iRiver E100 - Video encoding

Can anyone tell me what video codec I should use to convert videos for my iRiver E100? I have a mac and I can't use the bundled software.

So far I've tried WMV9, Divx and Mpeg-4 but nothing works.

Also any tips on what freeware software to use would be great too.

 

Weird the website says:

What are you using to convert the video?

 

At the moment 4Media video converter for mac. I've tried everything but it just won't work. I'm fairly experienced when it comes to video codecs and fiddling with bitrates and resolution etc but it's just no go.

I think I'm going to try the native software in crossover.

 

Could always try using handbrake thats what i use for converting stuff.

 

i'd also suggest handbrake...although visualhub and ffmpegx are also quite good

 

Might have to do with the SP letters at the end of each format. Check the irivers site for a list of converters or something.

It might require something 'proprietary'.

 

Well after trying absolutely everything i've decided to take the painful route and copy all of my movies to the iriver, then boot into my windows partition and use the iriver software....let's hope it works.

 

Mencoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/) works with there options:

mencoder INFILE.SOMETHING -vf scale=320,expand=320:240 -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr=128 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=600:max_bframes=0:vhq=4 -of avi -o OUTFILE.AVI

Ironically the iRiver software is made with GPL-violating MPlayer code so I've been told.

 

I'll look into this when I get home, thanks. I'll also give handbrake a try.