Media Player 9 formats

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Can someone tell me what audio and video formats does Media Player 9 Series
for Pocket PC 2003 support?

Thanks,
Ana

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This page should tell you all you need to know :
http://www.pocketpccentral.net/help/ppcmediafiles.htm

Cheers - Neil

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:35:02 -0400, "Ana Deshetty" <anad@webtronix.net>
wrote:

>Can someone tell me what audio and video formats does Media Player 9 Series
>for Pocket PC 2003 support?
>
>Thanks,
>Ana
>

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

Thanks for that important clarification. I'm still getting to grips
with the PPC capabilities and I haven't tried every varation ;-)

That page seems to have been pulled in any case, so one less thing to
worry about

Cheers - Neil

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:51:52 -0700, "The PocketTV Team"
<do-not-reply-by-email@pockettv.com> wrote:

>
>"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:73k9h0l0ngbdglqf9hso61etakl0g852lh@4ax.com...
>> This page should tell you all you need to know :
>> http://www.pocketpccentral.net/help/ppcmediafiles.htm
>
>except that this page is very wrong and incomplete, so it is uite
>misleading...
>
>
>.AVI is a container file format, and in general AVI files cannot be played n
>Pocket PC. They need to be converted into another format that can be layed
>on Pocket PC, like WMV, MPEG, DivX etc.
>
>BetaPlayer and PocketMVP can play AVI files only when they contains DivX
>format.
>
>The same comment goes with .MOV (Quicktime): .MOV is a container file ormat,
>and MOV files cannot be played on Pocket PC. They need to be onverted into
>another format that can be played on Pocket PC, like WMV, MPEG, DivX etc.
>Some applications (e.g. PQV) can play MOV files that contain MJPEG video.
>
>.MPEG or .MPG files (MPEG1) can be played by PocketTV Classic, the current
>link only points to the enterprise edition which is not free). There is a
>free MPEG converter to convert any format (e.g. AVI, VOB, MOV) into MPEG,
>see http://forum.pocketmovies.net/view [...] =3415#3415 ).
>
>.MPEG files can also be played by PocketMVP.
>
>.VOB files (DVD) cannot be played directly on Pocket PC. They can be
>converted to DivX, WMV or MPEG.
>
>DivX files (missing from your list) can be played by the excellent
>BetaPlayer and by PocketMVP.
>
>Usefull links:
>
>BetaPlayer: http://betaplayer.corecodec.org/ (free download)
>PocketTV: http://www.pockettv.com/ (free download)
>PocketMVP: http://www.pocketmvp.com/ (free download)
>