You're not getting the point. It's a smaller screen with a lower resolution than the TV in your living room ... you're going to have to down-rez no matter what you do. It's better to do it to the video prior to putting it on the handheld rather than force the handheld itself to do it on the fly. The slower processors in handhelds are a bottleneck when trying to do the down-rezzing in real time. You'll likely get choppy video (dropped frames) and audio playback, and it will use up the battery on your device even faster.
If you use a decent program and codec, you can end up with very good down-rezzing results. I have tried Divx, Xvid, and MPEG4, and have gotten good video with all of them. I've settled on using the MPEG4 files that the "Nero Recode" subprogram of my Nero 8 Ultra Edition software produces. I set the target file size to 512MB, so on my 8GB SDHC card I can fit quite a few of them. It also gives me very decent video and sound, and the handheld doesn't have to do anything other than play them since they're already the right size. TCPMP plays them very well. --- Michael ..... Original Message ....... On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:05:57 -0800 (PST) Craig Froehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Technically, the "best performance" would be offered by whatever could play >and display full 480p video, which is my objective (down-rezzing leads to >lost detail and is a compromise). > >...... Original Message ....... >On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:36:00 -0600 "Michael M. Rye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>You might just have to bite the bullet and do it anyway >>if you want the best performance. >> >>--- >>Michael >> >> >> >>Craig Froehle wrote: >>> Yep, I have (especially for the kid's videos) but I really hate having >to >>> maintain a QVGA res file for the Treo, an HVGA res file for the TX, and >a >>> full res file for when I watch it on TV or a laptop. That's just a >waste >>> of drive space and a waste of time doing two extra encodings. >>> >>> ...... Original Message ....... >>> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:38:14 -0600 "Michael M. Rye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >>> >>>> Have you tried rescaling the video to the size you need >>>> before putting it on the TX? That way it would not have >>>> to do it during playback, and the experience will be much >>>> better. >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Michael >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Craig Froehle wrote: >>>> >>>>> Like many of you, I've used my Treo as a video player from time to >>>>> time. I'm tired of the small screen (a widescreen movie on a 2.5" >>>>> diagonal square screen is *really* small) and have been trying to use >>>>> a Palm T|X (it's better, but it bogs down trying to rescale 480p video >>>>> to its 480x320 screen in real time). Unsatisfied by that, I'm curious >>>>> if anyone here has a device that they're completely satisfied with as >>>>> a portable video player. Ideally, I'd like something that isn't >>>>> locked into a certain format (e.g., iPods) and has a 4-5" screen while >>>>> still being light and small(ish). Any suggestions? TIA. >>>>> - Craig >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >>Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
