Custom Videos Freeze

[Mike1986]

when my daughter try to exit a movie the whole leappad 2 will freeze up and I have to hold down the power button to reset it. (it also does this if you let the movie play through and hit the red 'x') for some reason one of the movies out of the 4 worked... any suggestions????

[Deak Phreak]

Sounds like it could be a movie encoding issue. What was the source of the movies and was there anything different about the one that did work?

[Mike1986]

Thanks for the response. I converted cinderella to mp4 and then used the the leappad manger video maker after and the movie still froze up the leappad. And this is the only movie it freezes on now the others worked after I converted to mp4.

[Deak Phreak]

I have been playing with ffmpeg command lines in a different video converter program that I made for myself and may need to re visit this app to see if the command could be improved. Actually I am not sure if I have the source code for this app after my hard drive corrupted. Are you familiar with ffmpeg at all or running apps via command line? I could give you the command to run and you can tweak it to see if you can get it working correctly with the video. There may also be some conversion errors that the program does not catch and display.

[Mike1986]

No not familiar but I'm a little computer smart so I can give it a try.

Thanks

[Deak Phreak]

you will need to go to your start menu and in the search input box enter cmd then hit enter which should open the command prompt. The fastest way to get to the program directory is to browse to it in windows explorer where you can see the Leap Pad Manager app then in the "URL" box at the top you can right click click and copy the address. Then in the command prompt you can type cd then a space and right click and paste the address and hit enter. This should take you to the directory of the program.

the actual converting program is in the files directory so you will then need to do cd files to get into that directory. Put your video in that location and edit the following command so instead of inputvideo.mp4 it has your video name instead. Then copy and paste the command and hit enter to start the conversion.

ffmpeg.exe -i inputvideo.mp4 -acodec libvorbis -b 800k -ac 2 -ab 56k -ar 16000 -r 15 -vf scale="'if(gt(a,4/3),480,-1)':'if(gt(a,4/3),-1,272)'" outvideo.ogg

Keep an eye on the process to see if there are any issues. If you have issues, do a search on how to use the command prompt and i'm sure you can get it figured out

Edit: This command is with the option to keep the aspect ratio on the video.

[Mike1986]

Well I converted it and put it back in a .tar file and it still froze... going to give up on it thanks for the help I appreciate it! Will donate asap.