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That's it...I'm ready for movies!!

Also, a new open-source media player is available. I've tried it on my Zodiac2, and it needs more work, but it might evolve nicely in time.

The Magic Lantern

Good movie-ing.
POL9A

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Hey POL,
Congrats on the PowerBook! I switched to laptops last year and don't think I could ever go back to using a desktop. With a wi-fi card, the laptop can't be beat for convenience.

Yea, give it a try. I recently replaced my ailing T3 with a Clie TH55. I transfered the video to a memory stick and opened it with MMPlayer but the bitrate was too high for the TH55; it played but the video was choppy. The T3 has a much faster processor so it should play just fine.

I have also noticed several updated applications for Mac that should perform the same functions as ffmpegx but without all the hassle. Granted, they don't have the plethora of options but the goal is to get the video playing on the T3 and they should fit the bill.

One is Handbrake.

Yes, VLC is slick. It is available for just about any platform and plays darn near any video format.

Let me know how the video plays on your T3.

ed-

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Can you get DVD to Palm for Palm OS 5 that will work on my Palm Tungsten T2 it sounds like a really cool programs you can take movies along with you on your Hoildays or on the bus ETC. That would be great !

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you can fix that by changing to 320x240 instead.. but you get two bars at the top and bottom just like you do when you watch widescreen dvds on a normal TV.

If you change the background colour to black its not so noticable than if you had white...

That's it...I'm ready for movies!!

I just had a chance to try out Kinoma

It's not THAT bad. If you select the Cinepak Mobile codec and choose a low bit rate such as .. 160Kbit and 16.xx KHz sound... the filesize comes out to approx. 4MB a minute

At least that's with using 320x240. I haven't tried 320x320 resolution but I guess that would eat more space

The "wow" factor is quite high I admit now
I converted The Matrix: Reloaded trailer and it does look very very nice.

DivX encoded AVI's don't seem to work.

My verdict: Good stuff, but more codec selections would have been better, and filesizes are huge (related to last point).

That's it...I'm ready for movies!!

A few more items for the movies-on-Palm experience...

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2005/03/30: 0.7.0-beta2 released


HandBrake 0.7.0-beta2 fixes a bunch of issues reported about 0.7.0-beta1:


All platforms:

Fixed AC-3 pass-through with multiple languages

Fixed issues with a few specific DVDs

Fixed audio glitches that happened sometimes



OS X

People can now disable the Check for updates on launch in the Preferences

Fixed a mem leak

...and a few other minor issues.
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A review of the differences between MMPlayer and Kinoma 3.A review of the differences between MMPlayer and Kinoma 3.

And a new Palm OS media multi-format player that junglemike beat me in introducing to Palm Blvd. in this thread.

Hope your movie experiences are well.
POL9A

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Hi PoL..

major problem with HB is that it has no B-frame support as yet but works very well as a genarl rip/recoder..

That's it...I'm ready for movies!!

Hi to all,

Yeah. I finally got another movie encoded and running. I guess the problem with the 700mb movie was that it was corrupted or something. Because it was the only video i can't convert. Thanks guys for helping me out. Btw do any of you have movies or videos to spare? Thanks.

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Not to mention the increase in the power of hardware available these days. When this thread was started, wasn't the TT the latest and greatest machine around, with it's 144Mhz processor?!

That's it...I'm ready for movies!!

When this thread was started, there was no Pocket DVD Studio, so there wasn't the all-in-one solution for users. Except Kinoma, and I was wanting a different method because I wasn't happy with the file sizes Kinoma produced.

Also, the thread seeks to encompass solutions for the Mac OS user. As we came to discover, there were many solutions for the PC user, but few for the Mac afficionado. We wanted to shorten that gap.

Finally, for the users who didn't have access to the relatively recent Pocket DVD Studio, or who just wanted to use freeware solutions or have more control over the resultant files, the thread contains valuable settings and experiences so that hopefully future seekers might have a clear indication of what to do or what not to do.

So, the thread has evolved quite nicely over the years, and I've gained much from the combined experience we've all contributed to. Hopefully there's something in here for everyone.
POL9A