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Mobile Gadget News :: Making Your Mobile Life Simpler _ HTC Hurricane, Robbie & Tornado _ Video skips on the T mob SDA

Posted by: mmeee Apr 1 2006, 12:23 AM

So i switched from cingular 2125 to Tmob SDA much better love the wifi function.

Before on my smt 5600 i use to drag and drop .MPG or MPEG files in to the explorer window and and it would automatically convert it over to .WMV and played fine. With the SDA when i do that it states it cannot play.

So i used a tool i found on this site called Iamtoo encoder.. and coverted mpg to wmv, it plays sounds fine but the videos is off. the video skips. i tried messing with the video settings like enarlge video etc.. but it still skips.

Can anyone recomeeend anythign plzzz...

Also i had put a new 1 gig kingston card Transfer Rate** — 4.5 - 7.85 MB/sec read rate

and was playing the video of that...

Posted by: smeg36 Apr 1 2006, 03:54 AM

I recommend giving WMV the boot and converting to AVI. There are lots of different converters for AVI, many of which include a profile for the Smartphone. You can play them with TCPMP. The files are smaller and much better quality than WMV, and TCPMP is a much better player than WMP for videos.

Posted by: mmeee Apr 1 2006, 01:58 PM

where do i download the tcmp player?

or the to avi converter??

thx

Posted by: smeg36 Apr 1 2006, 03:55 PM

If you type TCPMP into Google, the top result is the page for TCPMP, which appears to be down right now. You can also download it on http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/. Just make sure you get the appropriate Smartphone files (cab if you want to copy it to the phone, Activesync if you want to install it from your PC. There are tons of AVI converters depending on what you're looking for. One of them, http://www.mobilegadgetnews.com/index.php?showtopic=10950, was reviewed by our own abatis.

Posted by: mmeee Apr 2 2006, 03:07 AM

i downloaded clone dvd, however you can only coverty dvd to what ever format u wish.. how do i convert mpg or mpeg to divx to work??

thx

Posted by: smeg36 Apr 2 2006, 03:19 AM

The http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/about is back up. It has guides and encoder programs there. I think PocketDivxEncoder is probably the easiest to use for someone without encoding experience.

Posted by: mmeee Apr 4 2006, 04:14 PM

so installed the tcmp core. However the video still skips on that.. not as much as windows media but it still does.. i tryed to tweak the settings but no luck..

Posted by: smeg36 Apr 4 2006, 04:22 PM

What format is the video? Did you re-encode it to Smartphone size and bitrate? If you just copied a video meant to be played on a PC the Smartphones processor won't be able to handle it, and it will skip. I encode videos for a Smartphone to 220x176 pixels (or 320x240 for a QVGA device like the 2125), and the video encoded to about 200kbps or so. If the quality is to high it won't play.

Posted by: robgreen Apr 11 2006, 11:37 PM

What is the best bit rate for an SDA?

Posted by: smeg36 Apr 12 2006, 01:45 AM

Like I said, I encode to around 200-256kbps for video.

Posted by: beto_jundiai (Brazil) Jan 7 2008, 05:07 PM

I convert all my videos to 3GP... The size fall and the quality is nice

After try many softs, I found these: http://freez-3gp-video-converter.en.malavida.com/d3686-free-download-windows It really works !