Need guru help with video!

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Ike <retired@last.us> wrote:
>I have a Treo650 with Kinoma Player 3EX and Producer. I also have some
>demo video clips that show up as .avi files with video icons. None of
>the video players that I have can play them. gspot doesn't recognize
>them, and neither does Producer.

Try using TCPMP. It is a free open source video player for Palm that is truely awesome. It handles many native formats incl .avi files with several different codecs incl divx, xvid, mpeg, etc. URL at
http://corecodec.org/projects/tcpmp/

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Penster wrote:
> Ike
> Download TCPMP as suggested and see if it will play them. If not, there is a
> method of converting them to a palm-compatible format. Get back if they
> won't play.
> Penster
> "Todd Tannenbaum" <tannenba@SPAMBEGONEcs.wisc.edu> wrote in message
> news:42b15fda_3@newspeer2.tds.net...
> Ike <retired@last.us> wrote:
>
>>I have a Treo650 with Kinoma Player 3EX and Producer. I also have some
>>demo video clips that show up as .avi files with video icons. None of
>>the video players that I have can play them. gspot doesn't recognize
>>them, and neither does Producer.
>
>
> Try using TCPMP. It is a free open source video player for Palm that is
> truely awesome. It handles many native formats incl .avi files with several
> different codecs incl divx, xvid, mpeg, etc. URL at
> http://corecodec.org/projects/tcpmp/
>


TCPMP --- WOW! What a great freeware product - I've already bought
Kinoma, which is also nice because it permits conversion of various
formats into palm-compatible on the PC desktop.

The problem with TCPMP is that I cannot get these clips to load onto the
Palm or play on the PC (with Windows Media Player, Jet, VLC) - it's as
though they use some weird codec. They are videos shot through a
microscope, done for us by a service that's no longer around - I'd love
to use them. Once again, they appear as a video with the suffix .avi --
so...?

Ike

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Ike
You will probably need to convert the files to a format that the palm can
read such as xvid (which is to video what mp3 is to audio, a highly
compressed format). The (excellent) freeware program which converts video
files is called Virtualdub. You can download Virtualdub on:
http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/
(download latest build 18303)

Download virtualdub, open it and use File>Open to see if it will open the
video file. If it does, I can explain to you how to convert it to be read on
a palm.
Penster

"Ike" <retired@last.us> wrote in message
news:11b35u2g9p89s33@news.supernews.com...
> Penster wrote:
> > Ike
> > Download TCPMP as suggested and see if it will play them. If not, there
is a
> > method of converting them to a palm-compatible format. Get back if they
> > won't play.
> > Penster
> > "Todd Tannenbaum" <tannenba@SPAMBEGONEcs.wisc.edu> wrote in message
> > news:42b15fda_3@newspeer2.tds.net...
> > Ike <retired@last.us> wrote:
> >
> >>I have a Treo650 with Kinoma Player 3EX and Producer. I also have some
> >>demo video clips that show up as .avi files with video icons. None of
> >>the video players that I have can play them. gspot doesn't recognize
> >>them, and neither does Producer.
> >
> >
> > Try using TCPMP. It is a free open source video player for Palm that is
> > truely awesome. It handles many native formats incl .avi files with
several
> > different codecs incl divx, xvid, mpeg, etc. URL at
> > http://corecodec.org/projects/tcpmp/
> >
>
>
> TCPMP --- WOW! What a great freeware product - I've already bought
> Kinoma, which is also nice because it permits conversion of various
> formats into palm-compatible on the PC desktop.
>
> The problem with TCPMP is that I cannot get these clips to load onto the
> Palm or play on the PC (with Windows Media Player, Jet, VLC) - it's as
> though they use some weird codec. They are videos shot through a
> microscope, done for us by a service that's no longer around - I'd love
> to use them. Once again, they appear as a video with the suffix .avi --
> so...?
>
> Ike

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Zombie Elvis wrote:
> Hello, Ike !
> You wrote:
>
>
>>I have a Treo650 with Kinoma Player 3EX and Producer. I also have some
>>demo video clips that show up as .avi files with video icons. None of
>>the video players that I have can play them. gspot doesn't recognize
>>them, and neither does Producer. The originator of these files is out of
>>
>>business and long gone - but if I could use them it would save me a lot
>>of effort.
>>
>>What can I do to get these demo files working on my Treo?
>
>
> Have you tried The Core Pocket Multimedia Player (TCPMP)?


Right - a nice app, too. But nothing I could find recognizes those .avi
files on the PC, so I can't even get them loaded onto the Palm.