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 Newbie  Group: Posters Posts: 35 Joined: 17th May 2005 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 129,814 Device(s): Smt-5600 w/ 1Gb miniSD  |
I just got my San Disk 1Gb miniSD and I love it! Screw an iPod, I can hold 1Gb worth of songs, which is about 250 songs. Do you really need more than that? Honestly.
OR you can hold an entire movie on your SD card and watch it in widescreen on your smartphone. I just ripped Scarface and am now watching it on my SMT-5600. I'm pretty psyched about this, everyone I know is like WTF?! I dunno if this has already been done but I think its amazing. The movies are suprisingly clean and sharp. Using a DivX encoder, you can make your movie extra sharp while making the file a little bigger. I currently have 2 full length movies and about 65 songs on my 1Gb miniSD I'm happy to answer any questions for any "newbies" out there trying to rip movies. This post has been edited by alexander.gq: May 31 2005, 20:29 |
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May 31 2005, 20:53
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 Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 24 Joined: 16th August 2003 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 13,103 Device(s): T-Mobile MDA Pro |
QUOTE(alexander.gq @ May 31 2005, 21:26) I just got my San Disk 1Gb miniSD and I love it! Screw an iPod, I can hold 1Gb worth of songs, which is about 250 songs. Do you really need more than that? Honestly. OR you can hold an entire movie on your SD card and watch it in widescreen on your smartphone. I just ripped Scarface and am now watching it on my SMT-5600. I'm pretty psyched about this, everyone I know is like WTF?! I dunno if this has already been done but I think its amazing. The movies are suprisingly clean and sharp. Using a DivX encoder, you can make your movie extra sharp while making the file a little bigger. I currently have 2 full length movies and about 65 songs on my 1Gb miniSD I'm happy to answer any questions for any "newbies" out there trying to rip movies.  Yes well, that's one of the powers of the smartphone  Altough I must say pretty much every new phone (no matter the brand) can record/play movies and play mp3's... (so Bill's gotta think of something else, *hint!*) Also, I wonder how large your compressed movies are? Because a movie with smartphone resolution (220x176 max) can easily be compressed to 70mb, even with stereo sound, when using the right applications That would mean you could stick a lot more movies/mp3's on that 1gig sd-card of yours!
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Jun 1 2005, 02:27
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 35 Joined: 17th May 2005 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 129,814 Device(s): Smt-5600 w/ 1Gb miniSD |
Yeah... Smartphone's are fairly new here in the US, unlike Europe and Asia. My Scarface movie was almost 500mb! i used the "Pocket DivX Encoder". It is really sharp though.
What are some other programs to size down movies? |
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Jun 1 2005, 06:18
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 7 Joined: 1st June 2005 Member No.: 132,424 Device(s): SMT 5600 |
Alexander,
I've read good reviews about this software. http://www.smartphone.net/software_detail....teid=279&id=724 I also read somewhere that you can get away with reducing the fps on your movies to 15 to reduce the size of the file. There's something about keeping the kbps the same so that the quality per frame is the same and therefore the sharpness will be maintained. Question for you about your 1GB Sandisk. I've read that the Sandisk card is not as fast as other MiniSD cards out there. It doesn't sound like you have any problems with the playback of movies on your phone. Do you notice any unusual read/write slowness with your card? After reading your post, I'm just about ready to go ahead with my purchase of a Sandisk 1GB as well. Thanks. Jacques |
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Jun 1 2005, 07:17
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 AKA 'jlowap' MoDaCo Old Skool  Group: Moderator Team Posts: 3,544 Joined: 12th February 2003 From: North Devon, UK Member No.: 2,777 Device(s): glofiish X800 + HTC Diamond |
We have had FULL LENGTH movies on our SmartPhone phones here since the Original SPV back in 2003.
