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[Shimio]

I'm having a problem with putting movies onto my Samsung mp3. I can get songs working fine so at first I thought it was the file format of the videos, and I know they can fit on my mp3 because I used the mp3 to take them from my friends laptop to my computer. And its not the actual videos that arn't loading because I can watch them on my computer. The videos were originaly avi files, they didn't work so I changed them to wmv (sis told me to) but that didn't work eithor. I'm currently changing the file format again to mp4, it'll be done in 16 hrs so I wont know if that works until tomorow. I don't think its going to since its an mp3 but I thought it was worth a try. I also tried re-loading the videos onto the Samsung program on my computer, as well as attempting to add the videos EXACTLY how the instructions tell you to. (thinking it was just a small error on my part) However nothing has worked so far. Whenever I try to load a vid I get this pop up asking for details like "conversion quality" and "save folder," it doesn't seem to be the problem, but when I click "run" it shows the loading progress and then nothing happens. It just dissapears after a few minutes without anything loading. Am I doing something wrong?

[8210GUY]

This sounds like a format issue, and I am not sure mp4 will work on it either, properly anyway, although from what I have seen you are on the right track, but not having touched this unit I can't say if there are alternate options, but from what I have found, the player comes with software to put stuff (encoding as it does) onto the player, my guess is maybe that software can't handle avi format, the comments I saw said put it in mp4 format then the software should be able to load it, so see how this goes when you get it converted and we can go from there.

[Shimio]

I had really hoped this would work, but I got the same result with the mp4 format. The loading progress pops up, but nothing happens. I've tried Avi Wmp and Mp4 formats so far. My video converter program has several other options so I think I'm going to try them all just to be safe, it wouldn't hurt to try. After that I'm stumped. The other file formats I have to try are: MPEG, Flash, MOV, 3GP, and Blu-ray which I know wont work for my mp3. I'm more than willing to download another video converter if it has the file format I need.

[8210GUY]

Have you not tried to use the software that came with the unit ? From what I can see it has to be in SVI format, and they're software will do this for you, but you may find it can only handle certain formats, I would of thought it could handle mp4 fine, so have you tried using the bundled software to put the mp4 file on the player ?

[Shimio]

Aha! I was focasing too much on finding a video converter on the internet when I already had one. It took a while, but I managed to convert the files properly and the're working fine! Thank you!

[8210GUY]

LOL easy done, people by nature always try to explain a technical issue with technical reasoning, and forget to check the basics leading to hours of frustration, but at least your sorted now, just be aware that the software bundled with the unit may have format limitations itself, eg it may not be able to handle an avi file, if this happens just change it to a format it does support and you will be good to go.