Got a XDA Exec and loving it but a few questions

[Cardy_X]

Hi guys, got my xda exec and been looking on this board for any improvements i can make to it. Done a hard reset a couple of times and not really noticed a big difference between Basic and Corporate installs.

One of my questions is around the movies though, download some movies off the net as normal xvid movies. Play them on my pda and they do jerk quite a bit, has anyone played around and found a max bit rate etc that videos play really well at? Also, when i'm using tcpmp player is it true VGA or just upscaled to VGA?

Another question, i installed OzVGA with the vga packs on here and the effect in IE is amazing, I'll keep it just for that but my personal opinon is that the text is just TOO small for the today screen. One problem i got though is that my delete key on the keyboard stopped working. Anyone else experiance this?

Also one final thing, going to be using this as my work phone (obviously) any REALLY usefull additional software i could get. I am aware that i want to keep things at a minimum, will be driving for about an hour each morning and night for work so plenty of time doing nothing in the car (well paying attention to the road i guess!!)

Look forward to your responses.

Ian Hardy

[belfast-biker]

Also one final thing, going to be using this as my work phone (obviously) any REALLY usefull additional software i could get. I am aware that i want to keep things at a minimum, will be driving for about an hour each morning and night for work so plenty of time doing nothing in the car (well paying attention to the road i guess!!)






Thought about OZVGA, but holding off for now, although I'd love smaller text on my start menu, and smaller soft buttons at the bottom - already installed thinner scrollbars, which works well.

I'm on BASIC mode, because I'm a happy O2 customer, and didn't relish setting up MMS, GPRS etc on it... O2 Active is well uninstalled - who needs a useless interface on top of the good one we got already?

Using TCPMP for movies, getting them smooth. They all look well too. No more re-encoding necessary.

Had to play with settings to stop them pausing and loading every 15 seconds, but works well now - only streaming them over wifi makes them a little jerky, but not so much that it would annoy you - streaming al my music and movies from my PC downstairs at night is wonderful. :)

In terms of additional software, the Resco Media Suite is magnificent, all of it, Pocket Music is lovely, MS Voice Command will be fantastic when it's fully compatible, the VGA version of Ozi Explorer works a treat, Arvale II is good, Bejewelled is addictive, Egress is a great RSS Reader, GSPocketMagic is a must, Links plays well, Memmaid is well useful, MySportTraining is wonderfully motivating, Pocket Informant is still too slow, SCUMM brings the years back, SpriteBackup is now working, and Tennis Addict is as good as ever.

Also bought a GPS program, most expensive PDA product I've ever had, Prymenav Navigator it's called (used it on the JAM, not yet on the Exec), but it just doesn't play that well - horrible interface, not user friendly, some essential features missing. Works though. But sorry I bought it. No more penny pinching in future!

[Cardy_X]

thanks for replying so quickly, can you give me some info on what settings you changed to make the movies run so smoothly as i'm forever getting that 15 sec pause thing. Can be quite frustrating when i'm in the middle of a good film.

Thanks again.

Ian

[belfast-biker]

thanks for replying so quickly, can you give me some info on what settings you changed to make the movies run so smoothly as i'm forever getting that 15 sec pause thing. Can be quite frustrating when i'm in the middle of a good film.

Thanks again.

Ian


I'll check now....

Video/Smooth Zoom (only 50%)
Video/No dither
Video/Video Driver/DirectDraw

No Equalizer

(Hey - TCPMP is reporting my speed as a 104Mhz PXA27x?)

Auto prerotate
NO Microdrive mode
Normal Buffer size 2400KB, Preload at underrun 70%

Don't tick the following:
"no wireless MMX usage"
"Slow video memeory"
"Less rotation tearing"
"Prefer less bufering..."
"Override AVI frame.."

soft-drop tolerance is 55msec
hard is 700ms

tick "use blitting" and use device stret6cing"

untick "use hardware vertical zooming"
tick "use buffer flipping" and "allocate buffers"



Haven't a clue which of those is the golden settingmaking it all work, but those work for me!