Talk:AMV video format

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I personally have bought 4 different models of these Chinese MP3/MP4 players for various members of my family. The players, all of which, have given flawless performance to date.

So far, I have not found one that installs the software. I have had to examine the diska and extract the english .MSI file with the .CAB file to hard drive and then execute the .MSI file to install the coversion and computer AMV player software. Manuals: Not sure here. Some come with Chinese and English manuals, while some may only have Chinese. Always ask the supplier before you buy. If you have never had this type of device to operate, it just takes a few minutes to master it, mistakes excluded, naturally. --Itspete (removed from body of article). 64.12.116.11 02:54, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Clearly manufacturer's blurb....

Most of this entry is not about the format, it is about the player (for which there is a separate page). Also, basic inaccuracies - video compression is comparably low (though small file size due to low resolution and frame rate). UPDATE - have moved content to appropriate page, and made it a bit less effusive - Chinese MP4/MTV Player. - Fizzybrain 13:17, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

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Article edited as part of work on the NPOV backlog. Since the disputed text seems to have been edited since the tag was placed in April, and there has been no discussion suggesting further disagreement, the tag is removed. The cleanup tag has also been removed. If you disagree with this, please re-tag the article with {{NPOV}} and post to Talk. -- Steve Hart 20:22, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Add information about internal file format?

Per http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-September/035808.html, AMV is a simple format using a variant of MJPEG for the video and uncompressed audio. I don't think that link is really citation-quality, though. Efriedman 09:21, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

There's no public documentation. I think high-quality reverse-engineering efforts are worth linking. There's a hacked-up version of FFmpeg on Google Code, for example. I think mplayer is a prominent enough project that a developer's list email is worth noting. It'll inform our readers a lot better than nothing would - David Gerard (talk) 19:02, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

I've added as much relevant technical info about this awful format as one would expect in a video format article (see comparable entries in the "compression formats" template). I have used the hacked-up ffmpeg to produce an AMV running at 25fps, which played on my own crappy "MP4" player (which in most other respects I love - cheap, cheerful, disposable, looks like a bad pink photocopy of an iPod nano, still works after two days!), but that's too original research for this article ;-) I'll investigate the encoder software that came on the CD with the thing - David Gerard (talk) 06:48, 27 December 2007 (UTC)