i have been having a problem getting beta player to play a 640X 480 @ 30 fps video on my x50v without out pausing to rebuffer every few seconds or so. The file is 32 MB and Ive tried both sd and cf cards. is this data rate too high?
Thanks

You didn't actually tell us what the data rate was, however the X50v has been proven to playback video at bitrates up to 5.5MBit, full VGA resolution, which is much higher than any real video should ever need.

Could you please run the video through Betaplayer's benchmark feature and post the resulting log file here.

Check if beta player is using the graphics chip
or you could try allocating more memery for programs

Here's the log file. I noticed while it was playing in benchmark mode, it didn't stutter, but obviously the data rate for this clip is too high.

I wasn't trying for a high data rate, it's the native output file from my Fuji Finepix S7000 camera. I guess I'm going to be out of luck in taking movies on CF and playing them directly without processing them? Anyone know of a way that I could? I don't think the camera has either a resolution or frame rate adjustment for video.
Thanks for the help and the pointer to the benchmark functionality.

BetaPlayer Version UNSTABLE.0.096 Benchmark Results

Average Speed 59.90%
Video Frames 900
Audio Samples 1028864
Amount of Data 34270 KB

Bench. Time 0:50.082
Bench. Frame Rate 17.97
Bench. Sample Rate 20543
Bench. Data Rate 5.6 Mbit/s

Original Time 0:29.999
Original Frame Rate 30.00
Original Sample Rate 16000
Original Data Rate 9.4 Mbit/s

URL \CF Card\DCIM\101_FUJI\DSCF1832.AVI
Size 35093040
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 16000Hz 16Bits 1Ch.

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checksum of this file: 1875b79a9b5ede56

Anybody have a response to this? Is there a buffer setting that will play 640x480 movies straight from cameras without the buffering gaps?

The s7000 should be able to adjust between 640x480 and 320x240 for video, 30fps with sound for both. Have you tried increasing the buffer size in TCPMP?