Smart Movie!! is this any better than whats available now???

[Guest A.Hughes]

Saw this article and info, anyone know whether it going to be better than what is already available, (i.e. Pocket TV, Media PLayer, Pocket MVP)

Looks good, but then i'm not well up on movie and video encoding!!

New VERY COOL application kit for Microsoft Smartphone: SmartMovie

May 22, 2004 [MS Smartphone]

Some programs are so impressive that they take you breath away. This is one of such programs. It consists of an application for Microsoft Smartphone and an application for PC - therefore it constitutes a kit - a complete solution:

Video player for your mobile phone, with handy PC video converter. Play your favorite videos on your phone with sound and subtitles!

After installation of the program on Microsoft Smartphone we have tried to make screenshots of it the standard way (Remote Display from Microsoft's Power Toys) but it is not working and is just showing the "busy" cursor:

... therefore we were forced to do screen shots with a digital camera. Here is how this application looks like on Microsoft Smartphone:

To download free trial version of this application or to buy it (price: $24.99) click here. More information from the vendor follows below.

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SmartMovie is a video player for your mobile device, with counterpart PC converter utility. With the converter, you may prepare any video clip for playback on your mobile device.

Play your videos on your mobile device, anywhere, anytime, you need just a few steps:

Convert any video file on your PC into a phone-friendly video file.

Upload video into device/memory card.

Play the video in SmartMovie Player installed on your mobile device.

Features:

Standard AVI format, allowing you to preview converted files on your PC.

Uses downloadable video codecs, allowing you to compress and play back videos in your favorite format.

Player uses the phone screen in portrait or landscape mode, utilizing the full screen size of the device.

PC converter allows you to split video file into multiple segments, so that it fits onto your memory card, if not entire, then cut to more parts - you may watch your favorite video in parts, e.g. while traveling to work/school.

First mobile player which supports subtitles - allowing you to watch movies in different languages.

Friendly PC converter - preview videos on PC, select parts you want to convert, alter quality.

Supports DirectShow codecs, so you may use video codecs downloadable from the internet.

Very fast conversion, on standard PC conversion is 5x faster than video clip playback time. You will convert entire movie in just a few minutes

Bicubic rescale algorithm shrinks video to small screen size in best possible quality.

Adjustable quality parameters for video and audio streams, allowing to tune target video to your needs.

Customizable video Player (brightness , audio sync , volume , and more).

http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/2596.html

[Guest Vector]

hmm, looks pretty interesting...not sure how the quality will compare to

Beta Player tho?...will download the demo in a while :)

[Guest Simon Desser]

I've got this on my P900, and it is absolutely FANTASTIC :) :lol: :lol:

[Guest mike-oh]

But wont rip straight from DVD tho! darn it

[Guest jeRrRKKKK]

it was the BEST movie player for symbian60...

and i'll say... if it can give watever it gave on symbian on smartphone... it'll definately beat betaplayer or pocketmovie..

on my ngage.. it gave brilliant framerates, good audio and the program didn't lag...

betaplayer lags quite abit...

[Guest xavierjohn22]

My mäté göt ngägé and we compare it with betaplayer avi, Béta wön! Bwahahahaha!

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest jeRrRKKKK]

you can't compare a device with only 4k color screen against 1 with 65k...

but smartmovie is better cause the movie it generates is smaller, and has quality tt's as good...

the program doesn't lag like betaplayer too.. and the converter is alot easier to use

[Guest Colonel Trouble]

so? is it better then??

[Guest xavierjohn22]

you just cömpare it ön yöur first pöst, hi hi hi.

Thats why i loöked if it was true. and it was nöt. smartmovie chappy. beta is great. He hé.

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest hawpunch]

i have to agree with xavierjohn. i just tried smartmovie and it is still pretty choppy. with betaplayer, i get really smooth playback. betaplayer is still the better player in my book...plus its free.

jae park

[Guest rcperez]

long live .3gp and pvplayer hihihi

[Guest kurtfhouse]

The user interface is brilliant in smartmovie, but I have to agree with the other comments here, betaplayer is a lot smoother and the superior player. Infact I would say that the playback on Smartmovie is by far the worst of all the players I have tried. :roll:

[Guest jason76]

converting movies :) playing them :cry: picture and sound are pants even with the demos supplied. maybe its just me but i found all the other players good..

[Guest Simon Desser]

There's obviously a problem with Smartmovie (on Windows Smartphones) because, as most people here have found, playback is appaulling :?

However, I can honestly say that the same program on my SE P900 is awesome, and blows everything else away :)

Lets hope they can sort the problems out :?:

[Guest Vector]

Think i'll be sticking with BetaPlayer for now :)

As the video quality is better and it is freeware :lol:

[Guest phonesmarts]

hes right. betaplayer is freeware...and freeware owns all.

[Guest BrAGoL]

based from the comments i read, it's still beta player for me... also considering the fact that it's FREE!!! :)

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest pornflakes]

where do i fint the directshows codex it say that i need to install that???????????????

[Guest Pagemakers]

How can we rip dvd's using smartmovie?

[Guest Pagemakers]

I can't get beta player to play the avi files created by smartmovie. Am I doing something stupid?

[Guest djfuego]

LOL I can't believe people would want to pay $25 for that. You can encode your own vids simply enough.