sacbudz

i use pocket tv to view mpeg music videos that I download from kazaa. When i watch them on my computer the videos are crisp and run clear. However, when I load them to my axim(400mhz) the video is choppy. Is there anything anyone could suggest to make the video play better. I also tried watching a windows media video and that played even worse. please help.

desiv

Yeah, that's normal.. You have to scale (sample) the video down to a PPC friendly resolution, framerate, etc..

You can do that with desktop WMP, or Virtualdub or Flaskmpeg or Tmpeg or a few others...

I haven't done much PPC video work myself, so no recommendations here... But I've heard there's some good web tutorials on how to do it...

desiv

Fritz

Check this tutorial out. Wicked, no-brainer! I ripped like 3 movies lastnite using the double-pass method... yup, you'll definately want to use the 'job control' batch method to let it run while you sleep!

Cheers.

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Luda

i just upgraded ti PPC 2003 and i no longer have choppy videos, i coulnt really watch anything w/ 2002. jsutm y 2 cents

axzilla

I have ppc 2002 on my x5 and my videos play smoothly. I was using pocket tv to play mpegs at first but once I tried betaplayer I dont use pocket tv anymore. There was some noticeable skipping every now and then with pocket tv but no skipping for the same movie file with betaplayer. I think the only reason you saw an improvement with ppc 2003 was that it doubles the buss speed which speeds up reading but it puts a big hit on your battery life. I would bet a 2002 os pda will run longer on a single charge than a 2003 os pda but I could be wrong if you put the 2003 os in powersave mode.