Canon TX 1 and Vimeo

Follow these steps to compress your HD video files from Canon TX-1 :

1) Transfer your video files from your TX-1 to your computer. If you have not installed virtualdub, install it now.
You will also need to install xVid codec .


After installing Virtualdub and Xvid, open your AVI video file in virtual dub:

Select Video -> Fast Recompress

Select Compression -> Xvid Mpeg4

Finally, save it as a AVI file. The converted file will be much smaller and suitable for upload on Vimeo or any other Video sharing site.

Canon TX-1 Video samples in Divx

I have been using the elph-sized hybrid camcorder Canon TX-1 for sometime now. While there are some focusing issues, I have been quite pleased with it.
One of the complaints many users of this camera have is that the video size are very large for 720P HD format. For example, a 3 minute HD clip will take about 700 MB of space. I have used VirtualDub to compress videos but it can only compress to about one third of the original size.
The best solution for this I have found is to convert the original video to DivX format. I am using Dr.Divx to encode to DivX format and hosting the HD videos on stage6.
Here are some sample videos. All videos are under 25 mb in size.

Which Router to buy? Cable or DSL?

I would recommend buying a Belkin Wireless Pre-N router for the following reasons:
* 802.11n protocol based routers are future of Wifi - they can handle more bandwidth than 802.11g routers.
* N routers have wider coverage area than G routers.

DSL is better than Cable simply because DSL does not share bandwidth with your neighbor but Cable does. With DSL you have choice of bandwidth, in other words you get what you pay for.

Nokia 770 review

I have been using Nokia 770 for over 2 months now. The built in wifi is poor compared to laptops. My laptop's builtin wifi can pickup signal from my neighbor's router but Nokia 770 cannot. The other issue I have is it crashes many times and sometimes the screen just freezes. Otherwise it is a cool gadget to carry around. I keep it with me wherever I go. Nokia is supposedly considering integrating wimax in the next generation Nokia 770. That would be something very useful.