I am trying to record DVDs onto my 1gb card, and have very intermittent results in the audio. The audio doesn't work at all very often. Specifically, I would like to know the following:

What settings in PocketDVDStudio do you use? I use 160x96, 15fps, sound at 44100 stereo, and have tried both encoders. I am boosting audio as much as possible.

What settings for Kinoma Producer 2.0 do you use? ADPCM with no audio boost? Compression with high boost? no compression with high boost? Do you use the 7135 presets?

If you use Kinoma Producer 3.0, do you do the same? If not, what do you do? I joined the Kinoma Forum, and have heard that some people have success with Producer 3.0 even though Player 3.0 is OS5.0 and can't be used for the 7135.

I am using Kinoma Player 2.2.2. Is there anything I should know about it. Are some people still using Kinoma Player 2.2?

PLEASE tell me how to do this. If you have some other software that produces clear movies with REAL, CLEAR SOUND please tell me. I will be forever in your debt.

Regards and Thanks in advance,

davsar

I use pocketDVD with my Zire72 but not a 7135 - I would suspect you need to drop the audio bitrate to 22Khz and not boost the audio.

What does the "intermittant results in the audio" sound like?

Also, You will want to buy MMPlayer to play the .avi files, don't convert them with Kinoma 2.2 or the file size will double and the video quality will drop. I found this out when trying to make an avi into a file to play on my Treo 600 and I didn't want to buy a second copy of MMplayer so I used my Kinoma producer 2.2

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Larry,

Thanks for your comments. I am trying Producer settings. However, the mmplayer only works with OS5.0. If anyone knows of any other program that lets me run AVI files directly on the 7135 please tell me.

What happens with my audio is that it is often nonexistent, even though it plays very will as an avi file. The producer program is not translating the audio correctly. This is not the crackly sound, it is usually no audio. Sometimes it has worked, and once it distorted the high frequencies so much it was impossible to understand.

DVDX has been recommended to me, but I'm not sure how it works yet. This seems to replace PocketDVD Studio. If anyone knows (or has created) a dvd to pdb program I will be very interested in it.Any info?

Thanks
Dave

*I'd* be interested too, but I don't hold out much hope. A lot of companies have moved on to OS5 without even a glance behind them. When Producer 2 came out, Kinoma seemed determined and dedicated to figuring out how to produce high-quality audio on the 7135. That seemed to fall by the wayside rather quickly (I'm not necessarily blaming Kinoma - as I understand it, they didn't get a lot of input from Kyocera).

I would love to put movies on my 7135 I could actually hear and understand. For now, I'm limited to things I don't actually need to hear - like porn (kidding!).
Sincerely,
Jay Moretz

My two cents worth...my wife has instructional videos on VHS that she would like to have available on her 7135. I, not knowing any better purchased Kinoma Producer 3 and used it to convert the files for use on the phone after I recorded them to my computer using Windows Movie Maker that came with the XP "upgrade". The Producer settings were the default 7135 settings that come in the drop down list. The WMM settings were the default for saving to my computer. Audio and video is working fine, I transfer the files to my card with a card reader, she watches them with Kinoma Player 2 and she couldn't be more happy.
Mike

Thanks very much! Sending PocketdDVDStudio avi files to Windows Movie Maker resulted in wmv files that DID indeed have sound, once processed through Producer 3.0 and Player 2.2.2. This was a great help. I'm now going to check options for increased volume- some of my downloaded avis have better volume and clarity without this route, but your suggestion is invaluable.

Anybody else know why this solution works, and how to increase the volume? I am almost over being totally obsessed with this.

Windows Movie Maker can easily select portions of a movie as a separate wmv file, which can be very useful if you only want part of a movie, or to split one into manageable segments.

Thanks again for the help.

davsar

Hmm... I wonder if that would work for me. All I've been able to produce so far are videos with high-pitched scratchy noises as the sound.

On a seperate note, however: I recently re-tried TealMovie. If I send an AVI through the TealMovie maker, I can play it on the Kyo, but I experience the slowdown porblem. With Afterburner running, though (OCed to 54Mhz), it seems able to keep up pretty good. I did have a couple of parts where some "stuttering" occurred, but perhaps this would be an option for some who can't get Kinoma to work properly (like me).