movies on the Ipaq

[Liory]

i need help watching Movies on my Ipaq 3850. I have pockettv and pocketdivx. is it possible to make movie files smaller so that they can fit onto my ipaq or sd card. right now if ihave a 20mb movie, it is 20mbs on my ipaq and that is just a short movie

[daverules]

you need to re-encode it on your computer. To do this you need the Divx codec, and a program called virtualdub.

then go here (http://www.moosegate.com/betaboy/dcdivx/) . Scroll 1/2 down the page, in the FAQ, under the 1st question about encoding is a link for the Pocket Divx guide. Download and read the guide.

I've decreased the bitrate of the video to about 75 kbps to shrink a 250MB to about 17MB. If you don't know what that means, read the guide and you should be able to figure it out. You can also use the more current divx 5.02 codec for the encoding, the guide uses 4.12.

[randysaba]

Does that really work? I have a Eddie murphy film it's in .avi so could encode it to work on my pocket Pc, can I actually get it down to like 17 megs? please someone get back to me

[Demigod121]

IF you got to Pocket TV's website, they show how to resize/reduce the original movie files using a program called TMPGENC.

I used it to reduce Spiderman the Movie from 600+MB to right around 300 - but this is a the best quality that the IPAQ will play at....if you play with the settings you might be able to get it under 100MB....


Scott

[randysaba]

Well I have a 142 megabyte movie and I would like to put it on my Ipaq 3835, is there a guide to show me how to do this? The one that was submitted above with Virtual Dub didnt work for me could someone help me step by step thanks

[Demigod121]

Pocket TV site has a link to PocketMovies.net that is pretty much a step by step guide on how to convert movies to a format IPAQ can display.

Here - this is from the site:

4 - How do I convert avi to mpg ?

You can find a lot of encoder links at PocketTV

For my site I use Tsunami MPEG Encoder (AKA TMPGEnc) with these settings :
Width : 240
Video : VBR @ (250 min, 300 avg, 400 max)
Audio : 44,1 kHz, 16 bits, Joint-Stereo, 64 kbps

These settings will make a video that will play correcly on most PocketPC devices

If you have a ARM or XScale PDA (iPAQ, Toshiba, ...) you can use :
Width : 320
Video : VBR @ (350 min, 450 avg, 600 max)
Audio : 44,1 kHz, 16 bits, Joint-Stereo, 96 kbps


Understand that converting the files can take a while. Then all you do when it's done is copy them to your IPAQ.


Scott

[randysaba]

I followed this one on this site http://www.pdatweaks.com/howto.php?itemid=6 but when I put on my ipaq it just played audio and I have divx on it, and also on my computer the file if I try to open it I get this weird error

[daverules]

If you only have audio, and no video, then you have the incorrect version of PocketDivx.

go here (http://home.adelphia.net/~mdukette/) to download the iPaq version. The guy there also has sample movies you can download to test your installation.

[randysaba]

Ok I went to that guys site downloaded his DIVX POCKEY PC FOR IPAQ it worked because I downloaded one of his movies to test it. Then when I encoded one of my video's still just sound I tihnk im doing something wrong in the encoding