Transcoding (was Re: xPLRioNet - A Challenge)

["timmysaw2" <timmysaw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Same as you. It just jumped through all the tracks...
--- In ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx, "Doc_in_texas" <doc_in_texas@y...>
wrote:
>
> Tim,
>
> I put lame.exe over in ...\helpers but it's not working for me.
The
> Rio does initialize now but when I try to play a folder that is
full
> of skippies, it just spins through the files displaying them on
the
> screen. What did you find?
>
> Gary
>
> --- In ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx, "timmysaw2" <timmysaw@g...>
wrote:
> >
> > I was also stumped on trying to get the transcode change to work
> per
> > the instructions from Tony.
> >
> > Looking back at other documentation from the xPLRioNet site,
said
> > something about "helper" apps or some such, but i
couldn't find
> much
> > else that was around to get me going.
> >
> > Any other suggestions Tony? Where there parameters we'd need to
> > change in that line? Is there any particular directory that
> lame.exe
> > needs to be located?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
> >
> > --- In ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx, "Doc_in_texas"
<doc_in_texas@y...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Try converting the RGB to 8bit greyscale. Now you only have
256
> > > values to worry about. Then it becomes a matter of which
contrast
> > > looks better on the dinky little DAR LCD. Anything above
your
> > > contrast point becomes white, below is black. I don't recall
a
> RGB
> > to
> > > greyscale algorythm but you should be able to google one.
> > >
> > > A day or so ago you sent me the transcode.xml line to pipe
> through
> > > lame. It didn't work for me but it's possible I didn't have
lame
> > > installed correctly. I moved LAME.EXE and LAME_enc.dll from
> > another
> > > PC to the WINNT directory. Anyway, after adding the line,
the
DAR
> > > would hang in "initializing" limbo. I removed the
line and all
is
> > > well.
> > >
> > > Gary
> > >





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