Making a palm movie, need help

[Rogue3]

I would like to make a short home movie for my wife's palm tungsten E. Can anyone give me advice on the best format to convert to (from original avi file) and what size to use?

[redwudz]

Here's a link to get you started. http://www.palmpower.com/issues/issue200102/tealmovie001.html

I have a Toshiba PDA with the Windows Mobile OS, so I use different software. Make sure you have a lot of RAM, video uses a lot of storage space.

If Palm uses similar video formats, most video is easy to convert using regular video tools like Virtualdub and TMPGEnc encoder.

[vitualis]

Video on a Palm leads you to a world of pain (except for the newer Sony Clies which BTW, are no longer being produced)...

If portable video is important to you, then get a Pocket PC where you can play "normal" video formats like MPEG-1/WMV/DivX/XviD/etc.

Regards.

[Rogue3]

this is probably a one time deal, so video in the long run won't be that important. I want to get her a 256mb sd card for her palm for christmas and was going to put a bunch of the kids pictures on it and a short 10 minute video of them.

So palm does not support avi or mpg?

[vitualis]

I haven't looked for a while, but in general no.

I think that the newer Palms (at least the newer Clies) support MPEG-1 but AVI support is a dream.

Have a look at the above link on TealMovie...

Regards.