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Old 12-06-04, 07:13 PM   #61 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by serpa4
Although high numbers are great and I love them, but shouldn't those from SD or CF be used? What is the point of bench marking movies in Ram if there is only 30-40 available after most people do installs of their programs?
It's just for fun we did the test's ... In reallity, it does produce some intresting fact's. For instance, there is only about 10% speed increase when going from SD to memory. So the ram itself is running rather slow. This also illustrate's why MS is trying to move storage away from the ram, and onto flash memory. There is not a lot of speed difference between ram & flash ( atleased not in this example ).
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Old 12-06-04, 07:37 PM   #62 (permalink)
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So the ram itself is running rather slow. This also illustrate's why MS is trying to move storage away from the ram, and onto flash memory. There is not a lot of speed difference between ram & flash ( atleased not in this example ).
This is not entirely true. RAM speed is still much faster as SD if don't do any other tasks. But during video playback the slower SD is not a problem because the video decoding needs time and the SD controller has a good driver in X50v which can read the data in the background.

Benchmark the RL_XQ with audio and video 'disabled' option. This will basically read the file without processing it.
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Old 12-07-04, 09:19 AM   #63 (permalink)
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Went to download the .094 unstble version of the betaplayer and it's gone. Any idea on when it'll be back up?
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Old 12-07-04, 09:28 AM   #64 (permalink)
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Went to download the .094 unstble version of the betaplayer and it's gone. Any idea on when it'll be back up?
well it is unstable so it's hard to tell when it will be back...


But on the main website for Betaplayer there is this message...
"Latest unstable version currently not available. Will be back soon..."
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Old 12-07-04, 10:28 AM   #65 (permalink)
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This is an assumption, but I would guess that with the waves created by PocketTV Team on this site and others regarding BetaPlayer, that Picard is going through the code and making sure all his i's are dotted and t's are crossed, and then will release that version as .095 unstable.

For being unstable versions, I've found them to be unbelievably STABLE!
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Old 12-07-04, 10:46 AM   #66 (permalink)
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This is an assumption, but I would guess that with the waves created by PocketTV Team on this site and others regarding BetaPlayer, that Picard is going through the code and making sure all his i's are dotted and t's are crossed, and then will release that version as .095 unstable.

For being unstable versions, I've found them to be unbelievably STABLE!
This would be my guess too. If all he is doing however is adding comments ... I am not sure if it would classify as a new revision however?

In the end, all that counts is that indeed his i's are dotted and his t's crossed such that we can continue to have an awesome player.

Totally off topic ... but once he gets a "stable" version ... would Picard then have to change the name to "StablePlayer" :approve:
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Old 12-07-04, 10:49 AM   #67 (permalink)
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Question Installations in RAM question.

Originally Posted by serpa4
X50v running at 624MHz with BetaPlayer installed in RAM and the movie installed in RAM.

BetaPlayer Version UNSTABLE.0.094 Benchmark Results

Average Speed 192.71%
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Cool ... beat the overclocked benchmark.

Question:

Correct me if I am wrong ... but would storing things in RAM use up more power? I would think yes considering RAM needs to be refreshed. Therefore, if you have things stored in RAM, and you had your AXIM turned off for a long time ... would the AXIM be dead? Or, do the RAM contents gets pushed to the internal built in storage on power off?

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Old 12-07-04, 11:15 AM   #68 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by theoak
Correct me if I am wrong ... but would storing things in RAM use up more power? I would think yes considering RAM needs to be refreshed. Therefore, if you have things stored in RAM, and you had your AXIM turned off for a long time ... would the AXIM be dead? Or, do the RAM contents gets pushed to the internal built in storage on power off?
Doesent mather. Your ram wil automaticaly refresh becouse it's storing stuff from the OS. And there is no way they system can say: xxx is used, power, xxy isent used, no power needed etc etc. So the ram stays under the same amount of power even if it's for the most part empty ( sinds its still holding the OS data, thus it's never 100% empty ).

Leave your x50v out of the cradle, and you will notice a few % less on your battery over a night. Leave it there for a few weeks until the battery is completly empty ( and the 30min backup battery ), and say bye bye to everything in your memory. It's like a hard reset, exept your flash/rom will still contain it's data. The OS will then be put back onto the memory by the system.

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Cool ... beat the overclocked benchmark.
hehe ... i bet i can get up to 195% if i place betaplayer also in memory, and oc, but that's just no more fun ;)
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Old 12-07-04, 12:32 PM   #69 (permalink)
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hehe ... i bet i can get up to 195% if i place betaplayer also in memory, and oc, but that's just no more fun ;)
I hear ya ... :approve:
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Old 12-13-04, 01:35 AM   #70 (permalink)
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X50v running at 624MHz with BetaPlayer installed in RAM and the movie installed in RAM. Audio disabled:

BetaPlayer Version UNSTABLE.0.095 Benchmark Results

Average Speed 227.40%
Video Frames 3635
Amount of Data 29888 KB

Bench. Time 1:06.603
Bench. Frame Rate 54.58
Bench. Data Rate 3.7 Mbit/s

Original Time 2:31.448
Original Frame Rate 24.00
Original Data Rate 1.6 Mbit/s

RL_XQ_640x480_1500_128.avi
Size 30605312
Platform PocketPC
OS Version 4.21
OEM Info Dell Axim X50
Clock speed 656 Mhz
Video output Intel 2700G 480x640 Slow
Audio output Wave Output 44100Hz 16Bits 2Ch.
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Old 12-13-04, 01:46 AM   #71 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by serpa4
Clock speed 656 Mhz
Audio output Wave Output 44100Hz 16Bits 2Ch.
Didn't you accidentally copied the endpart from an older benchmark? On my device the clock meter works fine with 0.095 and if you disabled audio you shouldn't have the Audio output line.
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Old 12-13-04, 08:43 PM   #72 (permalink)
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Yes, I just coppied my previous post and updated the pertenent numbers. Ops on the last part of the data after RL_XQ....
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Old 04-08-05, 11:14 AM   #73 (permalink)
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Hello, I have a Dell X50 520 mhz and I use to watch some divx (located on my pc) in the original format over wifi with Betaplayer.
The films look very well, but they stop for 2 o 3 seconds every some minutes.

Can you tell me the right Betaplayer settings for my X50 (not V)??

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Old 04-08-05, 01:20 PM   #74 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Spiderman75
Hello, I have a Dell X50 520 mhz and I use to watch some divx (located on my pc) in the original format over wifi with Betaplayer.
The films look very well, but they stop for 2 o 3 seconds every some minutes.

Can you tell me the right Betaplayer settings for my X50 (not V)??

Thank you!!
Try disabling the "Power save mode" located in Dell WLAN utility to increase the WiFi speed. On an X50v, I can stream anything with a bitrate less than 1.5Mbps (192KB/s) without interruption via wifi in Betaplayer.
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Old 04-08-05, 03:53 PM   #75 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Guid
Try disabling the "Power save mode" located in Dell WLAN utility to increase the WiFi speed. On an X50v, I can stream anything with a bitrate less than 1.5Mbps (192KB/s) without interruption via wifi in Betaplayer.
I've done it, but my limit is 1.3 Mbit!

I have the italian version with A00 ROM. Is this the problem?
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