Is Popcorn really so weak in supporting formats?

[vojtek11]

I was satisfied A-200 user and I watched hundreds of movies on it. Over the years, I found a few formats that were completely unreadable for that device. I skipped them and stored them. Recently the number of unsupported files is growing exponentially. I guess the compression is pretty much all the same. The containers might be little different. Anyway - files with *.3gp extension are all wrong for A-200. So are many x264 encoded media files. HDV camera movies - completely incompatible with Popcorn. also plain movies shot with my Canon small camera.

I took all of that to my friend, who uses quite old /.../ (forget the name, don't want this to sound like an ad) and... suprise - works like a charm with all of that. I mean ALL. Considering a fact that his /.../ was 25% of my A-200 value - sounds kind of disappointing. Now I can only check from time to time for new F/W with a bitter face.

Vojtek

[BanditRider]

Or you could convert the videos to a supported format and smile.

[Willem53]

Now next time you go... take a 1080p MKV with DTS-MA 5.1 and see how that works out, or a bluray ISO

[halfelite]

Few things 3gp is not listed in specs of the player either is mjpeg which I'm guessing your canon puts out.. Proper x264 plays without issue. Specs have not dropped but you might be looking at the wrong player for your needs.

[Rom]

Canon & JVC camcorders both produce MOD & TOD files. These are slightly modified MPG/VOB files and throw a lot of hardware players a curveball. My parents have a JVC HD camcorder and their ACRyan cannot play these files either. However I wrote a little application to quickly convert these files to fully playable files in AVI format. The app only uses FFMPEG to convert (I just gave them a drag & drop GUI to use rather than running FFMPAEG at the commandline which my parents would not get their head around).

All you need is FFMpeg in your movie folder and the following command at the command prompt:

ffmpeg.exe -i "<MOD or TOD filename>" -sameq "

"

eg: ffmpeg.exe -i "C:\Home Movies\My Holiday.MOD" -sameq "C:\Home Movies\My Holiday.avi"

The input & output filenames are in quotes just in case you have spaces in the path or filenames. Depending on the size of your file and the speed of your PC it should convert your file pretty quickly and with no loss of quality. These should play fine on the PCH and a number of other players that have problems with this format.