How do I watch movies using CF card...

[wreckage]

The solution to making my NX see the CF card was to place a check mark in 'my card needs extra startup time' (using CompactFlash Magic). Worked a treat. Now comes the part where I figure out how to actually USE the damned thing. I've tried to convert a couple of movies (AVIs) using Sony's Image Coverter, but it always says 'wrong format'. Is it worth buying Image converter 2, or are all the revues which say it's crap true? Does anybody know a better converter, or should I still dump Compact Flash Magic and use CF Utility? All advice gratefully accepted. Thanks.

[MarkVI]

What you can do is get Full Movie Player, it will play movies off the CF card natively. http://www.aibohack.com/clie/fullmovie.htm (It's Free!!) Read up there and you will learn a lot. The Avi's you're converting are probably version 2.0, Image Converter 1.5 can only convert 1.0. Don't get IC 2.0, it only converts to MP4 AFAIK. Hope this helps!!

[BabyDaddie]

TCPMP, my opinion, is the best player around.

[wreckage]

[QUOTE=MarkVI]What you can do is get Full Movie Player, it will play movies off the CF card natively. QUOTE]

Thanks, MarkVI. I tried this and it surely plays movies on my Clié! Unfortunately, I can't stop, pause, or otherwise control them at all. In fact, the only way to stop the movie playing is to soft re-set. Bummer. Now I have another problem. It seems that installing CFMagic *OR* CF Utility prevents the Movie Recorder working. I've done a hard re-set and the movie recorder works fine. I then installed CF Magic. - "Multimedia error". Uninstalled CFM and Installed CF Utility - same error. Now I'm at the stage of wondering whether to hard-reset again and try CF Util. from scratch. I really want CF access, and I really want to be able to record movies... woe is me..
Oh...thanks to BabyDaddie, too. I've d/loaded TCPMP and will give it a try - after I sort out the Movie Recorder hassle, that is.. :-)

[MarkVI]

You should be able to press the jog dial and it will stop the video playback.

[bike1]

[QUOTE=MarkVI]
Oh...thanks to BabyDaddie, too. I've d/loaded TCPMP and will give it a try - ...:-)

any luck? i hear cf magic isn't good with full res movies.

[BabyDaddie]

yea. the built in movie recorder/player and audio player.
I just gave up on those.

i never used the movie recorded on the Clie ever. i don't know why?

[jdonalds]

wreckage you didn't say which NX you have. The NX70 requires a CF driver. The NX80 doesn't. If you have a CF driver on the NX70 or you have an NX80 you can play movies off the CF card. I do it all the time. However I find that while a movie is playing I can only increase or decrease the volume, any other operation requires stopping the movie or else I will lock up my PDA. Otherwise it works fine.

On my NX80 if I have an MS plugged in and I then plug in a CF with a movie loaded I have to unsocket the MS then resocket it for the CF to be recognized by the movie player.

I've converted over 120 movies from my DVD collection to clie format and burned them onto DVDs. When I want to watch movies I just pop in one of the DVDs that contain 20-25 converted movies, and download them to the CF or one of my 2 256 MS Pro cards. Works fine!

[bike1]

What resolution and bitrate do you do your movies at? Mine are fine on the MS Pro, but stutter periodically off the CF Card (a PNY slow card I suspect).