IPOD Video 80gb V SAMSUNG 20gb....HELP - Off-topic

Hello people,
I am debating buying the new Ipod video 80gb. The thing is I have a Samsung yh-j70 20gb already. The samsung is great because it can be used with Windows media easily, hence no trouble swapping between my Wizard or other devices. Is changing to Ipod and Itunes going to mess up my media library and make adding songs to Wizard or Windows impossible?
I have been anti Ipod for a while now but is it time to convert? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance folks.
Del.

Look at the Gigabeat S 60GB. You can still use WM player.

I have been looking to and it is really hard, I have a Nano and it is great. I am thinking of a Ipod 80gb as well because I have a heap of stuff in Itunes. But Gigabeat S is very good to.

I've just been looking around the sit eand found this link for a download which might help with swapping music from itunes to my wizard. If this works then I might just be converted to Ipod.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ita

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Good video playback on your Kaiser (Using Divx)

Please try this if you are suffering problems with video playback on your Kaiser (NOT VIDEO GAMES).
Go to the OFFICIAL DivX website and download the latest full package. Try out the DivX converter using the setting 'Mobile' (you can try it for a period then if you like it you can then purchase it).
This device has its faults but if you are not prepared to work around this you should not post on this developers site!
I can play any movie file over WiFi from my WLHDD2.5 in perfect rendition (for a PDA) after doing this with the basic TCPMP set to GDI playback.
JUST GIVE IT A TRY, you have nothing to lose!!!
EDIT..Use the .81 version of TCPMP if you can get it, buffer processing is faster.
Farsquidge said:
Please try this if you are suffering problems with video playback on your Kaiser (NOT VIDEO GAMES).
Go to the OFFICIAL DivX website and download the latest full package. Try out the DivX converter using the setting 'Mobile' (you can try it for a period then if you like it you can then purchase it).
This device has its faults but if you are not prepared to work around this you should not post on this developers site!
I can play any movie file over WiFi from my WLHDD2.5 in perfect rendition (for a PDA) after doing this with the basic TCPMP set to GDI playback.
JUST GIVE IT A TRY, you have nothing to lose!!!
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Again, we all know we can view videos at a good speed after having converted them. But our Kaiser should read them with no conversion at all.
We have enough solutions to convert videos, thanks for this one, but it is just one more ...
dizzy33 said:
Again, we all know we can view videos at a good speed after having converted them. But our Kaiser should read them with no conversion at all.
We have enough solutions to convert videos, thanks for this one, but it is just one more ...
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I can not assist the mentally blocked so please do not give negatives until people have had time to try it THANKS!!
One would like to ask where it is said that Windows Mobile plays un-converted files??? It is primarily designed to sync via Windows media player.(as is the iSpudge with its PC software)..All other video playback is user selected and not fully supported. No lawsuit here I'm afraid...
OH, and BTW, did you selectively miss this in the first post???
'This device has its faults but if you are not prepared to work around this you should not post on this developers site! '
deleted ....problem solved.... i am just too stupid lol
samlee860407 said:
hm....my kaiser cant play the file that i converted using divx ....
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If you used the OFFICIAL DiVx converter in the latest DiVx full package, it would play with any TCPMP! You have some setup problem there buddy...
Farsquidge said:
If you used the OFFICIAL DiVx converter in the latest DiVx full package, it would play with any TCPMP! You have some setup problem there buddy...
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yes...i just firgue it out that i cant double click the converted file and expect it to play @@
then i try to edit before you post...but then again i din click the post button...lol
anyway...thanks alot bro
the quality is good, just that nid to spend some time to convert
btw, Farsquidge, did you use core media player before?
samlee860407 said:
yes...i just firgue it out that i cant double click the converted file and expect it to play @@
then i try to edit before you post...but then again i din click the post button...lol
anyway...thanks alot bro
the quality is good, just that nid to spend some time to convert
btw, Farsquidge, did you use core media player before?
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No, I am stuck here with TCPMP until I get back to UK to purchase the new Coreplayer as my cred card wont work from the UAE online.
I am just trying to pass on any workarounds I find to others. I expect a massive factor of improvement when I get it but anything before that will also help others.
ah....massive improvement huh
is coreplayer really that good?
really wish to try it, only if i no need to pay 1st
but then the divx convertor is really easy to use, just that it takes time to convert
CorePlayer
samlee860407 said:
is coreplayer really that good?
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Definitely !
Cheers
hrb
samlee860407 said:
ah....massive improvement huh
is coreplayer really that good?
really wish to try it, only if i no need to pay 1st
but then the divx convertor is really easy to use, just that it takes time to convert
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Yep, it does!! But has patience been lost? We are developers... Not miracle workers.. Even iTunes takes full control of the other type of unit (COMPLETELY!) to convert...I think the fact we still have a factor of control on our devices to CHOOSE is befuddling people... If it was all fully auto then XDA would no longer exist!!!
ahh....hehe, good good
well...maybe coz i am converting prison break and stuff which is quite big in file....hehe
thanks all again
Farsquidge said:
One would like to ask where it is said that Windows Mobile plays un-converted files??? It is primarily designed to sync via Windows media player.(as is the iSpudge with its PC software)..All other video playback is user selected and not fully supported. No lawsuit here I'm afraid...
