Re: Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-08 Thread Florent THIERY
It doesn't. It does one of the simpler MPEG-4 profiles, don't recall the details. (One of the S-Media models does H.264, but no VGA.) Can't really feel much pain for that, personally. Personally i do a bit, since online video is moving towards ubiquitous h264 (in Flash player for desktops, or

Re: Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-08 Thread Rod Whitby
Florent THIERY wrote: Personally i do a bit, since online video is moving towards ubiquitous h264 (in Flash player for desktops, or with dedicated chips in f.e. appleTV or mobile phones). But who really wants to check out youtube videos in the subway ? Marketing, marketing... Not youtube, but

Re: Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-08 Thread Ian Stirling
Florent THIERY wrote: It doesn't. It does one of the simpler MPEG-4 profiles, don't recall the details. (One of the S-Media models does H.264, but no VGA.) Can't really feel much pain for that, personally. Personally i do a bit, since online video is moving towards ubiquitous h264 (in Flash

Yet another keypad idea

2007-09-08 Thread OJW
Just playing with another idea for text-entry: http://almien.co.uk/Keypad/ The idea is to be able to type mixed letters / numbers / symbols / control-characters without having to look at the screen when typing. It takes a while to pick-up, but should be easy to use once you see how it works.

Re: Yet another keypad idea

2007-09-08 Thread Thomas Gstädtner
Interesting concept, but I can't see an advantage to the standard numeric keypads. Maybe you can enlighten me? :) 2007/9/8, OJW [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just playing with another idea for text-entry: http://almien.co.uk/Keypad/ The idea is to be able to type mixed letters / numbers / symbols /

Re: Yet another keypad idea

2007-09-08 Thread Giles Jones
On 8 Sep 2007, at 13:30, OJW wrote: Just playing with another idea for text-entry: http://almien.co.uk/Keypad/ The idea is to be able to type mixed letters / numbers / symbols / control-characters without having to look at the screen when typing. It takes a while to pick-up, but should be

Re: Yet another keypad idea

2007-09-08 Thread OJW
On Saturday 08 September 2007 13:44, Thomas Gstädtner wrote: Interesting concept, but I can't see an advantage to the standard numeric keypads. Maybe you can enlighten me? :) Compared to the standard 444 for I, for S-type of keypad, it's ease of learning/remembering the keystrokes (based

Re: Yet another keypad idea

2007-09-08 Thread Giles Jones
On 8 Sep 2007, at 14:01, OJW wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2007 13:44, Thomas Gstädtner wrote: Interesting concept, but I can't see an advantage to the standard numeric keypads. Maybe you can enlighten me? :) Compared to the standard 444 for I, for S-type of keypad, it's ease of

Re: Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-08 Thread Mikko Rauhala
la, 2007-09-08 kello 13:00 +0100, Ian Stirling kirjoitti: At least on trivial tests I did - it seemed to play youtube videos just fine on mplayer at 320*240. Indeed. Software playing will probably take a bit more power, sure, but that aside, the Neo's youtube capabilities already partially

Re: Yet another keypad idea

2007-09-08 Thread Giles Jones
On 8 Sep 2007, at 14:47, OJW wrote: On Saturday 08 September 2007 14:17, Giles Jones wrote: I don't see how pressing three keys for one letter is faster than predictive? As a contrived example, try typing http://example.com/~user; using predictive text For URLs you're best providing a

Re: Apple is going to beat all competitors

2007-09-08 Thread Fabien
On 9/7/07, Nkoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It just occurred to me that Apple's price cut may have nothing to do with lagging sales [...] $399 iphones are highly detrimental to the success of the Neo1973. They're after Google, not Neo IMO. Can you remember of any free software product that

Re: Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-08 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 8, 2007, at 3:28 AM, Florent THIERY wrote: But who really wants to check out youtube videos in the subway ? Marketing, marketing... My wife uses the video feature on her iPod quite a bit when we're traveling. And video podcasts are a great idea for the subway - just as good as

Re: Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-08 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 8, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Mikko Rauhala wrote: Software playing will probably take a bit more power, sure, but that aside, the Neo's youtube capabilities already partially exceed (*sigh* at the obligatory comparison) the iPhone's. A lot more power, not a little. Flash is even worse -

Re: Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-08 Thread Ian Stirling
Ted Lemon wrote: On Sep 8, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Mikko Rauhala wrote: Software playing will probably take a bit more power, sure, but that aside, the Neo's youtube capabilities already partially exceed (*sigh* at the obligatory comparison) the iPhone's. A lot more power, not a little. Flash

Re: Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-08 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Saturday 08 September 2007 19:31:30 Ted Lemon wrote: What about encoding features of the smedia chips ? The day there will be a camera on the neo... Unless you're encoding a long run of video, I don't think this is a major issue. If you are, yeah, hardware encoding for H.264 sounds

Re: Apple is going to beat all competitors

2007-09-08 Thread Joshua Broussard
Shawn Rutledge wrote: On 9/7/07, Nkoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mass produced version will be $450. There will also be the issue of nokia's upcoming touchscreen device to contend with. I think it will need to be $300 or less to sell large quantities.

Re: Yet another keypad idea

2007-09-08 Thread OJW
On Saturday 08 September 2007 14:58, Giles Jones wrote: For the web you can have a www button and a combo   with .com, .co.uk, .org and others which the user can predefine. You   minimise typing that way and T9 does work for the domain name, you   can hold a button to produce a list of symbols

Re: Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-08 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 8, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Ian Stirling wrote: It's not _quite_ that bad. You get 1 hour, even playing h.263 very loudly while on a phone call. That's cool for demo purposes. Unfortunately H.263 is really only of interest to people with patience - the average end-user will consider

Re: Yet another keypad idea

2007-09-08 Thread clare
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, OJW wrote: Just playing with another idea for text-entry: http://almien.co.uk/Keypad/ Hi OJW, THat is a FUN thing, and would be even better if the letters appeared much larger as you got nearer the end. I enjoyed it much more than an ordinary game. I hope you keep

Re: speeding up the flow of information

2007-09-08 Thread clare
Hi Sean, and Michael and Joachim; Sorry for late reply, Mailout was broken. Pity this seems to have been submerged in mails about Apple. However I hope that leads to much more emphasis on the documentation side of the Open Source feature of the Neo1973 and OpenMoko itself. THis is where, in my