2 gb cf cards fast enough to play movies ??

[sunnyawesome]

Hi I'm Sunny !!

I've HP iPAQ 2215 pda which has a cf slot.
I've noticed that the CF cards are a lot cheaper than the SD cards.
I'm a person who likes watching movies on the go and in order to watch them on the pda i've to convert them to other formats like DIVx which i hate. this is because i've a pc with slow speed(it is 700 mhz ie only 0.7 ghz) so it takes a lot of time converting a 2 hour movie(nearly 3-4h).
I've my nuts on the cf cards having capacity aroung 4 gb. but can i watch movies smoothly then because a friend of mine told me that cf cards are slow. is he right ??
what are your experiences using cf cards??

thanks.... :)

[PhilH]

what are your experiences using cf cards??

You'll probably find that it isn't the speed of the CF card that's the limiting factor but the speed of the processor on your PDA.

I had a 2210/2215, and it'll cope with movies encoded at 300-400kbps OK, but anything much more and it starts dropping frames. Decoding movies is a rather processor-intensive task. You can pretty much forget viewing raw DVD files on there.

400kbps is well within the capabilities of a standard compact flash card, so that's not your problem.

[Menneisyys]

Hi I'm Sunny !!

I've HP iPAQ 2215 pda which has a cf slot.
I've noticed that the CF cards are a lot cheaper than the SD cards.
I'm a person who likes watching movies on the go and in order to watch them on the pda i've to convert them to other formats like DIVx which i hate. this is because i've a pc with slow speed(it is 700 mhz ie only 0.7 ghz) so it takes a lot of time converting a 2 hour movie(nearly 3-4h).
I've my nuts on the cf cards having capacity aroung 4 gb. but can i watch movies smoothly then because a friend of mine told me that cf cards are slow. is he right ??
what are your experiences using cf cards??

thanks.... :)

The 2215 can access the CF slot pretty fast. You will be able to acess it erven at 800-1500 kbps without any problems from a multimedia player.

BTW, that's not really true that CF's are slower than SD's. In recent machines, they may be a BIT slower, but not that much. And, in older machines (especially with machines that only accessed SD's via a 1-bit-bus, for example, the iPAQ 38xx series), CF's were even faster. + the 8-bit bus of the CF makes it possible to be accessed faster than the 4-bit SD's. No wonder hi-end cameras almost exclusively use CF's.

[sunnyawesome]

i have never boought cf till date and i would like u ppl 2 tell me the recommended price 2 gb cf cards(company doesnt matter)

[Don't Panic!]

Granted the processor on my X50v is faster but I think if you use betaplayer 0.05 along with the microdive mode enabled you shouldn't have any problems with .divx files.

I used to run movies from a 1GB IBM microdrive when the HP2215 was my main device. It worked well with Pocket TV and the various WMPlayers on MPEG-1 and .WMV files ( I wasn't into DIVX or XVID at that time).

I can't imagine that with the advancemnets picard_beta has made on betaplayer you would have any problems with DIVX files regardless of the card type. But SD really is the best format for that according to picard_beta.

HTH

[Phillip Dyson]

I had the pleasure of watching Hero on a 2GB CF card.
I was using BetaPlayer .096 unstable.

I was fantastic