Is window media player and good - Page 2

Don't Panic! · 12-20-04, 12:20 AM

You could leave it as an .mpg and watch it with either Pocket TV or BetaPlayer but you cannot play .avi, .mpg or Divx files on WMP10 just .asf or .wmv movie files play on WMP10 for Pocket PC. Is there a save as .wmv setting on your AIW card? That way you could cut out the middleman. If bigds63 is who I think he is check out his guides if you go the conversion route. He's practically a Pro at it.

bigds63 · 12-20-04, 01:52 AM

Thanks Bobby, That is I, THE Great ONE,

Actually I need to do some updating to my site...Little old

Don't Panic! · 12-20-04, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by Don't Panic!

One big difference between WMP9 for Pocket PC and WMP10 for Pocket PC is how it handles large or Widescreen format movies in Portrait mode. WMP9 would fill the screen with as much as it could handle. WMP10 presents them in a small box in which you see everything but small. I haven't tried a Portait mode fomatted movie yet but I'll download one from ppcvidz tomorrow and report back to this thread.

Not good news I'm afraid.

I downloaded Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer in Portrait Mode and it displayed as a one inch square until I toggled WMP10 for PPC to landscape. Then it displayed as what I was used to as a Portrait mode sized flick on older WM Players for Pocket PC. BTW-This Rudolph is an 8-minute cartoon not the Television version with Burl Ives as the voice of the snowman. :)

bigds63 · 12-20-04, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by Don't Panic!

Not good news I'm afraid.

I downloaded Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer in Portrait Mode and it displayed as a one inch square until I toggled WMP10 for PPC to landscape. Then it displayed as what I was used to as a Portrait mode sized flick on older WM Players for Pocket PC. BTW-This Rudolph is an 8-minute cartoon not the Television version with Burl Ives as the voice of the snowman. :)

Bobby there is a setting in WMP10 to Shrink to fit window (see image ) ,check that and it will stretch or shrink your video to fit in the window but uncheck it and your video will play the size the video is encoded to. Your example of Rudolph is not a true portrait size video it has been encoded at a resolution of 208x160 I have included some images to show Portrait size in WMP 10 incuding the Rudolph one with the shrink to fit window unchecked.

Don't Panic! · 12-21-04, 10:22 AM

I've had that box unchecked since day one. Maybe it's a version issue I'm using My X50v all the time now. Guess I should change my profile and the version of the media player in that is Version 10.0 Build 14280. I'm also wondering if it's a VGA issue. I don't use any enhancers like oz_vga or se_vga, I've tried the Tweaks2k2.net brute force hack, and picard_beta's Tweaked GAPI driver on and off but it still looks the same. Why do I get the feeling this is yet another hazard of being on the bleeding edge?

bigds63 · 12-21-04, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by Don't Panic!

I've had that box unchecked since day one. Maybe it's a version issue I'm using My X50v all the time now. Guess I should change my profile and the version of the media player in that is Version 10.0 Build 14280. I'm also wondering if it's a VGA issue. I don't use any enhancers like oz_vga or se_vga, I've tried the Tweaks2k2.net brute force hack, and picard_beta's Tweaked GAPI driver on and off but it still looks the same. Why do I get the feeling this is yet another hazard of being on the bleeding edge?

Ah, I'm using build 14235 on a x30H so that may be the dif , but I suspect it is a VGA issue...We may have to start encoding the videos at PPCVIDZ for people with VGA also. And May need you Bobby to do some testing if you would.