Newbie question

[leo_clie]

Since I read in some forums some kind of Newbie questions I somehow miss it here. The main questions for me are (for NX):

1) What files could be watched on my Clie?
2) What programs are there to convert them?
(At least I know from Kinoma, Flash Player, Image Converter, Giga Converter)
2b) How do they differ? Ie. settings, quality, requirement.
3) Is there a rough estimation about time<=>file size?

[Halesy]

If you looked a bit further you might find answers to these questions.&nbsp; But because I'm feeling nice I'll tell you&nbsp;:p (by the way, I'm speaking from my experience of the NX-70, it may differ for your model):

1. Depends on what you use to view your files.&nbsp; The CLIE MoviePlayer plays a Sony propietry format opf MPEG4, no-one seems to know what the full details of this are.&nbsp; You can purchase other programs for your CLIE that also play movies e.g. Kinoma, MMPlayer, TealMovie.&nbsp; I use&nbsp;CLIE MoviePlayer.

2.&nbsp; Each program is different
* MoviePlayer - Imageconverter (comes with your CLIE) and needs AVI/MPEG in a format it understands.
* Kinoma - Kinoma, when you buy it you get a program to convert the files for you.&nbsp; I don't think other file formats work.&nbsp; I don't use it so I'm not&nbsp;sure what it's requirements are.
* MMPlayer - Native DiVX, they claim.&nbsp; I've not had this working so far
* TealMovie - No idea, I don't use it

3. File size - Using ImageConverter I get around:
<!--StartFragment --></TR><TR><TD>High Quality</TD> <TD>&lt; 4M/min</TD>
</TR><TR><TD>Standard</TD> <TD>~ 2M/min</TD>
</TR><TR><TD>Long Play</TD> <TD>&lt; 1M/min

I use MoviePlayer/ImageConverter as I don't have to pay for it.&nbsp; It gives a good quality output on my CLIE.&nbsp; For more information about getting your movies onto a NX-70 (and possibly othes) check out my link:

http://www.halesy.com/vcd/clie.htm</TD></TR>

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[AzianToby]

Hey Halesy, I went on your site (Awesome by the way) to learn how to convert my Divx files into something I can play on my nx80. I got through the portion using VirtualDub, but then the file wouldn't go into Imageconverter for the final step. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[AzianToby]

Nevermind, I figured it out... but I ran into another problem, when I put a Divx file into the VirtualDub program... a box comes up telling me to "decompress the entire audio stream to an uncompressed WAV file and recompress with a constant bitrate encodera"

Can you please inform me how to do this step by step? I'm stll very unfamilar with this program. Thanks!

[Halesy]

I haven't seen that message before, although I can try converting a DiVX file to see what it does. My first guess though is that you need to check the following settings in VirtualDub:

Audio - Full Processing Mode
Audio - Compression - Microsoft ADPCM

Obviously also following the instructions regarding video on my site.

[jackho]

That message appears when source audio is using variant bitrate (VBR) MP3. You must use "Save as WAV" to save audio to MP3 and re-encode it in constant bitrate (CBR) or just de-code it to raw wav format, and then replace the audio part before using IC to convert.

[AzianToby]

that sounds very complicated...