Is iPaq 210 capable to play DVD quality video smoothly?

khtwo · 12-19-07, 01:53 PM

Does anyone know about this? I mean, can we play 640 pixel wide video smoothly on 210 and use full advantage of the big screen? Thanks!
Besides, which video format does 210 support? Does it support mp4?

spunker88 · 12-19-07, 06:11 PM

With tcpmp installed you can play a lot of formats and they will play smoothly. Forget the built in wmp.

spud42 · 12-19-07, 09:53 PM

without actually having one no one can say..

however if you go to the other thread there are several links about it including some reviews of pre production models. the new processor has built in movie support so it should be no problem. it is a 624MHz processor after all..i play divx etc with TCPMP on my 4700 without shrinking screen size...

khtwo · 12-20-07, 02:32 AM

Thanks! Everyone

spunker88 · 12-20-07, 06:36 AM

Originally Posted by spud42

without actually having one no one can say..

however if you go to the other thread there are several links about it including some reviews of pre production models. the new processor has built in movie support so it should be no problem. it is a 624MHz processor after all..i play divx etc with TCPMP on my 4700 without shrinking screen size...

True, but its very similar to the x51v in hardware, so it should play video just as good as that. And ive heard of people playing dvd easliy video easily on them.
Although i would suggest converting it down to more of a mobile sized video. Its only a 640x480 display, compared to dvd quality, and it would also save disc space.

tangerine · 12-20-07, 10:37 AM

You can play 640 pixel video very smoothly on 210 with big screen, but it depended what kind of video codec and how many fram rate on your video source, typically the framerate of mobile device shall be around 20-30 fps(frames/persec).

210 used very powerful CPU at 624mHZ, it supports 30 frame rate VGA (640*480) H.264 +AAC decoder. And the performance is much better than iPAQ 4700 with ATI 2D HW accelerate. It shall be the first device in the world to support VGA quality Video playback smoothly without any additinal HW accelarate chip.

Regarding the format, 210 just support default MS Windows Mobile format offically, it did not support MP4. But you will find some free software to playback your movie with a wide range codec support from internet, the most famous appliation is TCPMP (CorePlayer) and the 0.72RC looks good in MP4support.

khtwo · 12-20-07, 04:56 PM

I did some research on internet,and found that currently there's no decent RMVB player available for PPC (mPlayer might have the potential, but still in progress). If I need to convert RMVB to avi, what bitrate and FPS do you suggest for 640 x 320 video? Some one said 15 FPS is good enough for play, is that true?

tangerine · 12-29-07, 05:07 AM

15 fps is acceptable for your eyes, but not the best. Balance the acceptance framerate and iPAQ210 CPU speed for better effect and performance, my suggestion is you can try 24 fps if the video codec is H.264.

spud42 · 12-29-07, 06:01 AM

i can watch divx copies of movies without having to reduce the size. i play 700meg divx movies from my seagate 4gig Hdd. i use the latest TCPMP and a couple of plugins and play at full frame rate no skip. a 210 will do even better .
Marvell: PXA310 Processor Series

AntDX316 · 01-24-08, 02:08 AM

the ipaq 110 has the same processor as the 210 and the performance is much better than all the other PDA ones cause the PXA310 vs 270 is performance can be up to 100 percent at the same clock speed

intel sold the assets of the PXA to marvell

also the processors was benched and the utilization while decoding a real high DVD file was around 80+ for the 270 with the 310 was 40 percent usage