DVD on pocket Pc`s

[gilbates]

some people know about this subject , others dont even know its possible

i am one of those people that wants my pocket Pc to do everything , even though its getting on now and not cutting edge , so for months i have been trying to squash down DVD movies to fit my 128 Mb Cf card

impossible you say .....no not realy , its just a matter of knowing a fair bit about compression and conversion and also having the time and patience , to read and read and read about the various ways of achieving the conversion process

Untill now , i stumbled across a bit of software on download.com called pocketDVD and to my amazement , IT WORKS , :D , the trial version only allows about 6 Mb of a dvd to be converted but the full version although a bit querky works great , no more hasstle of working out bit rates and sizes and everything else , pop in your dvd select a name to save it as , screen size , language and click start , hour or so later and its done

you can even select what size you want the file to become , i went and bought a 256 Mb Cf card because the bigger the file size the better quality the movie , and now keep my 128 Mb Cf card just for Navigation , oh and the odd , dodgy movie clip to impress my mates at work , hey it`s the buildings what do you expect 8O

just for reference i`m using a Ipaq 3630 so if you want to try putting movies on your pocket pc , use PocketDVD , and no i dont work for em , just like the software that actually does what its supposed to do , easily

[Darren]

I was looking at this on Handango and downloaded the demo. I haven't had a chance to test it yet but how long did it take for the 5 min demo to be extracted, compressed and the .wmv created?
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Darren Griffin

[gilbates]

for 5 mins m8 its very quick , sorry but i didnt time it , and it uses Divx compression so the output is avi not wmv , the software used for the pocket pc comes with the Main pc program , pocket MVP

hope this helps a bit

[gilbates]

normaly i just leave it running in background while i use the pc , no probs in conversion anywhere , which is a real bonus , but i guess it depends on how much mem ya got and how fast your pc is

cartoon films look excellent , just done Mons Inc for the kids looks brill

[Darren]

Just checked and the app I have is DVD-to-Pocket PC and produces .wmv files. It too claims a whole DVD Movie can fit into 128mb at low quality and 256mb at high.

I'm running the demo 5 min movie test now.
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Darren Griffin

[gilbates]

actually , thinking about it , i suppose it takes about as long as the film is , so 1 hour 20 min film takes that long to create , its definately not one of those progs that takes all night and chucks out errors , but you do need an Aspi layer installed and some sort of dvd software player to unlock your dvd drive

[gilbates]

different programe m8 , i chucked that tosh out after about ten minutes of trying

its no where near the same class as pocketdvd

[Darren]

Got a URL?
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Darren Griffin

[gilbates]

www.pqdvd.com

not the best site but enough and because i havent had any hasstle from the software , i`m not too worried ......yet :D

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