now that ive just recieved my new 512mb hi-speed sd card, im looking for some software that can let me view films/programs on the move.
ive been reading a few reviews/posts on pocket tv software but im not to clued up on the different video formats dvix,mpeg4 etc.
what i need to know is which format or software would give the best picture quality?
also i would like to watch it landscape style.
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Hi,
You can try Pocket TV Classic:
http://www.pockettv.com
This one is really great!!
You can also use Pocket MVP (for DivX)
http://home.adelphia.net/~mdukette/index.htm
Greets,
Sam
If you're interested in converting DVDs that you own :wink: to a format for viewing on your PPC, there's DVD to Pocket PC.
Previously the product was marked as not for sale in the US due to DMCA concerns, but the latest version has no DVD cracking component (I think it uses other player software installed on your PC to unlock the disk and goes from there) and can be legally purchased in the US.
Quality is so-so since there's a sequence of conversion steps to get to the final product, but you can get 8 hours of movies onto a 512 MB SD card...
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DVD TO POCKET PC
Now you can convert your DVD's to your Pocket PC and watch them in great quality, with stereo sound and in full screen landscape mode. A memorycard as small as 128 Mb is sufficient to store a full length feature film, up to a hundred minutes. Take your DVD's on the plane, train or automobile, watch them on vacation, at work or at school. With only two clicks, this PC software converts the content of your DVD to a super small movie file, which will play on any Windows Mobile 2003 device, such as HP iPaq, on a postage stamp size memory card. You can use a headset or the built-in speaker to listen to the sound. Subtitled and foreign language DVD's are also supported. You wil have to see the quality to believe it, using Microsoft's supreme Windows Media 9 encoding, feature films look crisp and sharp on your Pocket PC and still fit on a relatively small Secure Digital card. On a 512 SD card, you can even crunch 4 films!
While hunting for new software for my XDA2, visited this site, hope this one's good. Heres the link.
http://www.makayama.com/dvdtopocketpc.html
chameleon said:
DVD TO POCKET PC
Now you can convert your DVD's to your Pocket PC and watch them in great quality, with stereo sound and in full screen landscape mode. A memorycard as small as 128 Mb is sufficient to store a full length feature film, up to a hundred minutes. Take your DVD's on the plane, train or automobile, watch them on vacation, at work or at school. With only two clicks, this PC software converts the content of your DVD to a super small movie file, which will play on any Windows Mobile 2003 device, such as HP iPaq, on a postage stamp size memory card. You can use a headset or the built-in speaker to listen to the sound. Subtitled and foreign language DVD's are also supported. You wil have to see the quality to believe it, using Microsoft's supreme Windows Media 9 encoding, feature films look crisp and sharp on your Pocket PC and still fit on a relatively small Secure Digital card. On a 512 SD card, you can even crunch 4 films!
While hunting for new software for my XDA2, visited this site, hope this one's good. Heres the link.
http://www.makayama.com/dvdtopocketpc.html
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not good at all...
DVD's?
Just use smartripper, DVD2AVI and Tmpgenc (all free) and you have the same or better results and will cost you nothing.(I'm Dutch, you undersstand?)
I think DVD-to-Pocket PC is very good and very intuitive. It just takes the hassle out of DVD conversions. One click and off you go....
I prefer pocket DVD studio 1.2
It records to Xvid which can be played in the free Betaplayer.
It provides much better results and is a lot more customisable.
Test both for yourself with the trials and then decide.
I used to always encode with windows media, but now I'm a convert to PocketDivX Encoder - so quick and simple (3-5x real time! Mind you I have a monster PC), and Betaplayer of course to view the files. I use DVD Decrypter to get the files off my DVD. All these are freeware and easy to use.
I'd really like to start using my PPC to watch movies while commuting. I mean current movies that people can now rent, not ancient stuff. The only problem is, the expense and hassle! It stops me from even trying. I mean, first you have to buy a movie DVD for $12-14, then buy and install software to convert it to something that can be seen on the PPC, then copy to my 3GB SDIO Card.
So, it costs me 2 hours of setup hassle and $12+ to enjoy a movie on my PPC???? What the heck ?!(*()*OJ&^&%!&$
I cannot even find any decent amount of material on the web with regards to other people that do this. Does anyone have any ideas? How do people do this - and what is the easiest least expensive way to do it?
do this
download the movie frm net convert via smartmovie and play it.
IMHO http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/ = ++ good
[for all you Orwell readers]
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TCPMP for Pocket PC 0.72RC1
is good
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia-Graphics/Video-Players/TCPMP-for-Pocket-PC-12257.shtml
Yeah, TCPMP is good.
You can copy downloaded tv straight to an SD card and watch it.
I usually stick a few 350mb avi eps onto my SD and watch them on the train. They play flawlessly.
Just make sure you increase the buffer size in TCPMP and turn the backlight down a bit otherwise your battery'll run out fast.
hi guys,
im looking for something to compress some home/family movie clips to my phone. they are about 3gb each and i would really like to get them down to as small as possible say 100mb-500mb or whatever is possible.
been searching the web and cant really find anything. the best i found was to convert to divx
any help please
you could use something like an ipod converter so it will majorly cut it down in size (though it may be the wrong resolution and look crap), or try dvd2avi and specifically set the resolution u want it to
cool mate thank you very much trying it now
personally i use Gordian Knot.