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Video??? I can't even get WMP to sync more than 30 songs before dropping the connection. It took me 5 nights of sitting there reconnecting every 90 minutes or so just to get 4GB of music synced up. I have to say, this is one job the iPhone handles WAY, WAY, WAY better. The whole MS thing is just sad and disappointing.
It's funny that everyone talks about how it is nice to be able to install 3rd party apps to make your device better. Yes, you can not yet install 3rd party apps on the iPhone, but the biggest point is, in many case you don't need to. The browser works great, chat works great, music playback works great, video playback works great, google maps work great, email works great, etc....
My suggestion for video on the Kaiser is, don't waste your time with it. I have wasted 10s of hours trying and it is just not worth it. I have tried 6 different encoders including DivX, Pocket Divx, Handbrake, 4 different file types and countless bitrates, framerates and codecs.
tbh,i would really wanted an iphone but there are some major flaw that why i din buy it although its my dream phone
1st, its not available in my place officially(only can get cracked version), no 3g, no mms,can edit word,excel and blah blah
and although i dont knw will i face the same problem when i am syncing songs, as i haven try yet
but no, you dont need to waste 10hours to get ur kaiser to play video
just downlaod tctm, install it in kaiser
download divx, convert it as the 1st post says so, then upload to ur device...done
less then 30minutes all done
jgermuga said:
Video??? I can't even get WMP to sync more than 30 songs before dropping the connection. It took me 5 nights of sitting there reconnecting every 90 minutes or so just to get 4GB of music synced up. I have to say, this is one job the iPhone handles WAY, WAY, WAY better. The whole MS thing is just sad and disappointing.
It's funny that everyone talks about how it is nice to be able to install 3rd party apps to make your device better. Yes, you can not yet install 3rd party apps on the iPhone, but the biggest point is, in many case you don't need to. The browser works great, chat works great, music playback works great, video playback works great, google maps work great, email works great, etc....
My suggestion for video on the Kaiser is, don't waste your time with it. I have wasted 10s of hours trying and it is just not worth it. I have tried 6 different encoders including DivX, Pocket Divx, Handbrake, 4 different file types and countless bitrates, framerates and codecs.
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OK, BUT, please don't express your opinion until you have tested this yourself and posted any problems with it! Let others decide???
Many thanks..
That's a great idea, Farsquidge!
I know this topic has been covered extensively (see here), but all applications which provide help to the user are welcome.
A freeware alternative is available, too, which you may be interested in (and requires a bit of tweaking for us tech-inclined): http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/
vpoet said:
That's a great idea, Farsquidge!
I know this topic has been covered extensively (see here), but all applications which provide help to the user are welcome.
A freeware alternative is available, too, which you may be interested in (and requires a bit of tweaking for us tech-inclined): http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/
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I hope some can use this to move forward.
Best thing I have from you is the sig tag... Just taken it as my mother died 15/01/08 of cancer so have joined your group.
Farsquidge said:
I hope some can use this to move forward.
Best thing I have from you is the sig tag... Just taken it as my mother died 15/01/08 of cancer so have joined your group.
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I am so sorry for your loss. My mother had breast cancer year before last, and my grandmother before her. It's great to know, though, that our children may have no need to worry about such a devastating disease with the research our generations are putting into this area. God bless you, Farsquidge!
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I am so sorry for your loss. My mother had breast cancer year before last, and my grandmother before her. It's great to know, though, that our children may have no need to worry about such a devastating disease with the research our generations are putting into this area. God bless you, Farsquidge!
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Thanks, I have her in my heart always, and, as we were both from Yorkshire, England...she would say, 'If you don't mean what you say, I will tan your hide!!'
She was a pearl!!!
I use a product called "Wondershare DVD Ripper Suite" (has a ripper and a converter) and it has a nice batch feature as well. I have also had success with "SPB DVD" and "DVD to PocketPC" by a company called Makayama. "Ashampoo Shrink and Burn 3" does fine for me as well. Also, I have noticed that Windows Media Player performs some type of conversion/compression when syncing. For example, "Star Wars 3" is a 855 MB WMV file, but when I synced it to my device it was only 359 MB. However, when I transferred the original 855 MB file to my storage card using a card reader it was still 855 MB - what is Windows Media Player doing besides syncing?
ellergek said:
what is Windows Media Player doing besides syncing?
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It is probably doing its best to convert a video file (of which there are MANY formats) to the preferred WM AVI PDA format. If you do not have the corresponding CODEC in your PC WM player it will not even try..Everyone has to try to standardise their media format for the player designate. If you expect the file you have on your PC/Laptop to play the same on your portable device 100% without conversion then I am afraid you are living in cloud cuckoo land! The processor speed and video codecs are radically different for WM devices against full Windows machines. (irrespective of any driver omission before anyone starts!!)
Aspect Ratio is not only for screen playback... it is for what you expect from your device....

