Anti Iphone (Was Re: Some light ahead...)

[Andrew Becherer]

On 5/1/07, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
> el jefe delito said the following on 01/05/07 15:03:
> > Video would be a bit essential I would think...  if an iPod can do it,
> > shouldn't a mini computerphone be able to?
>
> AFAIK the video iPods have hardware decoding chips, so the iPod isn't decoding
> the video. Which is why they can only play certain kinds of video codecs.

I own a Palm T|X. I would think the ARM based Samsung S3C2410AL-26
(Capable of running up to 266 MHz) in the Neo should compare favorably
to the ARM based Intel XScale PXA 270 running at 312 MHz in the Palm
T|X. The difference in CPU speed may be compensated for by the Neo's
use of 128 MB of SDRAM vs the Palm T|X's use of 128 MB of slower
non-volatile memory (only 100 MB accessible by Palm applications).

I have used the predecessor to CorePlayer Mobile (called tcpmp) to
watch video and listen to audio not supported by Palm's default music
app. Core Player Mobile supports the following video codecs:

- H.264 (AVC)
- MKV
- MPEG-1
- MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP)
- DivX
- XviD
- MJPEG

I have tried H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP) and XviD. H.264
encoded podcasts downloaded from tikibartv.com played but were nearly
unwatchable. The video and sound were far too jerky for enjoyable
viewing. I encoded my own video  content in MPEG-1, MPEG-4 and XviD at
various bit rates and had good experiences with playback.

references:
http://coreplayer.com/content/view/28/44/
http://www.tikibartv.com/

-- 
Andrew Becherer
Undergraduate, Computing and Software Systems
University of Washington, Tacoma