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mpegs..

hi
whats the best way to view mpegs, avis etc on the XDA II, i have mediaplyer 9 series but its does not seem to play mpegs.
any ideas
thanks
maxd

Search around for Pocket TV

www.pockettv.com and its free

thanks guys..
illl give this a go.. looks a cool app
maxd

use pocket mvp uses less power of the cpu then pocket tv + also plays mp3, div x and vogorbis files

Does anybody have any films ready converted to mpeg?? I have some short films like killer bean2 2 which is brilliant but would like some more.

i have matrix reloaded encoded to divx format 320x240 size 250bps 21kbs sound (landscape) works wicked on pocklet mpv but file size is 124mb and too big for me to transfer on a 56k lol
i could start up a pocket pc movie thing on here but it would be kinda illegal and the mods wouldnt allow it

gazzaman2k said:
I could start up a pocket pc movie thing on here but it would be kinda illegal and the mods wouldnt allow it
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Hey, listen... 'The mods' have traded plenty of warez, MP3s and movies when they were young and wild. Thing is that this is a website. Great for some things, not for others. Websites aren't Usenet, Kazaa or BitTorrent: they come with convenient contact details of people to sue.
Now in the theoretical event somebody were to set up an anonymously freehosted page that contained loads and loads of PocketPC movie Bittorrent files and kept posting the location of this page on this board, there would be absolutely nothing we could do about it. We would be completely and utterly unable to help the authorities. Imagine the horror...

You could also try downloading the Windows Media Encoder (do a search on the Microsoft site). This allows you to encode most media types (MPEG, AVI etc) into WMV format. There are already templates setup for the Pocket PC so it is very straight forward and the results on the Pocket PC using WMP9 are excellent. Small file sizes as well. I use this all the time to encode stuff recorded using my TV card.

yeah but wmf are very crap quality and not as clear as divx encoded movies + dont run as smooth on as high bitrate as 250+
i think ill leave the movies thing too risky

Athena 7500 too slow for media (TCPMP player)

So this documents my sad experience with XDA's culminating in a regreful decision NOT to buy the HTC Advantage.
I have bought 3 generations of past HTC based XDAs including the Wallaby, Andes and Universal.
Primarily I need a phone and a PDA in a single unit with the promise of also using it as a media player in situations where I'm without my laptop or subnote.
The fastest media player that I have used always seemed to be the TCPMP player but this was too slow to play conventional DIVX .avi or other FULL SIZE movie streams.
I dont have the time to constantly convert movies from standard 700 MB .avi format to PPC pixel size. But the Universal was simply NOT fast enough to play the uncoverted movies. (Plus the Universal has some issues when it comes to slooowly receiving and making calls .. another story)
As a standby measure I use a Fujistu Loox N560 (and Nokia 7380 combo), with a 624Mhz Xscale processor. Wiith TCPMP IT IS fast enough to play movies on its VGA screen without really any noticable skipping.
This was a temporary measure until HTC could produce a phone PDA combo that I could again use as a do-it-all device.
BUT after much monitoring xda-developers I conclude that the HTC advantage with all its other features will not do this job. I really really wanted the Advantage to work for me but post after post have indicated that it just cant cut it for displaying videos.
How difficult can it be to produce a device and software that can do this! Like I say, I dont want to spend all my waking hours converting .avi files from one format to each other, just to play the regular 700MB / 2hour standard .divx file.

The x7500 is a phone and a PDA, not a video player. Yes, it can play Videos and movies, but they need to be converted as you already stated.
So if you want to watch videos in their native format, why would you think a phone would work as a video player.
Why not just go buy a mini-video player...And if you already knew the answer and you don't want to convert to a format that can be played on a PDA......
Why did you waste our and your time explaining the obvious!

