Windows Mobile has incredible potential for watching movies among other things. On your next 5 hour business flight, instead of sleeping you could be watching Fight Club. Sound good? I’ll show you how to watch DivX movies on your Windows Mobile device.
The coolest thing about having a Windows Mobile device, and the reason why it is your endless source of mobile entertainment, is having the ability to watch ANY movie (in DivX format). Before you leave on the next business trip, it will be important to find the movies you want to take. And then we’ll need to setup your Windows Mobile OS with the apps needed to run them. In this guide, I’ll show you what programs are needed and how to set them up.
The checklist for this guide includes a decent SD Card (at least 1 GB), an SD Card Reader to transfer files, and your computer with Microsoft ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center installed.
Applications
Here are the programs you’ll need. For now, just download and install them. In the next section I’ll explain how to set them up.
PocketDivXEncoder
This program will convert your DivX or Xvids to a much smaller file size & resolution for ideal playback on your Windows Mobile device.
Download
Install notes: this will be run from your computer.
TCPMP
“The Core Pocket Media Player” is our media player with support for all of the common audio & video codecs including DivX, Xvid, and AC3.
Download
Install notes: Download the CAB, copy it and install it directly on your phone.
Let’s Watch A Movie
Fight Club (or any movie will do, I guess). To get started, you’ll need your movie in a format such as Xvid or DivX. Typically a DVD quality movie in these formats will be about 600 MB to 1.5 GB in file size. At this size, the movie is still to large for your device because A) it will take up a huge chunk of your storage card and B) your device unlikely has the processing power to play a movie of that size.
This is where PocketDivXEncoder comes in. Load up the program and select your movie as the “File to encode”.
In the “Output Options” I recommend you set Video and Audio Quality to about 16 and 4 respectively.
The next important option to set is the “Output dimensions” . You’ll want to set this to your device resolution. On my phone, the HTC TyTN (aka Hermes), the screen resolution is 320×240. A quick Google search for can tell you what your phone’s resolution is.
With that set, press “Encode Now” and within a few minutes it will generate your movie file. Transfer it to your SD Card and load up TCPMP on your mobile device to test it out!
Did it work for you? Let me know, I’m all ears and I’ll help where I can!
[Originally posted to Windows Mobile Cool]
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just install the DivX mobile player on the Windows Mobile instead.
goto http://m.divx.com to download the player.;-)
Hi Ramesh
You know, I actually prefer the DivX player, myself. And it’s the player I personally have installed on my TyTN… BUT, I had a HELL of a time getting it installed! The mobile site is next to impossible to navigate, it refused my password several times, then, when it finally accepted it, told me I needed a separate username/password for “Divx Labs” which was where the software was, apparently. After dozens of attempts, I *may* have just found a torrent of it. I will not confirm or deny my torrent usage, heh
Again, love love LOVE DivX, but MAN, so difficult to get!
If you happen to work for DivX, come on over to WindowsMobile Cool (http://www.windowsmobilecool.com) and help me show my readers there how to install it and I’ll be more than happy to super promote it!