senioure

can ipaq 210 playback a vga(640*480) video at 30 frames/second with a bitrate of 1200-1500 mb??

gylman

It should be able to do so easily. My 4700 can do it using Coreplayer, and the 210 has a superior processor which Coreplayer supports.

In my opinion, the 210 is the best PDA for video playback ever made.

Mark9409

I generally use 640x480 and approx. 30fps, 750kbps. This produces a file about 550mb for a 1:40hr movie; and looks great on the iPAQ210. I could encode at a higher bite rate but I want to keep the file size at about 500mb.

Theemed

I've been eager to know other users' opinions about 210 and video playback since I started participating in this forum.
You guys are talking about videos encoded for the purpose of being watched on this PDA, but I am more partial to the easiness of copying the files you already got into a CF/SD and watch them from there. That mean DivX, XviD, Ogg or whatever, without wasting time converting anything, TCPMP is capable of doing the job anyway.
Do you have your own stats about that? I find that the 640x480 resolution kills the performance even if it's a PXA 310, making the framerate lower than it was on my 320x240 old PXA 270 ipaq 2400, usually no matter the video you're playing. Either that, or the CF card benchmarks suck, and I sould put everything on SD ;)

Mark9409

My movie files are encoded with Xvid compression, so you should have no problem with that. I have copied video files directly; mpg, avi, mpeg of various resolutions and they play without a problem. I have only used SD cards I don't know if CF cards would make a difference. I get the same results with CorePlayer or TCPMP.