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that the HTC Athena, with it's dedicated ATI graphics chip, might have a chance to play the same videos he's able to play on the Loox (another PPC device that uses the same 624Mhz Xscale processor).
Hopefully either the CoreCodec folks will be able to work around the buggy ATI drivers driving the Athena, or we won't have to wait long until someone releases a device with better a dedicated GPU.

i see ur point...i have converted many videos and most took no more than 15-20 mins max. but thats due to my core 2x duo processor.hopefully we see some software upgrades to solve this.

mmh,... I do not really see the point you mentioned.
The TCPMP is not able to use the Ati drivers but with the RawFramebuffer and DIVX (XVID) converted movies it runs brilliant.
I also convert DVDs to approx. 600 video and 128 audio @ res of 640x480. with this I will come up
with about 500-600 MB per movie. Excellent quality and no lags...
And what is your exact problem with converting.... Du you want to
but a DVD content auf 4GB on your MD ? uncoverted movies on a mobile
device makes no sense... or didnt I get the point here ?
Definitly I can not confirm your statement mentioned. Also standard divx movies at 700MB CD size will run like a charm.
But now some experience from my side:
I used the SPB Mobile DVD to convert files directly from DVD... a big mess... audio/video goes out of sync and if paused the whole movie
become laggy. 5-10FPS .... I was searching the Inet and also XDA Devs for this problem...
At the end I had to find out the SPB Mobile DVD converting program is SH** !!!!
Now I use Pocket-DVD Studio... converting with the newest XVID drivers. Excellent performance as mentined before...
So maybe this is your problem... give try to another converter and see what happens. (Use one with not installed codecs... use one where you can make
setting and use the system installed codecs)
So from my side: The Athena is a good mobile movie player (with TCPMP)... my opinion

errr...
Hiya people,
I must say that this is a bit confusing to me. I use the ATI driver on my Ameo (advantage) with TCMP as long as you dont use the hardware acceleration it works perfectly. There are many threads regarding this subject.
All in all, any 700-800 MB movie that I err......come accross and copy directly to my Ameo plays perfectly for me. Xvid or Divx.....
I dont do any conversions or anything. I just download and play.
Maybe I get the odd frame skipped here and there but its not an issue for me. I watch many action films...no problemo.......all standard 700 mb+ Avi files....I have Simpsons amd Resi Evil extinction on my Microdrive now...both 700MB plus..
Example my copy of RE:E 717 MB
MPEG4 Vid
608 by 256
25 FPS
After 2000 frames, I had dropped 42...
Lol maybe I am just not fussy and this is a nuisance to everyone else. I have not found an AVI that I have been unable to watch yet....
Then again, I used to watch 160 X 120 movies on my HTC Voyager using Pocket DIVX encoder which really really sucked and I thought it was cool.

I can also confirm that no convertion is needed, I have a lot of convertions which are over 2gigs, I watch these on my pc, but have watched them on my Ameo.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=308952

amouses said:
So this documents my sad experience with XDA's culminating in a regreful decision NOT to buy the HTC Advantage.
I have bought 3 generations of past HTC based XDAs including the Wallaby, Andes and Universal.
Primarily I need a phone and a PDA in a single unit with the promise of also using it as a media player in situations where I'm without my laptop or subnote.
The fastest media player that I have used always seemed to be the TCPMP player but this was too slow to play conventional DIVX .avi or other FULL SIZE movie streams.
I dont have the time to constantly convert movies from standard 700 MB .avi format to PPC pixel size. But the Universal was simply NOT fast enough to play the uncoverted movies. (Plus the Universal has some issues when it comes to slooowly receiving and making calls .. another story)
As a standby measure I use a Fujistu Loox N560 (and Nokia 7380 combo), with a 624Mhz Xscale processor. Wiith TCPMP IT IS fast enough to play movies on its VGA screen without really any noticable skipping.
This was a temporary measure until HTC could produce a phone PDA combo that I could again use as a do-it-all device.
BUT after much monitoring xda-developers I conclude that the HTC advantage with all its other features will not do this job. I really really wanted the Advantage to work for me but post after post have indicated that it just cant cut it for displaying videos.
How difficult can it be to produce a device and software that can do this! Like I say, I dont want to spend all my waking hours converting .avi files from one format to each other, just to play the regular 700MB / 2hour standard .divx file.
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i play "regular" 700 mb avi file on my uni without any lag.

