DVD's onto PDa

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Hey, I bought this and it actually works. Tried loads before this and they
were all rubbish. This is excellent.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI [...] 5104959262

You can buy your own though!! :-))

Jim

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I've found all the information for free on several other web sites,
including the download links to get all the freeware that's required.

http://www.bigdsvideo.com is one source - pretty good guide there.

Hope you didn't spend too much.


"Jim" <Jim@HHH.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hey, I bought this and it actually works. Tried loads before this and they
> were all rubbish. This is excellent.
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI [...] 5104959262
>
> You can buy your own though!! :-))
>
> Jim
>
>

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I agree totally - there are a couple of shareware or commercial programs
that do a great job. My point was that the one being sold on ebay is just
taking the free stuff from the internet and then "selling" the information.
All the information is found freely elsewhere.

But yes - I agree - the commercial programs are much better.

"Sue Mee" <Tony@tucker.com> wrote in message
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> Not very good - I tried it. If you want trouble free one click conversion
> try this. I have put 2 full DVD movies on a 256mb card and they are
> brilliant with stereo sound too.
http://www.makayama.com/dvdtopocketpc.html
>
> How does DVD-to-Pocket PC work?
>
> This software allows you to put a movie from a DVD on your Pocket PC in
five
> simple steps. What you need is:
>
> - PC with Windows XP and built-in DVD-player
>
> - 1 Gigabyte of free space on your C:\ disk (for a 100 minute movie) to
> store a temporary file
>
> - Pocket PC with Windows Mobile 2003
>
> - Memorycard (Compactflash, SD or MMC) of at least 128 Mb.
>
> On a 128 Mb Compactflash or SD-card you can store movies up to a 100
> minutes. For longer movies and for better picture quality, a bigger
> memorycard, such as 256 or 512 Mb is needed.
>
>
>

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"Trey Weaver" <noemailtome@thanks.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any good program that will run on Windows 2000? I have hard good
> things about DVD2PPC but it requires XP.
>
> Thanks,
> Trey
>
> "Sue Mee" <Tony@tucker.com> wrote in message
> news:cc3ulo$foj$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Not very good - I tried it. If you want trouble free one click
conversion
> > try this. I have put 2 full DVD movies on a 256mb card and they are
> > brilliant with stereo sound too.
> http://www.makayama.com/dvdtopocketpc.html
> >
> > How does DVD-to-Pocket PC work?
> >
> > This software allows you to put a movie from a DVD on your Pocket PC in
> five
> > simple steps. What you need is:
> >
> > - PC with Windows XP and built-in DVD-player
> >
> > - 1 Gigabyte of free space on your C:\ disk (for a 100 minute movie) to
> > store a temporary file
> >
> > - Pocket PC with Windows Mobile 2003
> >
> > - Memorycard (Compactflash, SD or MMC) of at least 128 Mb.
> >
> > On a 128 Mb Compactflash or SD-card you can store movies up to a 100
> > minutes. For longer movies and for better picture quality, a bigger
> > memorycard, such as 256 or 512 Mb is needed.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

PocketDVDStudio runs on 98 and up -
http://www.handango.com/PlatformPr [...] tionId=1_2
_2&jid=XA29CD4XCFX63DDBXAA9EC467DFBXE1E&platformId=2&siteId=1&productId=1111
56§ionId=0&catalog=30&txtSearch=dvd

Pocket DVD Wizard runs on Windows XP
http://www.pocket-dvd-wizard.com/

DVD to Pocket PC also only runs on Windows XP
http://www.makayama.com/dvdtopocketpc.html

And there is another one - the name is escaping me at the moment -

Also - there are several guides on the interent that step through the
process using freeware.
One such is http://www.bigdsvideo.com

Hope this helps.

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Spammers should be hung!

You didn't "buy" it, you are selling it, why not be honest?

Is this another one of those re-packaging of freeware things? So you can
make money off of others work??

One can easily download freeware, at no cost, that will enable one to encode
a DVD to a file playable on a PDA.

Some crooks try to repackage the freeware and sell it, to make money for
themselves, with nothing going to the programmers, who generously made their
work available as freeware.

"Jim" <Jim@HHH.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hey, I bought this and it actually works. Tried loads before this and they
> were all rubbish. This is excellent.
>
(spam deleted)
>

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"ClevelandTech" <clevelandtech@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I agree totally - there are a couple of shareware or commercial programs
> that do a great job. My point was that the one being sold on ebay is just
> taking the free stuff from the internet and then "selling" the
information.
> All the information is found freely elsewhere.
>
> But yes - I agree - the commercial programs are much better.

Which "commercial programs" are much better? From what I've seen, in this
area of encoding DVDs to small video files, all the good programs are free.
There are completely automatic freeware programs available, that create very
good results, such as AutoGK, Pocket DIVX Encoder, and Fair Use. There are
others that require more user input, but of course give the user more
control. Look at www.doom9.org for more info on programs. (I gave more
details in another thread.)

I think that in most cases these programs you pay for to do this are nothing
other than repackaging of the freeware, someone trying to make money off of
other's creations. The originator had been so generous as to offer their
product to the public at no cost, but then someone else tries to make money
off it. I find that disgusting!

I think this second commercial program that someone was mentioning is merely
a front end for Windows Movie Maker. You could easily do that with freeware.
Use one of the programs I mentioned above, such as AutoGK, to rip the DVD to
an AVI file. However, if you are going to compress the movie small with WMM,
it doesn't make sense to compress it small first with the other program, as
recompression is not good. So, if you are going to convert to .wmv
afterwards, use the DVD-AVI program to create a large high-resolution AVI
without much compression, and then use WMM or WME to encode that AVI file to
WMV, at the smaller end size.