okkk so this is obviously a work in progress. but i'm borrredd so i wanted to start writing an entry pertaining to this AGPTEK mp3 player and how i learned to put videos on it! this is some verry niche knowledge but i might as well share it right.
okkk so. if you own one of these thingamajigs you probably noticed that there's a "video" function within the toolbox. maybe you tried to put an mp4 in it and were hit with the error message. and who cares right?? no one wants to watch anything on this tiny ass mp3 player screen. but if you're like me you bring this thing with you everywhere so it's kinda cool to be able to store video on it....i dunno! i've had fun with it!
according to the manual the mp3 player only supports "160*128" video. i assumed that meant the dimensions...but changing the dimensions didn't work. the manual says there's a program (amvtransform) that comes with the device that'll help you convert the files so the player can read them...and i dunno about you but i did not have this. this manual is from 2016 so maybe it's a little out of date?
soooo i guess the format they want the videos in is .amv which is a largely obsolete file format that is a little difficult to find good software for! so maybe we're boned except we're actually not because you just have to download ffmpeg and do a little silliness there. i did not figure this out on my own btw this is mostly thanks to this very helpful reddit thread where i got the commands to do this process. with a few tweaks. so stay tuned.
okkk! so if you go to ffmpeg.org you can download it from there. and once you've got that all figured out and you've opened command center or your computer's equivalent we can use these commands. the original reddit ones were methinks for a different mp3 player because they flip it for no reason....but regardless here's the ones i used.
ffmpeg -i FILENAME.mp4 -vf "scale=-2:128, crop=160:128" -r 16 -acodec pcm_s16le -ac2 -ar 22050 -pix_fmt yuvj420p -c:v mjpeg -q:v 2 DESTINATION.avi
sooooo this turns your file into a .avi which uhhhhh i guess NOT what we're looking for but i was to scared to change anything for fear i'd mess everything up. if you are smarter than me maybe you can figure that out!! and also? protip hashtag learnfrommymistakes? name all your mp4s somethinglikethis.mp4 and not Something like this.mp4 because it'll get mad at you if there's spaces. and also the "filename.mp4" should include the path to the file. like "C:\users\username\downloads\filename.mp4". you can just copy the path from within your files and paste it into command center. annnd of course all of your .avi files will then end up in your C: unless you put a destination there too but that's too much work for very little reward methinks! you can always just move them later :3
.avis aren't as obscure as .amvs but both have definitely fallen out of favor so the only converter i could find is one with ads and a daily limit. which sucks but i just spaced out all of my files throughout a couple of days and it was fine. this converter also doesnt do long videos but you can always just split those up into parts.
uuhh uhhh uhh i think that's it!! if anyone who is doing this very specific thing actually finds and reads this....waow. that would make me feel like i was on some sort of holy mission or something. but that probably won't happen unless its causal and this blog entry made you want to go out and buy this mp3 player. but yeah uhm if you do follow these instructions and are having trouble don't be afraid to leave a message on my guestbook! i might not be able to help but we could bond over our shared mp3 player ownership. set them up on a playdate or something. but i hope you do succeed!! it's fun watching tmbg tv segments on a screen smaller than a matchbox...like God intended. so yeahhh ! ok? cool? ok bye!