Using an XDA for video compression ?

[simg]

Hi All,

This might seem like a bizarre idea but I'd like to be able to use my XDA to convert video files from uncompressed .AVI into a compressed format such as .mpg :eek:

My reason for wanting to do this is I am going Africa in a few weeks to take part in the Tour d'Afrique (http://www.tourdafrique.com), an 11,800km bike race from Cairo to Capetown.

My plan is to post a video diary to my blog from internet cafes along the route. I'm going to use an online video editing site such as JayCut.com to edit the video, but the problem is uploading the uncompressed AVI files, which are huge (about 1Mb per second of video).

There are plenty of free .AVI to .MPEG converters for desktop/laptop computers, but I haven't found any for XDAs. (not hard to guess why).

Space (and weight) are at a premium, so I'd rather not take a laptop and the XDA would be ideal if I can just overcome the video compression problem. (I don't mind that it might take a while to do the conversion)

Any suggestions would be really appreciated :)

Cheers

Simon

[sercio]

You could use coolcamera from ateksoft which makes videos in small sizes... 1 min takes about 5mb with reliable quality!
Considering that video encoding takes huge amount of the pc hardware i dont think its possible to make one for a ppc! You would probably need a whole day to encode a video!

[simg]

Thanks Sercio, but unless I'm missing something, coolCamera looks like a bit of software that runs on an XDA and makes better use of the inbuilt camera ?

This wouldn't really fit my needs as my camera needs to be rain and dust proof !

Since coolCamera can do compression in real time, I think XDA's can probably (hopefull) cope with doing "offline" compression, albeit more slowly.

I did find this post:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=395600

which suggests that people are working on video conversion / compression using XDA's ?

I wonder if anyone has created a simple wrapper application for the ffpmpeg.dll's that would "just work". (it doesn't matter how simple the app as long as it can convert .avi into .mpeg)

I also realise (or think I do) that the .avi format can actually contain any number of different codecs, so nothing is ever simple ... :)

[simg]

Thanks anyway :)

In the end I decided it was better to for an Asus eee PC with an additional external battery (and a solar charger). Should (might) have about 15 hours of battery life !

[jiejie]

watch out for the lions and zimbzbwean.

by the way, where can i find your video journal when you are there?