Hopefully this will prove to be helpful.
Edit: I created a dotpup called amverter which is in the beta stage, I would enjoy some feedback since this is a first for me. It can be found here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=38147
I recently bought one of those very inexpensive Multi-Media players on eBay from Hong Kong as a present for my son. It came with software for Win to convert video to the .amv format. This is the format that many of these little players use I was determined to do it with Linux.
I followed the directions found here
and downloaded the tool here.
After some trial and error here is what worked for me.
Download the tool and copy it to usr/bin
Rename it ffmpeg-amv
Make it executable, I did this from the right click menu in 3.01
I download whatever video to a directory /video to keep things simple.
My player uses 16-fps (frames per second) and a resoloution of 160x120 so I use the following code for conversion.
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ffmpeg-amv -i input-file.flv -s 160x120 -r 16 -ac 1 -ar 22050 -qmin 3 -qmax 3 output-file.amv
I have not converted other video formats with this process so I do not know if they work or not.
I am hoping to find the time to create a little gui to add the filenames but don't count on it