[BratDawg]

I have a Dell Axim X5 running Pocket PC 2003. I have some mpeg movie files - recorded tv programs, etc. I'd like to figure out the best way to shrink them down and view them on the pocket pc.

I've been looking on the net, but I'm either hitting dead ends or getting totally confused - sometimes both.

Suggestions?

[gotrootdude]

Pocketdivx is the way to go.

Tutorial: http://www.jens-seiler.de/pocketpc/pocketdivx-en.html

[BratDawg]

Thanks - after searching around I found the beta player and divx has a converter add on that you can buy that converts to different formats - including handheld.

Now I wish I could pull off episodes from a commercial dvd and compress them for ppc. Yeah, I know...we can't discuss that here. Hey, if the movie industry would get off their duffs & make it happen, we wouldn't need to try to come up with, ahem... alternative workarounds.

If I can ever get beyond tv to work I can grab my own off tv.

[purdue1014]

You can, and it legal!! Google PQ DVD, it is $30 and works like a charm. Sorry if I am kinda late. It was found to be legal under the "fair use" act, because it doesn't copy it, it just reads/grabs it.........Obviously I don't remember exactly why, and I can't find the citation right now either, as I'm exausted.....