Ogg Encoding On The Iriver Players

The ogg support in the iriver players isn't totally great.

If the bitrate is too high, too low or the sample rate is wrong you can find the player crashing, switching itself off or saying "NOT SUPPORTED OGG FORMAT".

The solution is to ensure your ogg files have a bitrate and sample rate that the player likes. For the 899 model, this is above 96kpbs, below 225 and a sample rate of 44100.

  oggenc --min-bitrate=100 --max-bitrate=200 --resample 44100 input.wav

In my version (1.0.1) I find that oggenc will sometimes do funny things with the bitrates, and instead of using 100/200 decide it wants to use 0.1 and 0.2. These latter values will scupper playback on the iriver.

Setting the -q (quality) flag appears to be one way to get this to happen, which is why I haven't used it in the above example.

Best to check with

  ogginfo input.ogg

and check it reports what you are expecting.

also try

• the iriver website offers a ogg bit converter that can be downloaded for free and will convert your ogg files into a friendly ogg format. Windows only.

• you could always try upgrading the firmware, but don't hold you breath that this will fix the ogg format problems... Avoid this unless you really understand what you are doing!