By Marc Peters
Published: August 27, 05
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The following guide illustrates how to encode video to play video files on your Iriver H320. Because of the large 20GB harddrive, you will be able to fit over a 1000 hours of video on the Iriver H320 MP3 player! You need to update the firmware first (click link for download - remember that upgrading the firmware carries a risk!) Next download and install these codecs: Xvid and Radium MP3; and then download and install VirtualDub to watch video on your Iriver H320. Open up VirtualDub (browse to where you unzipped the files and double click on VirtualDub.exe) Select: File > Open video file > browse to file Video > Filters Add > then select resize and enter the values as below (220x176) 
Click ok. Click ok again. You should now be back to the main screen which looks like this: 
Select Video Compression. Select XviD MPEG-4 Codec: 
Click Configure. Click the button circled below so that it reads target bitrate. Enter 450. 
Click OK until you are back to the main screen. Select Video > Framerate. Change the framerate to 10 as below by clicking the radio box next to convert to fps typing 10. 
Click OK Select Audio > Full Processing Mode, then Audio > Compression. Select the options as below MP3, 128Kbps, 44.1KHz 
Click OK Select File > Save as AVI and enter a filename and location. Wait to encode. Now transfer the video to your Iriver H320. If the video doesn't play smoothly, try reducing the bitrate.
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An important step was missed from the "Converting video to play on a Iriver H320" tutorial which causes the video playback at less than 10 frames a second (looks jerky) on the H series players.
When setting up the XViD configuration in Virtual Dub goto the XViD configuration->Advanced Options dialog and set the motion search precision to 0. This results in lower movie quality but at least the movie plays back at the correct speed.