Blackberry Playbook film download

maimee_magic

Can anyone please advise on how to download films onto the BP for viewing when offline?

NiftyDigits

Which films? From any particular source?

Make and model of your PC?

maimee_magic

Hi Niftydigits. I'd like the best exotic marigold hotel and the girl who kicked the hornets nest (dubbed in English version). My PC is a Toshiba Satellite M70-394. It has windows XP home edition.

NiftyDigits

Have you upgraded the RAM to at least 1GB?

Section 8.8 of the manual

RAM modules. £10.68 for a 1GB module.

maimee_magic

Have never added ram but think it came with 1GB. Of course I could easily be wrong!

NiftyDigits

maimee_magic wrote: »

Have never added ram but think it came with 1GB. Of course I could easily be wrong!

Have a look. Hold down Flying Windows key and press the Pause Break key.

maimee_magic

Your right 504mb of RAM.

Entimp

The PB supports the following Video codecs:

MPEG4, DivX, H.264, WMV and some MKV (depending on the formats in the container).

And FLV with 3rd party apps.

On the whole you can't download to the PB... you'll need a PC to do this and file swap them over via the USB lead.

maimee_magic

Think I'm going to buy a new laptop when I get back from holiday as mines very slow and old. Tried to defrag last night but only 11% space left so couldn't do it! When I do which sites can I get films from to download to watch offline which are already in the correct codec.?

NiftyDigits

Entimp wrote: »

The PB supports the following Video codecs:

MPEG4, DivX, H.264, WMV and some MKV (depending on the formats in the container).

And FLV with 3rd party apps.

On the whole you can't download to the PB... you'll need a PC to do this and file swap them over via the USB lead.

Not at all true. You can download media directly to the PB.

NiftyDigits

maimee_magic wrote: »

Think I'm going to buy a new laptop when I get back from holiday as mines very slow and old. Tried to defrag last night but only 11% space left so couldn't do it! When I do which sites can I get films from to download to watch offline which are already in the correct codec.?

Add RAM. Make a copy of your important data(to external media), then delete some of the files clogging up the C: drive.
Then you can either run a Factory Restore or see closed for a comprehensive clean up.

Though it's true that the processor is relatively weak by today's standards(CPU benchmark of 430), the RAM upgrade and the clean up will have it performing better than new, for an £11 spend.