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connecting xdaii to a projector?

hi all..
i have pocket slides and want to connect the xda to a projector for presentations, is there a cable available to do this...
cheers
Tony

There is a backPack module for the XDA II which has an internal battery, a CF slot and a video output port. The video output port connects to a supplied cable for either Supervideo/Composite Video/or VGA output.
I bought one two days ago and used it for a presentation today at a PDA user group meeting in KL Malaysia. Was very happy with how easy it was to use and the quality of the images being presented.
Ed

wow...cool
thanks.. but what make, and where did you get it...
thanks
maxd

The BackPack is an O2 product, details are on their website. Where to buy it from depends on where you live I guess. I'm in Malaysia and the unit has just hit the streets here though I believe it has been available in other countries for a while.
Ed

Could I ask does it come with any software or driver?
Thanks

Btw if you look on www.expansys.com you'll see a I-mate and a O2 backpack.
The I-mate backpack is cheaper, but afaik, 100% the same

Yes it does come with additional software and driver.
Two main types of software.
1. Screen Mirror: An application that mirrors (displays) everything you do on the XDA II screen on the projected screen. Very handy for tutorials on software and other XDA II features. I used this to demonstrate some new software at PPC users group meeting in KL on Saturday.
2. Presentation software: For Projecting pdf and powerpoint files. I demonstrated (at the same user group meeting) the features of the powerpoint presentation and found it was crisp, clear, good color retention and very easy to use. Some nice features in this software too. You have an on screen mouse pointer, you can also draw on the screen with multiple color pens. Both the pointer and drawings appear on the projected image as well. But perhaps the neatest feature is the ability to display the powerpoint slide plus your speaker's note on your PPC screen but only display the powerpoint slides on the projected screen. I think that is a very useful feature.
The drivers and software are inluced on a mini CD.
Ed

There are a couple of things I would like to see improved on the hardware side of things.
1. There is no way to charge the battery in the BackPack without attaching it to your XDA II. I would prefer to see an AC socket on the packpack itself so you can leave the backpack on charge and still be using your XDA II.
2. When you insert a CF card into the BackPacks CF slot a little plunger sticks out. The plunger is pressed to remove the CF card. I found the plunger sticking was a bit annoying for a right hander like me. Holding the XDA II in my left hand (so I can use the stylus in my right hand) places the CF slot plunger into the meat of my palm. It doesn't hurt at first but after using it for most of the day it was certainly annoying.
Ed

Screen mirror
Does the BackPack use the built-in ATI Imageon graphic accelerator?
Would it be possible to use higher resolution (640x480 on TV and 1024x768 on monitor) in all PocketPC applications?
I know this feature is not supported by default. But higher resolution in all apliccations is not supported on Toshiba e800 too, but with some hack you can use higher resolution in all applications.
There are applications for all PocketPCs which emulate higher resolution (using subpixels like the cleartype does). It these emulators you can see that most of applications (word, excel, internet explorer, ...) work correctly in higher resolution.
So my question: - is (or will be) possible to use your MDA2+BackPack in higher resolution (for exapmle for large XLS tables or for web browsing) on TV or VGA monitor? This feature would really be great! Imagine yourself sitting in a softchair, wireles keyboard in your hands and MDA2 connected to your TV showing XDA-Developers website in a full resolution !

It is possible to connect backpack to the TV and play divx?

ednap said:
Two main types of software.
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****, no TomTom on the PPC screen and a Divx on a external LCD ?

It is possible to connect backpack to the TV and play divx?
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well if your tv have a VGA subD input because as far as i know the backpack dont have a RCA or svhs connector

Rudegar said:
It is possible to connect backpack to the TV and play divx?
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well if your tv have a VGA subD input because as far as i know the backpack dont have a RCA or svhs connector
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... not the backpacki itself, but on the cable (VGA connector) is also the S-Video connector.
But the question remains: will I be able (using some hack) to use all PocketPC applications in HiRes on external monitor (similar hack as for Toshiba e800)?

Sorry by my badly english.
Whichever frames per second have the video signal? 2, 15, 60...?
One divx in TV with 2 FPS would be very bad :-(

hhhmmmm
i doubt that the backpack with vga out would be any kind of limiting factor when it comes to fsp it would al come down to what refreshrate it's running on the top of my head my guess would be 60Hz
this give a max fsp of 30fps
of cause if a tv of any kind of being used it 100% depend on if it's PAL or NTSC
so if your xda can play divx at an ok fps then your external screen should be able to aswell

I have been having backpack for few days. It works at the most to 2.5 FPS. :-(

PPC video out

Is there anyway to output video playback from the ppc?
The spectec SDIO card is only for pics and presentations, I'm looking for something that can output real video.
I know that you can do it now with slingbox, but I want something portable that i will be able to connect to any TV (like a SDIO card).
Is there any product that can do that?
regardless, I read somewhere that you can stream video from the ppc to your TV using an HTPC (Home Theater PC) and some program called ORBIS. Do you have any idea what are they talking about? I can't find the link for the discussion...
Thanks for any help

There was some news story recently where the reporter was "shooting" video live on his phone and it was being broadcast on TV. This obviously means it's possible, but turning your PPC into a server is a different story.
There is the ActiveSync Remote Display, part of the Windows Mobile Developer Power Toys, but I never tested it to stream video. If it works on the some technology as Remote Desktop, you won't be able to stream video. But try it out.
Good luck,
Matt

oh, i m not alone. i m looking the same thing as well. i m looking (still looking...) something (not SDIO) that can output the pda screen display (and also sound) to tv or monitor. i m using o2 atom, so the only "connection" is either via a special usb cable or a bluetooth device.

kjskho1 said:
oh, i m not alone. i m looking the same thing as well. i m looking (still looking...) something (not SDIO) that can output the pda screen display (and also sound) to tv or monitor. i m using o2 atom, so the only "connection" is either via a special usb cable or a bluetooth device.
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Please make sure you follow my articles. CoolCamera is what you're looking for - it's the best solution for this.
I don't recommend PC -> PPC controllers because of speed issues - not even the, in this respect, fastest (read my remote controller roundup, it has been referenced several times in my articles cross-posted to here) Soti Pocket Controller.

I don't know if this has been discussed anywhere else but...
Does anyone know how I can get the video from my Tilt to show on my Pioneer AVIC-D3 display? I have my Slingbox setup and working on my Tilt and I can get the audio to play through the Bluetooth to the receiver, but I don't see a way to get the video to transfer over. Maybe a wired connection to the Aux Video Input jack?
Any ideas would be appreciated!
Thanks to all...
PCFixer

It's http://orb.com. It turns your home pc into a streaming media server. Hands down better that slingbox.
With ORB you can connect your TV via a TV Tuner Card, or Have Live Secure Webcams with motion capture.
Also If you would like to stream and capture cam video from you mobile device to web you might want to check out comvu.com

You Must Never Ever Owned A SLINGBOX!
jasond said:
It's http://orb.com. It turns your home pc into a streaming media server. Hands down better that slingbox.
With ORB you can connect your TV via a TV Tuner Card, or Have Live Secure Webcams with motion capture.
Also If you would like to stream and capture cam video from you mobile device to web you might want to check out comvu.com
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You must not own a SlingBox, Orb will never ever be better than the SlingBox. Orb buffers all the time, with the SlingBox you get perfect video all the time, don't you know. The newly just released SlingPlayer mobile software is the 8th wonder of the world, Orb don't even come close dude.(LOL)

Connecting a WebCam (u other external source of video) to a Mobile

Hello everyone
is that possible ?
my mobile (HTC Touch Pro, with Windows mobile) has a micro USB, is that possible to connect an external web cam, and see in the Mobile screen ?
note :: I am not trying to use my mobil as a webCam for the PC
thanks in advance if somebody knows something,
InTheater

I needed extra software on both my desktop and laptop. It should be the same for your case. If you have software&drivers for the particular camera for windows mobile (which is highly unlikely) it should work, otherwise no, sorry

to connect usb devices to a pda it's required that it support USBHost few support that

In my particular case, I have a Touch Pro (and soon a HD2), somebody knows somethign about this two devices?
In the other hand, It is usrprise me that nobody here have try to connect a webcam to one of our mobiles, is that so ?
thanks to all,
InTheater

[Q] Polaris Office and HDMI

Just a quick question regarding Polaris Office and the HDMI connection (I've looked for an answer here and outside of XDA, but I can't find anything). I'm looking to see if I can cut the laptop tether when I'm lecturing and use Polaris, connecting to a projector via HDMI. Those of you using the tablet already, will Polaris recognise the HDMI port and, even better, will it output slides to it while showing notes on the tablet?
Thanks

I think a better question is "does this thing have full HDMI out?" If not, we will have to put a pool together to buy one for Shinzul

RikF said:
Just a quick question regarding Polaris Office and the HDMI connection (I've looked for an answer here and outside of XDA, but I can't find anything). I'm looking to see if I can cut the laptop tether when I'm lecturing and use Polaris, connecting to a projector via HDMI. Those of you using the tablet already, will Polaris recognise the HDMI port and, even better, will it output slides to it while showing notes on the tablet?
Thanks
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I just checked this out for you and unfortunately it's largely bad news. Yes, you can output Polaris via HDMI (as indeed you can output anything on the Transformer screen via HDMI) but you can't have notes on the tablet while having the slides on the screen simply because all the Transformer can do is mirroring, so whatever is on the tablet screen is mirrored on the external display.
Also the way that it outputs powerpoint slides is very limited. There are no transition effects, slide-ins, etc, it just throws up the whole slide. So, I'm not sure that this will be terribly useful for you. I also tried it with another Office suite I have (Docs to Go) and the situation was pretty much the same. However, other Office apps may do better in displaying powerpoint (I believe there is QuickOffice as well as Picsel Office, but I don't have either of those).
Also, I don't know if it's different if you create the Powerpoint within Polaris itself, I just used a PPT file I had to hand, maybe things are different when it's actually created with the app itself. If I have time, I'll give it a go.

daweiteh said:
I think a better question is "does this thing have full HDMI out?" If not, we will have to put a pool together to buy one for Shinzul
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And a better answer would be....yes, it does

[Q] HD2 Output toTV?

Hi
is there anyway we can give output to TV from HD2 (windows) mobile?
i have seen a thread which was talking about attaching Mouse, Keyboard and even a gampad to HTC phones with some 4 in 1 cable and then output goes to Tv also, but this cable is compitible with specific HTC models. I want to know is this possible with HTC HD2 to have such cables and attache other things to it and see output into TV,
below link is for ref.
http://www.modaco.com/content/toshi...293679/how-to-use-usb-gamepads-with-the-tg01/
in this page they have XDA links and are talking about FPSECE also.
few content from above ref.
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At the beginning of the week, Schtruck (fpsece developper) told me he had just ordered a Dicota beat mini gamepad:
I ordered the same!
Once I had it, I realized it was not working
Schtruck just told me: " search for hidgamep.dll "......
And the answer was on XDA:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=375407
And it works !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I simply copy here the method given on XDA (for the HTC Athena....!)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=616907
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No way, the hardware does not support/allow any signal output for any other display than the internal - no monitor, no TV.

at android on HD2 you can
you can do it with android if you have TV support DLNA by downloading DLNA software and you can share all media on your HD2 and watching it on tv, I use it with my samsung TV (support all share)

you can use your wifi to transfert video to your TV via an adapter that convert the signal received to analog video/audio output.
also dont forget to install a programm to your HTC for managing file transfert via wifi

Are you guys sure this doesn't work? I have a tp2 and it comes with the capabilities to do this out-of-the-box. Just requires the correct adapter..
Edit: here's the cab I used to enable it..
Another reason to believe it's possible is because these are found in the reg..
HKLM\\Drivers\Display\TV
HKLM\\Drivers\Display\TV\PanelDLL
HKLM\\Software\HTC\H2W\TVOutCableIn

quite a long thread on this here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=577338, all angles and few extra covered,
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