DivX play on T3

[Romeol]

Well, I've had an Ultra II SD card for a while now and I was wondering if using the T5 and the TX with these cards allows you to play the original AVI files without converting them to a PDA resolution smoothly? I noticed that a regular SD on my T3 would not play smoothly, but a 699MB movie on the Ultra II works fine. Is this possible on the T5 or the TX?

[dragonsgames]

The T5 and TX are faster than the T3, so if it works on that, it will work on the T5/TX

[Romeol]

I thought the TX was only 312Mhz while the T3 is 400?

[dragonsgames]

Overclocking :)

[gammada]

Well, I've had an Ultra II SD card for a while now and I was wondering if using the T5 and the TX with these cards allows you to play the original AVI files without converting them to a PDA resolution smoothly? I noticed that a regular SD on my T3 would not play smoothly, but a 699MB movie on the Ultra II works fine. Is this possible on the T5 or the TX?

Based on my experience with a T3, avi files play smoothly (encoded as DivX) with TCPMP. A recently encoded and played back a 1032Kbps file @ 426x320 screen rez and 128 kbps mp3 audio without problems.

It dropped a few frames along the way (less than 2%) but it was hard to notice them. So my best guess is that you'll have a similar or better experience with the t5. I don't know how the TX would perform considering it has a slower processor but the higher RAM capability seems promising.

BTW my SD card was a regular one.

[Romeol]

Well, with no overclocking. . . And gammada, I'm speaking without any encoding, strictly DL and play. Ya know, the big files you can get . . . around the web.

[gammada]

Well, with no overclocking. . . And gammada, I'm speaking without any encoding, strictly DL and play. Ya know, the big files you can get . . . around the web.

As far as I know all video files available for download on the web are encoded (avi, mpeg, mp4, flv 3gp, even DVD's are encoded in MPEG2...) ;)

In that case, it all depends on the bitrate at which they were encoded after ripping them. The more DVD-like they are --the bigger the size in terms of MB/lenght-, the more frames you'll see dropped. Window size is not that much more important than video bitrate, so if the file is dvd-sized but the bitrate is lower than a 640kbps, chances are you'll have no problem viewing the video sans re-enconding.

Other aspect to take into consideration is that many of these files are not compatible with TCPMP or Kinoma as they come off the net. For the most part avi and wmv files tend to have video or audio tracks compressed using codecs without proper support on the players --windows media audio comes to mind-.

If you're looking for more videos already formatted for portable devices --with different encoding to choose from-, check www.pocketmovies.net

Let me know the results if you try playing back such a video with your fast card.