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Topic: iPaq filter suggestions
started by: DuSTman

Posted by DuSTman on Oct. 30 2001,11:41

This year for my computer science project I have to do a tool that lets you easily convert media files into a format that can be read by the pocketPCs windows media player (for example, it doesn't seem to like MPEG-1, seems odd to me). I have noticed that there's an interface to activesynch that lets select a filter to run when a certain file type is transferred, so i'm gonna do it that way.

So basically I'm going to write an activesynch filter to convert files from .mpeg to .wmv

I was just wondering if any of the ipaq owning detnet crowd had any suggestions for my on this.

Thanks.

This message has been edited by DuSTman on October 31, 2001 at 06:43 AM

Posted by askheaves on Oct. 30 2001,11:48

I had an iPaq during my stay at my last company. Never played with ActiveSync like that. All I can say is, good friggin luck.

I think there may be a proggie out there that plays mpegs... PocketTV, I believe.

What may be more interesting is something that lets you stream different movie formats to the iPaq over a wireless ethernet card Symbol has one that is a CompactFlash wireless card... not sure if they've released it yet, but they were the only ones so far.

Posted by DuSTman on Oct. 30 2001,11:55

quote:
Originally posted by askheaves:
I had an iPaq during my stay at my last company. Never played with ActiveSync like that. All I can say is, good friggin luck.
I think there may be a proggie out there that plays mpegs... PocketTV, I believe.
What may be more interesting is something that lets you stream different movie formats to the iPaq over a wireless ethernet card

You guessed what the other project I was offered was!I'll try and make some good progress on the activesync filter so that maybe i can include some more semi-related playing about in the project..