hi i was just wandering if this is a common problem.
i was trying to play a movie (lord of the rings) on my oda.
i have a 256 mb sd card, the movie files were less than 200 mb each.
they transfer to the device wityh no problem just takes for ever...anyways . when i try to play them in my pda nothiing happens not even a error message!!!!! just a black screen, HELP!!!
i try using Divix, windows media player, and pockettv to no results same thing for all of them, i have player other movies much shorter in size with out a problem is there a limit to how big a file can play on the device.....
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I wonder if anyone can tell me... how to play mp3 files and movie files say avi , mpg etc with the new windows media 8.5? I don't seem to be able to use the xda to play a simple mp3 file after I use activesync to transfer the file into the xda. It may a be simple software problem or do I need special codecs for these files to be played?
Sorry if it is a silly question.
Cheers
Hi, if you have the pocket pc 2002, and windows media player 8.5, you should be able to play mp3 files without any issue.
Try downloading a small mp3 file from the net to check. sometimes, if you dont have an SD card, and only a limited memory, and you try and copy a large mp3 to your xda, it cuts off half way when you run out of storage memory. This leaves your file corrupted, and hence you cant play it.
Close all your running apps. Adjust your memory settings, to increase storage area. Choose an mp3 file that is much smaller than available space (eg. ringtone from some website) and copy that to your xda.
Thanks
Hi
Thanks very much for your reply. Thot nobody is interested to answer a silly question like that. Indeed I think the mp3 file I tried to play is corrupted. Got windows media player to play other smaller mp3 files after your advice. However, can windows media player play mpg files at all? Always seem to get message that the movie file cannot be played.
Thanks again.
Smaslift
Hi
cant remember if media player 8.5 can play mpgs. However if you install pocket divx player, you should be able to play most file formats. Ofcourse it wont play all mpgs, or all avis, it depends on the codecs used, however common ones, especially divx are playable.
http://www.projectmayo.com/projects/detail.php?projectId=9
Just to let you know, Media player 8.5 can't play mpeg.
PocketTV is another alternative.
movie file size
HI
Thanks for info. Installed both pocket tv and divx and both are great. Only thing is size of movie files are too big. I have tried using VirtualDub to play around with movie compression but still hasn't found the optimal size to reduce a movie to be sensible for use in pdas. What is the screen size and how else besides the screen size can one use to reduce movie file size?
Cheers
Some good guides here:
http://www.pocketmatrix.com/guides/
Hi
In virtual dub, you need to ensure that you are specifying a codec for video compression AND audio compression.By default virtualdub does not compress the audio, hence the file tends to be quite large.
You may want to install some more audio codecs to give you a better compression. Try installing the WMA codecs, or get Windows Media player 9 on your system.
WMA codes
Hi
Thanks for replies. I have Windows Media 9 on my system; how to use it to get the audio compression with Virtual Dub?
Cheers
Vic
in the audio menu on virtuadub, you need to select Full Processing Mode. Then the compression option will become selectable. You can then pick an audio codec. Be aware not all audio codecs will be available on your xda. Use Windows Media Audio codecs, have a look at:
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-wma.htm
when i want to copy video files over to my xda i do so using active sync and wen i go to open it the file comes up as a file that cant b read by any program, what do i have to do in order for it to play video?
Hi,
which player do you use? Video Files (.mpg or .mpeg) are best played by Pocket TV, available at www.pocketTV.com, .avi files by wmp
Regards
Ron
thanks for replying i try .mpeg video and have windows media that came with it, i have seen pocket tv advertised if i were to get it wot one would i use?
I have been toying around with this video-watching for some time now and in the end the problem is always the size of the files. It is simply impossible to fit a whole movie in mpeg or divx on a storage-card, even if you ha a 512MB one. So what i´ve been doing lately is to convert movies into wmv format with the windows media encoder, which is free downloadable on the microsoft website. You can set the framerate down to 15 fps and the streaming rate to 150 kbps and the movie will still run relatively smooth. And the resolution must of course be set to 320X240. With that you will have files with a size of about 1 MB/minute of film. Of course it takes some time to convert the file, but with 2.8MHz not longer then a little over half an hour per movie.
i can get a 320x240 2 hour film in divx format into 185mb :|
running at 30fps at 250kbs
so i dont see what everyones probs with vids are? :shock:
@ gazzaman
what program do u use to edit doen the videosize to 320 x 240 ?
virtual Dub
www.dvdhelp.com
also guides how to do it can be found here:
http://www.pocketmatrix.com/guides/compression/
follow the convert to divx one
gaz
gazzaman,
what's the quality like when playing videos?
I assume you've got an xda I?
Thanks.
good higly watchable just as good as the normal source video just only dithering on though as te screen is only 4096colours.
i havent got my xda no more waiting for expansys to release the MDA 2
gaz
i cant seem to play it on any player. wm. tcpmp. divx. its a .avi file and its 3.3 gigs. when i try on divx i wait...then a fatal error "memory not allocated". whn i try on wm it skips it and goes to the transformer movie..and when on tcpmp, i look for the file, but it thinks its a folder and whwn i open it theres nothin is the file too big? thanks
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basicz said:
i cant seem to play it on any player. wm. tcpmp. divx. its a .avi file and its 3.3 gigs. when i try on divx i wait...then a fatal error "memory not allocated". whn i try on wm it skips it and goes to the transformer movie..and when on tcpmp, i look for the file, but it thinks its a folder and whwn i open it theres nothin is the file too big? thanks
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You really should encode it down to "Phone Size"
All mine run around 400 to 600 meg for full movies at phone quality, there are a lot of .mp4 converters floating around the forum ....
That file size is just too big for the phone .. only has 576meg of ram after all ... would be hard playing a file that big on a PC with only that much ram ....
Coreplayer plays everything no probs for me
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You can play 3 gig files with coreplayer?? Great... but Coreplayer is commercial, rather re-encode than pay for it ...
I have this same issue. It's not a RAM issue as someone stated probably since the entirety of the video is not loaded into RAM when you play, it is streamed into RAM from disk.
I was thinking perhaps a FAT32 issue but the max file size is 4GB for FAT32. Any other takers on why this happens? You can only transcode down a LOTR Extended movie down so much before you lose quality overall.
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