playing video on athena - Please Share your experiences

[paulorosa]

Please Share your experiences.

For example:

1) What is the best video player ( coreplayer, tcpmp,others)

2) What is the best video output method in coreplayer and tcpmp ( Ati IMAGEON, direct draw,etc)

3) What is the best video format to play , xvid , wmv, divx,etc

4) What is the best resolution to play in athena

5) Is better to convert before play, or doesn't mater

6) Playing subtitles, , and flicker problems

7) others

[GSmart i350]

tcpmp .081 Ati IMAGEON result is not good
but I do not know why

3) divx

5) 6) PocketDivxEncoder

[dennistaylor]

I'm using AP4 rom and only use xcpuscalar (from immieresoft.com) @ 624 or 663MHz when viewing movies on TCPMP. Problems usually only occur when the Athena's auto cpu scaling changes speeds and xcpuscalar eliminates those changes.

To encode, I use dvdDecrypter to copy movies onto my hard-drive and AutoGordianKnot to convert to Xvid avi and set maximum width (advanced settings) to 640 and output size to Target quality 100%. The movies usually benchmark really close to 100% (sometimes slightly more or slightly less) and have minimal frame drops on most movies (the best was 7~13 out of 19,###).

I've been very happy with my x7501 lately...

[paulorosa]

My best setting's for TCMP 0.72 RC1 are:

Check:
ATI IMAGEON
DITHER

Unchek:
Smooth Zoom (only 50%)
Smooth Zomm (always)

Quality-> Normal

Video runs ok, good speed.
Subtiltes no so good (flicker problems)

[calculon]

I'm using TCPMP 0.71 with good results
My checked settings are:
Video >
Smooth Zoom (only 50%)
Quality normal
video > Raw Framebuffer

I also enabled Microdrive mode with a buffer of 16000KB

I also have these TCPMP plugins:
AC3
FFMPEG
Vorbis LQ

For Encoding nothing beats Pocket DivX encoder.

Cheers!

[berk_bear]

I think, ATI Imageon (using "ati3200.plg" plugin for TCPMP, or internal ATI-plugin in Core Player (turn OFF hardware acceleration for nice work)) chosen as a video driver - the best solution. It shows the best results in benchmark, better than Raw Framebuffer or Direct Draw. But if you use Core Player (TCPMP) with ATI Imageon driver after using camera, you must reboot (soft-reset) your device for normal work of driver. And remember - turn flag off from "hardware acceleration" in Core Player (video).

DVD-rips plays good. :)

[berk_bear]

ATI-plugin for TCPMP attached here:

[Xotic_X_tremist]

Using CorePlayer ver.1.1.3 & TCPMP 0.72+ATI Driver3200.
Both have a problem: DELAYED VOICE SOUND after 1-2 minutes playing.
Any suggestions?