Guest The B.A. Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 Ay up, Has anyone dabbled with encoding video on the Wizard yet? I converted 30 mins of vid yesterday using Windows Media Encoder set up for PDA wide-screen (seemed to match the MDA Vario screen size in pixels). It is watchable but does stutter a little, any tips on how to make it smooth viewing? I did close down all other running apps before watching it through Media Player 10. The original plays fine on my PC - wondered if it is an issue with processor speed... Cheers, B.A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pondrew Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 Anyone else tried yet? Given the TI OMAP processor in the Wizard runs at 195mhz to the traditional Pocket PC Phones Intel at 400+mhz there may be a deterioration in performance playing video. A thread elsewhere suggests that the SPV C550 and Imate SP5 Smartphones running at 200mhz with QVGA resolution (same as the Wizard) are also struggling to deliver smooth video playback (when vids are encoded to QVGA)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thelawman Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 I've been using PocketDivxEncoder (encoding QVGA fullscreen/rotated) played back in TCPMP and have suffered no stuttering at all - frankly the vid looks fantastic - and certainly much better than I was led to expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Emad Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 Same here, pocketdivxencoder works a charm with TCPMP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MitchellO Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 I third PocketDivxEncoder andTCPMP. WMP sucks in comparison for video. Divx looks better and has smaller sizes too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The B.A. Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 Top marks to you all, just tried the aformentioned comination and it works like a dream. A little pixilated in places but I'm sure that can be sorted with a few tweaks. Cheers chaps.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pondrew Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Right! So the advice is, for the best video playback do not use the integrated Windows Media Player. No different from in the past then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob.P Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Encoder is good and WMP can do a good job, only drawback is trying to find the right compression settings. The key 8 times out of 10 is getting the bitrate and frame rate/type right, you just have to practise on a small bit of the vid you are encoding rather than waiting an hour or so for a 2 pass encode on a full length feature film. MS's biggest problem is that their encoding software isn't user friendly or intuitive, although I'm sticking it up for it a bit, I do use Nero's Showtime, just for it's convience and easy network streaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MitchellO Posted November 10, 2005 Report Share Posted November 10, 2005 Right! So the advice is, for the best video playback do not use the integrated Windows Media Player. No different from in the past then... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Lol, yeah ;) :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The B.A. Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Er Just out of interest I have a VOB file, tried to recode it using Pocket DivXencoder thingy but it does't see files of that type so i can't load it in. I know I am being a bit thick but how do i go about this? Cheers, B.A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest martin Posted November 17, 2005 Report Share Posted November 17, 2005 Er Just out of interest I have a VOB file, tried to recode it using Pocket DivXencoder thingy but it does't see files of that type so i can't load it in. I know I am being a bit thick but how do i go about this?<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Which version of PocketDivXEncoder are you using and have you tried using version 0.3.51_RC16 ? http://divx.ppccool.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The B.A. Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Which version of PocketDivXEncoder are you using and have you tried using version 0.3.51_RC16 ? http://divx.ppccool.com/ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Just downloaded the version you quoted but still will not open a VOB file. I'm guessing that the VOB file has to be endoded before PocketDivXEncoder will look at it. When I browse to my directory where the VOB file is stored it does not show up in the browser window, tried the pull down menu to change filetype but it only gives the one option of "Video files" so I'm guessing that VOB's aint on the list... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Emad Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 You can encode vob files using gordian knot at www.doom9.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest martin Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Hmmm, I've never had any problems coding video and audio direct from a VOB file with PocketDivxEncoder. :| There is usually at least an MPEG2 stream and one or more AC3 audio streams contained in the VOB file. You can use VobEdit (which is free :) ) to demux the VOB and confirm what files you get. http://www.free-codecs.com/download/VobEdit.htm [Edit] Make sure you are coding a VOB file that has been output from a DVD ripper like DVD decrypter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest randomspam Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 I've just got myself a copy of Lathe which is from the same peeps as PocketDivxEncoder, you just choose a preset and point it to the file and it outputs a small version for you, nifty. It has presets in it for various different gadgets. it has one for a PDA video dimensions of 320x200 or a PDA QVGA at 640x400 , there's a few more but I figured one of these would be most likely. Does anyone know what the actually screen dimensions should be for best fit? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zeflar Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 i would like to know the optimum settings in divxencoder too, also what would be the best setting for playing the file in TCPMP thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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