battery life with films, results...

[Guest simonbratt99]

ok right

Had the phone fully charged over night, gave it light use through out the day. Then decided to see how long it would last playing films.

I used Shrek2 (220x162, 1 hour 32min, file size 110mb, sample rate 32000 Hz, Data bit rate 32kbits/s, frame rate 29) playing with BetaPlayer, with sound.

The phone played it 3 times back to back, thats about 4.5 hours of playing films, before running out. Pretty good i recon.

Anyone else tried it?

[Guest jamies]

That's great news. I wish there was an easy way to copy shows from my Tivo onto this device. That would be killer! Then I could watch TV while on the transit system.

[Guest dapunk]

hey jamies -

there may be an easy way to do it. i forget exactly where the story is but at I4U tech news (www.i4u.com i think but just google it) there is a story about a new device that is designed to transfer tv via standard rca jacks to an sd card. you put the sd card in the device, plug the device into your tivo AV outut and it rips the file into an mp4.

wish i could direct you to the story but its out there. good thing too is the device is only like $100

[Guest Dr_StrangeTrick]

Odd that, I put the same kind of post in for my E200 a while ago and I also played Shrek2 with the same settings using BetaPlayer and that also lasted me 4 hours 55 minutes.

I would have thought that the C500 would have lasted much longer :?:

I got 10 hours running Mapopolis, backlight, BlueTooth and logging to SD card before the battery died, perhaps if you have 10 hours to spare you can try something similar on the C500 :?:

[Guest Dr Who]

Probably need to know the compression size to get a fair comparison of playback - i.e. the respective file sizes of the movies you are playing back.

[Guest simonbratt99]

good point ill add more file info to the top post

[Guest Chaser81]

Great, now all I need are some more DiVx's!! Only have three at the moment!

[Guest Ravens]

I have gothika divx, c500 ready ^_^ only 220mb i thought ?

[Guest Cabana]

What's the easiest program to convert an existing divx file to the right size?

[Guest xspyda]

What's the easiest program to convert an existing divx file to the right size?

PocketDivXEncoder without a doubt (IMO of course)!

There is a helpful little wizard to get you going in no time, but with a little manual tweaking you may find you can improve your results.

You can get it here, and best of all, it's a free download!

[Guest Lingerhosen]

Have to agree with the eight-legged fellow. Pocket Div X rules for the lazy man! :lol: