by Mike » May 14, 2001 @ 9:54am
Thanks to Doug for the DVD-to-PPC<br>recipe. it worked like a charm<br>for me. It's a dream come true.<br>Others had told me I'd<br>need special hardware to do it.<br>They were so wrong. I have<br>Hitchcock's Rear Window in blisteringly high<br>res playing on my iPAQ right now.<br><br>Those 2 gig Toshiba or Kengsington Drives<br>are now a must. My Rear Window occupies<br>about 350 MEGS.<br><br>A few things seem to have changed with<br>some of those shareware programs Doug<br>provided links to since<br>Doug used them I think. For instance<br>tmpgenc now has settings under some<br>different tabs than Doug said, and you<br>can start tmpgenc by clicking on the<br>exec icon for it. No need to type<br>anything dos style into the "run"<br>dialog box.<br><br>Also, language checking is critical<br>on 2 fronts:<br>(1) Flask crashed when I first used it and<br>when I started it again it was in<br>a foreign lanuage, Estonian or something<br>very unfamiliar like that. I tried at<br>first to work with that but it became<br>impossible and I was about to give up<br>when I found the menu for changing the<br>language back to English. It is difficult<br>to find that given that the button that<br>indicates it is in a foreign language.<br>Anyway, Doug could save people an hour<br>or more of frustration by letting them<br>in on where that language button is in<br>the interface so it can be recognized<br>by location. Also, the choice for "ENGLISH"<br>in the dropdown list is NOT in alphabetical<br>order with the rest of the languages. Our<br>mother tongue is for reasons I don't quite<br>understand, near the bottom of the list.<br>For a second I thought it wasn't there at all,<br>so be aware of that too.<br><br>Now the language track must be checked JUST BEFORE<br>flasking. I changed it to English, listened,<br>and it was indeed English. Then I changed<br>a few other things and flasked. Hours later<br>I had Jimmy Stewart on my ppc speaking FRENCH.<br><br>Imagine my frustration at having to go through<br>that whole hours and hours long process again!<br><br>So check JUST BEFORE flasking.<br><br>Finally, my REAR WINDOW DVD had no<br>VTS_02 etc. They were all VTS-01 etc.<br><br>I had to do five files separately to get<br>the whole movie. I don't know if it would<br>have been possible in one fell swoop if my<br>particular DVD had had a VTS_02 etc. file.<br><br>And one more thing, for iPAQ using mpeg in<br>landscape. The following settings seem<br>best.<br>Top offset 36<br>Height 176<br>Left offset 0<br>Width 320<br><br>Thanks again Doug,<br>Mike P.
Thanks Doug
