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imported_EasternCanuck · 04-18-06, 10:23 AM

A bit of info on frame rate for the DS using their media player, the Play Yan. This information is from IGN back in February 2005. I'm not sure but I would think improvements have been/will be shortly made. Viewing will certainly be better now on the DS Lite with the improved back lighting.

"We found compression times to be a bit slow. On a Pentium 4 3.2GHz machine, it took about three minutes to compress a three minute high-quality AVI file to the highest Play-Yan setting (480kbps, 240x176, 30fps). The resulting file size was 12,664KB. Reducing the quality to the standard setting (352kbps, 240x176, 30.0fps), and the file size was reduced to 9,632KB with compression taking just about the same amount of time. Reducing quality further to the lowest setting (224kbps, 240x176, 15fps) and the file size was reduced to 6,408KB with a two minutes and ten seconds compression time.
These settings translate to low to reasonable video quality when clips are played back on a Play-Yan hooked up to a DS or GBA-SP. We noticed clear artifacts even in the highest quality setting, mostly on videos with high brightness. However, both the highest quality and standard quality settings make for reasonable viewing, especially with darker footage. Lowest quality is a bit harder to look at thanks to the drop in frame rate, but we've found ourselves putting up with worse on the iRiver color 320 series player, so if you want to fit a lot on a small SD card, the lowest setting could be your thing.

Actually getting videos up and running on Play-Yan is much simpler than it is on Sony's PSP. You can copy your movie files to any location on the SD card. After starting up Play-Yan, a startup menu asks you to select between viewing movies and listening to music. Select the movie option and Play-Yan scans the SD card, including sub-directories, and displays all ASF movie files in index form. We didn't have to worry about any sort of naming convention, neither for directories nor for movie files."

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imported_EasternCanuck Aximsite Major League Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 358 Location: Singapore (so far away from Canadian soil!) iTrader Rating: (0) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts View MyPDA	A bit of info on frame rate for the DS using their media player, the Play Yan. This information is from IGN back in February 2005. I'm not sure but I would think improvements have been/will be shortly made. Viewing will certainly be better now on the DS Lite with the improved back lighting. "We found compression times to be a bit slow. On a Pentium 4 3.2GHz machine, it took about three minutes to compress a three minute high-quality AVI file to the highest Play-Yan setting (480kbps, 240x176, 30fps). The resulting file size was 12,664KB. Reducing the quality to the standard setting (352kbps, 240x176, 30.0fps), and the file size was reduced to 9,632KB with compression taking just about the same amount of time. Reducing quality further to the lowest setting (224kbps, 240x176, 15fps) and the file size was reduced to 6,408KB with a two minutes and ten seconds compression time. These settings translate to low to reasonable video quality when clips are played back on a Play-Yan hooked up to a DS or GBA-SP. We noticed clear artifacts even in the highest quality setting, mostly on videos with high brightness. However, both the highest quality and standard quality settings make for reasonable viewing, especially with darker footage. Lowest quality is a bit harder to look at thanks to the drop in frame rate, but we've found ourselves putting up with worse on the iRiver color 320 series player, so if you want to fit a lot on a small SD card, the lowest setting could be your thing. Actually getting videos up and running on Play-Yan is much simpler than it is on Sony's PSP. You can copy your movie files to any location on the SD card. After starting up Play-Yan, a startup menu asks you to select between viewing movies and listening to music. Select the movie option and Play-Yan scans the SD card, including sub-directories, and displays all ASF movie files in index form. We didn't have to worry about any sort of naming convention, neither for directories nor for movie files." __________________ Eastern Canuck Remember, for every mile of road there's two miles of ditch.