Herald and Divx Movies

[rolanddes]

Hello. I am considering to buy an HTC p4350. So I was wondering if Herald can play full screen unconverted (as it was downloaded) divx movies?

[CommZ]

TCPMP player shoould be able to play it. The performance depends on resolution and bitrate. OMAP CPUs (like herald has) have severe problems with any movies in higher resolution than native 320*240, so don§t even think of playing CD movies.

The conversion is with right software (I can reccomend Spb Mobile DVD) a mater of several mouseclicks. It easily turns any DVD, avi or mpeg your PC can read into PPC-friendly 320*240 xvid (or 640*480 if you have vga machine)

[papamopps]

you can also use pocketdivx it is freeware and then tcpmp to watch


Hello. I am considering to buy an HTC p4350. So I was wondering if Herald can play full screen unconverted (as it was downloaded) divx movies?

[rolanddes]

I used to have an Siemens SX1 so I always reencoded my divx movies (700 mb but I do not know the res.) in to small movies which SX1 could easily play. But I am tired of converting them. Since I am going to have a huge (2 or 4 gb) sd card then I thought I could forget about that converting trouble. I guess I was wrong?

[MisterSosa]

On a 2gb card you can only put 1 and 1/2 movie (unless you download crappy quality movies) so converting is something you should do anyway.

Some movies are only 150 MB then

[CommZ]

As I said, it is matter of 4 or 5 clicks to convert the movie. It used to be trouble back when the only tool we had was virtualDub, but nowadays there is a bunch of specialized softwarers, so it i really an easy task.

[rolanddes]

You are talking like it does not take any time to convert. Yes Just a few clicks but what about the waiting for the process to finish?

[papamopps]

what are you doing at night????

if you are not programming al the time - just let it convert the night and you ahve the movie on your xda for daywork - hehe

jsut kidding ;)

You are talking like it does not take any time to convert. Yes Just a few clicks but what about the waiting for the process to finish?

[rolanddes]

:) Thanks a lot. I guess I am going to be around next few years for every problem I will encounter with Herald.

Take Care..

[jappo01]

It's not even necessary to convert during the night; depending on the size of the original file with pocketdivx you can convert a 700MB DivX movies within a few minutes (5) into a 320*240 ppcmovie

[rolanddes]

Hmm. That sounds good then..
What about transfering files to the pda? Do I have to use Activesync or cardreader/bt? Can Herald be connected as a usb mass storage device?

[papamopps]

with wm5torage you can acces xda as masstorage - but usb1.1 only.

so with adapter and cardreader it is much faster...

Hmm. That sounds good then..
What about transfering files to the pda? Do I have to use Activesync or cardreader/bt? Can Herald be connected as a usb mass storage device?

[kdskamal]

You may note that some movies may be able to run absolutely fine in their native format by just overclocking it to 247/260Mhz. I do this several times with some 700MB/1.2GB movies, which are of high bitrate

[rolanddes]

You may note that some movies may be able to run absolutely fine in their native format by just overclocking it to 247/260Mhz. I do this several times with some 700MB/1.2GB movies, which are of high bitrate

That was absolutely what I needed to hear since I started the thread. Is overclokcing one-click-easy or a complicated prosedure?

[papamopps]

use batterystatus - and it is done in 1 sec....



That was absolutely what I needed to hear since I started the thread. Is overclokcing one-click-easy or a complicated prosedure?

[coolmen777]

I was wandering if there is any way someone might know how to play streaming DivX and/or macromedia files. Here is a link to a page that I am unable to play (have flash bundle and TCPMP Player installed).
http://webteleradio.com/movierec
Thanks for any info u can provide.

[neptune]

I find that a temporary overclock to 286 while watching high resolution video files does the trick, also if you are using tcpmp sometimes the video will not appear until you press fullscreen mode.

sorry if this has been mentioned already

[rolanddes]

I find that a temporary overclock to 286 while watching high resolution video files does the trick, also if you are using tcpmp sometimes the video will not appear until you press fullscreen mode.

sorry if this has been mentioned already

Thanks a lot. I will try all of these whenever I get my hands on my pda.

[Mi|enko]

On a 2gb card you can only put 1 and 1/2 movie (unless you download crappy quality movies) so converting is something you should do anyway.

Some movies are only 150 MB then

Hmmmm. All 700MB divx movies I've "acquired" only take up about 200 megs after reencoding with dr. divx. And the quality's flawless. In fact, right now I have the first seasons of the simpsons and family guy, as well as harold and kumar go to white castle all on a 2 gig card.