Video Conversion

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Video Conversion

The Movie Player that comes with the Zaurus is nice for playing MPEG files. I can just copy a .dat file from a VCD and rename it to .mpg and Movie Player can play them in a window and full screen.

However, since space is limited on the Zaurus, (yep, 4GB is nothing if you put a few vids on it), compressing the vids is a good idea. Unfortunately, Movie Player only plays MPG files.

No worries, mplayer will do the job. mplayer can play almost any format and there are also some nice GUI interface for mplayer such as kino2 and zplayer.

Here is what I do using VirtualDub to compress videos (there is a mod of virtualdub that can open mpg files as well - VirtualDub-MPEG2 1.5.10).

From the Virtual Dub Menu:

     select Video
         Filters...
           add resize
               New width: 320
               New height: 240
               Filter mode: Nearest Neighbour
         Color Depth...
           Decompression format
               16-bit (HiColor/32K)
           Output format to compressor/display
               16-bit (HiColor/32K)
         Compression...
           Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V3
               Configure
                   Control: 30
                   Data Rate: 150
     select Audio
         Full processing mode
         Compression...
           MPEG Layer-3
               24 kBits/s,12000Hz,Stereo

Then Save as AVI.