External Hard drive for Qtek 9100

[mikey411]

Hi All,

I'm going on a trip in a couple of month and I would like to be able to watch dvix movies/tv shows on my qtek while travelling.
i only have a 1GB miniSD card and the 2 GB card would not be large enough

Is there a some sort of external hard drive I can somehow connect to my qtek so I can watch my movies?

Would http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=14147&vpn=WL-HDD2.5&manufacture=ASUS: work?


Thanks a bunch.

[masr1979]

That's an idea. It should work, but don't take my word for it. If you can access your pc's shares thru wi-fi I don't see why this wouldn't work. Just do what I do and make up another excuse to buy it something like "If all else fails, it will make a cool paper weight" oh and here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833320110 $30 something off, if they don't screw you with the shipping this is not bad.

[mikey411]

haha.. nowadays i get yelled at cuz I have collected too many paper weights.. :)
I just tried mapping a drive to my computer and it sorta works..
only problem is when i watch a movie using tcpmp, it stops for a few seconds(spinning RBYG hourglass comes up)..
is there any settings to aleviate the network lag?
i've overclocked to 252 while watching with TCPMP.

also, i gots a problem.. i need some sort of battery power harddrive enclosure for portability??

[masr1979]

Hmmm as far as a battery power harddrive enclosure, can't say I have seen one. I've played a bit of video accessed from my pc's shares and it's played ok, but I haven't tried to play anything while any of the other pc's on my network were on or my pc was using the connection, so mayb it could be too much traffic in your network at the time, can't say for certain now, cause I switched my router and modem for a 327w router/dsl modem and this piece of ^%$#%^$ isn't letting me access my shares at the time.

Word of advice to any who might have verizon dsl.... stay away from the versalink 327w, at first I though it was me who had the problem, but after some searching on the net i see that there are a lot of people having issues with it.

[mikey411]

i just have one pc downloading off usenet.. i guess the problem might be the $5 router i'm using right now.. :)
i guess there is no such thing as a hard drive that you can plug in to the qtek..
2gb minisd is the only way to go then...

[masr1979]

Sadly sometimes we just gotta learn to adapt, but you might try looking at other options, look for a program called VEMOde. It's a program to encode video files it has settings for portable device, this way you can shrink your video files down considerably and they would still look good on your MDA. Anyways good luck to you bro. If I think of anything else useful I'll post back.

[mikey411]

thx dude, i just used vemode and the file size are 1/2 the size now! :)

[masr1979]

Yeah it's pretty awesome, I've been using it for some time now. I used to use it for my psp, now I use it for my MDA. Anywho glad that helped, later!

[devGOD]

why not just carry a laptop? its a phone/pda and i think HTC did a great job making it small and usable. i could understand that you love the device and want to do everything possible with it but do you really want to be carrying around cables, extra batteries and a portable HD for a phone? :roll: its just a phone/pda phone with an okay processing speed.

I know how it is to have a device and want to do everything with it, i had the XDA Exec and wanted to use it as a laptop replacement and phone. but i fast realized that 1. it was just to big to use a phone 2. i was speeding way to much time configuring it and trying to convince myself that it will replace my laptop.

[mikey411]

i don't have a laptop and my gf has forbidden me from making any major purchases after i bought my qtek.. that's until I get her an engagement ring :roll: :lol:

it'd be nice if i could just hook up a 30GB hard drive to my qtek..
i don't have time to watch the tv shows at nite, so the only time is on the way to work/home..

[cjohnson6965]

I've been looking for something like this for awhile with my 8125. I've seen a promising product announced at CeBit:

http://features.engadget.com/2006/03/13/live-from-cebit-the-widrive-wifi-drive-enclosure/

Supposed to be a battery (2 hour?) powered wi-fi enclosure for 1.8 or 2.5 inch drives. Looks to be available around July or so. This would be perfect for me; 1.8 drives are around 60GB (80 just announced), and would give me the space I need.

I have the ASUS, and its nice, but battery powered would be killer. I can't wait until the Wi-drive is released.

[meschle]

I've been looking for something like this for awhile with my 8125. I've seen a promising product announced at CeBit:

http://features.engadget.com/2006/03/13/live-from-cebit-the-widrive-wifi-drive-enclosure/

Supposed to be a battery (2 hour?) powered wi-fi enclosure for 1.8 or 2.5 inch drives. Looks to be available around July or so. This would be perfect for me; 1.8 drives are around 60GB (80 just announced), and would give me the space I need.

I have the ASUS, and its nice, but battery powered would be killer. I can't wait until the Wi-drive is released.

Thanks that looks interesting - seems to have miniusb charger port a plus!

[madkat]

Unless the device provides an HTTP daemon to serve the files, you won't be able to access them from the device. You may also require a WiFi Hotspot/hub for the Wizard to be able to "see" the device, since neither will be able to act as the host for an Ad-hoc connection.

You won't be able to connect the devices with USB, since there is no USB host or generic USB-Disk 'client' on the Wizard.

[shorty66]

Hello guys,
i use pocketdivxencoder for shrinking my videos. I get about 180MB for one full-time movie.
I use the settings:
2pass
B-frames
15fps
206kbps (wich equals to quality 9)

I know, fps 15 is quite low but you won`t notice the difference on the mda cause auf the screen.
Image quality is quite cool on the small device.

perhaps you should check it out.

[madkat]

If you use a more simple encoding (1-pass, low quality) you can get 25 or 30fps because the CPU will take less time decoding. The video will look more smooth and the artifacts will be practically invisible on such a small LCD. I get 640x480 vids running at full speed on my Universal using nice simple encoding :-)

[mikey411]

Thanks for the tips guys, i was using vemode but i always had problems loading it.. i will try pocketdivxencoder!

cheers :)

[fuzzywuzzy]

1st post folks!

When I install Ratoc's USB host drivers for Pocket PC onto my Toshiba e800 (which I am selling on ebay - goodbye, old friend) I can hook up and browse my Iriver H340 and even my sister's Ipod. So I can just copy films over onto a folder on the H340 and be able to watch them using TCMP.

Basically the Pocket PC acts as a USB host device and is able to see any USB drive hooked up to it. Does the Wizard have this ability, or is it at all possible?

[meschle]

1st post folks!

When I install Ratoc's USB host drivers for Pocket PC onto my Toshiba e800 (which I am selling on ebay - goodbye, old friend) I can hook up and browse my Iriver H340 and even my sister's Ipod. So I can just copy films over onto a folder on the H340 and be able to watch them using TCMP.

Basically the Pocket PC acts as a USB host device and is able to see any USB drive hooked up to it. Does the Wizard have this ability, or is it at all possible?

Welcome fuzzywuzzy, Ratoc dont seem to do a version that ties into a minsd card. In theory you should be able to with the wizard (if a manufacturer would make a minsd to usb link cable) but no-one has had success. Would be great if you could :P