Video playback...

[mrhoni]

Does your video playback smoothly if stored on SD card?

Which program did you use for playback?

[aspidoras]

Yes it plays smoothly from SD card. Skip the Video iPOD...lol
Skip the MMPlayer. The TCPMP player is far superior. Its only flaw being that it does not do co-operative multi-tasking (if you exit the program the music or video stops playing). I believe the built in Media player only plays "ASF" files which hardly anyone uses. The TCPMP player has plugins to play most anything and works great on the T|X with video. I tested it today at my local CompUSA. I wanted to make sure that it would play the video smoothly, and it worked flawlessly. I use PocketDVD to encode movies as MPEG4 AVI files. I also record TV shows on my PC using my ATI TV Tuner card in MPEG1 format and copy those to a 1GB SD card and then watch those on my T5 when I ride the bus to work. I hope this helps.
Palm's be with you.
KevinN

[Jonavin]

Was the video you tested playing in full 320x480 mode? How many fps are yoru test videos?

[aspidoras]

It is a full 1 hour TV show recorded in regular MPEG1 format which is 352X240 at 29.97fps or what we used to call Video CD (VCD) mode. It has 44,100HZ audio also. Only problem with this recording fromat is that it takes 612 MEG to record one hour :) . Using TCPMP it plays with very few dropped frames on my T5. Let me double check and see if it shows alot of dropped frames on the T|X. I will test it again today and update this post later.

[squallelf]

i wonder
if TX play a 480X320, 30 or 25 fps video~
how high is the bitrate could set while it could still run at least 100% speed in TCPMP.?~
is 500kbps possible?~

[rlc7254]

I don't want to appear to be a hopeless newbie, but what is TCPMP? :confused: I'm not familiar with that program.

:D

[STBXXL]

I don't want to appear to be a hopeless newbie, but what is TCPMP? :confused: I'm not familiar with that program.

:D

TCPMP (The Core Pocket Media Player) is arguably the best open source media player. It supports many different formats (via codec plugins) and it's developed in parallel for POS and PPC.

You can find more information here (http://corecodec.org/). The latest stable PalmOS version can be downloaded here (http://picard.exceed.hu/tcpmp/test/). There's also a great support forum (http://www.corecodec.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=29&expv=0&board=25.0).

Hope this clarifies. :D

Cheers.

[Paratus]

using nero recode with mpeg 4 I can convert movies and tv shows to 320x480 24 or 30 fps at ~500kbs without dropped frames on my LD (Xscale CPU aat 416 mhz) using TCPMP

[aspidoras]

It is a full 1 hour TV show recorded in regular MPEG1 format which is 352X240 at 29.97fps or what we used to call Video CD (VCD) mode. It has 44,100HZ audio also. Only problem with this recording fromat is that it takes 612 MEG to record one hour :) . Using TCPMP it plays with very few dropped frames on my T5. Let me double check and see if it shows alot of dropped frames on the T|X. I will test it again today and update this post later.

Well I had a chance to test the T|X again. It worked perfect. No dropped frames (except when you pause and then restart) I don't think we will have any problems with video on this device. It has about the same processor as my Zire 72 and it also plays the files perfect except the screen is only 320X320 :P