Sansa Nation

Rockbox for the Sansa improves video functionality where the original firmware for the Sansa is lacking. Sansa uses Quicktime to view videos which slows things down and is just not efficient at all, making videos for the Sansa very frustrating to watch. The Rockbox MPEG player is a huge improvement, using MPEG ½ format which is quite a bit smaller and offers far better synching. One way to take advantage of Rockbox for Sansa is to use the free program WinFF which is a small and simple to use program already configured for the Sansa. Use the following steps to create videos for your Rockbox player:

1: Download and install WinFF. It’s free and easy to download.

2: Get the video you want to convert. Have the saving location pointed to your Sansa.

3: Open WinFF and load your video by pressing the ADD button. Choose a saving location in the next area. Finally, in the first drop down box, choose ROCKBOX. In the second dialog box, choose the mp3 player or iPod you’re using.

4: You can add extra parameters for your video file if you’re comfortable doing so. If recommend changing the frame rate to 15 FPS, as many videos skip and are choppy at higher frame rates – also, this reduces the file size.

-Ray

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