11-24-2002, 12:33 AM
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Optimizing Video for Pocket PC Devices
I have no idea who Galan Bridgman is, but he seems to know a thing or two about digital video. He's written a useful article on converting video to a format that works on the Pocket PC. It's unfortunate that even though the 9 Series encoder is at release-candidate status, you have to use the 7.1 Encoder for Pocket PC video.
Which reminds me of the incorrect statement I made in the book - I was under the impression at the time (late September) that WMP 8.5 would have full support for 9 Series Windows Media Video. Which of course it doesn't.  ops: It was, ah, a little challenging getting 9 Series information, but 9 Series video support won't be added to WMP until the next version (presumably WMP 9).
"You can do some amazing things with digital video in Windows XP, such as making home movies to carry on a Pocket PC. In this column, I'll help you optimize video for the Pocket PC, using video creation tools available from Microsoft. Using Windows Movie Maker, the movie creation application included with Windows XP, is the easiest way to make your own videos to play on your Pocket PC. It's not a high-end tool designed for professionals, but you can use it to create videos encoded for viewing on a mobile device with limited power, such as a Pocket PC."
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11-24-2002, 02:06 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
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You can use the v9 encoder to create movies for the PocketPC, am I missing something?
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11-24-2002, 02:12 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I used Divx to pack a 1h 30min movie to +-70mb more than one year ago. Did I miss something about optimizing to mobile devices here? :wink:
/jizmo
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11-24-2002, 02:30 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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The problem with doing it on Encoder, is that u get a slide show not a movie, the quality is horrid in comparison to other way to encode. Go to www.pocketmovies.net they have lots of tips for making clips ofr ppc
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11-24-2002, 03:32 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
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DiviX is the only way to go.
Heyday
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11-24-2002, 04:39 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Originally Posted by Sheynk
The problem with doing it on Encoder, is that u get a slide show not a movie, the quality is horrid in comparison to other way to encode. Go to www.pocketmovies.net they have lots of tips for making clips ofr ppc |
Converted an episode of Farscape about a month ago (to watch while flying to Ireland) using Encoder 9; it was just fine; a nice balance of quality and size. I may have tweaked the codec used, but you can definitely produce decent results with the current Windows Encoder for the PocketPC.
DivX is indeed nice, but last time I checked it didn't decode 5.02, right? I'll probably start using it on the iPaq again once they do support the most recent codec.
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11-24-2002, 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by /dev/niall
You can use the v9 encoder to create movies for the PocketPC, am I missing something?
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You can, but you can't use the 9 Series video codecs - you need to change the codecs back to 7.1. Or am I missing something?
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11-24-2002, 05:33 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2002
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The latest is supported I believe but I still use 4.x and it works fine.
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11-24-2002, 05:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Sheynk
The problem with doing it on Encoder, is that u get a slide show not a movie, the quality is horrid in comparison to other way to encode. Go to www.pocketmovies.net they have lots of tips for making clips ofr ppc |
Naw, I disagree - the default template in the 7.1 Encoder works just fine to create movies. Now it's not full screen by default in the template, which is what the 9 Series encoder offers.
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11-24-2002, 05:34 AM
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Originally Posted by /dev/niall
Converted an episode of Farscape about a month ago (to watch while flying to Ireland) using Encoder 9; it was just fine; a nice balance of quality and size. I may have tweaked the codec used, but you can definitely produce decent results with the current Windows Encoder for the PocketPC.
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Yeah, you must have changed the video codec to 7.1 - they problem is, at least on my system, that when I used the Pocket PC template and went into the video codec options, I could only select from among three 9 Series choices - WMP 7 codecs weren't listed! I never quite figured that one out...
Ultimately the Pocket PC WMP team really put us in a bind by not having a 9 Series-compatible player ready to go. :cry:
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