adnhk1
Joined: May 23, 2002
Posts: 447
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Guys, I just learned it the hardway to try encoding mp4s in fullscreen mode. The fact is, IT CANNOT BE DONE! Even though R2D firmware officially supports playing in the so called 'Widescreen Mode', the videos can only be encoded in, after countless trial and errors, 192 x 160 max. Anything higher means 'video dimension too large' msg.
I really can't understand why SE Programmers can miss out this most important fact that to stretch the videos from 192x160 into 192x288 (that's my assumption that this is the full size of widescreen mode) is definitely going to tax the P800's processor power, not to mention the amount of power required to playback the videos.
I've encoded an mtv into mp4 at 192x160 in stereo mode, and it actually can playback in widescreen mode without much sound/video synch problems and the quality is also quite good considering the processor power has been stretch to the max trying to do both stretching of the video into widescreen and playing it back at the same time, but still a bit jerky at times...
I really hope SE engineers or someone who reads this can feedback to SE about possibility of future firmware upgrade to increase the max encoding resolution. If VICS can do it, I don't see why SE cannot.
I will try to do more encodings to seek out the best results out of the current resolution limitation. Any suggestions guys? |
Posted: 2003-04-18 20:10
