gpu driver for tcpmp?

[Guest HOOLA]

Is there a way to get tcpmp .72 rc1 to use the omnia 2 gpu? I mean it plays videos ok with software acceleration, but i want hardware acceleration, i want tcpmp to work as well as stock players. How do we get tcpmp to use video drivers?

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

I presume your i920 has some good improvements over the i8000 which I have, playing movies with the in-built player can be fairly ropey with lipsync being out and frames dropped etc. With tcpmp I've never had these problems apart from very rare pixelization when I presume something in the background has decided to spring to life. My pwer performance is set to auto so not sure if setting it to high would make a difference. It would be nice to use the hardware though.

[Guest HOOLA]

I presume your i920 has some good improvements over the i8000 which I have, playing movies with the in-built player can be fairly ropey with lipsync being out and frames dropped etc. With tcpmp I've never had these problems apart from very rare pixelization when I presume something in the background has decided to spring to life. My pwer performance is set to auto so not sure if setting it to high would make a difference. It would be nice to use the hardware though.

Yeah the touchplayer is great. I can play back full d1 avc with no probs. Of course i have to use baseline profile 3.0 and all the enhancements turned off but i have used upto 1500kbps with great success.. But tcpmp stutters with anything with a respectable bitrate *greater than 800kbps with a resolution greater than xxx/320.

Its really not that big a deal. I just like the benchmarking utility and some other cool stuff that tcpmp offers. Maybe we will get lucky and someone will release a built for our O2s like they did for the original omnia. ;)

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

Perhaps it's the way you are encoding your films? using the benchmark in tcpmp video size 800x464 bench data rate of 1.0Mbit quality is exceptional. I like a simple encoding method which is why I use SPB Mobile DVD set with the top settings

[Guest HOOLA]

Perhaps it's the way you are encoding your films? using the benchmark in tcpmp video size 800x464 bench data rate of 1.0Mbit quality is exceptional. I like a simple encoding method which is why I use SPB Mobile DVD set with the top settings

yes but spb mobile only outputs to wmv or xvid/asp. It does NOT support output of AVC. AVC produces a higher quality video but uses way more processor power to decode than asp/xvid/divx video. The output quality with spb mobile dvd ok for mobile devices i guess but for a **one video for all devices** its not that great quality. It looks pretty much a mess when watched on a tv.

PS> try and benchmark an ***AVC*** encoded video clip at 1mbps at 800x464. you will be lucky to get 50% because of the lack of gpu support in tcpmp. So in the end i guess it is the way i convert my video files. **quality over acceptability** So i guess im stuck with touchplayer until tcpmp supports O2 gpu. **which may be never** ;)

Thanks Anyways!!

[Guest ray1234]

Perhaps it's the way you are encoding your films? using the benchmark in tcpmp video size 800x464 bench data rate of 1.0Mbit quality is exceptional. I like a simple encoding method which is why I use SPB Mobile DVD set with the top settings

First of all, it is not AVC you're benchmarking. Secondly, the benchmark result does not mean much. I have encoded 800x480 movies at 1Mb and the TCPMP benchmark says it plays at 135%, but actually viewing the film you'll notice there are still quite a lot of skipped frames in action scenes, the overall benchmark is high probably because there are still scenes in the movie that boosts fps to more than double.

[Guest almar]

Maybe with hardware acceleration it is possible to play HD ( using the SIMD instructions arm V6 offers and the VFP)? My samsung tv with a arm11 core and at 600mhz plays hd mkv... Not that it has any real use because we can't output a resolution this high..