Guest shardy Posted March 25, 2004 Report Posted March 25, 2004 Hi, I've just tried playing some video clips on my e200 for the first time, but the picture is really jerky. I converted the video using TMPEG and the proper templates from the PocketTV site to get it to smartphone quality, so that should be fine. I am using an e200 that has been updated, but I didn't try video playback on it before the update so I don't know whether this has affected it. I haven't had any other problems with the phone after the update tho so... Has anyone come across this or know anything about it? I did try a search but couldn't find anything relevant. Thanks, Sam
Guest shardy Posted March 25, 2004 Report Posted March 25, 2004 PS The audio is fine, it's just the picture that is jerky S
Guest nickcornaglia Posted March 26, 2004 Report Posted March 26, 2004 Did you close all other programs with a task manager before playing the movie?
Guest FRiC Posted March 26, 2004 Report Posted March 26, 2004 Check the average bitrate on the lower right corner of the display. If it's over 180-200K the display stutters. The templates are not optimal quality, they're slightly bigger than the display size and PocketTV rescales it to fit the screen...
Guest shardy Posted March 26, 2004 Report Posted March 26, 2004 Hi, yeah, all other programs were closed, but the average bitrate is at 206. I'll adjust the templates to a lower bitrate and see if that helps. in terms of the size, can you reccomend an optimum? Is it 170 x 200? Ta, Sam
Guest FRiC Posted March 26, 2004 Report Posted March 26, 2004 The size has to be a multiple of 16, so the PocketTV templates use 224x176 for fullscreen. Which leads to slight artifacting that you probably won't notice. The display ratio is also slightly off, but you also probably won't notice. I use 192x144. I don't have Tmpeg right now and my phone is being repaired, but I think by default the quality is set much less to produce small sized files. Did you follow the conversion instructions exactly?
Guest shardy Posted March 26, 2004 Report Posted March 26, 2004 I reduced the display ratio to 200x176 and it seems a lot smoother, even with an average bitrate above 200. I'll keep playing with the settings tho, maybe get it even better. Sadly I can't get PocketMVP to work on my e200, it keeps freezing my whole phone so I can't use DivX! I also can't make sense of the windows media encoder 9 - it seems completely different to the earlier versions described in the faq section of this site! Still, as long as I can get the Mpegs running smoothely on PocketTV then that'll do me for now. Thanks for your help Sam
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