Maximum Resolution / Framerate Possible?, What's your best results Options

[omega]

What is the best resolution / framerate / codec solution for playing videos that people have been able to do on these Cxx0 machines?

particularly interested in pdaxrom solutions...

[guylhem]

speculatrix, do you use mplayer+bvdd for the playback?

For the encoding, I suggest you prerotate the video and try to change the audio bitrate from 22050 to 44100 or even 48000. As stupid as it may seem, some Zauruses (can't remember which) can't easily convert the samples, and that will eat cpu time.

However if you provide them with the samplerate best suited for the audio, you'll save time. I also suggest you try to overclock.

[speculatrix]

speculatrix, do you use mplayer+bvdd for the playback?

For the encoding, I suggest you prerotate the video and try to change the audio bitrate from 22050 to 44100 or even 48000. As stupid as it may seem, some Zauruses (can't remember which) can't easily convert the samples, and that will eat cpu time.

However if you provide them with the samplerate best suited for the audio, you'll save time. I also suggest you try to overclock.

I was using the latest cacko-feed mplayer with w100 drivers, on my SL-C860. Yes, I found that the wrong audio sampling rate made a huge difference! Also, I found overclocking was a must...

actually, I remember I was using 640x400 (16:9), which helped quite a bit, I think it was pretty much the limit; I'm sure mplayer would have been dropped frames; complex movement would end up blocky too.

when I get a chance I'll make a sample movie available for download and post the details for the encoding.

I found it difficult to get the precise encoding control using windows media toolkit.