Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 Instruction Manual page 84

my Zaurus SL-C3000 and SL-C3100
Unfortunately, this means that mbrola is pretty useless until FreeTTS has been backported to Java
1.3 which is not an easy task because FreeTTS uses a lot of the 1.4 features not available in 1.3, or
until jamvm which is a jre 1.4 capable java runtime replacement can be made to run on the Sharp
distro.
Video Conversion
The Movie Player that comes with the Zaurus is nice for playing MPEG files. I can just copy a .dat
file from a VCD and rename it to .mpg and Movie Player can play them in a window and full screen.
However, since space is limited on the Zaurus, (yep, 4GB is nothing if you put a few vids on it),
compressing the vids is a good idea. Unfortunately, Movie Player only plays MPG files.
No worries, mplayer will do the job. mplayer can play almost any format and there are also some
nice GUI interface for mplayer such as kino2 and zplayer.
Here is what I do using VirtualDub to compress videos (there is a mod of virtualdub that can open
mpg files as well - VirtualDub-MPEG2 1.5.10).
From the Virtual Dub Menu:
select Video
select Audio
Then Save as AVI.
Alternatively, you can also use PocketDivXEncoder which is a derivative of mencoder to compress
movies for the Zaurus. The default settings with 2-pass encoding does a pretty good job on the
compression and quality. You can further tweak the settings for further compression at the loss of
some quality.
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Filters...
add resize
New width: 320
New height: 240
Filter mode: Nearest Neighbour
Color Depth...
Decompression format
16-bit (HiColor/32K)
Output format to compressor/display
16-bit (HiColor/32K)
Compression...
Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V3
Configure
Control: 30
Data Rate: 150
Full processing mode
Compression...
MPEG Layer-3
24 kBits/s,12000Hz,Stereo
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16/09/2007 12:23