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Encode movies for PDA

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

In next few days i will go to business trip to Amsterdam. Flight time is about 3.5 hours, so i will have chance to test my new PDA Battery. I have a few ideas how to spent flight time, and i descided to watch few movies. Following short how-to will help you encode movies for your PDA.

To encode movies you need mencoder (from MPlayer package) and at least xvid and mp3 codecs. I have this codec packages installed on my desktop:

libavcodec0d
libxvidcore4
w32codecs

Before start encoding you need to note few parameters:

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Convert wma to mp3 or ogg

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Yesterday i have download latest ASOT from Armin Van Buuren. In archive i have found wma file (whose encoding format is owned by Microsoft). As wma is not open format i think about recoding to ogg or mp3.

I have look around ubuntu packages repository, and find easy way how can i do this. For wma2ogg or wma2mp3 conversion you need installed few common programs:

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