Video encoding peeps: Vid files for a PDA?

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I've recently obtained a 2-year old HP Ipaq (Windows Mobile 5.0) and so I have pondered the idea of using it to watch videos on the train, etc.

I've downloaded and installed DivX player for Windows Mobile - which seems perfectly nice and all. Now, the DivX website reccommends that I encode the files with the following characteristics:

24fps
300kbps video
128kbps audio

I've used VirtualDub with the DivX plugin to encode a few files using the 300kbps video options. The video does work, however, it does tend to chug at a low-fps when run on the PDA if I crank up some of the quality settings (it only has a 500-odd Mhz CPU).

I'm also somewhat confused as to how to tackle the audio side of things.

Does anyone have an suggestions of a better way to do this? I would appreciate your input.

Cheers. :)
 
I'm going to suggest a different player - tcmp for wm5 which has additional codecs available and has now become coreplayer and costs money (I'm using this ;)).

It's actually coded to make use of the xscale processor (mines a 312mhz) and I haven't yet come across anything it can't play smoothly and I regularly play 200+ meg videos in various formats.
 
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