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I am new to the whole PPC, PDA idia. I read that some of you guys watch movies on your Axim. How do you do this?
Are you talking about small video clips or whole 1.5 hour movies?

geezer

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Are you talking about small video clips or whole 1.5 hour movies?

Yes! to both!

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How do you do this?

Magic! :D


Seriously, video clips, movie trailers, full-length movies and streaming video/TV have been accomplished with the Axim. The trick is to compress/resize the video file to a format playable on the PPC. Now, getting the file "right" is another l-o-n-g story.

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tidal

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Originally posted by geezer Now, getting the file "right" is another l-o-n-g story.

amen brother amen!

i have yet to find the secret ingredient! What ever you do use PocketMVP!

geezer

Forgot to give you a link to the starting point:

Pocket Matrix Guide

You can get links to required software there.

Have fun, learn something, come back here with questions and/or tips.

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bigempty

the easiest way to go about this is to use Windows Media Encoder ver.9. unfortunately, you can only use this with WIN XP or 2000. There's a setting built in to convert most audio/video files to a Pocket PC. I would suggest using a CF/SD card reader ie:Sandisk to quickly copy over your files to your memory card.

Brooks

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Originally posted by bigempty I would suggest using a CF/SD card reader ie:Sandisk to quickly copy over your files to your memory card.

Is it mad slow if you do it throught the cradle?

geezer

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Is it mad slow if you do it throught the cradle?

Well, depends on your patience factor. I've been using CF cards for about 4 years now and the first digital camera had a serial connection cable. I use it to download my first images from the camera. When I woke up and saw that the download was still in progress, I ordered the parallel reader from Sandisk. (USB readers were not available) I would not go back! I now use CF cards like floppy disks, moving info/data/images between desktop/camera/laptop/Axim.

Readers and PCMCIA adapters are cheap and well worth the small investment. USB cradle/cable for the Axim does a good job, but not quite as fast.

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Cheryl

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Originally posted by bigempty the easiest way to go about this is to use Windows Media Encoder ver.9. unfortunately, you can only use this with WIN XP or 2000. There's a setting built in to convert most audio/video files to a Pocket PC. I would suggest using a CF/SD card reader ie:Sandisk to quickly copy over your files to your memory card.

I was able to encode a movie, but there is no sound. Any suggestions for the technologically handicapped? :rolling:

Angelo

Did you use the Pocket Matrix Guide or the Windows Media Encoder?

Cheryl

Windows Media Encoder. I tried to use the Pocket Matrix guide, but couldn't get a copy of Smart Ripper. Any ideas?

John D. Holmes

So...I've been all over the net trying to encode a movie also, but I have neither the time nor ability to figure it out.

My question is - can't you buy a movie on a CF disk, or at least on a CD, or download somewhere. Doesn't it seem like there would be a market for such a thing?

Does anyone know where a movie could be (legitimately) purchased, or someone who converts movies for pay?

Adore

If you are interested and want to learn about encoding, i guarantee that there is no better place to start at then Nickys :)

Nickyguides

fibrizo

Check out my quick guide if you have mpegs or avis you want to convert...

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showt...&threadid=3692


I tried WMEncoder 9...

Did a side by side comparison of 2 files same bitrate compressed with divx 5.0.3 as in the thread above and WMP 9.0 VBR for both....

And on my PC I think WMV looks a little tiny bit better... (mostly because microsoft seems to have mastered "Blur" when the bitrate is low)

However my axim would play the WMV file at about 3 fps if I was lucky... And the Divx avi played full speed...

So WMV has a slight advantage, but you need about a 1.5 ghz axim to get decent video it seems... but maybe I'm asking too much of my axim...

So I wouldn't recommend WMV, but that's my 2 cents...

WMA on the otherhand is quite nice... Better than mp3...

Cheryl

Here's a new fly in the ointment.... I got as far as converting audio (ac3) and this is what I got:
Bad Syncword at frame 28051! The AC3 stream is probably corrupt.
Oy! Guess this means I have to start again?

fibrizo

Cheryl, email me. I will try to help.