Looking for Kinoma Help.

[short circuit]

I am wanting to play or "convert" .avi files for playback on my Palm. I know you can buy Kinoma Producer and monkey with it and Quicktime 6 to achieve my goal, but I am a cheap bastard. Does anyone have a lead on a player that plays the native .avi format, or a pc program that will convert it to Kinoma friendly format. That leads to my second Question, is the standard .pdb format what I am shooting for in the conversion process?
Thanx!;)

[denyed]

www.mmplayer.com

it's for palmos, and it can play wav, mp2, mpeg, avi

I haven't used it, cuz I don't have my T|E yet, but by the sounds of things, it's worth looking into.

[short circuit]

Well I downloaded and installed the pathetically short demo version of MMPLAYER and it does indeed play the .avi, but with no sound! Perhaps it is just a "settings" issue... but, one would think that video played with sound would be a default? I'll keep toying around and post my results.
Thanx again for the help!

[Lance]

The Tungsten E is bundled with Kinoma Producer for Palm that should be able convert the AVI format to the Kinoma format for playback on your TE. The installation is under Software Essentials -> Entertainment on the installation CD.

[short circuit]

I didn't even realize the Kinoma Producer "free version" was on the disk! Sheeesh, I had been "decompressing the .avi files with VirtualDub, then converting them through TealMovie just to get the damn video and sound to work. Today I used Kinoma Producer, skipped the middle man, and ended up with a better quality movie capable of running at 67fps! I don't know why people are knocking Kinoma:(

[bruiseman]

I don't have the kinoma producer on my installation disk. Any ideas why. It seems that all i have is the player. Lance said that it is under essentials then entertain ment. When I go under essentials I don't have any catagories. I just get a list of programs to install and Kinoma player is all that I have. Any idea why this is. Do ya'll know if later version of TE didn't come bundled with it? thanks

[Lance]

First off, I like your signature. ;)

Second, the Kinoma Player listed will install the Kinoma Producer for Palm. I am not sure why they do not clarify that on the screen, but it does install the Producer software, too.

Thanks,
Lance

[bruiseman]

Thanks Lance! When I went into the program files and the Kinoma folder there it was. I would have never know that it was there.

[Lance]

Anytime...

[oreif]

just found this thread as I'm new to this forum--usually hanging around Cliesource as I have a sony sj-22.
Just started fiddling with my Kinoma producer and found that quicktime can feed into it.
this will sound dumb as I'm not much of quicktime user, but how do you download and save these files in quicktime?
I've tried several movie preview files with the error 'that quicktime can't read the format'
Worked that bug out and now that I can play them in my quicktime movie viewer, how do I save the files to disk. Love some of the files and want to desparately convert with kinoma.
sorry to bore anyone with dumbA$$ed questions but just don't get quicktime.

[ackmondual]

Note, u'll need Kinoma 2 (evem if u opt for the trial version) to play divx files created from VirtualDub. Kinoma 1 won't play ALL avi files