Hi and welcome to the Palm Community Forum. There are several ways to view videos on your TX.

Sep 11, 2008  I own a Palm TX and I've been trying to get some videos to work on it with TCPMP. The issue is that I've installed all the plug-ins necessary to get the H.264 videos to work, according to some other posts I've read. These include mpeg1, mpeg4, mpc, avc, aac, and ffmpeg plugins.

Some people use a popular application called TCPMP (use google to find.might also be at palmgear.com). I think I tried it a long time ago and stopped trying. Personally, I have success using the Palm Media application on the TX. To use it, the source video has to be Imported into the Media application on the Palm Desktop. Once there, you can either Hotsync the video to your Palm, or find the folder on your desktop where it's located (I forget right now where it is), and copy it to your SD card with a card reader. This Palm Support article discusses how to use it.

The combination of the free TCPMP and a cheap USB card reader is the fastest (and IMHO) the easiest way to import a video to your TX. If you have a card reader built into your computer (or printer), then you just need to download TCPMP. Alesis multimix 16 usb 20 driver.

I have 4 DVD rips on my 2GB SD card right now, and if I had to wait for them to HotSync, convert, and install, it would take a day or two! TCPMP likes to play the.avi or.mpg format of videos.

If your videos are in that format, it's just a simple drag and drop them into the /DCIM folder. (Actually, TCPMP can find videos just about anywhere on the card). There are programs available for purchase like Pocket DVD Studio for Palm that will do all the ripping and resizing for you! (I love having movies easily available for those long waiting in line times we so often run into in our busy lives these days.) WyreNut.

Wrote: The combination of the free TCPMP and a cheap USB card reader is the fastest (and IMHO) the easiest way to import a video to your TX. If you have a card reader built into your computer (or printer), then you just need to download TCPMP. I have 4 DVD rips on my 2GB SD card right now, and if I had to wait for them to HotSync, convert, and install, it would take a day or two! TCPMP likes to play the.avi or.mpg format of videos. If your videos are in that format, it's just a simple drag and drop them into the /DCIM folder.

(Actually, TCPMP can find videos just about anywhere on the card). There are programs available for purchase like Pocket DVD Studio for Palm that will do all the ripping and resizing for you!

(I love having movies easily available for those long waiting in line times we so often run into in our busy lives these days.) WyreNut Alright.I just put TCPMP on the TX after apparently being the ONLY person I know of who uses Palm Media. And a funny thing happened. I played around with a short mpeg(1) file I had on my desktop.copied it to the card. It played very nicely in TCPMP. Then for grins, I opened Media and was surprised to find that it, too, played this native.mpg file clear as a bell. I had thought that Media would only play the.asf files which were the result of importing/conversion through the Palm Desktop Media app. So I look at the TX video support page and see that mpeg1 videos are supported on the TX (the suggestion being that they don't need to be run thru the desktop Media app to be rendered into.asf files).

Comparing and contrasting two different versions (.asf and mpeg1) of the same video, I found them to be essentially the same in clarity on the TX's small screen, on both players.basically pretty watchable. Using full screen mode makes them look much more pixelated. But the.asf file was maybe one-third the file size of the mpg file. Perhaps if the source video is ripped/encoded at a higher quality than mpeg1 (which I think is Video CD format) the resulting video looks nicer, but takes up much more space. Also come to find out, that TCPMP will play those same.asf files. I was under the impression that because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the motion picture industry, they pretty much shut down any software developers from selling anything that would allow users to circumvent their copy protection schemes.

We know there are ways (which work very well) around them, but users are essentially forced into criminalized status if we choose (nay, dare) to copy such protected digital content for our own backup purposes, or to be able to view content we have already paid for, when and where we like. I'm convinced.I downloaded the trial of DVD Pocket Studio for Palm, did a few 5-minute clips, and was amazed at the ease with which this program takes DVDs and 'poofs' them into nice little (well, relatively little) files for viewing with TCPMP. So I plunked down my $28 for the Palm-optimized version.handango.com is having a summer sale! Doing this process on DVD content beats the snot out of ripping the DVDs with DVDShrink, converting them to mpeg-1 files, then importing them into Palm Desktop Media.