playing videos on X30

cpinch73 · 09-15-05, 04:10 PM

Please could someone tell me how i can play videos that i have recorded from my digital camera on my X30. they play on my windows media player but not on my PDA. Wot program do i need to download and are there any good ones for free? Many thanks!

**Rishad** · 09-15-05, 04:23 PM

Try TCPMP .. the best one out there and its free.. link in MyPDA.

cpinch73 · 09-15-05, 05:18 PM

it just downloaded loads of stuff onto my pc. How do i know what to download onto my PDA? and how?

09-16-05, 05:42 AM

get the tcpmp.0.66.setup.zip and run it on your pc while your device is docked for active sync. the other files like Vorbis and ffmpeg are optional (they are used for other video formats )

SundialSoft · 09-16-05, 06:01 AM

The TCPMP player is good and free. Used to be called betaplayer.
see http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/about

You can also rip movies etc /convert between formats if you have a good sized SD card but using the free tools is much harder than buying one such as PocketDVD. A movie can be as small as 256Mb. Takes aroun 45 minutes to convert a full film.

You use activesync to move files to your handheld however if you have an SD card reader you can move big files via SD card faster than via USB.

_889 · 09-16-05, 06:42 PM

Yes it is much more useful than windows media player.

currahee2100 · 09-17-05, 03:01 AM

I use WMP just for the sake of less-complicated ness plus WMA gives decent sound.
There is a program called Windows Media Encoder that will code your movies in WMV if you'd like. There is a setting specifically for Pocket PCs. However, it uses a LOT of compression so videos might look a bit blocky.