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[peppyy]

How to convert .flv to .amv with Puppy 3.01 and possibly others.

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.

[paulski]

I did it similarly for Puppy 4.0 and it works on more formats
I downloaded :
http://amv-codec-tools.googlecode.com/files/amv-ffmpeg-linux-i386-20071030

renamed it to amv-ffmpeg

Got some hints from here
http://code.google.com/p/amv-codec-tools/wiki/HowToConvertToAMV

And ran the following in the command line to suit my Zicplay player that needs 128 x 96 amv files

[technosaurus]

here is (supposedly) some code for a 2 pass ipod h264 ... I can't test it due to lack of said ipod but if anyone can confirm it I will try to make a right click option for ROX aka hot rox

[peppyy]

[technosaurus]

old thread - I made woo-ff since this was started