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...
just bought myself a 1 gb sd card from crucial.
can i convert my dvd collection to a format small enough to fit onto my 1 gb sd card. copying my dvd collection is not legal as long as i have an original copy at my home, correct?
i have got dvdshrink, can i use this to shrink dvd's to a pda exec size?
The dude tells you this ;-)
Pocketdivxencoder to shrink them to ±250MB each
TCPMP to play them on your Universal.
The combo is awesome & really a show off.
Cheers, M
Converting dvd to SD
There is a software called " dvd studio" it's meant to be really good. you can buy it on pocketgear I think.
PocketDivxEncoder is free
oltp said:
The dude tells you this ;-)
Pocketdivxencoder to shrink them to ±250MB each
TCPMP to play them on your Universal.
The combo is awesome & really a show off.
Cheers, M
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what settings do you usually use to get the dvds to that size?
DVD shrink to backup a re-authored copy (remove the menus and other unneccessary frippery) (free)
AutoGordianKnot to convert the films down to 300Mb (ish) each (free)
TCPMP player to view (free).
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what settings do you usually use to get the dvds to that size?
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Standard qvga (320*240) biggest problem is the sound, that must be good. So I'm still tweaking for best results. Have good experience with the wmv format too. Pretty compact & good quality. I downloaded a free Microsoft converter somewhere for this, but handles like hell.
M
I have all my movies for pocket pc between 165-170MB each to fit three onto a 512MB card and the quality is very good. PocketDiVxEncoder rocks!!! You can do absolutely everything, crop it to fit better to the screen, adjust the volume, cut the movie.
And of course TCPMP as a player!
I've just converted few movies for my 13h flight tomorrow.
thanks for the replies
i just downloaded the pocketdixexncoder on my pc, do i convert .iso's into output file, and what outfile do i convert it to
i guess i speify the outut file in the second dialog(tab). out of interest what software was pocketdixencoder written in?
i went to the tcpmp site, i geuss i should download this file tcpmp.smartphone.0.71.exe, correct?
no. The Universal is a Pocket PC , not a Smartphone.
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i just downloaded the pocketdixexncoder on my pc, do i convert .iso's into output file, and what outfile do i convert it to
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I usually copy my dvd to harddisk or convert straight from dvd. Convert them to divx (avi container) & TCPMP will do the rest on the PPC
i went to the following link
http://corecodec.org/frs/?group_id=53&release_id=224#r224
and it gives me the following options
tcpmp.arm.cabs.0.71.zip
tcpmp.mips.cabs.0.71.zip
tcpmp.setup.0.71.exe
tcpmp.sh3.cabs.0.71.zip
tcpmp.smartphone.0.71.exe
convert straight from dvd using pocketdivxencode ??
I've just converted few movies for my 13h flight tomorrow.
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will the xda exec have juice for 13 hours?
It depends on your cpu, which to download. For magician it is arm (pxa272), since a universal got a pxa270 you should download the same arm version.
Point PocketDiVXencoder to the first vob of the movie & go
M
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convert straight from dvd using pocketdivxencode ??
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Not if it is "protected". Use DVDDecrypter to rip the DVD contents to .VOB files, then PocketDivXEncoder to convert and compress these into avi for TCPMP.
AnyDVD ain't free, better results with newer protection systems & you can run straight from DVD ;-)
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DVD shrink to backup a re-authored copy (remove the menus and other unneccessary frippery) (free)
AutoGordianKnot to convert the films down to 300Mb (ish) each (free)
TCPMP player to view (free).
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This is how i watch movies on my universal, I tend to use DVD Decypter as well for occasionaly as well as DVD shrink.
It works great, got a collection of CSI season 1 on my universal at the moment
Rich
thanks for the replies guys
i downloaded tcpmp.arm.cabs.0.71.zip and when i unzipped it, i ended up with 5 files. i was expecting an exe file and i saw the following files.
readme.txt
tcpmp.arm720_ce3.cab
tcpmp.arm_ce2.cab
tcpmp.arm_ce3.cab
tcpmp.arm_sp.cab
does arm720 mean that it is an ARM 7 processor, i thought the universal had an xscale in it. i went through the readme file the cab files seem to be for wince 2.xx, 3.xx and 4.xx
does not the xda exec have a windoes mobile version 5.0
should i use one of the above for tcpmp, also it is a .cab file, do i copy the cab file to a location on my xda.
if i need to copy it, can i copy it to my sd card memory?
hey i did a bit of searching and came across an exe file which i have downloaded from http://www.tcmp.org/
if this is the player tcmp4.exe then what do i do with the .cab files
also when i start up pocketdivxencoder
i select my device as smartphone (leftmost option), is that the right option for the xda exec
P.S. is there a way i can unzip zipped files on my xda?
