G'day. This may be a dumb question; I just don't know enough about the various video formats. If I were to purchase from iTunes one of their $1.99 episodes of Lost, for instance, is there some software out there that I could use to convert the file to a format which would play on my Axim X50v?
I've given some thought to buying a new video iPod, but really the Axim has a much bigger screen, so why have two video-capable devices if the Axim will do it all?
On the recommendation in this forum thread on "How to Encode Videos for your PDA", I downloaded all the necessary software to encode DVDs and did my first one yesterday, using The Core Pocket Media Player (formerly Beta Player) to view the encoded movie. It looked great! :approve:
If one can't convert an iTunes video format, is there some other place to buy episodes of TV shows which will play on the Axim?
If youre a mac user you could buy the Elgatto eye TV (DTT) for £99 (apple website), record your own TV programmes then export them as an MPEG4 for use in the TCPMP (dont forget to change the sound from AAC to normal) Only down side is the files are massive and you'd only get about 1 hour per Gig! You may be able to use itunes movies within iMovie then export them that way, but of course you need to be a mac user (I'm a recent convert ... macs rule for anything multi media orientated!) Other suggestions involve playing around with Quicktime Pro etc etc. I think at the end of the day, despite the fact I have a nice X50V, I'll just buy an iPod for £220 and utilise the 30GB of movie space for my own tv recordings. QT Pro and Elgatto have iPod video export formats so its well catered for. 6 months later when a better solution comes out, ebay it and loose only £40! Your other 2 options are buy an Archos AV500 and Lost on DVD and burn yourself!
get yourself a video digitizer that does both audio and video they make usb ones that are less than 100 bucks (dazzle, belkin to name a couple of types) plug in your video source and audio they have cards that install in your computer also and you can record live tv or off your vcr or dvd player even off your stereo for music and you dont have to pay for something you can do yourself and if you do decide to pay for itunes you can play them with whatever will play it and feed that into the digitizer and it will convert it to avi or mpeg and the resolution is 320x240 just right for your pda but they have some more expensive ones that will do higher resolutions if you have a usb1.1 you will have to capture as an avi which will use alot of hd space on your computer then convert to mpeg
the usb 2.0 ones can capture directly to mpeg withoutgetting out of sync or jerkiness so you wont have to convert saving you a step
I agree with axzilla...Don't pay these fools a $1.99 for a re-run. Hell you have already paid to watch it on your TV, why in the world would you want to pay for it again. Get yourself a Tv Tuner card and then you can record and take on the go what ever you want. I have 3 PCs with the ATI All-in-Wonder in them recording stuff constantly with one of them recording straight to a pocket pc format so all I have to do is flop it in my card reader and go. Problem is I never have time to watch them. But hey, big hard drives are cheap these days.
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I agree with axzilla...Don't pay these fools a $1.99 for a re-run. Hell you have already paid to watch it on your TV, why in the world would you want to pay for it again. Get yourself a Tv Tuner card and then you can record and take on the go what ever you want. I have 3 PCs with the ATI All-in-Wonder in them recording stuff constantly with one of them recording straight to a pocket pc format so all I have to do is flop it in my card reader and go. Problem is I never have time to watch them. But hey, big hard drives are cheap these days.
I want to be careful because discussions of certain downloading activities are frowned-upon here, but Canada seems to have a much more consumer-friendly copyright situation than the U.S. In some countries it is fine to download shows and movies for you own personal use, as long as you don't profit from the activity.
If you are in BC as in British Columbia you might want to consider a bittorrent client for your home PC, a program like bitcomet or utorrent. Popular shows like Lost, Joey, Family Guy, etc. show up almost immediately on bittorrent networks and should take less than an hour for you to download if you have broadband. Many are captured in HDTV and transcoded to high quality DIVX. If you wish, simply recode to whatever resolution you prefer for your Axim.
Of course you should only do this if it is legal in your country.
so.. bit-torrent is legal in BC? thats just super..
Bittorrent is legal everywhere.
Downloading copyrighted material over bittorrent is not legal everywhere.
Different countries have different copyright laws, different enforcement policies, and different penalties. I'm not a Canadian lawyer but my understanding is that in Canada either it's okay to download noncommercially, or else ISPs cannot violate the privacy of their customers, so it is impossible to enforce illegal downloading. It may also be that damages are restricted to actual damages rather than the extreme extortion demands that are made in the U.S. when filesharers are sued. This means that a studio could only sue a caught downloader for $20 Canadian or so. They would never pursue such a case because it is not a profit center (unlike in the U.S. where they demand hundreds of thousands of dollars and settle for thousands) Coupled with minimal or no criminal prosecution risk, that would make Canada a good place to download your favorite TV shows (which are ironically FREE over the air...)
Obviously I am confusing all the stories I read on the subject, but I know Canada has more "downloading-friendly" laws than the U.S. I am only encouraging the OP to investigate to see if torrents are an alternative, available, quasilegal source for popular TV shows.
I am not talking about downloading anything. I said to buy a digitizer and record the shows yourself. From my last recognition owning a vcr to record tv shows to watch later is not illegal at all. Owning a tape recorder to record music is not illegal either. This is the same thing you can record tv to watch later on your pda no one said you were obligated to watch tv shows strictly on a tv set. I pay for cable and for internet i am allowed to record whatever i want with my vcr that comes thru my cable as long as it is for my personal use.
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