October 2005
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
5h 45m
English
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Watch Videos
Palm devices can display scaled-down videos—entertainment on the go!
There are many sources of legal videos on the Web. Most recent movies have trailers on their web sites. You can download these and view them on your Palm device. You can also find amateur videos on a variety of subjects. For example, you can find amateur Star Wars videos at http://www.theforce.net. I particularly like the short film Troops (http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/shortfilms/troops/). You can also find videos from a number of other sources:
- Video software player sites
The sites for the various video players usually have short clips that you can download. Most of the software plays the same types of videos, so you can download clips from all of the sites.
- Games
Many games have videos that you can download from their web sites. These videos include trailers, cut-scenes from the game, and player-created content.
- Machinima
This term refers to videos created using a video game as the source. If you search around the web, you can find sites for this such as http://www.machinima.com.
- Convert your own
With the right conversion software, you can convert movies that you’ve purchased into a format that you can play back on your Palm.
Setting up Your Palm and PC
In addition to actually having some videos to download to your Palm, you need a few more things.
First, you need to have a memory card for your Palm device. For a Sony Clié, that means you need a Memory Stick or Memory Stick Pro. For a Palm-branded device, ...
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