viDrop - free open-source converter for RockChip players

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:58 pm Post subject:

There is a little minor bug in version 0.57.2, when using 2 pass encoding, after the first pass is over, viDrop opens, usualy it stays close until 2nd pass ends.

And I have a question:
Is it possible when ripping DVD to put more than one audio stream or subtitle with the matroska format.

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:17 pm Post subject:

Hi,I've used this tool to convert a divx for my magnex dts 2600player.
I use the feature that allow to convert only e piece of film (becouse when I exit the video-play function and after I re-enter in this function the film start from the beginning).
I only add at the default setting named PAL rockchip 320x240 hight the value of 0.48 under normalize slide of settings to get more volume.
When I play on my player the produced subFilm the audio come very late...
What setting I have to use?

Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:12 am Post subject:

Here is a question for Lokster (or anybody else who can fix the trouble). I think viDrop is the best thing since movies were invented, I use it for everything.

But, I've noticed that when I play a movie on my 32 inch HD television, the diagonal lines are jagged instead of smooth, indicating that the resize algorithm is too crude.

Can a future version add an option to specify the scaling quality? Is there a way to bypass the resizing for now, and specify it yourself on the command line?

I know viDrop is meant for portable devices where this kind of artifact wouldn't be visible, but there's no reason not to use it for everything, is there?

Edit: After upgrading to v.57.2 some things don't work the same anymore. I want to go back to 56 but this isn't so simple. I added the Windows Essentials codec pack which allows for decoding of more functions, so now I can't tell which files are ok to delete.

Another really necessary thing that is missing is deinterlacing. I can do this myself by adding -vf yadif=1 to the mplayer command line but I don't know if this is doing the best job or not.

Hello everyone!

I just got my first mp5 player today, a Diel Rhapsody for those familiar with the brand... The manufacturer claims that the screen is 320x240, but after a bit of a testing I found out it's actually 400x240 and I even got videos working in it with that resolution, pretty nicely even. Smile

First of all I'd like to thank the creator of ViDrop and this great community, reading a few threads sure helped me out in a couple of things.. And this program especially is something I couldn't now live without.
However, I am having problems with certain videos, have a look:

As you can see, the original video is stupidly in 4:3 format even if it the actual image is really 16:9, which is just the way I want it. Now with the different resizing methods I can get the image either stretched wide or then I can preserve the aspect ratio but have the image surrounded by black boxes from every single direction. Rolling Eyes

So the big question is: Can I crop the image in viDrop to get the result I'm looking for? I'd love to know if it's possible since I've got many video files with this little annoying problem.

Thanks in advance, I'll be looking forwards to some answers.. Even if the answer were a strict no.

Bumper wrote (View Post): › Hello everyone!

I just got my first mp5 player today, a Diel Rhapsody for those familiar with the brand... The manufacturer claims that the screen is 320x240, but after a bit of a testing I found out it's actually 400x240 and I even got videos working in it with that resolution, pretty nicely even. Smile

First of all I'd like to thank the creator of ViDrop and this great community, reading a few threads sure helped me out in a couple of things.. And this program especially is something I couldn't now live without.
However, I am having problems with certain videos, have a look:

As you can see, the original video is stupidly in 4:3 format even if it the actual image is really 16:9, which is just the way I want it. Now with the different resizing methods I can get the image either stretched wide or then I can preserve the aspect ratio but have the image surrounded by black boxes from every single direction. Rolling Eyes

So the big question is: Can I crop the image in viDrop to get the result I'm looking for? I'd love to know if it's possible since I've got many video files with this little annoying problem.

Thanks in advance, I'll be looking forwards to some answers.. Even if the answer were a strict no.

Same problem, but when playing video, push "m"(aka menu button), and menu pops up, and there you'll can select between 16:9 and 4:3, it should help

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:45 am Post subject:

Here's my preset for the newer rockship 640x480 capable players: (mine actually plays full dvd size vob files.. it's a waste though - the screen shows no more detail from a dvd size than it does the 640x480 size).

