That's it...I'm ready for movies!!

That's cool it would be hard anyways becasue my intret takes so long Uploading and Downloading I went to my web service today and I got something like 5 accounts all with somthing like 19 MB each werid ..... I thought I only created 2

Umm.. I wonder if someone was fooling around with my account
 
...on the dark side.


(As vehemently pro-Palm as I've been, I admit to being tempted by the "Dark Side." But I'm a Mac guy and that's been keeping me safe. ;) )



And for me, MMPlayer is still too buggy and unreliable. The "promise" of MMPlayer remains intriguing.

Sorry to see you go, mmmkay. Thanks again for introducing me to iSilo and MobileRead
Hope to see you back with Cobalt!

Tempted by the fruit of another.
POL9A
 
Cool!! Thanks y'all!

Ive downloaded a Kinoma demo and the accompanying sample video. It seemed cool, but there was no sound. Maybe the sample didn't have audio. Also, it was quite puny. Like 160x120 pixels or something. I presume that I can resize my own videos with the registered version, correct?

Also, where can I find content to resize and Kinoma Produce? I'd hate to have to shoot a live-action "Simpsons" episode with my digital camera 19 seconds at a time.

By the way, she is my "girlfriend" and I don't have to beg to spend my own money. It'd just be nice to show her what my Palm is capable of. That way, I could have "Simpsons" for me and her shows for her and mutual shows for us all on one card without having to hear all that talk about how irresponsible I can be with my money.

But that was funny. It made me smile. If she sees this post, she'll use your comment as another vote for the "let's-hurry-up-and-get-married" contigent.

POL9A
 
Because it's made by Microsoft?? Fair point. But I thought it was a royalty free codec that could be used by anyone without payment etc............ like mpeg1 but unlike mpeg2....................
 
After a few notices, it seems that I maybe did a boo-boo. In posting that ZIP file to my iDisk, it became password-protected. Through no fault of my own, I swear.

It seems that after downloading the file, and un-ZIPping it, it asked for a password. Now, I don't do this all the time (no expert, I), and I'm pretty sure that I didn't do it this time, but it happened.

Since the ZIPping of the file only saved, like, 1.8MB off of the file, I re-posted it on my iDisk uncompressed.

Sorry's to everyone who has downloaded it expecting to convert it for our Palms experiment (esp. iiicruled on that dial-up, Yikes!) but now it should be just wonderful.

Thanks again to everyone who tried it already, and I invite you all to try it again with the newer file.

The link is here.

Extra points to anyone who can explain what happened. All I did was drag the file onto "DropZip" on Mac OS X, then take that ZIPped file to my iDisk Public folder. No password entering on my part, but when it was downloaded, it asked for a password.

Too effin' weird.
POL9A
 
iiicRules: I just fired off a missive to the fine people at Kinoma. I used a part of your post. I hope you don't mind, but you put what needed to be said in a way I never could because I didn't know how to say it in a way that they might understand.

The e-mail reads:

"It won't make any diference if you compress the movies with codec before sending them to kinoma unfortunatly as kinoma will just uncompress them and then redo them with it's own codec. What we need to do it's keep asking kinoma
A- Why the don;t have any decent codecs in thier software and
B- Why they insist on charging so much for a converter having been so nice and donated us the player.............

WE WANT Mpeg 2
WE WANT Mpeg 4
WE WANT DivX
WE WANT WMV
WE WANT ANY OTHER DECENT CODEC THERE ARE IF YOU (KINOMA) EXPECT US TO PAY LOADS FOR YOUR SOFTWARE!!!!!!!!

We want smaller files sizes, without unduly sacrificing quality. This is a big concern to us PDA users who don't have the money to keep buying bigger memory cards to fit our movie content.

We hope that you will be able to address this issue soon, or we'll be forced to explore other options.

Thank you in advance.

Registered Kinoma User."

Let's hope they don't look up my account and cancel me.

Smaller file sizes, by any means necessary.
POL9A
 
I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever buy a pocket pc and that is truth it would have to be almost like Palm OS for me to buy it !!!:confused:
 
Pride Of Lions

Go back to Kinoma's web site and download the HiRes versions of the video files. That will fill the screen and look sharp. ... You can also download a trial of Kinoma Producer from their web site. It works really well!

Also, make sure the speaker icon at the lower right is black. If it's clear, that means your sound is muted. Tap the speaker icon to enable it. You can adjust the volume level by tapping the 5 graduated bars to the right of the speaker icon.

Have you installed SplashPhoto and loaded into different albums pictures of all the great times you and your girlfriend have had? :D (I'll have to show you what I keep on mine for my wife.)

OldBlue
 
POL,

Open the preferences in DropZip. Uncheck Encrypt Archives with Passphrase and that should do it.

I'm currently processing your video using iicRules' parameters using ffmpegx. I'll post later with the results.

ed-
 
About giving them the address of this thread, but I didn't want to blow anyone's anonymity in case they didn't want to have participated.

But that's an idea, how would you guys feel about petitioning Kinoma with the e-mail (those of us who agree)?