back then we used a different player (now obsolete) and VirtualDUB to encode/resize the movies. Used to get each movie down to about 100 Meg and most of us had 256Meg SD Cards then £60-70 at the time!  Have a search around on here for some old posts on the subject. -------------------- James Lovell
Microsoft Windows Mobile Specialist 2008 And ive got a certificate to prove it :P Get Your HTC DIAMOND or TOUCH HD HERE! |
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Jun 1 2005, 07:20
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AKA 'jlowap' MoDaCo Old Skool Group: Moderator Team Posts: 3,544 Joined: 12th February 2003 From: North Devon, UK Member No.: 2,777 Device(s): glofiish X800 + HTC Diamond |
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LOADS of info here for DivX, XviD, WMA's..... http://www.modaco.com/Smartphone_Articles-f18.html Full Guide HERE:- http://www.modaco.com/Media_Encoding_UPDATED-t95746.html -------------------- James Lovell
Microsoft Windows Mobile Specialist 2008 And ive got a certificate to prove it :P Get Your HTC DIAMOND or TOUCH HD HERE! |
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Jun 1 2005, 10:39
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Regular  Group: Posters Posts: 78 Joined: 30th May 2005 Member No.: 132,103 Device(s): i-mate SP5 |
I am sure that you already know about this program, but it is worth to mention anyway.
PocketDivxEncoder The program is extremly easy to use, has all the necessary options, and produces very good results. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere on this forum, which I find very strange. |
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Jun 1 2005, 10:44
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 RN, MS MVP-MD Group: Moderator Team Posts: 4,532 Joined: 7th August 2003 From: Legazpi, Philippines Member No.: 12,251 Device(s): ASUS P525, ASUS N10J-A1 |
QUOTE(scsi @ Jun 1 2005, 17:39) I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere on this forum, which I find very strange. I mentioned it on these Articles: http://www.modaco.com/Direct_DAT_to_AVI_Co...on-t202117.html http://www.modaco.com/DVD_to_AVI_Conversio...de-t202817.html ...it was ignored. 
-------------------- Jakult everyday, everyday OK!
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Jun 1 2005, 19:33
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 35 Joined: 17th May 2005 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 129,814 Device(s): Smt-5600 w/ 1Gb miniSD |
WOW 2003 you say? Here in the states the SMT-5600 is one of our first smartphones. I wonder why the US is so far behind in the cellphone category from Europe. I can understand that Asia is where most of them are manufactured so Asia gets all the newest cell phones. Hm..
On the question about the playback of the SanDisk 1gb miniSD... I love it. The playback on movies is great, even when the miniSD is 99% full! Playback on audio is even better. Writing although is not as quick as I hoped. Copying an Mp3 to the SD takes just as long as copying it to the storage on the actual phone (about 15 secs). Movies on the other hand take approx. 30-60 mins depending on the size. Scarface, which is almost 3 hours in length, took an hour to copy on the SD. |
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Jun 1 2005, 23:24
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Premium Group: Members Posts: 33 Joined: 17th May 2005 Member No.: 129,967 Device(s): i-mate SP3i |
Yeah dude, we are far left behind from Europe and Asia (don't even mention Japan). I too just got my imate SP3i, all my friends that saw this phone were also had that WTF expression.
I ran some test with leaving the video running, and I stopped at 5 hours mark with 35% left on my battery. Backlight was never turned off and audio is through the earphone. Very awesome phone indeed! Edit: Oh yeah, don't forget that it can do GPS navigation as well! This post has been edited by asphire23: Jun 1 2005, 23:25 |
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Jun 2 2005, 05:26
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 35 Joined: 17th May 2005 From: Seattle, WA Member No.: 129,814 Device(s): Smt-5600 w/ 1Gb miniSD |
QUOTE(asphire23 @ Jun 1 2005, 15:24) Edit: Oh yeah, don't forget that it can do GPS navigation as well! Yeah man I have never seen any smartphones in my high school nor my college classes.. All my friends are pretty impressed! Although there have been Pocket PC phones out for a while plus the wonderful Treo so... But asphire23, when you say GPS are you talking about CellTrack? |
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Jun 2 2005, 12:50
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 Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 11 Joined: 10th May 2005 Member No.: 128,537 Device(s): Sprint PPC6600 |
To encode movies I first dvd shrink them, then use a program called Fairuse. I can choose the size I want the file and the screen size, as well as cropping the video. You can adjust the sound size. I have a sandisk 1Gb SD card with 3 128Mb movies and over 60 mp3s, plus all my programs, and games running off the card, and sad enough to say I still have room to spare, but I can wait till a bigger card comes out like say a 2Gb card
-------------------- Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids we'd all run around in a darkened room, munching pills and listening to repeatitive music.
