I now have a Treo 680, unlocked, unbranded, and in a lot of ways -- not
the least of which is the additional memory -- I'm pleased.
But is it my imagination or is the 680 actually slower responding to
button pushes than was the 650? Mostly it's my down button, so I suppose
there could be a problem there, but I thought I'd ask 680 users first.
Nico wrote:
> Look, you can not have your cake ánd eat it.
>
> One way or the other you need to do something with those files.
> Either you resize them, or you lower the framerate or whatever but something
> needs to be done.
>
> Overclocking alone is not going to do it (as a side note, it burns down
> battery a lot faster too and might result in other instabilities).
>
> Besides, why would you need to process ALL your video files at once ? You
> only need to handle those you are going to transfer to your Treo. You can
> only store 4Gb worth of video on your SD card so ... and compressing those
> vids will even result in you being able to store MORE videos on that same
> card.
>
> Greetz,
> Nico.
>
> On 4/22/07, Craig Froehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> So, in essence, you're suggesting that I duplicate hundreds of video
>> files, thereby wasting dozens of gigabytes of disk space, just to
>> compensate for the fact that the Treo needs about 20% more oomf in the
>> CPU area. Thanks, but no thanks.
>>
>> Any other ideas that don't require altering the original video files?
>>
>> BTW, in case anyone was going to suggest Kinoma, I just purchased the
>> upgrade Kinoma player ($14.95) to see if it had better performance
>> than TCPMP. I couldn't have been more wrong. Not only does Kinoma
>> Player 4 EX output about half the framerate (at best) that TCPMP does,
>> it won't even handle Xvid files. That's the last time I let myself
>> get suckered into buying commercialware without a demo first.
>>
>>
>> On 4/22/07, bbernstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> well the one other thing you could try, since you dont want to do
>>> what you really should, is to jump into the future and get a faster
>>> chip for the phone... but that would require a lot of energy for the
>>> time warp, and i think you could probably do it a lot easier by just
>>> resizing your vids...
>>>
>>> try vdub... its totally easy to use, free, and can do batch mode for
>>> converting tons of files at once using the same parameters if they
>>> are all 640x480... you just load one file up so you can set all the
>>> prefs (use the crop filter to resize it to 320x240), then put each
>>> one in the batch list, by loading the file and doing a save avi (with
>>> the setting "do not run this job now" so it puts it into the batch
>>> list), then just run the batch before ya go to bed, and when ya wake
>>> up in the morning they will all be done!!
>>>
>>> http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>> There is also a version called vdubmod that will load up .vob files
>>> (dvd's), but that is just to extract the video.. you still need to
>>> run it thru vdub after that to combine the vid and aud since vdubmod
>>> wont, but there are very few apps that will actually read .vob
>>> files...
>>>
>>> the only other thing you may not have is the Xvid codecs you would
>>> want...
>>>
>>> http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html
>>>
>>> peace,
>>> bb
>>> --- In [email protected], "Craig Froehle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey, guys, I was wondering if anyone has suggestions on how to get
>>>> TCPMP on a 700p to drop fewer frames when playing back VGA
>>>> (640x480)-sized Xvid videos. Currently, I'm getting about 1/3rd to
>>>> 1/4th of all frames dropped, and that's pretty noticeable.
>>>>
>>>> I'm specifically hoping for a settings tweak in TCPMP (I'm running
>>>> 0.72RC1) or a stable overclocking* solution or a definitive way to
>>>> determine whether it's my SD card that's causing the problem (I'm
>>>> using a 150X 4GB Transcend that seems to give blazing read speeds,
>>>>
>>> so
>>>
>>>> I don't think it's that).
>>>>
>>>> What I'm NOT looking for are suggestions to (a) reduce the video
>>>> resolution (I want to play these specific files), (b) buy a
>>>>
>>> different
>>>
>>>> media player app, unless it's just the best thing evar), or (c) tell
>>>> me to use a different video format (see (a) above).
>>>>
>>>> *I've tried the freeware version of PXA Clocker, but TCPMP either
>>>> shows no improvement (at some settings) or crashes immediately upon
>>>> launch (other settings). So no dice there.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance...
>>>> - Craig
>>>>
>>
>>
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