I know this may be a little off topic, but I was wondering if anyone here has used this program: "DVD to Pocket PC". Supposedly, it burns a DVD to your hard drive and then sqishes it down to 128MB. Thus, you can fit it on a SD Card. I tried it but, my ATI drivers make it crash (They don't allow me to copy protected software).
Could I use DVDShrink or DVD Decrypter, or any other decoding/shrinking software to get a DVD down to 128MB in Windows Media format (.wmp), so that I can play DVDs on my Dell Axim?
Has anyone else had ATI problems, or ATI success with a DVD burning software?
have used it, decrypt the full dvd first, however have never managed to get 128mb always turns out at 140mb so got I 256 card, comes out about 190-220, also believe there is 100 mins film limit heard from other forums, with the ones i have done over cuts the end off, this is not advertised, wish i new that before i got it still looking into ways around this. apart from that the results arent to bad considering you take into account its been reduced by a massive size.
The size is not the issue normally -- 256MB SDs are cheapo anyway -- but the problem is that you need to know what your PocketPC can play and can't play.
My iPaq 5450 (400MHz XScale, 64MB memory) can't play, without dropping frames, decent DivX videos with MP3 audio -- at least not with PocketMVP. Problem, as I've analyzed this, seems to be with badly done audio decoding with PocketMVP that takes probably more CPU power than video decoding.
However, DivX5 is the way to go, but you need to remember couple of basic issues:
-always flip the picture in encoding phase, don't force PocetPC to flip the picture 90 degrees, as it will weaken the performance
-never, ever, never make the video bigger than your PPC's native resolution is. Much rather, aim to make it _exactly_ the same as your PPC's native resolution is (normally 320x240 when flipped).
-I've found that Ogg and WMA audio takes more CPU power than MP3, but I might be wrong. Audio bitrate has to be loooowww (see above explanation).
-if you use variable encoded DivX5, don't allow it to peak very high, as PPC will "die" when the bitrate peaks.
-Install TurboTray if you have XScale and test if your machine can run at 500MHz+
