Louis Kuhelj
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Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:04 am Post subject:
Re: Divx on flashdrives? |
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Louis
You seem to be converting to Divx and then to WMV. Is there not a program
which will let you watch Divx on the pocket PC? My guess is that each
conversion causes you hassle and loses you quality.
You are probably right on the hassle end, but the quality is
acceptable to me at least. There was one program that I got to play
DivX files on the pocket PC, but the problem is really in that it only
kept crashing and even if it didn't, the DivX AVI files are way too
big to get four hours worth of video on. OTOH, WMV files are way more
compact and as I said, they are of acceptable quality.
The one thing that I find is that, oddly enough, Windows Movie Maker
doesn't always handle the video conversion to WMV files properly and I
have to resort to another program that does the conversion. It is
cumbersome and I am on the lookout for a program that can do it all.
So far, no luck. That may be partly because Microsoft pretty much owns
the WMV format and I think they would get into a legal hassle if other
companies tried to write programs to handle that format. At least,
that is one of the messages I got on a conversion program I tried to
use the WMV files with. I'm begining to really dislike this monopoly.
As a consumer, I would like to have more options and less restrictions
on those options.
TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress can encode to WMV format.
I use SmartRipper to choose what I want from the
DVD and make a single vob file on my hardrive.
Then I use virtualldub-mpeg2 to get a wav file from the vob.
I guess if got the ac3 reader for tmpenc I might be able to
skip this step. Also I think I dont get stereo?
Finally I load both vob and wav into TMPgenc3.0express
and two pass encode a wmv file. It's slooooooow.
By the way the vob goes on the hardrive, the wav file
onto a ramdisk and the WMV output file goes onto a 1 gig
USB memory stick. That way I spread the pain around.
So far this has always worked great except for ONCE! Arrgh!
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Hey...I've found a wonderful piece of software called Video Edit
Magic by Desk Share that has all the editing features that I could
possibly want and it also allows every possible change to my AVI file
during the conversion with ease. Well, I can even get the movies into
the anatropic format without any trouble and being able to change
frame rates to match the audio is a snap. Cool!
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