New DVD to Palm Conversion Software

Posted By: Ryan Thursday, February 9, 2006 12:19:12 PM

Makayama Software has launched Palm Media Studio 1.0 today. The new software converts DVD movies, downloaded TV shows and other video clips to a mobile format for your handheld or smartphone.

The software installs an encoding package on a Windows XP computer, users pick any video file from their harddrive, CD or DVD and with only two clicks, the Palm Media Studio turns it into a compressed movie file, which will play on the bundled mpeg4-mediaplayer on the Palm (or you can use TCPMP). The headset or the built-in speaker can be used to listen to sound. Subtitled and foreign language DVDs are also supported.

According to the company a full movie can be transferred to the Palm in less than 45 minutes on an average PC. A memorycard as low as 128 mb is enough to fit a feature film with the software compression. The software captures content in numerous formats (AVI, MPEG1, DivX, XVID, VOB, ASF) and encodes it to the Palm.

Palm Media Studio 1.0 is a Windows application that supports XP/2000/NT. The software costs USD $32.95 (EUR 29.95) to register. A free demo version is available that will convert 3 minutes of content.

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DVD on a Palm!

bdoubledee @ 2/9/2006 4:33:38 PM #

This looks really cool! I knew there was a reason I bought a LifeDrive with all this hard drive space.

Check my homepage! This REALLY works. See the article in the Gadgeteer. http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/the-free-ipod-project-article.html

RE: DVD on a Palm!

just_little_me @ 2/9/2006 4:44:46 PM #

nothing new here... there are tools that do all this already...

JLM.

RE: DVD on a Palm!

Rhauer @ 2/9/2006 5:13:40 PM #

I'm watching Howard Stern on Demand. Works great. It is amazing how few people ever think of the Palm as a video player. Works great.

RE: DVD on a Palm!

invaders @ 2/10/2006 1:53:01 PM #

I bought the full version and it ROCKS ! Blazing fast conversions, great quality. Much, much better than similar software I tried. I had a lot of issues with PQ DVD, ended up returning that, but this one lives up to the promise.

Palm Conversion Software

rptlisw @ 2/9/2006 5:14:38 PM #

Kind of hard to tell if it will create a decent video compressed to 128 mb in 45 minutes if the demo only gets you a three minute sample.

RE: Palm Conversion Software

joad @ 2/9/2006 6:54:51 PM #

Trust them ;)

We already got this.

legodude522 @ 2/9/2006 8:05:06 PM #

Heh. http://www.pqdvd.com/

Palm m125 December 25, 2002 to March 24 2004 > palmOne Zire 71 March 24, 2004 to March 31, 2005. Tapwave Zodiac 1 April 18, 2005 to November 2, 2005 > palmOne Zire 72 November 2, 2005 to present

Sounds a lot like Lathe...

freakout @ 2/10/2006 1:13:49 AM #

...but that's okay, 'cause there's no monopoly on good ideas.

The real issue: why Palm don't have similar software of their own included with every device they sell? It wouldn't be difficult to license one of these programs, or rework an open-source one like AutoGK to fit Palm's needs.

A HotSync, in 2006, should cover so much more than backing up your contacts and installing programs. It should intelligently sync media as well.

Either Palm doesn't agree, they're lazy, or they have a criminal lack of vision. Which is it?

Tim Carroll
Your friendly customer service robot
(and big Treo fan)

RE: Sounds a lot like Lathe...

joad @ 2/10/2006 3:19:40 AM #

...All of the above?

It's actually a pretty good thing that Palm doesn't consume any more developers of decent products, as they haven't had a great track record with the (at one time) leaders they consumed previously (Multimail, Peanutreader, etc.)

It WOULD be nice if Palm would improve the hardware (and of course the syncing software) so that running and maintaining a stable PDA/smartphone with good applications was the norm rather than the exception. When guys like Shadowmite need to delve so deeply into Palm's wreckage of a ROM to salvage the Treo 650 from being useless to so many users, there MUST be "some" room for improvement.

If the next Treo has only the same or just double the 2-1/2 year old Treo 600's RAM we'll know how serious they are about moving ahead with their company.

RE: Sounds a lot like Lathe...

KultiVator @ 2/10/2006 8:07:21 AM #

FreakOut wrote...

>> The real issue: why Palm don't have similar software of
>> their own included with every device they sell?

Exactly my concern - especially with a device like the LifeDrive that actually has the capacity to store a decent amount of video 'out of the box'.

