Windows Media Player question

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Windows Media Player on the Pocket PC doesn't support mpeg video files.
You'll need to use a third-party video player or convert the files to wmv
format.

Peter

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"<<<Tony H.>>>" <tony@nospam.please.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I have an Ipaq 2210 and am trying to transfer .mpg & .mpeg files to the
> device from my PC. Following the steps on the website, opening WMP on PC
> copy files to device, files do not copy get a general error occurred
> message.
>
> Is there something which has to be modified on the .mpg files before you
> do
> the copy to device?
>
> For info all the other file transfers from PC to Ipaq work fine e.g. word,
> excel, powerpoint.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
>
> Tony H.
> **************************************************
> tony@shoeselkridge.co.uk
> Address spam-trapped, please remove shoes to reply
>
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

Windows media encoder, or windows movie maker - both free from microsoft.

"Tony H." <tony@news_elkridge.co.uk> wrote in message
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Can you suggest some conversion software which will do the job?

Thanks in advance

Tony H.


"Peter Foot [MVP]" <feedback@no-spam.inthehand.com> wrote in message
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| Windows Media Player on the Pocket PC doesn't support mpeg video files.
| You'll need to use a third-party video player or convert the files to wmv
| format.
|
| Peter
|
| --
| Peter Foot
| Windows Embedded MVP
| www.inthehand.com | www.opennetcf.org
|
| Do have an opinion on the effectiveness of Microsoft Windows Mobile and
| Embedded newsgroups? Let us know!
| https://www.windowsembeddedeval.com [...] newsgroups
|
| "<<<Tony H.>>>" <tony@nospam.please.co.uk> wrote in message
| news:chs5tk$kii$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
| >I have an Ipaq 2210 and am trying to transfer .mpg & .mpeg files to the
| > device from my PC. Following the steps on the website, opening WMP on PC
| > copy files to device, files do not copy get a general error occurred
| > message.
| >
| > Is there something which has to be modified on the .mpg files before you
| > do
| > the copy to device?
| >
| > For info all the other file transfers from PC to Ipaq work fine e.g.
word,
| > excel, powerpoint.
| >
| > Thanks in advance
| >
| > Regards
| >
| > Tony H.
| > **************************************************
| > tony@shoeselkridge.co.uk
| > Address spam-trapped, please remove shoes to reply
| >
| >
| >
|
|