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Title: SHARP Zaurus MPEG-4 Video Recorder
Post by: w14 on April 04, 2004, 02:39:50 pm

Anyone any comments / experience of this?

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Title: SHARP Zaurus MPEG-4 Video Recorder
Post by: padishah_emperor on April 04, 2004, 03:50:06 pm

I believe it records wmv (encoded MPEG-4 video, MP3 audio) files as used by the C series video player at 320x240 if I remember correctly, part of the Aquos TV thing.

Title: SHARP Zaurus MPEG-4 Video Recorder
Post by: CrossBow on April 06, 2004, 09:04:46 pm

I have one of these.

With the new Cacko 1.20 ROM, the files it records play very nicely on my C700.  (They did not play with the factory ROM) .

I have never gotten the files to play properly on anything else.  I tried them on a Windows machine in a store, and after an automatic Windows Media Player update, it did play the video, but I do not think it ever played the sound.

Despite loading every codec I could get my hands on, I never got the files to play in mplayer, but in theory it should be possible to make it work.

If you can read Japanese, and you have a Japanese version of Windows, there is a patch that is supposed to correct the files that it makes.  I was not about to attempt a flash upgrade based on software I could not even read.
 
You can also change the default settings to correct color, increase frame rate, etc.  Again, this S/W is Win only, and in Japanese.  It does run under Wine, but again, I cannot read it.

Also note a few things:

1.  It DOES NOT play back.  It has video out only for on screen displays.
2.  The on screen displays are in Japanese.
3.  It has no tuner.  You can program it like a VCR, but you can only select which of 2 video inputs to record.

For basic operation, and even setting the timer, if you can program a VCR, and your IQ is greater than pi, you can figure it out  even if you do not read Japanese.

Title: SHARP Zaurus MPEG-4 Video Recorder
Post by: offroadgeek on April 06, 2004, 09:16:50 pm

I\'ve always wanted one of these... I thought it would be the easiest way to record my favorite tv shows/movies for playback on the Z.  But I ended up getting the Panasonic SV-AV30 last year, so I can take videos of my offroading adventures.

The nice thing about this unit (as well as the SV-AV30), whatever is recorded on the SD card can be immediately viewed on a C series Z, since the default sharp media player plays wmv/asf files.