Video converter

Hi,
What is the best video converter, which can convert DVDs. And also which has a time required indicator. Any ideas???
Thanks
i'd say that very much come down to what you wish to convert dvds into
Oh sorry, i meant to convert it to play in my wizard, probably wmv or avi, with good quality.
Go for DVD Catalyst, work perfect, and you can try it out for a few rips, and I think there is even a free version too. I had tried a few others, like Spb's app, but it had problems, like no audio in the end result.
But, currently I'm in the process of ripping my collection. Not to mention, there are tons of settings and features, more than any other app I've tried, only about $20.
DVD Catalyst GT
Nice app to RIP videos and dvds but dont support vcd...
But also you can try the SPB mobile DVD nice app too. and it lets you to chose one piece of the entire DVD!!! amazing isnt it?
MEncoder is a great app that is free. I must tell you though if your looking for something that is brainless this is not the application to use. However in my opinion it is the best app for video conversion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEncoder
I use Total Video Converter. TVC. It's not free, but it's pretty cheap and gets the job done easily
I use DvDFab Platinum+Moblie; perfect 1:1 copies (erm i mean backups) disregarding for what the protection is on the dvd (CSS, RipGuard, SecuROM SafeDisc (version 3), Sony ARccOS, TAGES)
I like it b/c of above (obviously ) but also b/c you can chose to remove any part of the movie, unwanted audio channels, menus, previews etc.
Has preset and quality options to convert for devices, ie WM, zune, ipod, psp, nds, etc..
About €70/$90.
I work on SONY mexico
Does you copy!????? Dvd's
Cracking secures?
Pirate!!!?????
I will inform about this user and App to my supperiors!!!
JAJAJA Its a Joke Madame, or men?
Jajajajaja Great APP... im just the accountant
And if you do <BACKUPS> for your <PERSONAL> Purpouse is great!!!
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Does you copy!????? Dvd's
JAJAJA Its a Joke Madame, or men?
And if you do BACKUPS for your PERSONAL Purpouse is great!!!
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<3 yes, backup -course

