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Hi all I have an Acer PDA with a 2 gig card im trying to put on the card some PDA films and tv shows but nothing i put on p[lays. When i click on the item it says no programme is assigned to the item and windows media player cant find the info on the card.

Any help please.

Scubalol

[Martin Laverty]

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Try pocket TV Windows Media on your PDA doesnt read all video formats. There are a few other media players around that you could try.

Originally Posted by Scubalol

Hi all I have an Acer PDA with a 2 gig card im trying to put on the card some PDA films and tv shows but nothing i put on p[lays. When i click on the item it says no programme is assigned to the item and windows media player cant find the info on the card.

Any help please.

Scubalol

Use tcpmp player from

http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/about

best all round player, when you have installed it, open it and go to file open, then just browse to the folder where your videos are and click one, they will play then, also it has a playlist option so you can add more than one video, etc.

Hi!

I had the same problem: I have just had to learn things myself by trial and error.

For DVDs, you need to download encoding software to change the file type from .VOB to .wmv (which Windows Media player on your PDA plays). I use pocket DVD studio which is not registered (I didn't want to pay for it), so your film is broken up into 5-10 minute sections.

To download, click "Pocket DVD Studio Free Download" (unless you want to buy it!) on this link: http://www.shareup.com/Pocket-DVD_St...oad-35896.html Install it. Next, you need to encode your DVD: Click file, open DVD, and find the DVD. Then, click file, set output file and destination, set the output location! Then, you need to choose your options.

These are the ones I use: on the main screen: 240x340 resolution; stretch 33%; medium video quality and medium audio quality. Then click "more options" and these are the settings I use: WMV8 - for use on windows media player on pocket pc; 15fps; 200kbps video; the rest are standard. Simply click record it when the options have been set.

If you have the unregistered version, you will need to change the output file name and location after 5-10 minutes - the downside to having an unregistered version! The whole film takes around 15 different files. When all of the film has been encoded (about one third of the time it takes to run normally), copy the files to your PDA. On windows media player, click menu, update library - the files should appear.

A typical DVD (100mins) is 250MB on my PDA - four DVDs on one 1GB memory card! The quality is completely fine! I think this method is better than putting a TV/DVD player on your PDA as DVD/TV files will be amazingly huge in comparison - wasting precious space on your PDA. Also, if you set the resolution to 240x320 and 30fps with High video and audio quality; the encoded files will look identical to the TV ones (because PDA screens are smaller than TV screens), but save you so, so, so much space. One minute of TV is around 40MB on windows xp media centre; one DVD is 4.5GB, let along HD-DVD or BLU-RAY!

I cannot guarentee that this will work on your computer and PDA, but I know it works very well on my computer and PDA - - Good luck!!

You should be able to encode TV and other videos in the same way. If you have any problems, write another message! Good luck!

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