Im new to the Pocket PC game...my phone has about 30mb of memory which isnt alot...and my phone always says memory low....is there anyway to upgrade the memory or would i just have to store everything onto my memory card....and also when it comes to Windows Media Player could i download movies from the internet on the phone to watch....
Thanks
DJ A.N.T.
You can use various media players to watch movies, the best way is to use a program call dvd to pocket pc, this will convert a whole film from dvd that will then fit on a memory card.
Hello. I am considering to buy an HTC p4350. So I was wondering if Herald can play full screen unconverted (as it was downloaded) divx movies?
TCPMP player shoould be able to play it. The performance depends on resolution and bitrate. OMAP CPUs (like herald has) have severe problems with any movies in higher resolution than native 320*240, so don§t even think of playing CD movies.
The conversion is with right software (I can reccomend Spb Mobile DVD) a mater of several mouseclicks. It easily turns any DVD, avi or mpeg your PC can read into PPC-friendly 320*240 xvid (or 640*480 if you have vga machine)
you can also use pocketdivx it is freeware and then tcpmp to watch
rolanddes said:
Hello. I am considering to buy an HTC p4350. So I was wondering if Herald can play full screen unconverted (as it was downloaded) divx movies?
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I used to have an Siemens SX1 so I always reencoded my divx movies (700 mb but I do not know the res.) in to small movies which SX1 could easily play. But I am tired of converting them. Since I am going to have a huge (2 or 4 gb) sd card then I thought I could forget about that converting trouble. I guess I was wrong?
On a 2gb card you can only put 1 and 1/2 movie (unless you download crappy quality movies) so converting is something you should do anyway.
Some movies are only 150 MB then
As I said, it is matter of 4 or 5 clicks to convert the movie. It used to be trouble back when the only tool we had was virtualDub, but nowadays there is a bunch of specialized softwarers, so it i really an easy task.
You are talking like it does not take any time to convert. Yes Just a few clicks but what about the waiting for the process to finish?
what are you doing at night????
if you are not programming al the time - just let it convert the night and you ahve the movie on your xda for daywork - hehe
jsut kidding
rolanddes said:
You are talking like it does not take any time to convert. Yes Just a few clicks but what about the waiting for the process to finish?
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Thanks a lot. I guess I am going to be around next few years for every problem I will encounter with Herald.
Take Care..
It's not even necessary to convert during the night; depending on the size of the original file with pocketdivx you can convert a 700MB DivX movies within a few minutes (5) into a 320*240 ppcmovie
Hmm. That sounds good then..
What about transfering files to the pda? Do I have to use Activesync or cardreader/bt? Can Herald be connected as a usb mass storage device?
with wm5torage you can acces xda as masstorage - but usb1.1 only.
so with adapter and cardreader it is much faster...
rolanddes said:
Hmm. That sounds good then..
What about transfering files to the pda? Do I have to use Activesync or cardreader/bt? Can Herald be connected as a usb mass storage device?
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You may note that some movies may be able to run absolutely fine in their native format by just overclocking it to 247/260Mhz. I do this several times with some 700MB/1.2GB movies, which are of high bitrate
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You may note that some movies may be able to run absolutely fine in their native format by just overclocking it to 247/260Mhz. I do this several times with some 700MB/1.2GB movies, which are of high bitrate
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That was absolutely what I needed to hear since I started the thread. Is overclokcing one-click-easy or a complicated prosedure?
use batterystatus - and it is done in 1 sec....
rolanddes said:
That was absolutely what I needed to hear since I started the thread. Is overclokcing one-click-easy or a complicated prosedure?
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streaming DivX
I was wandering if there is any way someone might know how to play streaming DivX and/or macromedia files. Here is a link to a page that I am unable to play (have flash bundle and TCPMP Player installed).
http://webteleradio.com/movierec
Thanks for any info u can provide.
I find that a temporary overclock to 286 while watching high resolution video files does the trick, also if you are using tcpmp sometimes the video will not appear until you press fullscreen mode.
sorry if this has been mentioned already
neptune said:
I find that a temporary overclock to 286 while watching high resolution video files does the trick, also if you are using tcpmp sometimes the video will not appear until you press fullscreen mode.
sorry if this has been mentioned already
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Thanks a lot. I will try all of these whenever I get my hands on my pda.
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On a 2gb card you can only put 1 and 1/2 movie (unless you download crappy quality movies) so converting is something you should do anyway.
Some movies are only 150 MB then
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Hmmmm. All 700MB divx movies I've "acquired" only take up about 200 megs after reencoding with dr. divx. And the quality's flawless. In fact, right now I have the first seasons of the simpsons and family guy, as well as harold and kumar go to white castle all on a 2 gig card.
I have syncd my phone to pc and go to explore and put movies i downloaded on my storeage card but when i go to play them it says cannot play.....can anyone help???? Also id like to put animatedtheme on my start screen...any help is appreciated...thanks
n00b
read some stikies/google. search on Windows Media Player WM formats. And for other formats check out coreplayer
Do you change the format before you download to your storage card?
I believe you have to do that, like change the format to 3gp.......
Or use CorePlayer!!!!
I use Spb Mobile DVD to convert and CorePlayer to play.
coreplayer costs money but the free solution would be to use tcpmp and check file associations,if conversion is needed use super c to encode to pretty much any format you need depending on which player you'll be using
is there a program that converts videos that will sync with the tilt faster then windows media player?
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is there a program that converts videos that will sync with the tilt faster then windows media player?
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I don't know about converting the videos (yet)...but I do know that using ActiveSync to upload the videos with is SLOW. If you have a Storage Card...just put it in a USB reader and plug it into your desktop for VERY FAST file transfers.
I'm not even looking for a video converter for the Tilt yet until the drivers are fixed...which who knows how long that will take.
For converting videos try this one The pocket DivX encoder (http://www.pocketdivxencoder.net/) it converts .avi files to most of PDAs video size and it also work with subtitle inserting.
A nice one
I use Spb Mobile DVD for converting. Although not free, works very well.
Good Converter
I use Sompy MovieEncoder. It converts my 700mb avi files to 120mb - 135mb in about a minute or two. You'll have to play the file in TCPMP or Coreplayer however. Use a card reader to transfer file to your device. As a new guy to this site, I've read about the driver issue. I really haven't experienced(no 3D games or emulators) it. I will say that Sompy's conversion as heads and shoulders better than Media Player's. If the source is good, you wont have any pixelation in full screen. You might want to try it out. Almost forgot...Sompy works on video files...it's not a dvd ripper. Watching Hitman on it now.
If you already have your movie in a divx format on your pc then for converting from DIVX to QVGA divx try PocketDivXEncoder. If you want to go from DVD to divx, it's a bit more complicated.
I did a search and can't find any threads on Netflix. I saw an ad on TV that they now offer on line streaming of movies...has anyone tried this on a tilt? For $4.99 that seems like a better deal than buying movies and downloading them on to the SD?
I watch streaming movies on my laptop using my Tilt as the modem, but I don't think there's a way to get it to work on a Windows Mobile device directly as you have to install a small activex app on your actual PC (it intregrates into windows media player) and then you watch streaming movies that way.
PS there is a way to download movies from your PC, remove the DRM from them, and then convert them to play on your Tilt. I won't go into that here, but if you google you will find info on how to do that.
That's too bad...I'm surprised somebody hasn't figured out a way to do it yet as that would be pretty popular.
Does anyone know if the WM Windows Media Player plays DRM encrytped files?