Hi all,

Hope someone can help me, I am trying to sync my videos to 2 devices, a PocketPC running WM5 and a archos 605. Both devices work fine when syncing to WMP11 for Music, however the videos do not sync, any format I try divx, avi, mpeg, wmv starts to convert and after 3-5 minutes returns this error:

"windows media player cannot connvert the file to the format required by the player"

I have set the transcoder to the Microsoft one, This happens on 3 systems, any ideas of a fix?

Thanks   

I was having this problem with Windows XP Media Center Edition.  When I ran the Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility, it showed Cyberlink's decoder as the default.  I read a post somewhere that I should try switching to the built in Sonic decoder, but it didn't show up in the list, so I bought the CinePlayer DVD Decoder from Roxio/Sonic.  After setting this as the default decoder with the checkup utility program, I was then able to sync Xvid files, but I'm now having issues with DivX files.  There's not even a conversion attempt by windows media player 11, it goes straight to the little red x error state. I have the Archos 605 as well.  I found out that a conversion isn't required for that filetype, so I changed the USB Preference in the system settings to PC Hard Drive (auto-ARCLib), and just copied the files over manually.  That worked for me.  Did you ever find a solution?

I was having similar problems syncing Divx and Xvid files to my Gigabeat S60, which handles the same video formats as Windows Mobile and the Zune. Since Xvid and Divx are not MPEG-2, WMP doesn't use the DVD decoder on your machine.

I convert the files first in CuCuSoft Zune Video Converter and then sync the resulting WMV files. Since the CuCuSoft software converts it to a resolution and bit rate that my device supports natively, WMP doesn't need to transcode it and it just syncs it right away. TMPGEnc 4 Express is also a good piece software for doing video transcoding.

Yogi

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Hi all, thanks for the advice, I really want ti use WMp11 since that is what is advertised as working with the archos and it's one less application to worry about :)

 

I have done some more investigating and think I found the root cause: I ran the XP Video Decoder checkup utility from Microsoft and it reports all my codecs fail with this error

"this decoder is not compatible with the synchronization features of windows media 10"

So I need a codec that works in vista and allows sync between devices.

Any thoughts on a codec that works?