jjesusfreak01

If eventually TCPMP gets DSP usage, then TCPMP could theoretically be just as fast as FMP or MoviePlayer. As I wrote on the Corecodec forums today, I was able to benchmark a 24FPS HVGA 756kbps video at 103% with audio. Without audio it is 140%, so with DSP usage I would imagine it would be around 130%. What this means is that the TH and UX should be able to perfectly handle fullscreen video without actually straining the processor. At this point TCPMP may actually be surpassing the capability of the built in player.

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LupeValenz

I see what you mean with it straining. If you watch very closely you see that for a slight pause, less than a second, the image freeze for a bit. If your not looking for it, you won't notice it, but if you look closely, every 30 secs or so you will see that slight pause. Other than that, its pretty good, just need a slick interface hehehe, black be great as always LOL.

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Lance,
Thanks sooo much for this tutorial. I have been longing to get my DVDs onto my handheld. I started off small- simply recorded "Mikes New Car" off of the "Monsters Inc." DVD (I used the exact minute length to figure out which file it was). It looks great on my T5 when in 320x320 mode. It looked pixelated at full screen- like a jpeg photo thats been too compressed. I gradually worked my way up. I now have "Clone Wars" playing at 539 kbps, the mp3 is set to 96 kbps, fps is 24 and it's 472x264 pixels- it is a whopping 324 Megs on my 1 Gb card for only 1 hour of video (the price you pay, I guess). This looks and sounds wonderful on my T5! It actually looks sorta bad at anything but full screen. I have Tron at 418 kbps and 480x216 (it has a much wider screen, so not as much info is on the screen as with Clone Wars). That 95 minute movie is a 353 Mb file. I am using the open source Core Media Player, not MMplayer. So, at least in the case of my T5- it can play much higher than 200 kbps.
Thanks again!!

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daver

what the heck is that doing here? and what for?

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gwittie

Lance, thanks for great info. I have converted a couple of different movies, but have very (unaccceptably) low sound volume. This on a Sony Clie UX50. Do you (or anyone) have any ideas? Thanks.

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gwittie,
I was having problems with very low volume using TCPMP. I noticed that I needed to increase the preamp in the audio section of the prefs screen. Hope this helps!
Louis

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pruss

Pocket DVD Studio seems a little easier (and has no DMCA problems, though it may have a GPL and patent problem with the bundled LAME).

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zAchry

Downloaded fairview... works great!!! now i just transferred 3 good movies in my LD and alot more movies to transfer... using TCPMP... amazing...
Hands down to Lance

Lance

Glad to help. I keep an updated version on my web site, PalmFocus.com.

Best regards,
Lance

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lombard

Thanks, Lance. You're a top man as far as I'm concerned. Got some music vids on my ux50 at last - keeps my daughter quiet in the back of the car on those long journeys!

Just a note in case anyone else had the same problem. Movie Player on the ux50 refused to acknowledge the presence of my painstakingly prepared files until I renamed them all as MOVnnnn.MQV (where nnnn is a sequence number like 0005). I knew they had to be MQV's and in the right directory but I thought it would see them with more descriptive names like the name of the band or the track.

Eventually I twigged and now it works perfectly.

Thanks again

Sparx

Howdy.

I have some .avi files that I want to lower the resolution for. Currently the file sizes are pretty big and lowering them to 320x480 or similar will make them smaller and less battery hungry on my Lifedrive. Anyone know of an easy and/or free way to do this.

Lance you rock !

Sjweise

You can use virtual dub (google it, I'd post a link but I am on my T3 right now away from my pc) to resize the resolution. you need to add a resize filter to the virtual dub session in addition to defining the video compresion. I use fair Use myself and find that it works flawlessly. Now that I use TCPMP I don't even have to mess with rencoding t e files in Virtual Dub, I just set the video/audio settings as needed. I am also using Fairuse to convert select movies to store on my Ipod for rainy days. Oddly enough, Itunes does not like the xvikd format. I need to convert the xvid files to mpeg4 files using another 3rd party app,

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Lance

Not any longer. FairUse Wizard 2.2 has been released. It supports the iPod.

Take care,
Lance

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Sparx

Thanx guys.

Much appreciated.