This app is bloody brilliant. Works in ozVGA and I was streaming 700+mb divx encodes from my media server at full screen with no noticeable flaws.
If this did rm files I could toss realplayer.
Cheers
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Hi everyone, Been working alot lately. I have tested the BetaPlayer daily and have yet to find a bug. I'm off for the next two days and will continue testing. Thanks Again to all those who have helped! ;}
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This is an excerpt from the Trusted Reviews Review of the X50v; "My previous experience of getting DIVX content to play on PocketPC have been pretty dissapointing, but in a quite timely fashion an independent programmer has come up with a new application for PocketPC for reading DIVX and XVID content with far greater performance than any previous application. There’s even a plug-in available to take advantage of the ‘Marathon’ graphics chip. This app is called ‘BetaPlayer’ and can be downloaded here. Don’t be put of by the ‘Unstable’ description as it worked flawlessly for me. Once installed I copied over a 700MB DIVX film to my 1GB IBM Microdrive, and was simply bowled over by the smoothness and quality of the playback."
Now that that lovefest is over How about...
Well I've got nothing really, I just wanted you to see this excerpt, :hide: ;)
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I've played some divx for the Benches, all read from a folder on my PC connected by Wifi with my Dell in Standard VGA(I don't have any storage card yet):
- a pretty bad XVID :
BetaPlayer Version UNSTABLE.0.096 Benchmark Results
Average Speed 136.82%
Video Frames 2003
Audio Samples 3838464
Amount of Data 6890 KB
Bench. Time 0:58.557
Bench. Frame Rate 34.21
Bench. Sample Rate 65552
Bench. Data Rate 964 kbit/s
Original Time 1:20.119
Original Frame Rate 25.00
Original Sample Rate 48000
Original Data Rate 704 kbit/s
URL \Réseau\E pierre on PCPIERRE\DIVX\Lorie - Live Tour.avi
Size 732233622
Platform PocketPC
OS Version 4.21
OEM Info Dell Axim X50
Clock speed 624 Mhz
Video output Intel 2700G 480x640 Slow
Audio output Wave Output 48000Hz 16Bits 2Ch.
----------------------------------------------------------------- A really good Divx 5.0:
BetaPlayer Version UNSTABLE.0.096 Benchmark Results
Average Speed 240.72%
Video Frames 9006
Audio Samples 17313408
Amount of Data 30512 KB
Bench. Time 2:29.650
Bench. Frame Rate 60.18
Bench. Sample Rate 115698
Bench. Data Rate 1.7 Mbit/s
Original Time 6:00.239
Original Frame Rate 25.00
Original Sample Rate 48000
Original Data Rate 694 kbit/s
URL \Réseau\E pierre on PCPIERRE\DIVX\Harry Potter Et Le Prisonnier D'Azkaban\Harry Potter Et Le Prisonnier D'Azkaban.avi
Size 738480128
Platform PocketPC
OS Version 4.21
OEM Info Dell Axim X50
Clock speed 624 Mhz
Video output Intel 2700G 480x640 Slow
Audio output Wave Output 48000Hz 16Bits 2Ch.
----------------------------------------------------------------- One of my best XVID (splendid image!,almost Dvd-like) :
BetaPlayer Version UNSTABLE.0.096 Benchmark Results
Average Speed 170.59%
Video Frames 3464
Audio Samples 6670080
Amount of Data 15567 KB
Bench. Time 1:21.223
Bench. Frame Rate 42.65
Bench. Sample Rate 82121
Bench. Data Rate 1.6 Mbit/s
Original Time 2:18.559
Original Frame Rate 25.00
Original Sample Rate 48000
Original Data Rate 920 kbit/s
URL \Réseau\E pierre on PCPIERRE\DIVX\Les Choristes\Les Choristes.avi
Size 733562880
Platform PocketPC
OS Version 4.21
OEM Info Dell Axim X50
Clock speed 624 Mhz
Video output Intel 2700G 480x640 Slow
Audio output Wave Output 48000Hz 16Bits 2Ch.
And now, the same Harry Potter as above, in TRUE VGA
BetaPlayer Version UNSTABLE.0.096 Benchmark Results
Average Speed 270.35%
Video Frames 4784
Audio Samples 9207936
Amount of Data 14161 KB
Bench. Time 1:10.781
Bench. Frame Rate 67.59
Bench. Sample Rate 130094
Bench. Data Rate 1.6 Mbit/s
Original Time 3:11.359
Original Frame Rate 25.00
Original Sample Rate 48000
Original Data Rate 606 kbit/s
URL \Réseau\E pierre on PCPIERRE\DIVX\Harry Potter Et Le Prisonnier D'Azkaban\Harry Potter Et Le Prisonnier D'Azkaban.avi
Size 738480128
Platform PocketPC
OS Version 4.21
OEM Info Dell Axim X50
Clock speed 624 Mhz
Video output Intel 2700G 480x640 Slow
Audio output Wave Output 48000Hz 16Bits
ps: I don't get it: what means:
Video output Intel 2700G 480x640 Slow?
