Friday, March 03, 2006
Treo 650 and ReplayTV
My Treo 600 has been getting sick over the last few weeks. I pay $3 per month insurance on my phone so if something goes wrong, gets broken, or otherwise falls apart I get a new phone of the same type, if available or the next closest upgrade. The poor phone was cycling in and out of the network constantly even in places that I should have had good reception.
All said and done, this meant that poor me ended up with a Treo 650. I was pretty happy when they announced that they couldn't repair it and out came a bright shiny yellow box. I've been using a bluetooth headset with my laptop for Skype for a year now. This phone has bluetooth embedded.
When I got the phone home, I decided to see if I could get ReplayTV content onto this phone.
I recorded a short clip on one of my ReplayTVs--I only have a 128 card right now--and downloaded it via DVArchive. I then ran it through FFMPGX (the OSX version of FFMPG) which is opensource. I downloaded TCPMP (a video player that works on Palm). I put the re-encoded avi file onto an MMC card in my 650 and I must say that the picture quality is amazing. I had thought I was going to upgrade my iPod...but this may keep me from taking that step for some time.
This is some slickness.
All said and done, this meant that poor me ended up with a Treo 650. I was pretty happy when they announced that they couldn't repair it and out came a bright shiny yellow box. I've been using a bluetooth headset with my laptop for Skype for a year now. This phone has bluetooth embedded.
When I got the phone home, I decided to see if I could get ReplayTV content onto this phone.
I recorded a short clip on one of my ReplayTVs--I only have a 128 card right now--and downloaded it via DVArchive. I then ran it through FFMPGX (the OSX version of FFMPG) which is opensource. I downloaded TCPMP (a video player that works on Palm). I put the re-encoded avi file onto an MMC card in my 650 and I must say that the picture quality is amazing. I had thought I was going to upgrade my iPod...but this may keep me from taking that step for some time.
This is some slickness.