what u smoking
dude what are u smoking video on the advantage is freaking sweeet. plus if u install projet athena 3 on it, the thing is a marvel of design and technology. they guys that made project athena put so much into it. infact i dont even need to use my hardware keyboard anymore. the teksoft keyboard works even better than the hardware one. but i digress, the tcpmp that is includded on the project athena uses the ati graphic card. i have never seen better video even better than the psp. no need to convert. i use full videos no conversion at all.

Watching Videos on Sprint Mogul

Alright, so I have TCPMP on my phone and it works great and all, except for the fact that i don't have videos for it to play on my phone and don't have the software necesary to get those videos onto my phone. I have some .avi divx files that i would like to convert and watch on my phone because they are currently way to big to watch on my little screen (resolution and size) so I just wanted to know which program would be good for me to use on my computer in order to convert the videos for watching on my phone using TCPMP, I have tried a couple in the past (mainly Ashampoo Movie Shrink and Burn 3) and the video quality is fine, but the audio and video are never synched in TCPMP, and even though I have tried using the manual audio/video sync option, I really don't know exactly what I am doing, and would just prefer a video that has it automatically synched well. So what is the best program to use to convert the videos on my computer, for viewing on my Sprint Mogul?

I use SPB mobile dvd. Small and Simple

TCPMP can easily handle full-res divx files.
For example, a friend of mine is about to copy The Daily Show and Colbert Report that he downloaded on bit torrent right onto his phone.
No transcoding necessary.

Yea but the problem is, wouldn't the file be much smaller if I shrink the resolution down to the exact size of the mogul's screen, as I like to save as much space as possible, (I have 1GB free on my 4GB card). But thanks for the info, ill try it out.

If u convert it to 320x240 4:3 with 50% quality u looking at ~ 200mb

I dunno if this exactly what you are looking for, but for converting video files into whatever resolution and format, I use AnyVideoConverter. Freeware version available as well as a "professional" version for a nominal amount.

sompy is one of many software u can use

Have you tried Orb.com yet?
If you have an unlim data plan you could always use www.orb.com to stream the videos to your Mogul. Then you wouldn't have to worry about the format or using space on the phone or the storage card to keep the videos. If you go into the options on TCPMP and check all formats then it will play the streams pretty seamlessly.

Best method to copy a dvd onto the hd2

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.

getting DVD's on TP2?

ive found threads talking about HandBrake and SUPER... but after a few days of reading and trying, the best i can get is an audo track of the movie to play, but no video with handbrake... and super plays both but the audio lags behind a few seconds???
i use DVDFab to get the raw data files saved to my computer, now im trying to shrink those files down so i can run them on my TP2...
forgive me for being 'slow' lol, but im at a loss...
maybe im using the wrong programs and theres something better? something a little more clean cut and to the point?

I haven't done it in a few years, but I used to use the program DVD2PPC to convert DVD movies into a smaller (200-300MB) file for viewing on my Ipaq. Google it to find the website.
Costs $19.95 though, but I remember that it worked quite well. And there is a free trial.
John

i use DVD shrink ( freeware ) and DivX convert for any movies i want to put on TP2. You can download these all for free from their websites.

i use an old program called FlasKMPEG
able to crop and resize etc and it always maintains a high quality movie with a DivX codec

Baddaboom works but it cost. You can find it for free if you look hard. it will convert a movie in less than 30 minutes. thats dvd to 720x480 mp4 so smaller sizes should be faster. but it depends on your video card as well. 100% gpu proccessing to convert so it won't lag your pc while converting it.