I don't want to be the only one whose membership gets "lost" when it comes time to download the latest version. :D

Martyr,
POL9A
 
Here is a divx3 encoded sample of the video. The divx5 encoder for Mac is not free so I used the older codec. I would assume the quality would be better with divx5 but this is not bad. I followed iiicRules' parameters using ffmpegx and am actually pretty pleased with the results. Thanks iiicRules (iiic did rule its day). I fried my SD card with the T3 fiasco and never replaced it so I can't test the video on my Palm but I'll buy one soon to satisfy my curiosity.

ed-
 
Cool. So I tried your link (OldBlue) for kinoma.com, but I kept getting a connection failure message. I tried to type it directly into the URL and the same results.

But the good news is that earlier today I took your suggestions and downloaded the trial Kinoma Player and Producer. But without the Kinoma link to give me stuff, I've gone about downloading movie trailers (Two Towers. Oooohh!) and I just tried to convert it into Kinoma-format with the Kinoma Producer. Unfortunately, the trial only converts the first 15 seconds of anything. So now I'll try to HotSync it to the handheld and we'll see the results. Cross your fingers.

P.S. OldBlue, I love SplashPhoto. And I even have a folder called "Joy Division" dedicated to me and my girlfriend and my trusty, dusty digital camera.
 
It appears that ClieFLIX is going bye-bye. I got a lot of pre-formatted Kinoma video content from them (Samurai Jack!!) and I guess they're having some issues, soooo....

Now I need another source for my video/anime-on-Palm T|T cravings. Any suggestions?

Shaking and shivering and sweating, going through ClieFLIX detox,
POL9A
 
I think I jumped into this whole kinoma player clie flix thing a week too late. Anyone know another place hosting kinoma format anything? I've seen all the movie trailers I could want, but havent found a reason to justify registering kinoma producer yet...
 
P.S Just had to metion the stylus too. 4150 stylus-yuk! It feels horrible. So I use my T3s on the whole time on both pdas :)

Just want to say once again- I'm a Palm guy. I haven't gone over to the Dark Side, just had to check em out out so I could critisize them from experience in the future:D
 
iiicrules: Like when your woman comes home and y'all have "that talk" and she's like, "No. I still love you. You're so beautiful. It's just that he's so this, and I need that now in my life and I'm not looking to replace you and I'm not even going to be with him. I need to be single for a time....Blah Blah Blah."

And the whole time you're like, "Yeah right. Just tell the truth. It's all about him now."

(I guess I've heard that more times than I thought. :( )

Anyways,...thank God I'm a Mac person. It's kept me from pulling the trigger on a PPC purchase (even though there is that Mark/Space "fix").

But, back on topic, Mazingo sounded so wonderful to me, but it only works on PC's.

And, no matter what guys say, I just cannot seem to get MMPlayer to work with my movies. Maybe I need to break down and BUY the Divx plug-in, but I don't think so. I'd rather have some sort of guarantee that there is a tried and true solution before I plunk down hard-earned cash.

Oh, Lord of the Apple, keep me safe from the PPC side. Help me to understand that PalmSource is NOT abandoning me with their future non-support of the Mac. Help me to realize that I have all the software that I NEED here.

Oh, I give up. It's a PC world. I'm just destined to be like the Mad Max minority in a world of Toe-Cutters.
POL9A
 
Howdy.

I just HotSync'ed and the bit of "Two Towers" that I just converted was transferred straight to the SD card. I opened up "Kinoma" (with the trial version of Launcher X that I keep hearing rave reviews about and I'm really digging it. I'll probably register it. But anyways...) and saw my converted "Two Towers" file right there under the sample clip I got from Kinoma. The sample clip said "video" after it while the converted trailer had "a/v". I clicked on "Two Towers" and my screen just froze. Just a white screen. Getting no response from the Palm, I performed a soft reset and returned to Kinoma. I played the sample clip that I'd earlier downloaded. It played just wonderfully (albeit mighty puny. I was pretty sure that I'd downloaded the hi-res version, but I'll try again if the website ever opens up.) Soooo...

Anyway, another question I have is that when I open Kinoma Producer there are, like, a thousand choices for Sony's, a few for Palm's, some Handspring's some others, but no "Palm Tungsten T" option.

Is Kinoma really the answer, guys? I must be missing something, right?

POL9A
 
Start by choosing Palm Tungsten T in the device list dropdown on the upper right of the Kinoma Producer app. If you don't have the TT listed, then you don't have the current version of the producer (or the player for that matter, which may explain your white screen lockup).

The current version on their website is v1.5 which fixes a lockup problem on the TT in the player, and adds more features in the producer btw.

Now, in the producer, press the advanced settings button that's under the device list dropdown. In the dialog that's displayed, you can adjust the bitrate all the way up to 1000kbps and the framerate to the maximum 30. Go ahead and do that now.

Now try converting your Two Towers trailer (or Nemisis, which I like better due to its not-as-widescreen-as-the-two-towers format (which makes it bigger on the TT).

Use your favorite SD loader app to move the resulting 13.7 meg Nemesis or 20.8 meg Two Towers file to your TT (I use Card Export)

Now commence to impressing the hell out of all your friends!


Yowsa!
 
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