Mqv - Tj35

[Hrun]

Okay Foks, sorry to have to start a new post, but I can't find the answer.

What do I need to view MQV files on my Clie TJ35? or can I covert them to a kinoma format (I am not clear on this)

If I can do it reliably I am happy to pay :)

TIA Giles

[jackho]

From other posts in TJ forum, MoviePlayer can't work on TJ35. So you can't play MQV files directly. But as I know that Kinoma Producer can handle QT files (MQV is QT MPEG-4 format, it should work). Before you buy it, better to d/l producer to try it first...

[Hrun]

Good morning.

You are correct! I downloaded Kinoma producer and at first it did not support the file type, so I updated Quicktime to the latest version and it works a treat.

Best of all windows XP will hold the downloads of the movies as it reconnects ( I have a two hour cutoff to my free number)

Thanks for everyones help. I am of to purchase Kinoma

Giles

[jackho]

That's great to see you get working w/ Kinoma.

I would like to know that sound is good in Kinoma? As other OS5 CLIEs use CLIE Audio (except UX and TJ35) and Kinoma can only play w/ 8khz mono sounds (that really terrible compared w/ MQV or MP3).

[Hrun]

I am very impressed with Kinoma so far. The sound is fine for video playback. I use the MP3 player for Mp3s.

The only thing I am not keen about so far is I downloaded a 67mb MQV and after conversion ended up with a 140mb pdb file. By reducing the quality I got it down to 102mb which I could get on the MS but this need more investigation.

Best thing is my camera creates .MOV files (15sec). By upgrading Quicktime to PRO I can convert the to a format read by Kinoma producer and onto the clie.

I spent today showing anybody who stood still a video of my rabbit :)

If anyone has ideas for reducing the file size please share.

Giles

[jackho]

You mean the audio in Kinoma is as good as playing MP3 in TJ35?

For the size problem, that's because Kinoma is not using MPEG4 codec (while MQV is). As MPEG4 compression-ratio is better...

The only way can reduce the size is lower the video and audio bitrate, resolution (maybe framerate also helps).

Or maybe you can try MMPlayer (which can play DivX codec files, but of course still need to convert video to lower resolution and bitrate to work in CLIE).

[jackho]

BTW, according to Sony JP web site, Kinoma Player 2 can play MQV files directly (which is stated in TJ37 which will be released soon)... Maybe you can try to put MQV files into MS (/MQ_ROOT/100MQV01) w/ filename format as MOV00001.MQV (all caps)....