What are the video codec specifications & requirements for TIMOOM M6 32GB MP3 Player for video playback?

[HeyItsChris]

What are the video codec specifications & requirements for TIMOOM M6 32GB MP3 Player for video playback?

 

I cannot find any information except from Amazon & I cannot find a manual pdf or anything.  If anyone knows anything about "ARCHAIC VIDEO CODECS" & .AVI Containers @ say from what I found 320x240 resolution @ unknown frame rate & unknown bitrate & unknown video codec.  I tried some test videos .avi @ 320x240 23.98fps to 30fps with mpeg codec to motion jpeg, no dice.

 

Thanks

[pio]

Have you tried divx?  That was very popular with mp3 players in the avi container.

[HeyItsChris]

Not yet but ill try now.

[HeyItsChris]

I tried xvid, divx, motion jpeg, mpeg & nothing idk where to find out what the specs are on video playback compatibility.  When opening .mp4's or any other such format even .avi as someone said on Amazon, invalid format.

[EHW Ai]

probably .flv

 

everything used to be flash video back then

[pio]

3 hours ago, TonyBombassolo said:

probably .flv

 

everything used to be flash video back then

I had completely forgotten about flash video.  Good idea.

Also.....Amazon store listing for the device in question (found on french Amazon), claims the following:
"Format vidéo: AMV / AVI"

So I would shoot for amv format, more info about .amv format:
 

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AMV (Actions Media Video) is a proprietary video file format produced for MP4 players and S1 MP3 players with video playback.04 There are two different versions of this format: an older one for Actions chips and a newer one for ALi’s M5661 chip, sometimes called ALIAVI.0 AMV is a modified version of AVI and a variant of motion JPEG with fixed quantization tables.3 It contains a compressed, low-resolution video ranging from 96x96 to 320x240 pixels. AMV files can be played using the desktop PC software included with AMV media players, as well as VideoLAN VLC media player.2 The AMV file extension is assigned to so-called Anime Music Video files and is typically used by portable media playing devices from and in China. 

Otherwise, maybe just shoot for a standard mpeg compression in an avi container maybe?

Edited September 7, 2023 by pioneerisloud

[HeyItsChris]

Thanks so much dudes!  I'll try .AMV using VLC & other apps I use like for instance Mediacoder PRO may have the format available but I'll try VLC for sure thanks I'll let you know.

[HeyItsChris]

Bytessence AMVConverter Download - Bytessence MPxConverter is a simple user interface for AMV-Codec-Tools

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Bytessence MPxConverter is a simple user interface for AMV-Codec-Tools...

I'll let u know, I converted a whole bunch of .avi 30fps files which export with decent 320x240 quality.  Hope it works!

[HeyItsChris]

AMV did the trick, thanks all for the help!

[HeyItsChris]

Now I have another mp3 player which says 

 

yp3_2.0.43 2309121731 in information

 

There is video function in the mp3 player but nothing I throw at it works & only .avi seems to show up at all but says "Video Formats Not Supported".

 

Support 128G MP3 Player Bluetooth HiFi Lossless Sound Music Recorder FM Radio US

WWW.EBAY.COM

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MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.0, Portable HiFi Lossless Sound Music Player with Speaker, FM Radio, Voice Recorder, E-Book, Supports up to 128GB TF Card. Adopts Bluetooth 5.0 technology for stable and faster...

 

Edited January 7 by HeyItsChris

[pio]

5 hours ago, HeyItsChris said:

Now I have another mp3 player which says 

 

yp3_2.0.43 2309121731 in information

 

There is video function in the mp3 player but nothing I throw at it works & only .avi seems to show up at all but says "Video Formats Not Supported".

 

Support 128G MP3 Player Bluetooth HiFi Lossless Sound Music Recorder FM Radio US

WWW.EBAY.COM

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MP3 Player with Bluetooth 5.0, Portable HiFi Lossless Sound Music Player with Speaker, FM Radio, Voice Recorder, E-Book, Supports up to 128GB TF Card. Adopts Bluetooth 5.0 technology for stable and faster...

 

Does that one even support video files?  it CLAIMS you can put "movies" on the TF card, but then doesn't list a single video file extension its capable of playing.

Resolution is 128x160 on the screen on that, so keep that in mind.

I would try really old codecs, that device says right in the description it was made for Windows 98 (and the specs make me think similar).  I would be shooting for old avi or mpeg codecs for that to try.  I wouldn't hold my breathe though with it either.

[m4rkiz]

On 07/01/2024 at 02:21, HeyItsChris said:

Now I have another mp3 player which says 

 

yp3_2.0.43 2309121731 in information

 

 

 

get yourself some recent ffmpeg exec and try this:
 

ffmpeg -i source.mp4 -vf "scale=-2:128, crop=160:128, transpose=2, vflip" -r 16 -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 2 -ar 22050 -pix_fmt yuvj420p -c:v mjpeg -q:v 2 dest.avi

 

the end result media file looks like that:

 

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General
Complete name               : R:\dest.avi
Format                      : AVI
Format/Info                 : Audio Video Interleave
Format settings             : BitmapInfoHeader / PcmWaveformat
File size                   : 33.9 MiB
Duration                    : 3 min 11 s
Overall bit rate            : 1 486 kb/s
Frame rate                  : 16.000 FPS
Writing application         : Lavf60.16.100

Video
ID                          : 0
Format                      : JPEG
Codec ID                    : MJPG
Duration                    : 3 min 11 s
Bit rate                    : 769 kb/s
Width                       : 128 pixels
Height                      : 160 pixels
Display aspect ratio        : 0.802
Frame rate                  : 16.000 FPS
Color space                 : YUV
Chroma subsampling          : 4:2:0
Bit depth                   : 8 bits
Scan type                   : Progressive
Compression mode            : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)          : 2.345
Stream size                 : 17.5 MiB (52%)

Audio
ID                          : 1
Format                      : PCM
Format settings             : Little / Signed
Codec ID                    : 1
Duration                    : 3 min 11 s
Bit rate mode               : Constant
Bit rate                    : 705.6 kb/s
Channel(s)                  : 2 channels
Sampling rate               : 22.05 kHz
Bit depth                   : 16 bits
Stream size                 : 16.1 MiB (47%)
Alignment                   : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration        : 21  ms (0.34 video frame)

 

 

works for me just fine on those cheap, generic chinese yp3_2.0.43 players

 

all credit to: https://github.com/fdd4s/portable_mp3_player_video_converter_tools

 

Edited March 22 by m4rkiz