Intel 2700G is the base video plugin used (the 'decoder' postfix not shown here). 480x640 is obvious. 'Slow' is that 'slow video memory' option is checked in advanced settings (this is because accessing the video memory of 2700G is slower as accessing normal memory, but because the 2700G does the decoding the player itself don't have to write too much into the video memory itself).
I've been experiencing occasional crashes with Betaplayer running with 2700g plugin.. Not just the latest unstable release, but every release since the first 2700g version.. It only occurs when pausing the video, by tapping the screen.. usually if I'm watching and I want to pause the video, I'll tap the screen and the full user interface is restored and video is paused. But occasionally, betaplayer will lock up and stay in fullscreen landscape mode with the image replaced with a blank image.. Screen and buttons then are locked and have no response, necessitating a soft reset..
I haven't posted about this, since it is minor and only happens occasionally, but was wondering why nobody else has mentioned it.. Has this happened to anyone else? or is it just me..
Last edited by Don't Panic!; 01-21-05 at 11:06 AM.
the file is 700mb - I only need to fit one movie on the compact flash and I'm too lazy to convert the movie to a smaller size. when I try to skip to different scenes, it'll tell me that the index file is corrupt and I cant use the seek bar. then after a few minutes of playing the movie, it'll skip ahead to a different scene. then eventually the movie freezes with the sound looping. I can still close the player and it doesn't need a soft reset. the file is a divx file. I've alo tried pocketmvp, and it doesn't even play the file, it just hangs.
on my computer the movie plays perfectly in media player, no errors while skipping, etc.
I'm using unstable .096.
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Try Defragging your CF card or a scandisk with fix errors. I had that happen with a PCMCIA hard drive and doing that fixed it. It was like the Ax was losing the connection or something. I bet at some point if you look in file explorer you won't see the CF card until you soft reset.
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Ok, First off, I just wanted to thank you very much for your work on this program, and your generosity, because I could easily see paying $25 for this program (And the support is good too, or so I hear ) For these reasons I emptied out my Paypal account for you, (Yeah, so I only had $1 in there, whatever )
But since I did donate in whatever small portion, I feel entitled to mention one small 'annoyance' I found after playing around with the program for about 2 weeks or so now. I used the very handy 'Hot Key' function to make a button assignment looking like
Calendar - Next
Contacts - Previous
Mail - Fullscreen
Home - Screen On/Off
So when I am working I like to listen to Mp3's, but toggle my screen off, as to use less battery power. But when I push the next or previous buttons to skip a song, the screen flashes on for about 1 second. Not a big deal, but just one of those things
I found a bug with the playlist saving functionality. When I try to save a playlist in a folder, it always saves it as the name of the current folder, and puts the file in the current folder's parent folder. So for example, if I try to save a playlist in the \folder1\folder2\ folder, no matter what I name it, it will always be saved as \folder1\folder2.pls. This is mildly annoying, and although I can make it work, it'd be nice if the program named and saved the playlists correctly to begin with.
I've been experiencing occasional crashes with Betaplayer running with 2700g plugin.. Not just the latest unstable release, but every release since the first 2700g version.. It only occurs when pausing the video, by tapping the screen.. usually if I'm watching and I want to pause the video, I'll tap the screen and the full user interface is restored and video is paused. But occasionally, betaplayer will lock up and stay in fullscreen landscape mode with the image replaced with a blank image.. Screen and buttons then are locked and have no response, necessitating a soft reset..
I haven't posted about this, since it is minor and only happens occasionally, but was wondering why nobody else has mentioned it.. Has this happened to anyone else? or is it just me..
i encountered similar problem. it's just i can't seem to find a pattern of this problem, so i didn't post it..
besides what you mentioned that the problem can happen when tappig the screen to pause it, i found it also happen when i press the "OK" button at the upper-right corner of the playlist, or when it finishes the current video clip and goes on to the next one in the playlist, or after I do the benchmark and save the result, or simly when the videoclip ends..
but it happens occasionally, sometime when I try to reproduce problem, i just can't reproduce it..
But one thing is for sure (it's not for sure. I just encountered the same problem when using my SD card, when i taped on the screen to pause it, it just hang there. I had to do a soft reset...), that is all this happens when the videos clips are on my CF card... (i am using a Hagiwara CF 1GB, it's much slower than my SD card, but it still show around 146% benchmark result for the largest Matrix trailer.. I am not sure whether it is because of the CF card...)
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) For these reasons I emptied out my Paypal account for you, (Yeah, so I only had $1 in there, whatever 
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