It is a program that uses a combination of smaller products (hence the name Knot) (like DVD-ripper, Virtual Dub, Vobsub etc) in order to rip a dvd.
You can use it for ripping dvds as well as modifying a movie. You can select the resolution yourself, a long with a lot of features.
I have to say that this is a bit advanced and you will get lost if you dont do your homework...There is a tutorial (google is your friend ) and once you do that you should be set to go..
Just a note, when i started using it, progress was slow but now i can do everything quite fast..
If you have the time, patience and good quality movies, you cant go wrong with this
ps: i make xvid format films with it, but divx is also supported
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I have to say that this is a bit advanced and you will get lost if you dont do your homework...
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and nobody uses this anymore because there are 1click solutions that do it better and faster... this is a tool that is 5000 years old
To convert from dvd, xvid, divx, ... to an avi/wmv that fits on your htc, without tutorials, without advanced nonsense go for SPB mobile DVD
you can even tell the converter to not exceed a certain filesize, so I guess this fits yours needs perfectly
I have found iSoft DVD to PPC converter to be the best I have come across so far. I have been looking at this type of software since I bought a 4GB Sony Ericsson about 3 years ago approx. I have used the iSoft about 11 times already to convert the 11 DVD's I currently have on my 16GB Touch Pro
i like clonedvdmobile or spb mobile dvd
otherwise there are plenty of movie convertors which will convert/downsize movies
Hi there,
I am reasonably new to the HD, and WM in general. Just got my HD and absolutely loving it. I have a few long train journeys coming up though, and am looking to make the most of video/audio playback.
Basically I'm not 100% sure how to do it all. I have some DVDs that I would like to rip to my harddrive and then convert into a suitable file type to be played on my HD. I have DVD Decrypter which I will use to rip them to my harddrive, but I'm not entirely sure of the best way to proceed from there. They will just be in standard DVD format on my harddrive. If anyone can help and give me a quick tutorial and recommend a few programs to use, I would be most appreciative.
Thanks!
Firstly I rip the DVD movie to a Divx format.AVI file, then I use a program on my desktoppc called "PocketDivxEncoder" which converts the .AVI to a compressed format suitable to dump onto my memory card (about 80MB for a 45min TV show with reasonable quality - so on that basis a movie would be arounf 160 - 180MB), then finally use PocketDivx player (downloaded from www.divx.com) to watch fullscreen - works perfect for me, I have a 16gb card and have several completer series of tv shows stored quite happily with really good quality viewing!
Thanks for that. How do you rip the DVD movie into DivX? Sorry, new to all this!
there are several freeware apps that you can use to rip a DVD, I use one called "Shark Ripper", it has numerous options incl. output format - where I select DIVX video compression and MPe audio compression. Take a search on download.com and I'm sure you'll find a suitable freeware DVD ripper!
I have pocket rar on my device. Do I copy my dvd to pc then copy that to my handheld ?. What is the easiest guide. I have a 2gb memory card. Zip wouldn't let me. Said file too big. Thanks.
be alot easier if you had the avi file or mp4 of the dvd.
You need a DVD ripper
Hello,
I dont think you'll have any luck playing DVD files directly on the device, if you can even get them there. The first thing is: You'll need TCPMP player, if you want to maintain your sanity (or you can go crazy trying to get WMP to do anything worthwhile...lol) Get it from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=565653&highlight=tcpmp
As far as getting movies onto the device, You have 2 choices:
#1 Get the films you want from Torrents, in AVI format. The ones that are sized to fit onto 1 CD (about 750MB) will work very nicely without having to do anything to them!
#2 Get a DVD ripper. You can probably find one for free, but I personally use a paid version from Wondershare. It won't work on every one, but for most it does.
http://www.wondershare.com/pro/dvd-ripper-platinum.html
Hope this helps you enjoy that big, fat screen!
Cheers!
Hi
I use DVD Catalyst to convert from DVD no need to rip first
http://www.tools4movies.com/
There is a free version or a paid version if you want more control
err... search?
this topic (and many variations) has been answered many many many times before,
there is no 'best way' you ask that here and all you'll get is other peoples recommendations which will vary wildly. leaving you possibly more confussed then when you asked!
the process remains the same (legit DVD > a means to rip the DVD to a compatible format > testing the playback for results)
you may well notice an audio delay, in which case you need a dvd ripping/converter that can allow you to set the encoding to account for this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=649742
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=634658
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=663187
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6132712
for example...
*yawn* bedtime now....
Thanks for the links. You are right,everybody has their own preference lol.
I have divx converter on my p c. Never used it before. So I put in my legit dvd. rip it. compress it to mp4. Then cut and paste it to my memory card And voila ?.
I downloaded pocket divx. You can download films straight to device. Is there a catch when registering ?.
I use a program called handbrake...its free google it....my videos are as clear as Transformers....i select video conversion to mpeg4 and select 100% quality...thats all u need....trust me.