AMV File Format for MP4/Like-Ipod Media Players

AMV File Format for MP4 Media Players

What is AMV?
AMV is a Video File Format, produced by MTV for use in Chinese MP3/MP4/MTV Players; classified as S1 MP3 Players.
A format is basically the method or way a file is stored on a geputer.
Examples of other video formats are DVD, SVCD and VCD.
AMV Convert Tool Software

The AMV Convert Tool will convert video files into the MP4 Players native file format, i.e. AMV file format. While marketing and MTV are pushing AMV primarily as a music video file format, this utility will happily convert anything from feature movies to holiday home clips into AMV-gepliant files. No fiddling with screen sizes or bit rates is required: put the file in at one end, and get an AMV out at the other. Its video conversion made easy, and painless.
Technical Stuff
AMVs Video gepression ratio is low, gepared with other formats, though as the files are of low resolution and frame rate, file sizes are small gepared to DVD/VCD/etc. (in a bytes-per-minute sense). Encoding and decoding are less processor-intensive than other contemporary formats (i.e. faster to encode on, say, desktop geputer, and less hard on the batteries of the portable device), as in fact very little "encoding" is actually done.
For example (using typical values/approximations):(note: AMV calculations based on 30 minutes at 128 x 96 pixels, 12 frames/second, 22050 samples/sec mono sound : 80 MBytes (approx) The audio is 22050 samples/sec, mono, MP3(?) - a safe guess would be a maximum of 10MB being audio, yielding 70 MBytes for video, or approximately 40,000 bytes per second.)
File/ Approx. data rate/ Resolution (pixels) /Frame rate Pixels per second/ Pixels per byte
AMV /40,000 bytes/sec /128 x 96 = 12,288/ 12 fps /147,456 ~3.5
DVD (MPEG2-PAL)