Video

[JEWELNJ]

I just bought the Ipaq 3900 and love it. Put all my favorite songs with my 256 sd card. how much memory do movies usually use?

Love this forum, has answered alot of questions and taught me alot. thanks

[Lowell2006]

Well it all depends. ypur standard computer file, were talking abut 2 mins of standard video is about 5-10 megs. But, what you can do is compression. This is mainy used when you rip a dvd and want to put it on your pda. this is the best way to get video on your pda, basically you can take any dvd, burn it on to you hard drrive, and then compress it to be put on your ipaq. This process will take a long time, and will take aup about 5 gigs or more of harddrive spcae (which you will deleate later) then you will probably have a lot of trouble with it, I did it about 5 times before it worked. but in the end Im sure that you will be very happy with your result, i was able to get lord of the rings split into 2 equal parts of 200 megs each. That is about 3 1/2 hours of video in just about 400 megs, or about 1 meg a minute. This isgreat for when you want to go and watch movies on the bus. I use a 3850 and the playback was great, Im sure that on a 3900 it will be even better, so Im sure that you will have fun.

Ok, well the site that will show you how to do it the bestway is

http://www.pocketmovies.net/dvdrip.php3

this site will show you how to do it, but inorder to get all of the software seened u will need to search the int. for it, it is really easy, just write the name if the program into a google or yahoo seach and the program will come up.

however in order to get the SMARTRIPEER programl, whih will allow you to rip the dvds you bneed to go to


http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/smartripper.cfm

Just click download


Inorder to split the file to be put on to your pda got to

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_tools/dv-tool.cfm

just click download

Oh, adn most importatntly to watch the file, you must download pocket tv

www.pockettv.com

this is actully one of the best if not the best video viewer around, so even if you dont want to do the dvd rip, then I still reccomnet downloading it... ITS FREE

OH AND BYT THE WAY EVERYTHING IN THIS PROCESS IS FREE

I hope that this helps, I know that this is a little more then you expected.... but evcer sicnmce I firgured out a good way of doing this I have bneen wanting to tell others... Oh and below is a file listing of media types and hom much space they take up


MPEG-1- this is the simplest media form and is what you want to have on your pda.

MPEG-4- good luck, I havent been able to play them

DIVX- Gret little files, however need to use a a divx player, same as you do for MPEG-1