Viewing iPod H.264 videos on a Pocket PC with TCPMP
You can use the Core Media Player TCPMP version 7.1 and above to view iPod videos on your Pocket PC or Windows Mobile device. You will also need the ffmpeg plugin and to hear the audio you will need to download and install AAC decoders from here
iPod video is encoded in a format called H.264 a high compression rate which I believe produces files sizes smaller than that of DivX.
The audio is in AAC format. For licensing reasons TCPMP does not support this format as standard.
I've installed TCPMP and the AAC decoders on my iPAQ 1945 and was able to watch a film (Crash) with no delays or artifacts and the sound was excellent. So from one charge of the battery you're looking at 2 hours or more of video playback.
With the use of a battery extender you could power your Pocket PC indefinately on a long haul flight. Battery extenders take AA batteries and plug into the charge port of your pocket pc they are available from amazon.
Posted on Tuesday, Apr 4, 2006
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Player: video codec (AVC aka H.264) not supported by the player!
I'm using version 0.71 of TCPMP... so I don't understand how you can play H.264 files?!?
Any suggestions?
Thanks :-)
I just needed the ffmpeg-plugin... cool!
H.264 videos do require a lot of processing power. Some videos are encoded at a high data rate and will skip on lower powered pocket pc's.
Example on windows version:
mencoder mypodcast.mp4 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=500:acodec=mp3:abitrate=96 -o mypodcast_ppc.avi -sws 2
If you have problems with space of a very slow pocket pc, you can play with the bit rates.
Good luck!
This is what I did:
Download the program from http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/
Download the MPEG4 plug-in from the same site ( http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/ )
Download the AAC plug-in from: http://www.rarewares.org/aac.html (make sure to download the file under: BetaPlayer AAC plugin )
Note: the only way that I got these two plug-ins to work on my PPC was by opening the .CAB file inside the phone.
One last thing. I'm watching some old MPEG4 videos that I had copied from my TIVO using TIVO desktop plus (make sure to use the audio boost feature on TIVO desktop because the sound level is low).
I hope that this helps someone.
I just now tried installing the aac.ARM_SP.cab (which is indicated for use with MS Smartphones (for SP2002,WM2003 SP,WM2003SE SP). Good news!
Nice!!!! Finally-- quicktime files for my ppc!
My ipaq is running WM5, so I'm surprised that it worked. Try that file and if it doesn't work, try another.
Thomas
Also I'm getting a lot of buffering in watching youtube streaming to tcpmp.
Anyone have an idea how to reduce the buffering.
I have an HTC Trinity, using Edge on usa T-mobile.
green
Now it can play AVA aka H.264 movie using the TCPMP 0.72RC1
BUT, but ...
It is very very slow when doing the H.264 movie.
Any help on this?
I have a HTC3600, and can´t see files in MP4, i already installed the TCPMP but when i open to see a movie i have tho erros, one is: Video codec (AVC aka H.264) not supported by the player, and the othet one is: MPEG4 AAC Audio decoder not included,
Can you help me please.
Tks
SF
I got my TCMP to play IPOD files (MPEG4 and AAC audio) on my PPC.
This is what I did:
Download the program from http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/
Download the MPEG4 plug-in from the same site ( http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/ )
Download the AAC plug-in from: http://www.rarewares.org/aac.html (make sure to download the file under: BetaPlayer AAC plugin )"
Thankx this works perfect for my Palm TX.
Downloaded all the files to my mac, then unzipped, then synchronized with palm.
I also installed all the extra plug ins.
Videos play really nice. Some videos would sound great but the images would look choopy.
That problem went away after playing around with advance and all the other menus available.
Thanks for your help.
I have a Dell Axim x51v and to read video H.264 with TCPMP v0.72RC1 I 've downloaded the plugin ffmpeg.plugin.0.72RC1.zip and the AAC Decoder.
It works perfectly , thanks for your help :-)
The PDA plays Divx videos fine (even DVD's converted to Divx via dvdFAB) - so why does it struggle with MP4 files ?
Malcolm
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