C550 and videos

[Guest cobra2222]

hey all,

i just purchased a orange c550 and i cant get any videos to play, is there a specific bitrate or size that they have to be? i tried to install pocket tv and when i click it to install it says that it dosent support the connected device :s :cry:

[Guest w411y]

try encoding the video using Pocket DivX encoder and playing them on TCPMP

[Guest mini_man]

The best video player for your phone is tcpmp as it allows full screen video playeback and is compatible with alot, and pocketdivxconverter is the best converter but make sure you select pda (240x320)

tcpmp.arm_sp.cab

it sounds like you have put the installer on your phone,

connect you phone to your pc, open the installer you phone will ask you to install the program and tcpmp will install on you phone, or do the the same with pockettv.

[Guest cobra2222]

i have installed tcpmp ok, and have encoded a video with pocket divxencoder and works great ;) but is there anyway to do the same to .wmv and .mp4 files?

Edited December 29, 2005 by cobra2222

[Guest mini_man]

have you selected tcpmp as the default video player for .avi

[Guest cobra2222]

i managed to fix that problem, it was my codecs interfering with it. how can i do the same to wmv videos?

[Guest mini_man]

to make wmvs defaultly play in tcmp,

using the standard file explorer

locate the file and click menu, file, associate and select tcpmp from the list

[Guest morpheus2702]

Download Windows Media Encoder from Microsoft. Choose to encode at high quality Pocket PC (218kbps - 240 x 320) and you'll get great looking movies just using Windows Media Player.

Edited December 29, 2005 by morpheus2702

[Guest username132]

Download Windows Media Encoder from Microsoft.  Choose to encode at high quality Pocket PC (218kbps - 240 x 320) and you'll get great looking movies just using Windows Media Player.

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Will it play full screen in WMP?

[Guest mini_man]

i think it does although i dont use wmp for videos, all you have to do is tell it 2 play in full screen while viewing on the phone

[Guest username132]

i think it does although i dont use wmp for videos, all you have to do is tell it 2 play in full screen while viewing on the phone

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Wicked!! I can't believe I've spent SO much time in queues playing crappy games when my phone was capable of this!! I always thought "tv on your phone, what a rip off", but this is awesome! No wonder these things are so expensive.

Is there anything else I should be doing with my phone? (I've never been interested in internet etc because it's way too expensive but if there's anything else cool and _free_ like this, then I'd like to know)

[Guest username132]

My problem, is that I wanna watch stuff whilst I'm cooking. Since I've gotta keep moving about, I need something that will maintain the phone in my feild of vision at all times. Some sort of stupid looking head gear would do the trick. Any ideas how I could construct such a thing?

[Guest mini_man]

wnt u just get distracted and burn somthing?? why not bye a car cradle for the c550 and mount it to the wall or sumin and u can have it in ure line of sight.

Other things i find great on my spv is notepad which is gr8 also the big bonus although you dont want the internet is bluetooth activesync, this lets you use the internet on ure phone through ure pcs internet, making it free and fast. Concider it its awsome!!

[Guest username132]

wnt u just get distracted and burn somthing?? why not bye a car cradle for the c550 and mount it to the wall or sumin and u can have it in ure line of sight.

Other things i find great on my spv is notepad which is gr8 also the big bonus although you dont want the internet is bluetooth activesync, this lets you use the internet on ure phone through ure pcs internet, making it free and fast. Concider it its awsome!!

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I burn things anyway... I might aswell enjoy myself whilst I'm doing it! I tried proping it up on a tub of milkshake mix but I have to keep moving around. Ideally, I'd have a pair of those $2000 glasses with built in weird sci-fi tv screen stuff, but I'm just gonna have to construct some sort of head-brace with my non-existant engineering skills.

Surely typing on a nine button keypad is a drag (not a fan of texting)! And why surf on your phone if your computer is right by? Surely it's easier with full size input devices?

[Guest mini_man]

its just useful, e.g msn is a really good if ure not by the pc, cos ppl tend to get annoyed if your not by the pc when ppl are talking