Watch a Movie on your TomTom

[Giorgio57]

Ever have to stay outside in your car waiting for someone?
You can now watch a movie on your TomTom check this out!

http://www.makayama.com/dvdtotomtom.html

George

 

[Pedro2NR]

Last I remember this didn't work with the x10's latest firmwire. I wonder if this is fixed.

 

[mikecwest]

Last I remember this didn't work with the x10's latest firmwire. I wonder if this is fixed.

It works on the 910. When you convert the video to TOMTOM you must save it to the desktop. You can then move it manually to the Media Folder....


You *MIGHT* need to let Makayama downgrade for you, just the FIRST time....then you can reupdate to the latest firmware....

Another note, when you try to exit Makayama, your TomTom will reboot when you exit the software.

 

[Adcox]

How is the frame rate? Is the video jerky at all?

 

[Pedro2NR]

Check this out to see it in action.

 

[mikecwest]

How is the frame rate? Is the video jerky at all?

no. it all depends on the video you started with. I

 

[mikecwest]

Check this out to see it in action.

pedro, that is a funny video of a tom tom playing a funny video!!!!!!!! Although, that is not makayama, its the other one, I forget the name of it.

 

[Pedro2NR]

Thanks for the correction. Which one is better?

 

[Adcox]

Pedro,

Thanks for that link. The video actually looked really good! It would be neat if we could see clips from the makayama software to compare.

Jeff

 

[Nextourer]

What's odd is that the YouTube video said it was playing on a TomTom ONE!

I'd like to see how that's done!

 

[Pedro2NR]

It looks like it's playing on the original TT ONE.

 

[Nextourer]

Either way, it gives us non-GO users some hope haha.

That also means I need a bigger SD card. I only have 10MB left and all I've added is the Baskin Robbins POIs and some voices, that's it.

 

[gator919]

has any one actually tried this

 

[Pedro2NR]

If the price is right, I would do this too. What type of video files would they use? MP4?

 

[Nextourer]

any updates?

 

[mikecwest]

I noticed today that there is an update. I don't see a way to update my current version, it looks like I must pay to update to the new version. I will not pay to update, and I paid $33 for the original one that never worked correctly.

I now installed tripmaster, and it F###ED up my Makayama, and the tripmaster will not display correctly.

 

[Nextourer]

I meant update as in progress in getting videos to play on TomToms. What files ext. do they read anyway?

 

[gator919]

ok I can downlosd movies to the tomtom from a dvd. It takes some time and a little work but it does work. it is eaiser to put short clips or a music video than a movie.

 

[Pedro2NR]

Gator, do you know what file type it uses?

 

[Nextourer]

well, my ONE doesn't exactly have a GB of space lol so I'm limited to short clips anyway.

What file ext. does it read? Is it drag-and-drop?