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

[Sam Varshavchik]

Eric Anopolsky writes:

> 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!

I did try to poke Google, but you obviously had better luck with it. Looks 
like the verdict is that mencoder does not know about this weirdo format, 
but I might be able to hack something together using the sample Perl 
scripts…


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