Need a program to shrink movies to put on my Pocket PC.

[Lothar1974]

My fiance has a Dell Axim X50V and I have heard there are some programs that allow you to compress movies and install and watch on your Pocket PC. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Lothar1974

 

[Jeff7]

Offhand, I don't know what format PocketPC uses. If it uses MPEG-4, Virtualdub can do it.
My tools:

DGMPGDec

VFAPI Reader Codec

Virtualdub, or Virtualdub-MPEG2

Koepi's build of XviD. The latest beta adds some nice tweaks, but sometimes it seems to introduce anomalies, like misplaced sections of video, or sometimes an entire area, maybe 10x50 pixels, will shift upward several pixels, and remain for several frames.
However, this might also be due to computational errors (MAYBE), because the PC that was doing these calculations has become unstable due to a glitchy power supply. I assume that that could cause errors. But I'm not entirely sure of that theory.

 

[Lothar1974]

Thanks, I worked with a guy that was able to load full movies on his pocket pc and the quality was quite good. I thought he was using this same program if I remember correctly. He was going to show me how to do this but he got canned and I haven't seen him since. Thanks.

 

[shortylickens]

If he's using Windows Mobile 2003, he can watch DivX.

I would recommend a storage card that holds at least 1GB. Then you can have a whole movie.


By the way, I grew up in Brooklyn Park.
(If you give a damn.)

 

[DJFuji]

I have WM2003 on a Toshiba E750 and can watch movies on a 512mb card in VERY good quality. I use "betaPlayer" to view the files and "pocket divx encoder" to encode them. Very intuitive and everything works flawlessly. One of the few divx/PPC solutions i've tried that doesn't require a lot of research, tweaking, and work-arounds. It just works.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Lothar1974
Thanks, I worked with a guy that was able to load full movies on his pocket pc and the quality was quite good. I thought he was using this same program if I remember correctly. He was going to show me how to do this but he got canned and I haven't seen him since. Thanks.

Doom9.org has some guides.
Another one.

I don't remember which of those I used anymore. Some of it provides at least a small explanation of what all the settings in XviD do.

 

[Lothar1974]

Thanks for the ideas everyone!! :beer: