I didn��t realize until now that the audio track on VCD is actually Mpeg 1 level 2 (MP2) instead of MP3. No wonder my MP3 player cannot play the audio I extracted from VCD. There are several ways to fix the problem. One way is by using CDex.

http://www.cdex.n3.net/

This open source application allows me to convert Mp2 to MP3 by the following simple steps:

1. Drag and drop the mp2 file ion the CDex UI
2. A ��Select options for dropped files�� dialog popped up. Click [Encode] button.
3. It will create a new mp3 file in the default folder (specified in preference)
4. Done.

What the hell LOMO? It��s a special kind of camera that constructed to take quick snapshot using film (instead of flash memory card like the digital camera). LOMO camera created a special kind of picture, and you have to see it to understand it. Those who love LOMO take using a LOMO as a spiritual journey, and for the picture LOMO created, it does have that sort of appeal. The follow links will give you an introduction to LOMO.

http://www.lomographyasia.com/lomography/about/ (Chinese)

http://www.lomography.com/about/ (English)

My mission of trying to find the simplest work flow to convert movie files into Sony Clie NX-70V format yield some progress these days. I found an application called Smart Video Converter (http://www.doease.com/). It can handle Divx and some other funky file format well. It��s mainly, to me, a .avi to .mpg file converted. But the good thing about .mpg is that once in MPEG1, Sony Clie movie converter can convert the files without too much problem.

On the other hand, there are still some problems that cannot resolve:

- movie will hang the machine if I played them from Flashcard with ANY interruption, like pause

- During video conversion, resulting files sort of created in random order

The CFMagic driver provider provided the following solution:

http://www.pdascent.com/products/cfmagic/faq.html , with the following MPEG naming instruction:

http://www.pdabuyersguide.com/feature/sony_NX70V.htm

But they didn��t work because the result video file is twice plus as big, and played very jerky on my PDA.

Guess there��s no perfect solution.

And I also found that people online kept referencing NX70V as an antique! Man, hello! This toy is still cooking!

I found a nice way to let me play movie on both the CF card and the memory stick. Just set the CFMagic so that it prefer movie from CF card, then install the Clie Movie player app from:

http://www.tompda.com/bbs/palm.asp?forumID=559693

The movie player will automatically prefer memory stick. Now I have player for whichever situation.