[settings]
RebuildIndex=1
AutoAddOnOpen=0
Normalize=1
NormalizeAmount=0.25
ExtraStereo=1
SRate=44100
VideoCodec=xvid
container=avi
fourcc=XVID
AudioCodec=mp3
VideoBitrate=1000
AudioBitrate=160
MotionEst=6
Width=640
Height=480
SubFontASS=Arial
SubCP=cp1251
SupPos=100
SubWidth=100
SubSize=5
CmdLine=
MplayerCmdLine=
FPS=24
AudioNCh=stereo
pp=4
pp=1
smartblur=0
TwoPass=1
smartblur-amount=0
rotate=0
gamma=1.1
contrast=1
brightness=0
saturation=1.2
flip=0
ResizeMethod=1
PostExec=
suffix=_high
ass-color=FFFFFF00
ass-border-color=00000000

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:53 pm Post subject:

Thanks Fluffbutt,

Phew, full VOB files, that would take abit of storage space on your player for sure!

Do you have details about your player or a link?
Would be interested to know more about it.

Hi Lokster,

Unfortunately I have to once more confirm that version 0.57.2 consistently does not work well with subs. They are absolutely unreadable.
Does anyone else have the same problem?

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:22 am Post subject:

viDrop 0.57.3 is out. I hope the problems with the subtitles are fixed now, as well as some other problems.

I hope... Smile

Check out the new "Split" feature too.

http://www.vidrop.vpunk.co.uk/vidrop-0.57.3-install.msi
ftp://guest%40learnfree%2Eeu:guest@learnfree.eu/vidrop/vidrop-0.57.3-install.msi

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject:

hi lokster

having probs with severl new DVD (UK PAL), they wont get rocognised by vidrop or get recognised bit wont let me select language

any idea??
vids are school of rock (UK) loads but cant select language
batman dark knigh - wont load

cheers

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:12 am Post subject:

Dear lokster,

Thank you very much for your great job!

lokster wrote (View Post): ›
viDrop 0.57.3 is out. I hope the problems with the subtitles are fixed now, as well as some other problems.

Unfortunately the problem with subs is still here. It seems that it does not appear in the "PanScan" mode, but persists in the "Add borders" mode, which I like most of all. In that mode subs are added in the lower border, and they remain (are not removed). When new subs appear, they appear over the old ones, producing a real mess.

Hopefully, it is not very difficult to correct.

I don't know whether it is important. The movie to be converted is in the mkv format with subs installed in the file. There are subs in 2 languages, from which viDrop automatically chooses the first (no options are available). The very possibility to install these subs is excellent, since 0.57.1 cannot do it.

Thanks!

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:34 am Post subject:

admin wrote (View Post): › Thanks Fluffbutt,

Phew, full VOB files, that would take abit of storage space on your player for sure!

Do you have details about your player or a link?
Would be interested to know more about it.

It's this one (the top one)

Yes, full vobs take space - but you can shrink them to 4G or about 2.5G minimum. It's not very space effective, because the higher resolution does not get any better on the 640x480 screen. It's better to change them to some other codec at 640x380 res. Mkv works fine, good resolution and the quality is great.

I was just amazed that it played vob full res!

(edited for typos - I'm a cat after all, paws donna work on keyboards well!!)

When i insert subtitle using ViDrop....is it possible when you use "keep aspect" or "add borders" for resize method to put subtitle under the video ???
Rolling Eyes

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:13 am Post subject:

ajsmicko it depends from the type of the subtitles. If the subtitles are embedded in VOB (DVD) or Matroska file, then it's not possible.
Also, it's not possible for the "Keep aspect" resize method, because in this method there is no black space under the video (your player adds black space if necessary, but the video itself does not have black space).
The subtitles can be under the video only when using "Add borders" resize method.
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And this is for everyone: I just released another update for viDrop - http://www.vidrop.vpunk.co.uk/vidrop-0.57.4-install.msi

I had some reports of mencoder.exe suddenly disappearing from the viDrop installation folder.
I suspect this is due to some stupid Antivirus programs detecting mencoder.exe as false positive, because it's UPX compressed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upx ).
This is why mencoder.exe and mplayer.exe are no longer compressed. This will lead to a bigger installation size ( ~10MB bigger), but I hope it will solve the problem.

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:06 am Post subject:

lokster wrote (View Post): ›

And this is for everyone: I just released another update for viDrop - http://www.vidrop.vpunk.co.uk/vidrop-0.57.4-install.msi

I had some reports of mencoder.exe suddenly disappearing from the viDrop installation folder.
I suspect this is due to some stupid Antivirus programs detecting mencoder.exe as false positive, because it's UPX compressed ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upx ).
This is why mencoder.exe and mplayer.exe are no longer compressed. This will lead to a bigger installation size ( ~10MB bigger), but I hope it will solve the problem.

Is that the only change? Meaning: If we don't have this problem, do we need to get this update?