How can I play Quicktime Video on my Pocket PC

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I have a Pocket PC with Window Media Player 9 for Pocket
PC. I have Quicktime movies made from my Digital Camera.
How can I play these Quicktime files? I there a codec
that I can download to my Pocket PC 2003? Thanks!!

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"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> You can also re-code an AVI as MPEG and use lets say pocketTV or beta
> player to play this (an additional download step)

I don't think Betaplayer will play MPEGs, but only AVIs or OGMs.

The user might want to re-encode to a smaller more compressed AVI for the
PPC, like with DIVX or XVID.

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I may be wrong but i thing Digisoft Pictpocket Cinema plays quicktime
movies:

You can download a trial version at

http://www.digisoftdirect.com/Products/PictPocket.html

Regards

Steve


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> There's no quicktime player for pocket PC that I'm aware of.
>
> You will probably have to use quicktime pro to convert them to AVI
> format then re-code them (possibly losing some quality in the process)
>
> If you've only got windows media player, you'll need to convert to
> windows media format profile for pocket PC, download the encoder from
> the windazmedia website, then follow the wizard and choose 'pocket PC'
> from the available encoder templates.
>
> You can also re-code an AVI as MPEG and use lets say pocketTV or beta
> player to play this (an additional download step)
>
> HTH
> Neil
>
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:35:15 -0700, "Martin"
> <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I have a Pocket PC with Window Media Player 9 for Pocket
> >PC. I have Quicktime movies made from my Digital Camera.
> >How can I play these Quicktime files? I there a codec
> >that I can download to my Pocket PC 2003? Thanks!!
>