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Aximifuwanna · 02-21-03, 10:05 AM

This morning, I watched a ripped DVD movie on my AXIM as I rode to work on the subway. It was AWESOME! It sounded great, looked really good (for the most part) and took up a reasonable amount of space on my Microdrive.

I used the instructions and linked apps at Pocket Matrix to do everything. I followed them as well as possible. However, the section about what to do with NTSC movies seemed a bit vague. So I could have screwed something up.

My test movie was a Japanese anime called "Blood" which runs (no pun intended) about 48 minutes. The file displays widescreen at 320x192 and came out to be about 94MB. I encoded it at a bitstream rate of 250kbps for higher quality even though the instructions said 200kbps was okay.

Here's the problem: whenever things move fast on the screen, it appears as if every other line is out of sync. So there's a sort of "striping" effect. When things are moving slowly or standing still the picture is amazing, but it gets a bit distorted by these line sync problems when the action heats up.

My questions are these: What needs to change to make these line problems go away? Also, the instructions and encoding I used was for DIVX 4. I'm running the "DIVX Player for PPC" on my Axim. It's the one that's linked on the instructions page. Does a lot change if I use version 5? Are there benefits to using the later codec? Will the current player handle DIVX 5? Any pointers in the right direction would be truly appreciated!

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Aximifuwanna Aximsite Rookie DAP Site StaffDAP Site StaffDAP Site Reviewer Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: New York City Posts: 27 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Limited Success with DIVX 4 This morning, I watched a ripped DVD movie on my AXIM as I rode to work on the subway. It was AWESOME! It sounded great, looked really good (for the most part) and took up a reasonable amount of space on my Microdrive. I used the instructions and linked apps at Pocket Matrix to do everything. I followed them as well as possible. However, the section about what to do with NTSC movies seemed a bit vague. So I could have screwed something up. My test movie was a Japanese anime called "Blood" which runs (no pun intended) about 48 minutes. The file displays widescreen at 320x192 and came out to be about 94MB. I encoded it at a bitstream rate of 250kbps for higher quality even though the instructions said 200kbps was okay. Here's the problem: whenever things move fast on the screen, it appears as if every other line is out of sync. So there's a sort of "striping" effect. When things are moving slowly or standing still the picture is amazing, but it gets a bit distorted by these line sync problems when the action heats up. My questions are these: What needs to change to make these line problems go away? Also, the instructions and encoding I used was for DIVX 4. I'm running the "DIVX Player for PPC" on my Axim. It's the one that's linked on the instructions page. Does a lot change if I use version 5? Are there benefits to using the later codec? Will the current player handle DIVX 5? Any pointers in the right direction would be truly appreciated! __________________ Don't believe me? Aximifuwanna!