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

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: 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: 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

Video decoding in GTA-02

2007-09-07 Thread Mikko Rauhala
There, remembered to change the subject line... pe, 2007-09-07 kello 14:33 -0700, Ted Lemon kirjoitti: On Sep 7, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Raphael Jacquot wrote: - At least several hours of H.264 playback. possibly doable but I don't believe the current hardware can handle it The point here is