Re: .avi movie player?
From: Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] (neil_at_nospam.com)
Date: 04/25/04
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:26:42 GMT
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 03:38:56 +0100, "Richard Harris"
<richardj.harris@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>As you guys have already found out - you can NOT play back raw avi's on a
>Pocket PC. Windows Media Player will only allow you to play back video
Uh, actually you *can*.
The Veo photo traveler camera (also known as HP photosmart) comes with
AVI player software, you can download the most recent version from
their website www.veo.com
Cheers
Neil :-)
>encoded into the Windows Media format (WMV or ASF)
>
>You can play back MPEG1 video however using PocketTV or Pocket MVP. Or you
>can play back DivX Encoded AVI's in Pocket DivX or Pocket MVP.
>
>Rich
>
>
>
>"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:4049d708.10770507@news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> The Veo photo traveler software can play AVI files though not too sure
>> how many formats are supported. I tried the HP SD Photosmart camera
>> software with the Veo as well and it worked just fine. However I
>> didn't check if the HP software can play AVI.
>>
>> So you might try www.veo.com, dowload the software and ignore any
>> errors that the camera is not installed - then use the picture / video
>> browser to browse to your video and play it from there.
>>
>> Cheers - Neil.
>>
>> On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 09:55:10 -0000, "Neil Paisnel"
>> <neil@remove.this.bit.paisnel.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> >I had the same problem I was told it is because the file from the camera
>is
>> >raw avi. It needs to be converted to a format the media player can
>accept.
>> >BUT this can only be done on the PC and then transfered to the PPC.
>There
>> >does not seem to be anysoftware for the PPC to play raw avi files
>directly.
>> >
>> >
>> >So no you can't just take the SD card out of the camera and put in the
>iPAQ
>> >to play the video, like you can with still images. A real pain, that is
>> >what I wanted to do.
>> >
>> >I have posted the same question, but got no answers other than the one I
>> >have given you above.
>> ><noxqs@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> >news:522901c40334$c0740c30$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> >> I just bought a ipac 2215 and I'm trying to play a movie
>> >> I recordered on my canon power shot 30. But the files
>> >> dont play. They're listed as .avi file Any Help?
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
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