Before installing the cab-file, get a copy of cabinstl first. With cabinstl you can decide yourself where a cab installs.
I'd go for tcpmp.arm_ce3.cab, if it's not correct you can always try another, & no you have a PPC & not a SMART PHONE :!:.
With Resco Explorer you can unzip on your PPC, PocketRar is nice as well & there's a stand-alone zip which I got from TMO in my ext-roms ftp://xda:[email protected]_1.13.125/Zip_Magician_T-Mobile_WWE_RC20.CAB maybe it works on your device too. Didn't found a universal variant.
Don't know about that exe file, but you can always uninstall it. Or make a backup first with Sprite Backup.
Regards, M
tcmp rocks. i managed to get an avi file based on a dvd playing on my xda.
i had one question, a dvd is composed of multiple vob files, say vob1, vob2 and vob3, this means that i end up with 3 avi files, myavi1.avi, myavi2.avi, myavi3.avi, is there any way i can end up with a single avi file?
I use Video Convert Master 3.0 from
It gives the option convert anything, from file or DVD disk direct, (although never used this i tend to start with the avi and need to reduce the size)
anywhoo it will convert to Mpg RM WMV AVI and DVD, there are seperate profiles for converting and within WMV there is an option for POCKETPC (windows media video 9 for pocket pc) which will encode the file to the correct screen size etc, TCPMP sorted the need for this being able to play avi direct.
You can limit the output file size to 170meg also it has the 'priceless' option of entering multiple video files and it will automatically combine them onto one file,
Hope this helps,
http://www.video-convert-master.com
Also the files you mentioned in TCPMP zip file,
I have found that there are two display types for TCPMP, the menu bar can be at the top as normal or switched to be at the bottom with the player functions at the top.
Good in theroy and does look nice, personally i dont like my handset having that much work to do when coming out of watching a film, has caused issues for my software overloaded pda in the past.
So the files as i know them are
tcpmp.arm720_ce3.cab - doesnt work, (on (my) 2003 anway)
tcpmp.arm_ce2.cab - Cab file for UPSIDE DOWN VIEW
tcpmp.arm_ce3.cab - Cab file for NORMAL VIEW
tcpmp.arm_sp.cab - Never used it dont know.
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!
Which one of these formats would be easier viewed/converted to read on my G1 if I was to buy this book.
http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewbook&BOOK=250465&v=buynow
If you guys can help me out by providing the program that could convert any of these formats to view on my G1, keep in mind when you click on the adobe version its says "Digital Edition" and said it would not work with regular Adobe reader, it needs the digital edition.
Microsoft Reader files are the easiest of the ones you mentioned to convert....if they don't have DRM, which most online books would have. There is a command-line program called "clit" (convert-lit: I didn't make it up) that works in Linux and, I think, Windows. Again, if the file has DRM, it probably won't work, but I'm sure there are ways around that.
Sony's eReader (lrf) format still stinks as far as conversion goes...as does Adobe's PDF format. I believe they're possible to convert to html or txt, but the tools to do so are expensive. I'm not sure about mobipocket format.
I haven't converted files in a while (and most of my conversion is from html to Sony format) so my info might be out of date.
A good site to check out is http://mobileread.com. They're to eBooks what xda is to HTC phones. They have both forums and a wiki full of information that could be of help.
In particular, check this wiki page out: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_conversion
Thanks alot for your help.
I did some search for video conversion on this site.
I found these two to resemble tp2 the most.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=492261
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467112
Not sure if its the same software and different version. I just wanted to ask what are people using for optimal/high resolution conversion from your own videos for your tp2?
I know there are also the normal PC software dvd rips that I would download for my desktop. Not sure how it stacks up with the above ones that target specific for the windows mobile devices.
Thanks.
I personally rip my DVDs to my hard drive then use Handbrake to convert it to MP4 video. I set the quality down to 1 or 2 reference frames and 650kbps and end up with a copy of the film that for mobile purposes is as good as the original and takes up about 600megs. The films look absolutely awesome on my Touch Pro 2.
Rather bizarrely the built-in HTC Album program is able to make use of the H264 decoder on the MSM7200 and so plays the MP4 file one heck of a lot better than my copy of Coreplayer ever manages.
The only caveat is that Handbrake wants to name the file .m4v, while HTC Album wants it to be .mp4 .
dvd::rip
My favorite is dvd::rip, a free app available at http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/. You get great resolution (typically 480 x 256 from my favorite preset) with no skipping or audio drift.
It's a Linux app, which might put some people off, but it can probably be installed on a Windows box as it's a Perl program with a Gtk+ UI.