Getting close to getting a 6315 but how does it work with movies?!?!

[yarzy]

Has anyone tried to play a movie on it? How does it run/look? I would not do it a lot, but I would like the option to play a moive landscape if I am on the train, etc.

I am also concerned that speed will be an issue with this PDA/phone. Is this something I should really be concerned with?

[jpjehu]

the videos dither fine, but there's a one second or so delay with the audio - it's about the same as a h5455 running windows 03. it was the same overall speed as the 5455 for a couple of mame/rom games i tried, too.

[yarzy]

Thanks for the reply.

I am just worried that it is going to slow and I will regret not getting the VGA and the faster processor. Ugh, I have no idea what to do!

[entropy1980]

I have no delay what so ever it's all in how you encode.... I have Passion of The Christ on a 256MB SD card I just ripped and encoded yesterday with NO DELAY running smooth as silk.... My advice? Download DVDx, rip to Divx, then encode with Pocket Encoder, no lag runs just fine!!!

[jpjehu]

It depends on size, too. I rip everything via TMPegEncoder to mpeg format, and then again with Windows Media Encoder 9 to full screen wmv files. It performed the same on different videos I tested. When I altered it to 'fit in window' the sound caught up, but it was smaller than I like viewing videos, especially on a 3.5" screen.

[Darius Wey]

Usually, DivX is the best codec to consider if you want to watch movies on your Pocket PC. What I usually do is use XMPEG, followed by PocketDivXEncoder to output a PPC friendly DivX file. Those experiencing audio-video sync issues should check out their encoding settings. For a machine like the 6315, I highly doubt that this issue is attributed to the machine itself. My h1940 only has a Samsung S3C2410 266MHz and runs DivX movies just fine. So the 6315 shouldn't struggle to run DivX movies. Use BetaPlayer (http://betaplayer.corecodec.org) to run DivX files. It is a solid player.

[yarzy]

okay, so I guess speed is not a major issue here. Here is another question, outside of the screen, what would be something that I could not run on the 6315 but I could run on the 4700 with no issue? I am tring to see the difference between the two in real life....

[jpjehu]

yea, but the samsung in the 1945 always ran video and games better than almost everything.

[jpjehu]

...but I haven't been a big Divx user - maybe it'll get better performance. I'm going to download the programs and give em a shot.

[Darius Wey]

yea, but the samsung in the 1945 always ran video and games better than almost everything.

Ah... the wonders of Samsung processors. Tomshardware actually did a good review of it about a year ago. If you're interested: http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20040109/index.html