Watching Video on SPV C500

[Guest ellischaplin]

I have recently been browsing, looking at software for ripping DVDs to a smartphone. It has occurred to me that the battery on an SPV may not be up to the task of powering the phone while decoding a film (of say a couple of hours). Does anyone have any experience of watching movies on an SPV c500 or similar?

Thanks.

[Guest chucky.egg]

There's some GREAT software that I use called PocketDVD (very highly recommended)

When you rip the DVD you create a small (relatively speaking) AVI file with reduced resolution etc.

The phone has no problems playing them, although I've yet to watch a film all the way through - I find episodes of The Office and Red Dwarf are the perfect length for my commute

[Guest Exploited]

I have been watching movies for a long time now on my C500. Never have I had any problems with battery-life.

You can easily watch several hours of movies and have it work a full working day without the battery going under half-full. Even with a permanent GPRS Internet-connection (as I use AgileMessenger constantly).

I use BetaPlayer to watch my movies and encode them using PocketDivXEncoder set at PocketPC-resolution (320x240).

[Guest chucky.egg]

I've been playing with resolutions, and most of my stuff is now at 220x176 for landscape viewing.

As I don't have a PocketPC is there any advantage in me trying higher resolutions like the 320x240?

[Guest sSword]

I load my Divx movies into Window Movie Maker and export it as a PPC 218kbps file

I dont have any battery problems after watching a whole film

[Guest The Undefeated]

I use DVD to Mobile (smartphone edition)

Its pretty good, never had any problems playing movies on my C500

[Guest Arbait]

I use BetaPlayer to watch movies and PocketDivXEncoder to encode. PocketDivXEncoder is a GREAT app. One feature i like most is that if you have the subtitle file in the same folder with the initial/big .avi the app ask if you want to hard encode the sub too...

[Guest Jex]

I spent 5 hours labouriously copying the new Star Wars movie (Ep3) onto my 1gb card...

I used DVDDecrypt to decode the VOBs and then used DVD2Avi to convert to avi and dub the sound. Then copy into Windows Movie Maker and output. The best settings for C500 play back are 'Videos For Pocket PC' in the drop down box:

File Type: Windows Media Video (WMV)

Bit rate: 218 Kbps

Display Size: 208*160 pixels

Aspect ratio: 4:3

Frames per second: 20

One 2 hour movie adds up to 170mb in that format, and runs as smooth as silk (pretty much)...