Whatever did happen to all the telented developers that Palm acquired over the years, from the companies listed in another post above, as well as from HandSpring and the BEOS guys? Seems strange that in the period since BEOS was purchased, Palm has brought nothing really notable to the table in terms of new functionality - seems like a waste of good talent - not to mention a bad investment that also robbed the world of BEOS for the PC.

InpersiNator

And it supports my shiny new Treo 800

xImtc @ 2/10/2006 3:48:11 PM #

RE: And it supports my shiny new Treo 800

cervezas @ 2/10/2006 4:09:27 PM #

You're not fooling me. I happen to know the Treo 800 isn't shiny at all--it's matte black. First really decent looking Treo I've got my hands on, let me tell you.

David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
www.pikesoft.com/blog

RE: And it supports my shiny new Treo 800

freakout @ 2/10/2006 7:24:02 PM #

That's weird... mine is fluroescent green!

Tim Carroll
Your friendly customer service robot
(and big Treo fan)

RE: And it supports my shiny new Treo 800

cervezas @ 2/10/2006 7:27:08 PM #

Liar! Admin, this guy should be banned!

David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
www.pikesoft.com/blog

RE: And it supports my shiny new Treo 800

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 2/11/2006 12:04:36 AM #

Beersy, why did you just register at Palminfocenter as "xImtc"?

Odd.

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The Palm eCONomy = Communism™

The Great Palm Swindle: http://www.palminfocenter.com/comment_view.asp?ID=7864#108038

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RE: And it supports my shiny new Treo 800

freakout @ 2/11/2006 6:26:04 AM #

"Liar! Admin, this guy should be banned!"

Careful, or I'll be forced to use the built-in Death Ray...

Tim Carroll
Your friendly customer service robot
(and big Treo fan)

RE: And it supports my shiny new Treo 800

xImtc @ 2/12/2006 2:14:46 PM #

Alright, I don't actually have one...I just thought this was interesting.

"The following models are supported:

PALM TUNGSTEN C, E, E2, T, T3, T5, T|X, W, TREO 800, TREO 650, ZIRE 71, 72, CLIE TJ35, TG50, TH55, NX70, NX73, UX50, ZODIAC 1 & 2, GARMIN iQue 3 series"

This is the kind of app that should ship with ALL Palms.

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 2/11/2006 12:07:19 AM #

With all its so-called "software engineers" why the he11 can't Palm can't figure out how to ship a simple app to turn DVDs into files playable on a PDA?

Create a simplified 1-step DVD-converting app that's installed along with Palm Desktop, license TCPMP, add decent amounts of RealRAM™ to all its PDAs and market Palms as Personal Media Players that also function as PDAs. What a concept.

TVoR

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Sony CLIE UX100: 128 MB real RAM, OLED screen. All the PDA anyone really ever wanted.
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The Palm eCONomy = Communism™

The Great Palm Swindle: http://www.palminfocenter.com/comment_view.asp?ID=7864#108038

NetFrontLinux - the next major cellphone OS?: http://www.palminfocenter.com/comment_view.asp?ID=8060#111823

RE: This is the kind of app that should ship with ALL Palms.

freakout @ 2/11/2006 6:34:46 AM #

I was thinking about this a bit last night, and then I remembered that DVD Decrypter is illegal, as is any other software that breaks the copy protection on DVDs, even if it's for legitimate backups. (Heaven forbid you do what you want with something you've paid for...)

Of course, breaking the copy protection is essential for any DVD conversion software to work, 'cause it has to strip that protection off in order to compress the video, or do anything with it, really. This could possibly open Palm up to litigation, or accusations of facilitating piracy. *Especially* if Palm-converted video files started showing up on Bittorrent - which they inevitably would if it was a good conversion package.

I think *that* is the reason we haven't seen anything from Palm like this yet. Even iTunes, as far as I'm aware, doesn't provide that kind of conversion facility either (for encrypted DVDs anyway) because technically, it's illegal.

Sucks.

Tim Carroll
Your friendly customer service robot
(and big Treo fan)

RE: This is the kind of app that should ship with ALL Palms.

KultiVator @ 2/12/2006 4:56:19 AM #

Most commercial software DVD rippers only support transcoding of unprotected content, side-stepping the legal issues.

This opens the door for users to encode their home movies, DVD-VCR recordings, vid-captures - and anything they care to run through DVD-Decryptor or SmartRipper!

Not too much of a limitation then - if Palm actually thought outside the square.

DupliKator

RE: This is the kind of app that should ship with ALL Palms.

serpico @ 2/14/2006 11:21:13 AM #

I've been using this application below for years with many devices. So when I got my Treo 650, all I needed to do was select Palm OS device and it was done and ready to go.

Here's the link:

http://www.pocket-dvd-wizard.com/