Hava player for android

I ahve a hava platinum HD it will "sling" video to like 1 internet connection and 2 locals (I think, dont hold me to these numbers) I know it takes more connections than the comperably priced slingbox, I got mine used on fleabay for like 50$ it would be nice to controll my 500+ channel 250 hours SA2 tivo hak'd to the ma'x, and Id love to serve it up to my g1 in a long line or anywhere else I get bored, which is often.
one exists for the maemo hildon nokia N800 so maybe it wouldnt be a difficult port, it would be very cool and these boxes unlike the sling are very cheap, if HD is just 50$ imagine the deals you could find on a standard def unit, Id also like to see an xbox port of the same player, but thats a whole other discussion board, as it is it streams to PC, smartphone by MS, and windows media and xbox360(i think) so the standard is there to be sniffed if that helps any...
bhang
im in the same boat. i got a hava player a few months back, streamed it great to my old dash. then i got the g1. monsoon said they wont even start to develop a player until they watch the android market for a while to gauge interest..
i hope sling is getting their app out soon.... the petition is only growing
cool Im not the only one
I looked at prices and specs of slings and havas and the hava seemed to be the hands down winner...
if hava wont do it maybe somebody will R.E. it and we will get a hava player for anything we want, thats the reason HAVA needs to do it before the demand gets big, or somebody will want to stream the hava to sumthin they have thats not supported and do it themselves...
that almost sounded like a threat, but it wasn't....
bhang
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an xbox version would be nice too....
dont need it. just install orb onto your pc where you normally watch your hava, and install opera browser on your android device. Set the default stream to 3gp and you can download a stream file that is about 700mb. Works great on my droid, but unfortunately the default media player does not use the full screen. The audio and vid is still great quality and the orb interface (mycast.orb.com) has a great interface for choosing the station you want to stream. I prefer it to the virtual controller of hava actually.
djrakun said:
dont need it. just install orb onto your pc where you normally watch your hava, and install opera browser on your android device. Set the default stream to 3gp and you can download a stream file that is about 700mb. Works great on my droid, but unfortunately the default media player does not use the full screen. The audio and vid is still great quality and the orb interface (mycast.orb.com) has a great interface for choosing the station you want to stream. I prefer it to the virtual controller of hava actually.
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Can you explain how orb changes the channel of the ricochet that's connected to the hava? Thanks
Check this out!
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-applications/7036-hava-android-app.html
Has sold me on android for my next phone.
Now if WM7 gets Zune support...
I've had a Hava for around 2 years now, they say early next year, look for the app a year after that... They rarely hit target dates.
Unofficial Hava Player for Android: It's called Testtube
sites.google.com/site/overvoltagesoft/home/testtube
It's still a little rough around the edges, but it's great someone took it upon themselves to do this.
Spread the word .
CubeShin said:
Unofficial Hava Player for Android: It's called Testtube
sites.google.com/site/overvoltagesoft/home/testtube
It's still a little rough around the edges, but it's great someone took it upon themselves to do this.
Spread the word .
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Thank you for this!!!! Just got my At&t Nexus and was thinking about my Hava player... I bought the app on my Iphone and loved it. This is going to be great... will install and give it a shot tonight. Assuming this works over 3G which will be a great advantage to the iphone player
TestTube Android HAVA Player
Search for TestTube on Market. I have a G1 and TestTube works great as a HAVA player on my phone. Setup was a little tricky. I had to port forward port 1778 on my router to my HAVA device. Other tricky piece of the setup was making sure I had the correct HAVA remote control code.
can not find the software anyplace....
Has anyone seen were it went to
I've been using testube for a while, using it for my titanium hd. I just heard that Monsoon Multimidea released the Vulkano app across many platforms and it's backwards compatible with the hava devices as well (not just the new vulkano devices). Its a free app, and though I havent used it yet, its seems just like what we've wanted.
Fellow iphone users have mentioned to me that the Vulkano app does infact work with the old hava devices.
h**p://www.monsoonmultimedia.com/players_android.html
cholepuree1 said:
I've been using testube for a while, using it for my titanium hd. I just heard that Monsoon Multimidea released the Vulkano app across many platforms and it's backwards compatible with the hava devices as well (not just the new vulkano devices). Its a free app, and though I havent used it yet, its seems just like what we've wanted.
Fellow iphone users have mentioned to me that the Vulkano app does infact work with the old hava devices.
h**p://www.monsoonmultimedia.com/players_android.html
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Says it can't locate my wireless Hd. Anyone having any luck with this?
I just installed vulkano player on my sprit EVO 4g an it work fine on wifi and 3g.
I do not hav 4g yet.
You can download player from android market just type monsoon in searchfield and it schows up.
I am using it with hava platinum and the quality is acceptable
same here not working with wireless hd

Need some advice about video app and converter app.

Havent even tryed to use the phone to watch video's yet, but going to soon and need some advice to what app i should use or if the one that Sense use is good enough.
Also need a "good" converter program to convert my vidoe files, i dont mind paying since i know what a hell a poor converter can be.
Hope for some fast reply since im off to my vacation soon
I use "Xilisoft DVD ripper Ultimate 5" (not free) to rip from DVD's I use this one because it has a cropfunction that I found in no other software.
After ripping I just convert using "Formate Factory" (free)
I've tried convert from a bunch of different formats and never encountered any problems.
I would recommand "Videora Android Converter"
That is the program that I use.
And it seem to work quite nice so far.
and it's free ofc!
Any software that works to convert for the Iphone works perfect, and any movies/shows that are converted to play on the Iphone will work.
Clinton

MP4 Converter

I am attempting to rescue all of my music from ITunes. I would like to convert to MP3 so that I can put it all on an SD card to use in the car.
I have found software but it's all a little pricey and I have too much music to burn it all to CD's.
If anyone has any suggestions I would welcome them!
Thanks
Sent from my HTC Evo Shift 4G
Itunes has a built in mp3 converter. Go into preferences and find the import.settings change this to mp3 and choose the bit rate you need
(128 is as good as any)
Once you have done this select the tracks you want right click and choose convert to mp3
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MediaCoder Audio Edition for Windows
Max for Mac OS X
Just remember that m4a (that you've purchased from iTunes) is lossy, converting will induce more loss (it will take a slight hit in terms of sound quality). If you can try buy a bigger SD card so you can avoid re-encoding your music and reducing the quality.
David Balfour said:
Itunes has a built in mp3 converter. Go into preferences and find the import.settings change this to mp3 and choose the bit rate you need
(128 is as good as any)
Once you have done this select the tracks you want right click and choose convert to mp3
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Ugh, I fail so hard, I'm just used to handling my media outside of iTunes and only using it for playing
Found "SwithSound File Converter" on CNET. Seems to be doing the trick. Thanks for the advice guys!
AdrianK said:
MediaCoder Audio Edition for Windows
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+1 awesome software! Especially for multi-cored processors and it has lots and lots of great advanced features but it can be hard to use. FormatFactory is great too. Your anti virus might say it's infected and it is but it is just adware for eBay so you can just remove it if your antivirus prompts you

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