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TheKompany Releases DivX Software For Zaurus

Posted by timothy on from the if-it-only-had-a-hard-drive dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "InfoSync has an article on DivX for the Zaurus. Finally, you can watch movies on the go!" Between this and theKompany's ogg player, the Zaurus looks cool. It's a little chunkier perhaps, but another reader points out that Archos is now taking pre-orders for its do-everything Jukebox Multimedia device, which might be another option for those seeking a portable anything box.

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  1. OpenDivX for Zaurus by red_gnom · · Score: 1, Informative

    Link to OpenDivX for Zaurus

  2. Chunkier? by dmorin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ummm...let's not forget that it has a builtin compact flash and SD slot in that footprint, shall we? How big do the other guys get when you add the special sleeves and adapters to do that? Not to mention the integrated keyboard.

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  3. Mplayer ( %100 GPL ) already runs on Zaurus by unixmaster · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a Mplayer-Zaurus Howto

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    1. Re:Mplayer ( %100 GPL ) already runs on Zaurus by narfbot · · Score: 2, Informative

      ahh you beat me =)

      The nice thing about Mplayer, it's the fastest player, and probably the smallest (All good for a PDA). The mplayer binary on my k6-3 is only 1.5 Mb and thats with a bunch of extra junk.

  4. Now to make some movies! by IceFox · · Score: 4, Informative
    To go with this I have put up a howto for making videos that can play on the Zaurus.

    mpeg_encoding_howto

    Enjoy

    Benjamin Meyer

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  5. Re:Why no demos from these people? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    it's always just been a matter of time and resources, we do have a demo for tkcRekall, and at some point things will slow down and we'll find a reasonable way to do demo's for the other apps.

    Shawn Gordon
    President
    theKompany.com

  6. Mplayer was ALREADY ported, and plays divx. by pantherace · · Score: 2, Informative
    Ok, so I beat them by a couple of days or so. I am working on a nice little gui for it.

    url: http://kirk.math.twsu.edu/family/james/mplayer.htm l

  7. Re:And this is news, how? by bflong · · Score: 3, Informative

    >So, a company releases a proprietary DivX player
    -Yes... tckPlayer is propriatary

    >for a proprietary window system
    -Nope... The windowing system and toolkit are GPL. For an entirely GPLed enviroment that will still run standard Zaurus apps (minus Java for now, sorry) see Opie which is the UI for OpenZaurus. We're building a player for all these formats as I type this.

    >running on hardware that's mostly used in Japan
    -Nope again. The Zaurus 5500 is a US/EU product.

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  8. Re:Storage ? by noda132 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, but nowadays they're most likely to be Microdrives, which actually have platters and spin and suck your battery's life out. It'd be a race between which is finished first, the movie or the battery.

    256 is *plenty* for a divx movie. Converting 640x480 to 320x240 already knocks a 700MB movie down to 175MB, no more compression required.