You should never try the obvious until youve cursed, screamed, shouted and blamed hardware, software and everyone around you. Is there another World Wide Web that isnt filled with idiots?!? |
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Jun 2 2005, 15:05
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Premium Group: Members Posts: 33 Joined: 17th May 2005 Member No.: 129,967 Device(s): i-mate SP3i |
QUOTE(alexander.gq @ Jun 1 2005, 21:26) But asphire23, when you say GPS are you talking about CellTrack? No, I mean a real GPS navigation. Go look for a bluetooth GPS. |
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Jun 2 2005, 15:16
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 No.1 the larch  Group: Posters Posts: 965 Joined: 26th November 2002 From: Herts, UK Member No.: 103 Device(s): (SPV,E200,C500,Qtek9100)Vario2 |
QUOTE(jlowap @ Jun 1 2005, 07:17) We have had FULL LENGTH movies on our SmartPhone phones here since the Original SPV back in 2003. back then we used a different player (now obsolete) and VirtualDUB to encode/resize the movies. Used to get each movie down to about 100 Meg and most of us had 256Meg SD Cards then £60-70 at the time! Have a search around on here for some old posts on the subject. Ah those were the days... I remember when the SPV used to get stuck in headset mode
This post has been edited by Rob.P: Jun 2 2005, 15:17 -------------------- Interesting Times
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Jun 5 2005, 09:31
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 13 Joined: 12th December 2004 From: San Antonio, TX Member No.: 101,611 Device(s): SP-i600 |
I have absolutely no interest in watching movies on my Smartphone. I would hate to using up my batteries for something like that.
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Jun 5 2005, 17:55
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 Addict Group: Posters Posts: 704 Joined: 1st September 2003 From: Birmingham Member No.: 14,544 Device(s): C550 |
QUOTE I would hate to using up my batteries for something like that I have an old E200 and I have put my phone to the test with a movies playing in a loop and my battery lasted for over 5 hours thats more than some of these £300+ personal media players can manage.
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Jun 5 2005, 19:13
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 13 Joined: 12th December 2004 From: San Antonio, TX Member No.: 101,611 Device(s): SP-i600 |
QUOTE(Dr_StrangeTrick @ Jun 5 2005, 17:55) I have an old E200 and I have put my phone to the test with a movies playing in a loop and my battery lasted for over 5 hours thats more than some of these £300+ personal media players can manage.Wow 5 hours, thats impressive, I see you can buy an E200 for $99, I guess I'm not to smart cuz I paid $350 for my SP-i600 and that was after waiting 4 months for my mail in rebate. Looks like anyone can sell me a bill of goods :cry: |
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Jun 6 2005, 15:34
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 34 Joined: 9th March 2005 Member No.: 115,844 Device(s): Audiovox SMT-5600 |
I no longer "rip" my DVDs, but "capture" them. Using my TV tuner card (in my notebook's docking station) I hook up a DVD player to it, and on-the-fly capture the film using Windows Media Encoder directly to a wmv file formatted specifically for my SMT-5600 smartphone. My videos weigh in at about 80MB for each hour. So a 90 minute film is about 120MB.
Here's a few screenshots of playback:   The nice thing is that capture time is the length of the film itself, and audio/video sync is always perfect. |
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Jun 7 2005, 11:14
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Enthusiast  Group: Posters Posts: 209 Joined: 21st May 2005 From: Hertfordshire England Member No.: 130,713 Device(s): SPVc500 SPV m3100 |
I use the mighty BetaPlayer and have 5 movies 2 episodes of futurama and 2 albums rip at the highest bit rate on a 1gb scandisk card.
When I'm away from home this sates my need for entertainment very nicely indeed. I never use the supplied PVP software as nothing seems to work on it. |
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Jun 7 2005, 16:57
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 2 Joined: 7th June 2005 Member No.: 133,550 Device(s): Qtek 8010 |
QUOTE(obeel @ Jun 5 2005, 11:31) I have absolutely no interest in watching movies on my Smartphone. I would hate to using up my batteries for something like that. Yeah. I used to think that. Then I tried it. - I LIKE IT!!
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