PocketMvp 8R Beta3B (updated)

[Guest madu]

MALLOC!! You are an absolute STAR!! This is now my one&only(!) player!! Superb job!

Oh, and let me thank for the equaliser again!!! Tops!

PS: The only 2 things that come to mind - feedback :)

- Does not indicate which equaliser slider you have selected.

- Does not resume from last position in audio [mp3] file after player exit, then File>Open>Resume.

Video is excellent and play/resume in video/mp3 works quick and very good indeed!! (DivX, ClintEastman's vids)

Regards

madu :(

[plug] There is an extra skin for the player availible (winmedia style) here:

http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=58267

[/plug] :oops:

[Guest Sim]

ahhhh brilliant. malloc, you sir are an even greater guy than the terminator in your avatar 8)

I tried some ogg files i ripped from Final Liberation but they seemed to stutter some, will try others later. Think their "quality rating" was 4/10. The equaliser is cool, nice job.

[Guest malloc]

@madu :

- I've updated the .cab, now it can resume audio files

where they were stopped :) (It saves the position when Paused

and then exited)

- Unfortunatly I couldn't find any good way to highlight the current

slider in the equalizer dialog, windows UI are not handled very

well in Smartphone2002, it will stay like that for now...

- And could I upload your cool skin on my site ?

@Sim : I tried OGG files I found on the net, and they didn't play

correctly. Then I encoded a CD with a quality of 0 (it seems to be

around 64Kb at this quality level), they played very well, and

the sound was better than 64Kb WMA played by WMP.

Also I'm using those Earbud Sony headphones, they sound far

better than the headphone delivered with the phone :wink:

(Off topic, but we received Nokia n'gages phone samples at work, :shock:

and there was a fantastic headphone adapter (2.5 -> 3.5) with them,

it works perfectly with the SPV and it's exactly what the SPV needed,

I hope they'll sell it alone when the phone is out)

malloc

[Guest madu]

You are a sir indeed malloc!!

Re: skin. I would be happy if you did. Maybe put it in your cab?

Regads

madu

[Guest malloc]

Re: skin. I would be happy if you did. Maybe put it in your cab?

Cool ! I uploaded it, I'll put it in the cab this evening :wink:

malloc

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Malloc just updated to the Beta3B version but when I try to run it

I get a error saying it's not a valid Windows CE application.

Any ideas?

[Guest James]

works for me

[Guest chinchilla92]

Nice job Malloc. :)

For a future release it will be cool to play WMA files.

Thanx...

[Guest madu]

I don't think WMA is ever gonna be supported by PocketMVP. And I don't know if that's a good thing or bad.

To be honest, WMA are more/less decently supported in WMPlayer whereas MP3s are NOT (can, but don't wanna go into explaining y).

@Malloc, you have actually revolutionaised my phone with your brilliant work, and I am eternally greatful. You know how I(not only) hate WMP for it's shortcomings.. Oh and the equaliser *me feeling so so pleased*. Damn you are good!

[Guest EmpzB]

Very good job Malloc, jus dlded it, its nice having an eqaulizer and teh quality :)

well done :(

[Guest Liko]

I have always the same problem with this version.... I can't play large files (nearly 100Mo). Is it a known bug ? if so, there is a solution?

[Guest madu]

@Liko: audio/video, what settings?

PS: I play large mp3s all the time - had only one problem, then used Reinit Registry menu option, and it fixed itself. Working sweet again!

[Guest Liko]

My problem is with an avi files (size=103Mb). And when I want to launch it, I have this message : "Failed to load file, Please chek available memory.

Even if Pocketdivx is the only process in memory.

Nevertheless a lighter file functions very well

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

My problem is with an avi files (size=103Mb). And when I want to launch it, I have this message : "Failed to load file, Please chek available memory.

Even if Pocketdivx is the only process in memory.

Nevertheless a lighter file functions very well

I told you the reason why you have this error, Liko. It's in a private message.

[Guest ClintEastman]

I told you the reason why you have this error, Liko. It's in a private message.

It's rude to wisper.....

[Guest Liko]

Really ? But I haven't any private message...

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

It's because by default PocketDivX builds an Index when you open an AVI file, and the index can be very large (several MB) if you open a large video file.

But with the limited memory on the Smartphone, there may not be enough memory to create the Index.

On the Pocket PC version there is an option to disable the Index, but I'm not sure that this option is available on the Smartphone version. Ask malloc.

Ideally PocketDivX should disable indexing when there is not enough memory to create the Index (rather than refuse flatly to open the file!), but I don't think that it's implemented like that.

When you disable the Index, you will be able to open large video AVI files you won't be able to seek in those files (seeking in AVI files uses the Index).

Hope this helps...

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

> It's rude to wisper...

I know, but each time we try to help, we receive private messages telling us that we are just arrogant... so this discourages us to post helpful info in the forums...

[Guest Chris Edwards]

One way to cut down on the size of the index file would be to change the keyframe option in divx when encoding the file to something higher... It's every 300 frames by default... Changing this to 600 frames would help cut down the index a bit, but it would also make seeking a little slower (i think)... I'm sure 900 frames between keyframes would work too.

300 frames is 10 seconds at 30fps.

[Guest Liko]

Ok, thanks for your help.

[Guest The PocketTV Team]

Ok, thanks for your help. But if I understand well what you have said, this problem doesn't have really solution with this version. Later maybe ?

The support to disable the Index is in the PocketDivX source code. If it is not currently available in the Smartphone version, it's just because malloc did not include it in the menus he made in his UI. It would take him a second to add that.

[Guest Liko]

Maybe in a next version ... :)

Thank you

[Guest malloc]

The support to disable the Index is in the PocketDivX source code. If it is not currently available in the Smartphone version, it's just because malloc did not include it in the menus he made in his UI. It would take him a second to add that.

You're totaly right. But I changed the way the indexes are allocated

since the very first Alpha. The pocket PC version was by default allocating

way to much indexes (100 000 indexes, one index uses around 40Bytes,

that is 4MB !!!). It's now allocating by step of 5000 indexes, this should

be enough for a 2H movie with a keyframe every one or 2 seconds. And

uses only 300KB of memory... and shouldn't be an issue on the

smartphone, that's why there's no option to configure it :wink:

I think the bug might be more complicated... I'll try to find what's

wrong when I've some time... And if I don't, I'll add an option

to remove indexes.

Anyway, for those who wants to try without indexes, regedit :

HKLUSoftwarePocketMvp set NoIndex to 1. But you won't

be able to seek, or resume after that :cry:

malloc

[Guest madu]

Anyone know how I could map Side Volume Keys to control volume??

This would only require 2 values changed in the registry, what are the 'key numbers'?

[for ultimate experience] :)

[Guest Direct_Drive]

Hi!

I can get the matrix/T3 trailers etc to work, but even Divx files of 45Mb are refusing to load! Is there a maximum file size i can realistically play with the player? btw I have almost nothing installed on the IPSM and I'm using the latest version of the software.

Its annoying because I was hoping to use my SPV to watch episodes of south park etc and all the DivX files of this length are between 25-65Mb

cheers