How to play video?

Hi all,
Newcomer here with first post. I've posted this in O2 section as well but as it's not necessarily O" specific thought I'd post under general too, hope that is OK.

I have just bought an xda mini running wm5 (I think) into which I have sucessfully installed a 1Gb mini S card.

My daughter has an old XDA II running windows, but I've no idea what version or where to go to find out - sorry. She too has a 1Gb SD card in the top.

What I would like to do is to be able to play video files on both PDAs. I have some AVI files on my laptop which I have converted to WMV files using a converter which has made them reasonably smaller and these play fine in Windows Media Player, but I have a feeling that although this works, this is not the best way to do it.

So.....

What file format is the most efficient for PDAs? (Mpeg, DIVx, xVid, AVI, WMV)
What video player is the one most commonly used?
What converter is best to use to convert AVI (or WMV?) files to be able to be played on the PDA?

Apologies for all the questions. Hope you can help.

Marc

[Martin Laverty]

This most common video player is windows media player which is on both your PDA's. You would be best converting to formats that media player can read.

Divx and xVid have better compression ratios although you would have to download a player that read these on your PDA's that would read these as Media player wont alway read these formats.

Not sure on the converters for these though.

Originally Posted by MarcLodge

Hi all,
Newcomer here with first post. I've posted this in O2 section as well but as it's not necessarily O" specific thought I'd post under general too, hope that is OK.

I have just bought an xda mini running wm5 (I think) into which I have sucessfully installed a 1Gb mini S card.

My daughter has an old XDA II running windows, but I've no idea what version or where to go to find out - sorry. She too has a 1Gb SD card in the top.

What I would like to do is to be able to play video files on both PDAs. I have some AVI files on my laptop which I have converted to WMV files using a converter which has made them reasonably smaller and these play fine in Windows Media Player, but I have a feeling that although this works, this is not the best way to do it.

So.....

What file format is the most efficient for PDAs? (Mpeg, DIVx, xVid, AVI, WMV)
What video player is the one most commonly used?
What converter is best to use to convert AVI (or WMV?) files to be able to be played on the PDA?

Apologies for all the questions. Hope you can help.

Marc

Windows Movie Maker.
Import My Videos
Drag clips to storyboard
Finish Movie
Save to my computer
Movie settings
Show more choices
Other Settings
Video for Pocket PC.

The best player out there by far is tcpmp player, from

http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/about

it plays everything you throw at it and best of all its free, i cannot believe no one has suggested it yet.