's man page and tried various similarly-sounding 
> options, but had no luck encoding a file that's identified in the same way, 
> by "file". Thanks for any help.
> 

http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=NXV

For future reference, I first searched for thinkgeek video watch on
google. The thinkgeek's watch's specs page gave the name of the video
format. Plugging that name into google gave the information page. Google
is good!

Cheers,
Eric

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