Guest Pagemakers Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 A friend of mine has an O2 XDAII He has piece of software that will rip a standard DVD to a format that pocket windows media player can handle. The quality was excellent, really good and further more he managed to squash several editions of the Office, the entire version of Finding Nemo and piles of other stuff onto his SD card!! I saw it with my own 2 eyes :shock: I swapped his card into my e200 and it plays like a dream! What program is he using to rip the DVD's to Pocket PC/Smartphone format as well as making the files so tiny and keeping the quality so high? He's a bit of a pleb and doesn’t know what software he is using :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spacecowboy6982 Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 He doesnt' know :?: :!: Ask if you can borrow it for an afternoon if he can spare it and try and find out. I for one would be very interested in that piece of software :!: spacecowboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pagemakers Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 I bumped into him at work today. He is away for a few days. I will ask him on his return. Posted from my SmartPhone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morpheus2702 Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 Was the software bundled with the XDA2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spacecowboy6982 Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 Pauls got one - maybe we can ask him :?: I'll throw a post in @ the "sister site" lol spacecowboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pagemakers Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 Was the software bundled with the XDA2? No it was downloaded of the internet. I am not joking the quality on his XDA was incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 I presume the xda was not up to full resolution if you also managed to play the files on the E200? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hecatae Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 just heard of something called virtualdub which does this job www.pocketmatrix.com has a tutorial on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pagemakers Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 I presume the xda was not up to full resolution if you also managed to play the files on the E200? On his XDA's small screen the quality was as good as a handheld DVD player, honestly. On my smartphone, it was excellent but not as smooth as the XDA. I have emailed him now and asked him to send me a clip of the Office. When I get it I will let you all know where it is available to view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zeta101 Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 are we talking about a prog that does all the leg work here? ie u stick in a dvd and press a couple ( and i mean a couple) of buttons and in a few hours u get your movie file? cos the manual way of doing it is too complicated and long winded... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pagemakers Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 I am trying to find out the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest haso0on Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 did u ask him about the program and from where he got it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pagemakers Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Yes and as I said before he downloaded it from the net and wasn't sure what it was called. I bumped into him at work. As soon as he's back from his trip in a couple of days I will post full details here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rob.P Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Video Convertor Pro This bit of software reads and compresses VOB files, could it be this, it's got a profile for Pocket PC? I'll leave someone else to investigate properly have run out of time this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pagemakers Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Looks like it could be this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stu_lowe2003 Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Try a piece of software called dvdx. This will fully convert the DVD from the disk to a divx using the settings of your choosing, easy to set up for smartphone or pocket pc resolutions. Available from www.afterdawn.com http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_so...pers/index2.cfm I will post some settings after I have had a fiddle. Stu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Croccy22 Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 I use Windows Media Encoder 9 to do this. just give it a file, either choose the pocketpc profile or make your own(much better results and smaller file sizes this way). and hit the encode button. Whole episode of the simpsons, crystal clear quality (probably a bit too high still) was 25mb. Matt Croccy22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pagemakers Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 I can now confirm the software to use is: http://www.viscomsoft.com/videoeditconvertpro.htm Free 15 day evaluation. I have just converted the Ice Age DVD VOB file in 20 minutes. The entire DVD gets compressed to a 140 MB WMV file. I have chosen to make the file 320*240 with stereo sound so I can play it on my pocket pc. The quality it produces is almost as good as a portable DVD player (but not quite). Obviously, if I was encoding it for the Smartphone, I would reduce the screen size, make the sound mono and reduce the bit rate. I guess the file size would then be about 90 MB for the entire DVD. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest haso0on Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 thaaanks for the info man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pagemakers Posted December 9, 2003 Report Share Posted December 9, 2003 You can view a short clip of the Pocket PC file I made here It streams over the web almost straight away. 1 Minute & 1.7 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mike-oh Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 Finally, the answer to my prayers!! Reinstalling pocketmvp again :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mike-oh Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 OK so i must be being really stoopid here but how do i get this to work? Where do i tell it which file i want it to convert? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pagemakers Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 The software I listed a few postings above tends to time lag the audio on long files making the audio/video sync a little out. This program www.artech365.com/mpeg4maker/index.htm is a hundred times better. Better results and no time lag at all. Better still it will convert directly from a DVD disk to a WMV file. It's absolutely incredible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pagemakers Posted December 11, 2003 Report Share Posted December 11, 2003 Can anbody recommend a good media player for the smartphone. The built in media player will not play wmv files in full screen mode and I have to keep manually turning the backlight on. Posted from my SmartPhone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Myke Posted December 12, 2003 Report Share Posted December 12, 2003 do these encoders have to encode to wmv? avi and mpeg are much better, they also work in better programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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