nz0eBoy
10-21-2004, 02:33 AM
I just got a Pansonic DVD recorder which allows me to save recorded TV Shows to an SD Card. Great now I can watch TV Shows on the go.
The video is saved as an .asf file at QVGA, even better as I have not upgraded to a VGA device yet.
I pop the SD card in my PPC, open Windows Media Player and voila, the video is there in all its glory. No sound, oh right I forgot to take my PPC off mute. I change the volume and still no sound.
I check the maual for the Panasonic Recorder and discover they use a G.726 Audio Codec. After some digging around I find this is supported on WMP for XP, but I have to disable unsigned Active X Controls security to get it to download.
This doesn't help me with my PPC however.
Things were so close, why do Panasonic decide to support some seemingly obscure audio codec. Sure I can run this through Windows Movie Maker, but that kinda defeats the purpose.
I know WMP10 for PPC supports additional codec plug ins, I belive Dell has already added support for a couple of other codecs - does anyone want to take a punt on whether there will be a plug in for this codec?
The video is saved as an .asf file at QVGA, even better as I have not upgraded to a VGA device yet.
I pop the SD card in my PPC, open Windows Media Player and voila, the video is there in all its glory. No sound, oh right I forgot to take my PPC off mute. I change the volume and still no sound.
I check the maual for the Panasonic Recorder and discover they use a G.726 Audio Codec. After some digging around I find this is supported on WMP for XP, but I have to disable unsigned Active X Controls security to get it to download.
This doesn't help me with my PPC however.
Things were so close, why do Panasonic decide to support some seemingly obscure audio codec. Sure I can run this through Windows Movie Maker, but that kinda defeats the purpose.
I know WMP10 for PPC supports additional codec plug ins, I belive Dell has already added support for a couple of other codecs - does anyone want to take a punt on whether there will be a plug in for this codec?