Video quality

[irbaboon]

Hello,

I tried to import a shord dvd film to pda internal memory through palm desktop, but it seems it is converting it, so the quality on the pda is very poor and pixelated...

Is it better to play movies directly from the card? I don't have a card yet. Is it possible to compress movies with very good quality and then just put them on sd card and play this movie from card on palm, without converting it with palm desktop?

Thanks.

[dragonsgames]

You are converting with Palm Desktop? :eek:
Use a tool such as FFMPEG

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Also: remember that the TX is a 16-bit colour device with a 480x320 screen. However, if you have any video over 1 minute long, you're going to want to get an SD card. Once you've got this, you're also going to want to get TCPMP to play the video. At this point, you can use any of the multitude of tools out now that prepares video for the iPod, and convert using that; the iPod Video settings work quite well for the TX. You could probably make it slightly better quality and a slightly smaller file by doing a custom encode based on the TX settings (the TX also doesn't like video over 800kbps; it starts dropping frames at that point). Other than that, if you're playing 800kbps dual-pass h.264 video set for 480x320, you'll probably want to use PXA Clocker or WarpSpeed to bump the TX's processor up to 520MHz.

I think that covers just about everything (except finding the TCPMP_AVC and TCPMP_AAC plugins) :)