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JoeT
02-04-2003, 04:11 PM
Playing with the built in Movie Player app, I notice 3 things:

(1) The video is infinitely better looking in terms of resolution and color depth than either Kinoma or Teal, especially using the full Clie screen sideways.

(2) Unfortunately, many frames are dropped (the source is 24 fps), and the video is also very choppy (unlike Kinoma and Teal, which play nice and smooth without dropping a single frame, but without the picture quality of Sony's Movie Player).

(3) When I try playing native 24 fps MPEGS located in \MSSONY\MOML0001\MOVxxxx.MPG, the Movie Player can barely play them.

Now my questions:
Anyone know why frames are dropped? They seem to be actually chopped during the conversion. The clips I'm converting are about 45 seconds long and have no sound.

Anyone have any luck playing graphically intensive (hi color hi framerate) videos with the Movie Player?

GoldenTiger
02-04-2003, 06:31 PM
I've never had an issue with it, nor have I heard of anyone having issues with the movie player. Try soft-resetting your Clie... something you installed may have bolloxed your memory heap or be hogging CPU errantly.

JoeT
02-04-2003, 06:43 PM
It's not a bug. The Movie Player works. It's just the fps compared to Kinoma and Teal where Movie Player seems to suffer.