05-04-2004, 12:00 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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BetaPlayer: New Pocket PC DivX and XviD Player
There's a new DivX player in town, and it looks like a winner! In addition to regular DivX playback, the program can handle DivX, XviD, OGG and OGM files, and even supports enhanced features such as B-Frames, FFmpeg, XviD and VGA. As if all of that wasn't enough, it's also capable of playing higher bitrate files than PocketMVP. 8O
There's a long thread over in the PocketMVP forums about this software. Be sure to check it out if you're interested in more in-depth details; the author is very active and responsive. I'll be installing and testing this as soon as I get home! From all that I've read, this thing is better than PocketMVP in almost all respects. Has anyone tried this already? What do you think?
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05-04-2004, 12:11 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,911
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Nice. I love Xvid and King of the Hill.
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05-04-2004, 12:24 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 864
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It is MUCH better than Pocket MVP.... better UI, better performance... did I mention it's better? :lol:
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05-04-2004, 12:46 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 980
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Originally Posted by entropy1980
It is MUCH better than Pocket MVP.... better UI, better performance... did I mention it's better? :lol:
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did you read my mind?
the speed is great and the quality is great! :devilboy:
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05-04-2004, 12:52 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 864
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Originally Posted by ctitanic
did you read my mind?
the speed is great and the quality is great! :devilboy:
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LOL! I always used PocketMVP because it was the only Divx player and while it's functional never really was very exciting. I would equate BetaPlayer as the PocketTV of the Divx world, very polished especially for being such an early release!
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05-04-2004, 12:55 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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A few quick observations. I just happened to have a movie on my extra SD card, so I installed the program and tried it. I only watched about 10 seconds of the movie, but I'm already impressed. First of all, it ran with 6mb of program space available. I usually need close to 15mb for PocketMVP to run. I also really like the scroll bar - much better (and faster) than using either the scroll bar or "Jump To:" dialog box combination in PocketMVP.
So far, so good! 8)
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05-04-2004, 01:32 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 85
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Given the ease of encoding Windows Media and the fact that the player is in ROM, what is the advantage of using a different player?
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05-04-2004, 01:43 AM
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Oracle
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 980
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Originally Posted by Bill Gunn
Given the ease of encoding Windows Media and the fact that the player is in ROM, what is the advantage of using a different player?
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Quality!
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05-04-2004, 01:47 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 89
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Given the ease of encoding Windows Media and the fact that the player is in ROM, what is the advantage of using a different player?
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I asked the same question until I encoded a video using both windows media encoder and divx. The file size were roughly the same but the quality was crazy different! (  I have no idea what i just said)
To put it in more visual terms, in one part of the video there was sand and rocks. While the WMV file showed this as a grayish blob, I could actally make out the hard lines of the rock and the texture of the sand with the divx video. For me its a quality issue. I could get the same quality with WMV but I am not sure if I could get the files as small as I do with Divx.
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05-04-2004, 02:14 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 1
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This looks very interesting.
I'm very familar with DivX but new to Pocket PCs. What encoding settings would anyone recommend for a PPC? (I have a Dell Axim)
Thanks!
Karma
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Linear Mode
