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#53
Just some feedback.

Been playing with the transcoding settings, and 400x240 with the video bitrate set to 900-1000, and mp3 quality set to 8 or 9 seems to be the maximum playable video size at the minute. Trouble is that that looks fairly ropey on the TV, as it is very jumpy and "shimmery". I'm in the UK, and 240 is not quite half PAL size (which is 288). Going to fiddle (sorry experiment) with deinterlacer settings etc to see if I improve things.

Mplayer will play 624x352 at 1000kbps, with just the occasional fractional pause, and it looks great on a regular TV,so I'm hopeful that with some code optimizations we can get there.

Also, I have lost screen borders and scrollbars twice after a myth crash trying to play to high a video. The most obvious is the loss of the up/down buttons on the application menu, and the borders around the "keys" on the virtual keyboards. I could not find any resolution to this the first time other than re-flashing the device, and put it down to coincidence. Now it has happened again, I'm going to try removing myth, and resetting the device.

For me it's not a huge problem, but it is something to be aware of if people are going to use this.

cheers

gaz
 

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