DivX Goes Windows Mobile with DivX Mobile

[Rocco Augusto]

http://mobile.divx.com/divx

Not yet ready for place-shift video streaming but you have a bunch of DivX encoded movies on your HDD? Then it's time to download DivX new mobile player which was just released and which is called "DivX Mobile". Beside supporting Symbian S60 and UIQ, the new DivX Mobile player also supports Windows Mobile in all its flavors - from Windows Mobile 2003 and Second Edition Pocket PCs up to Windows Mobile 5.0 as well as Windows Mobile 6.0 (including Classic, Professional and Standard devices). DivX Mobile Player will try to play any video on any device, but playback performance will depend on the phone's processor speed (DivX recommends 200 MHz or faster).





When we first brought news of Divx Mobile to you guys a few months back I was incredibly excited. After spending about a day and a half testing videos with the player, that excitement turned into serious disappointment. Not much has changed since then. The player still has a few major bugs that keep me from using it full time on my Samsung Blackjack. One of the most major bugs is that it completely destroys my home screen after using it in full screen mode. The moment I close the application it looks as if someone just shoved all of the content on my home screen down a bit which causes me to have to restart my device to get everything back to normal. I'm not sure if this is just a Samsung Blackjack related bug or if it affects all Windows Mobile Standard users. If you do try this application out, proceed with caution!

[Rocco Augusto]

http://mobile.divx.com/divx

Not yet ready for place-shift video streaming but you have a bunch of DivX encoded movies on your HDD? Then it's time to download DivX new mobile player which was just released and which is called "DivX Mobile". Beside supporting Symbian S60 and UIQ, the new DivX Mobile player also supports Windows Mobile in all its flavors - from Windows Mobile 2003 and Second Edition Pocket PCs up to Windows Mobile 5.0 as well as Windows Mobile 6.0 (including Classic, Professional and Standard devices). DivX Mobile Player will try to play any video on any device, but playback performance will depend on the phone's processor speed (DivX recommends 200 MHz or faster).





When we first brought news of Divx Mobile to you guys a few months back I was incredibly excited. After spending about a day and a half testing videos with the player, that excitement turned into serious disappointment. Not much has changed since then. The player still has a few major bugs that keep me from using it full time on my Samsung Blackjack. One of the most major bugs is that it completely destroys my home screen after using it in full screen mode. The moment I close the application it looks as if someone just shoved all of the content on my home screen down a bit which causes me to have to restart my device to get everything back to normal. I'm not sure if this is just a Samsung Blackjack related bug or if it affects all Windows Mobile Standard users. If you do try this application out, proceed with caution!

[bitbank]

The problem you're seeing on your BlackJack sounds like the GAPI bug. If an application "opens" the display for GAPI access, then the BlackJack displays a "double" taskbar which won't go away until you power off the device. This is totally avoidable since GAPI should not be used on that device anyway.

L.B.

[srsabu]

Have you tried just reloading the homescreen? I've seen a few applications do something that sounds like that on my blackjack, and I just use the Facade 'reload homescreen' and it clears it up. Before I got Facade, I'd have two different copies of my homescreen and just switch from one to the other whenever it got messed up like that.

[Mark Larson]

If this just plays DivX, I don't see what are the advantages of using this instead of TCPMP, which has been happily playing DivX/XviD on WM phones since 2003.

[Rocco Augusto]

Originally Posted by srsabu

Have you tried just reloading the homescreen? I've seen a few applications do something that sounds like that on my blackjack, and I just use the Facade 'reload homescreen' and it clears it up. Before I got Facade, I'd have two different copies of my homescreen and just switch from one to the other whenever it got messed up like that.

I was trying that last night when I was playing around with the application a bit more and my device would just freeze when I tried to load a new homescreen.

Originally Posted by Mark Larson

If this just plays DivX, I don't see what are the advantages of using this instead of TCPMP, which has been happily playing DivX/XviD on WM phones since 2003.

At the moment there is no difference (minus, you know... actually working) but hopefully in the future this program could be used for streaming Divx/Xvid content similar to the Divx Web Player that is out today.