08-01-2003, 07:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Windows Media Player 9 Series for the Pocket PC - Awesome Performance!
I don't even know if that's technically the correct name for the app that ships with Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PCs, but I wanted to give Microsoft credit where credit is due. I'm heading out of town to visit some friends this weekend, and they haven't seen our dog Keiko yet. Like a good "parent" I took some video footage on my GL2 as our puppy was growing up. But being the time-challenged person I am, I didn't have the time or desire to manually edit the video into a masterpiece - so I just fed it through the amazing Muvee and got a cute little video to show them. I'm testing the iPAQ 1940, and was curious about the performance of the 266 mHZ Samsung ARM processor in it. How much power does it really have?
I also heard about WMP9 being able to handle fairly high bit rates, so I was curious to know if the 256 Kbps preset in Windows Media Encoder 9 was overly conservative. It was! I manually changed the encoding parameters to devote a full 300 Kbps just for video, and 64 Kbps for the audio. I also bumped up the frames per second to 24 from 20, and the results are excellent! The 1940 was able to play back the video without any problems at all, and the extra 100 Kbps or so devoted to the video makes the quality noticeably better. I plan to push it even higher when I get back - this Samsung CPU is impressive for only 266 Mhz! And kudos to Microsoft for radically improving the performance of WMP when it comes to video - they really worked some magic with the code.
Check out the video for yourself (1.78 MB), and if you have a Pocket PC 2003 device, try it out - the quality is great!
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08-01-2003, 07:29 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 2
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Sounds good. Does anyone know how well it performs with higher bitrate music over a wireless lan? Does it still pause to buffer music every couple seconds like the previous version?
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08-01-2003, 07:37 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 48
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Cute dog. Now maybe I have a reason to convince my wife that we need a dv camera. It's for the dog! :-)
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08-01-2003, 07:42 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 3
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Hmm, I not exactly overwelmed by this performance.
I use PocketTV Pro on an Ipaq 3600 to view a large collection of video clips which I shot on miniDV, uploaded onto my notebook, then transcoded to mpeg using Tsunami. It took a considerable amount of time playing around with all the different encoding parameters to get the best performance. I don't have the exact settings to hand at this moment, but using PocketTv to view the properties of one of my video-clips shows;-
audio bitrate: 64Kb
video bitrate: variable
total bitrate: 1,073Kb
frames: 25/sec
size: 240x176
The clips all play wonderfully smooth and sharp, even on the 4096 colours of the ipaq 3600.
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08-01-2003, 08:17 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 100
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Anyone else think this article was just an excuse for Jason to show us all his puppy? 
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08-01-2003, 09:31 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 137
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Originally Posted by NeilE
Anyone else think this article was just an excuse for Jason to show us all his puppy? |
But Keiko's a cutie so excuse well used 
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08-01-2003, 09:36 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 63
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OK, now can someone give me the name of the track he has playing along with the video? The song sounds familiar, but it's driving me nuts trying to remember the title.
tnx in advance!
Moo
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08-01-2003, 10:34 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 117
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Jason,
If I recall, I believe you also played with the 2215 (?). Overall
for video, how does the 1940 compare with the 2215? Does
one feel "snappier" than the other?
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08-01-2003, 10:37 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 38
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FIX YOUR MIME TYPE!
Don't mean to shout, just wanted to be noticed! The mime-type for the wmv file is not set correctly. I believe it is set to text/plain, and as a result, the video shows up as garbage in Mozilla. This needs to be fixed on your web server. I'm not an apache person, so I can't tell you how to do it, but "wmv" should map to a mime-type of: "video/x-ms-wmv"
Likewise, wma files should be "audio/x-ms-wma"
Please fix this so us non-ie users can easily see the video. In fact, IE does it wrong, it is ignoring the mime-type sent out by your server.
Thanks!
Brian
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08-01-2003, 10:43 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 2
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It plays these settings on the 22xx nicely in regular mode, but unacceptable in full screen. I am in the video business and so far after years of testing and experience, for actual video playback quality in full screen the newest version of Pocket MVP is the winner. Pocket TV's operation is more stable, but even the PTVpro version's playback is of considerably less quality than PMVP.
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Linear Mode
