#81

TinyTV & Tiny Video Player / Re: File Sizes for TV 2

Last post by toddschnack - January 12, 2026, 11:17:11 AM

It's their converter app.  It's locked at 1500kbps.  So even if your original file is lower than that, it will re-encode the video at that higher bitrate, causing the file size to increase.

I had to find another program to let me choose my own bitrate, to shrink the file size.

What program are you using instead and what settings are you using?

google search "FFmpeg Batch AV Converter"  You should find a link to soureforge.   A guy named eibol made it.  It's just a GUI interface to use all the features of FFmpeg.

As for my settings,  I'm using....

-r 24 -pix_fmt yuv420p -filter_complex "[0:a]compand=attacks=0:points=-80/-900|-45/-15|-27/-9|0/-7|20/-7:gain=2,speechnorm=e=25:r=0.0001:l=1,aresample=10000,aresample=async=1000,aresample=osf=u8,asetnsamples=n=210:p=0[a];[0:v]scale=210:135,hqdn3d[v]" -map "[v]" -b:v 800k -c:v mjpeg -map "[a]" -ac 1 -acodec pcm_u8 -y

Just Add your mp4's, Then in the parameters box, put the commands I posted above.  And to the right of that box, Set the format to avi.   It's literally that simple.

That does the fill / stretch for the video,  Lowers the quality to 800k instead of 1500k.   And all the beginning stuff is for boosting audio.  Can find on page two of these forums, a guy posted those commands.   I did manually change the Gain=0 to Gain=2 to get a bit more of a volume boost.   

But I can now take a 415MB MP4 cartoon, and convert the episode to about 140MB, instead of the 250MB that Tinycircuits app will output.    You can always raise or lower the bitrate or raise it if you want.   Just change the the 800k to 600k or 1000k, or whatever.    On such a small screen, At least with an old 80's cartoon, I don't really notice the quality drop from 1500k to 800k.   When watching the video file on my PC, and making the video full screen, it's noticeable.  But when displayed on a 1" screen at a distance of a few feet away, I honestly can't see the blocking. 

These settings worked perfectly! Thank you for posting.

#82

General Discussion / Suggestions for improving this...

Last post by JamezGamez - January 11, 2026, 12:00:32 PM

I made a pretty solid Thumby Color Geometry Dash clone, and I need playtesters. It's pretty straightforward: A/B to jump, B on death screen for options, A to respawn. If there's any bugs, or if you have suggestions, please let me know. I need to make this game better, but I'm running out of ideas. I'm sure you all already know how to put it onto your Thumby Color, but for those of you who don't know: 1) Make a new directory/folder in Games. Name it ThumbyDash, or something like that. 2) download this file, and upload it onto that folder/directory. That's it!

#83

New Product Ideas / Re: More Realistic Thumby Idea

Last post by ahullfavorite - January 08, 2026, 09:11:49 PM

I think it would make a lot of people exited, happy and surprised if there was a thumby advance. Some of the new features could be, instead of Internal games, it could be game cartridges (nanosd cards or custom made storage devices fnf), actual start and select buttons at the bottom, and heck, maybe even add a color screen too. I know What your thinking; But nobody wants to Pay for new cartridges every week or so! and I have a solution. When the recipient buys a Thumby Advance, they also receive a bag with a bunch of blank cartridges and an adapter for a computer. They would Go to the Thumby Code Editor, select the Thumby Advance as their version, and then upload the games (or their own games) onto the cartridges. the cartridges would come with stickers that you can write on so you can remember which one is which.

That actually sounds like a really fun and realistic idea: a Thumby Advance with swappable blank cartridges, proper Start/Select buttons, and even a color screen would feel nostalgic while staying affordable, and letting users load games themselves via an adapter neatly avoids the cost and hassle of buying new cartridges.

#84

User Projects / Code Examples / Re: I made a 2d version of Por...

Last post by No1tehm - January 05, 2026, 02:48:12 PM

Moving over to the actual thumby forum

#85

General Discussion / Hardwired Power

Last post by jmac - January 01, 2026, 07:35:43 PM

Curious on a way to mod my TinyTV mini to be "hardwired" aka always plugged in. I know I can just leave the cable plugged in the all the time but the way it comes out of the top of the TV housing makes it inconvenient to do so. Any ideas? Please feel free to point me in the right direction if a forum has already been made for this. Thanks!

#86

General Discussion / Images on games

Last post by JamezGamez - December 31, 2025, 12:38:07 PM

Does anybody know how to put an image on your Thumby Color game, so it shows up on the home screen, rather than a ? Pls help, I have been trying 4 a week to get an image on my game.

#87

Thumby / Thumby Color C SDK game

Last post by terada - December 30, 2025, 07:27:36 AM

I couldn't find any C SDK sample for thumby color so I made one. This is a port of PICO-8 game "Hyperspace", a 3D space shooter game.

https://github.com/itsmeterada/hyperspace_thumbycolor

#88

General Discussion / Re: Lipo battery

Last post by vicentewilson - December 30, 2025, 04:25:22 AM

I'm having trouble finding a battery like this I ordered some from Amazon and they were too big the connecter is flat on top where can I find one that will work

If you know the brand of the device that uses the battery, check the manufacturer's website. They often sell replacement parts, including batteries.

#89

TinyTV & Tiny Video Player / Any way around the 4gb FAT32 l...

Last post by Tvwatcher - December 26, 2025, 04:23:54 PM

Along with many others I got my tinytv for christmas and I'm loving it. What I have learned from searching the forums and playing with it myself is that AVI files get HUGE. Especially when I try to convert an 8 hour+ long video to mimic a real tv channel. I already know I'm going to have to upgrade the microsd card. I'm almost there though, and my final hurdle has finally revealed itself. It seems that the card being FAT32 is a hard rule, does that also mean I am absolutely limited to 4gb files? If that's the case, is it possible to program the tv to create channels from folders full of smaller files? Thanks all and happy holidays!

#90

General Discussion / Mailing list

Last post by rdk4001 - December 26, 2025, 11:13:03 AM

Good Morning!

I was given a tiny tv for Christmas and it's absolutely adorable!!! I took a look at your site and love the mini arcade game that you have. My granddaughters would love them. But I see the games are out of stock right now. Do you have a mailing list that I could be put on? I'm hoping to purchase these items but not until next Christmas. And do they ever go on sale?  I am on a fixed budget so I have to plan accordingly. I thank you for your help in this regard and look forward to hearing from you.

rdk