Mobile Video Solution For Windows Media Center

[Rocco Augusto]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.makayama.com/mediacenter.html' target='_blank'>http://www.makayama.com/mediacenter.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Do you have a Windows Media Center and a Windows Mobile phone? Yes? Well listen up! Makayama lets you watch your recorded Windows Media TV shows on more than 500 mobile devices. Install the software on your Windows Media Center PC then simply choose your mobile device - everything else is automatic. Every new TV recording will be converted in the background to a mobile video format which is then copied to the device when connected via USB. The software can be operated with a TV remote control and has the Windows Media Center look and feel."</i><br /><br />This has to be one of the handiest software solutions to emerge for the Windows Mobile platform in a while. While I am a huge fan of <a href="http://www.orb.com">Orb</a> for streaming recorded TV shows to my handset, there are times when I would rather not mess around with streaming files and would prefer to have direct access to them. Now the real problem here is deciding whether I love my recorded shows enough to spend $34.95 for this software ;)

[sbono13]

This seems like a nice utility if you have an iPod or PSP. For devices capable of playing WMV files (like WinMob phones, for instance), it doesn't do anything that Windows Media Player doesn't already do. You can set up to sync your recorded TV shows with your Smartphone, and WMP will autoconvert the shows (in the background) and send them to your phone via activesync. The following link is for Portable Media Centers, but WinMob devices will work the same way, once connected via activeSync.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/mobility/expert/bridgman_PMCwmp10.mspx

There's a bit of hacking involved in getting the video to be the right resolution for WinMob devices:
http://www.spv-developers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=338