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seanj470
12-20-2002, 07:25 PM
I am trying to get some movies that I can watch on the road with my new Axim. Any ideas on where to download full length divx or windows media files already formatted for ppc? Some sites like pocketpcfilms just don't seem to have the content (and are rather expensive!)

I did obtain a 700meg .avi movie and tried to convert it to a smaller file size by using Windows Media Encoder but I get an error when I initiate the encoding session, 'Invalid or corrupt data was encountered'. Postings from previous threads state that this has been dones successfully before.

Anyone know what I am doing wrong or is this an unavoidable industry copywrite issue?

etalianstallion
12-20-2002, 07:34 PM
I know that PocketMatrix has some guides for the making PPC movies from DVDs....you may want to look through there and see if you can apply the same instructions for converting to PPC format.
I haven't tried this myself since my PC is kinda old, and I've heard that this conversion process takes quite a while...

http://www.pocketmatrix.com/guides/dvd/
http://www.pocketmatrix.com/guides/dvd2divx/

As for the copyright laws and such, I'm really not sure what the boundaries/limitations are.