Best way to play videos on Imagio

[makryger]

I don't know about you, but my Imagio has a whole lot of trouble playing full 480p movies. They are choppier than a bruce lee movie. Even if I bring the bitrate down to practically nothing, it still is choppy, suggesting its less of processing issue, and more of a graphics support issue.

High-bitrate movies at a 240-ish resolution, however, do work quite well. So I've attached my solution- Encoder profiles for both widescreen (16:9) and full screen (4:3) videos. It was difficult finding settings where the movies expanded to fullscreen, but these seem to work in Windows Mobile Media Player on the imagio. I use them mostly for tv shows recorded in windows media center. These profiles work in a lot of windows-based programs, like DVRMS Toolbox, Windows Live Movie Maker, and Microsoft Media encoder. The quality isn't superb, but at least its smooth.

For Movie Maker, copy the attached four files into C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Photo Gallery\Video Profiles. The prx files are the ones with all the encoding details). Then, when you reopen WLMM, they will appear as Imagio icons in the export list. For Widescreen movies, make sure you change your imported movie in View> Aspect Ratio before exporting.

Are other people having any better success for playing videos on the Imagio? If so, what are your file format/bitrate/size/videoplayer?