SMV video format

samoturk · 2007-05-15 13:59:22

I recently got a Philips mp3 player that also supports video in SMV format. Does anybody know how could I convert .avi to .smv?

skottish · 2007-05-15 17:33:29

Look into compiling in 3GP support into FFMPEG or MPlayer.

samoturk · 2007-05-15 18:58:15

I think that this is not the case here. 3GP is problematic because of audio codec (AMR). It uses H.264 for video and it works fine with mplayer. SMV has WAVE codec for audio and something strange for video. Mplayer, xine and vlc only play sound on demo SMV file that was already on the player.

[vEX] · 2007-05-15 20:51:44

Googling only gets me SMV stands for Sigmatel Motion Video and there's supposed to be some Windows application for converting videos (should have come with the player). So I think you're stuck with hoping it works in wine.

skottish · 2007-05-15 21:40:40

There are some AMR patches for FFMPEG floating around, and I think I may have some. I'll take a look and see if I can get a successful build. Are there any example files floating around that I can try?

skottish · 2007-05-16 01:05:01

Looks like I'm trying way too hard. There's builds for AMR as well as a build for FFMPEG with AMR support in AUR.

samoturk · 2007-05-16 13:04:38

I already have ffmpeg-amr, but SMV still doest work.
I got some software with mp3player, but it doesn't work with wine. It works on windows but it is extremely slow and it only does wmv --> smv. It takes it 20 minutes to convert 3 min video and the final result is larger than the input file. 3 min video in 220x160 takes 18MB! Here is a sample: http://jfg.skofijc.si/files/pop_design.smv.

[vEX] · 2007-05-16 13:18:15

mplayer/VLC only gives me audio here too, can't even detect the video stream. Since you seem to have a working windows installation, try some program like Gspot and see if it can give you more information about the file.

samoturk · 2007-05-16 15:05:01

I tried Gspot using wine and works fine, but it also doesn't recognise the video stream.

skottish · 2007-05-17 00:02:27

MP4Box also doesn't recognize any video stream:

[skottish@localhost downloads]$ MP4Box -add pop_design.smv -new test.mp4
Importing SMV Audio (File header corrupted, missing "#!SMV\n")
(BitStream Not Compliant)Corrupted TOC (82)
Error importing pop_design.smv: BitStream Not Compliant

[skottish@localhost downloads]$ MP4Box -info pop_design.smv
Import probing results for pop_design.smv:
File has 1 tracks
Track 1 type: Audio (....)

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#1 2007-05-15 13:59:22

SMV video format

#2 2007-05-15 17:33:29

Re: SMV video format

#3 2007-05-15 18:58:15

Re: SMV video format

#4 2007-05-15 20:51:44

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#5 2007-05-15 21:40:40

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#6 2007-05-16 01:05:01

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#7 2007-05-16 13:04:38

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#8 2007-05-16 13:18:15

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#9 2007-05-16 15:05:01

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