Other 3rd party media player?

[Guest ray]

Does anyone know if an improved media player is being developed? As a minimum I would like to see a fast forward / rewind facility for long movies or even long audio files. I've copied a full 90 min movie onto my 256mg card (space for 4 more?) which I've never been able to get half way through because of phone calls etc.. The WMV settings were as for other posts - 36K video and 10K audio - and work well.

The only option at the moment is to split the movie into small chunks and copy several numbered files across. A pain and you've got no guarantee that they will be listed sequentially.

In order of priority:

1) Fast forward / rewind - 1 minute / large chunk for each keypress? This as a minimum.

2) Playlist or some sort of sequencing/sorting/folders.

3) Rotate movie image 90 degrees to get more on the screen like some PDA software.

4) Removal of other rubbish on the screen?

Cheers.

[Guest neuronisis]

Yep, totally agree with you. I put a post like this in the wish list section. It is totally anoying to keep having to watch the start of every movie over and over again. I tried using AVI splitter to cut it in to small chunks as well but this is shareware and you have to pay X amount of£'s/$'s. Anyone know of a free one? or what other software that does the job.

As for my settings, which after trying many(and i mean a lot!!) Here's what's worked for me, i.e. no stuttering or having to wait for buffering(pain in ass):-

Video

Windows Media Video V8(Because i think it uses Variable Bitrate)

160x120

36Kbps

0 Quality

Default Buffer...3 Seconds

10 Frames Per Second

8 Second Key Frame

Audio:

Windows Media Audio V9

8kbps

11kHz

mono

So far i've encoded 2 Blackadder episodes and 1 movie - Scary Movie 2(DivX-DVD-Rip - From My Own Copy). However i find if there is any problem with a DivX file i.e. freezing during the movie, it will only encode up to and before it. Well that's with windows media encoder anyway.

:D