Video Playing on Zire 72

[Helpless]

I just procured a Palm Zire 72. Very much au fait with the concept and behaviour or the Windows OS, the palm OS serves as a challenge, though reviews have its positive backing. Helpless as i am trying to watch mpeg videos even compatible with the Real one player, could anione advise me what to do? i downloaded the kimano player as well and saw that it was in a PDB format so i further downloaded a konvertor, but to no avail. Please help. Pronto. Cheers.

[toymaker]

You should be able to just drag the mpeg file to the Palm Quick Install tool and it will automatically convert the file to a compatible format to be put on a memory card with enough free space. Then after a hotsync you should be able to play it using the Media program on your palm, don't try RealOne because it's only for music.

Hope this helps ;)

Good luck

[rvp]

I know your asking about using the software that came with your Z72. I don't use Kinoma but If you ever decide to buy another 3rd party viewer I highly recommend MMPlayer. I use PocketDVD to convert my DVD's to AVI's and I'm ready to go. My 1 gig SD card has about 500 megs of Dora and Baby Einstein DVD's for my son. Nothing like a media player with Dora in a restaurant with a 2 year old!!! You can code you DVD's with software but I have know interest in the learning code.

They work great together.

Good Luck

[FESCSteve]

I second the recommendation for MMplayer for playing and pocketDVD for encoding.

After encoding the long way with GK manually (took aver 12 hours!!) I completed the same task with pocketDVD in about 2 hours!

MMplayer will also play most of your audio stuff too.

Steve

[clicclic]

What's GK? I can't find it...

[FESCSteve]

Gordian Knot - used to backup DVD's really.
http://gordianknot.sourceforge.net

Steve