Pocket PC Support

IMPORTANT: You must download and separately install a Flash 5 (or higher) player for your Pocket PC. Click on this link to get a Flash player for your Pocket PC.

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates

To view shows on the Pocket PC, using the Pocket PC Start menu select iZotope PhotonShow. This will provide you with a menu of PhotonShows that have been transferred to your Pocket PC. You can select and view PhotonShows from this menu.

Notes:

1) The PocketPC must be connected to your desktop PC and turned on to transfer shows

2) You must have already installed Active Sync and any other support software that came with your Pocket PC

3) There must be enough free memory on your Pocket PC to transfer the show.

4) Note that this option is for handhelds running the Pocket PC operating system only. It does not support handhelds running the Palm operating system. At this time a Flash player is not available for the Palm operating system, which is used by the Palm Pilot, Handspring and Sony Clie products.

Frequently Asked Questions

I'm having trouble seeing PhotonShows on my Pocket PC. All I see is a blank screen or similar.

1) Go to the Options screen and select the Pocket PC button. With your Pocket PC turned on and connected to your desktop PC, click the "uninstall from Pocket PC" button. Now click the "reinstall to Pocket PC" button.

2) Be sure that you have a Flash 5 player or higher installed on your Pocket PC. Go to this URL to get a Flash player for your Pocket PC.

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates

I have a non-Pocket PC device that does have a Flash player (e.g. a Nokia 9200 phone). Can I view PhotonShows on this device?

Any device capable of displaying Macromedia Flash movies is capable of playing PhotonShows. The number of of devices that support Flash is increasing constantly and while it's not possible to give detailed instructions for each device, here is some general information:

In general, PhotonShows created for the desktop are designed for 1024x768 resolution. PhotonShows created for the Pocket PC are designed for 320x240 resolution. A PhotonShow will resize automatically to the screen, but for the best quality and smallest file size on a small screen you'll probably want to create PhotonShows formatted for the Pocket PC. Simply use PhotonShow as if you were creating a PhotonShow for a Pocket PC.

The next step is to select and transfer PhotonShows to the device. Your Pocket PC PhotonShows, by default, are located in the folder where you installed PhotonShow. The file names of the PhotonShows are the same as the titles you gave them in PhotonShow, with the extension "swf" to designate them as Macromedia Flash files. You can change the location where the shows are saved by clicking the Options button in the upper right corner of the PhotonShow screen, then selecting the Pocket PC button and changing the default show location in that screen.

Transfer the shows to your device using whatever utility you use to transfer other desktop PC files. For example, a Nokia 9200 series phone has a Windows Explorer-like utility for copying files from the PC to the 9200 device.

The second step is to install a Flash player for your device. If the device supports Flash, it may already be installed. If not, contact the manufacturer to ask about the availability of a Flash player, or check http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates for a suitable player to download.

With the files transferred and a Flash player installed, the final step is to play the shows. In some cases, such as the Nokia 9200, your device might have a standalone Flash player that allows you to open and play Macromedia Flash (swf) directly. Just run the Macromedia Flash 5 player on your device, and use the File-Open menu from the Flash player to open and play PhotonShows.

In other cases, the Flash player for your device may only be a plug-in for a browser and will not be able to open Flash files directly. In this case,

1) You may be able to drag and drop PhotonShows onto the web browser of your device, in which case PhotonShows will play within the web browser of your device

2) You may need to create HTML loader pages. This requires some work, but does allow you to create custom menus and "mini-PhotonShow sites" that you can display locally on the device. You can find information on creating HTML pages that contain Flash shows on Macromedia's web site (www.macromedia.com). In addition, practically all HTML layout programs including FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc. have templates for creating HTML pages that contain Flash movies.