Thread: Request: TCPMP
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2008-05-12 , 12:53
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#23
Originally Posted by iliaden View Post
just for the record, I have a [semi-broken] acer n311.
400mhz cpu, 64mb ram, 640x480 resolution. close enough to my n800 (OS2008).
I made a simple test: ran the same file on both computers:
That's great. I don't have any windows mobile PDA myself, so sharing your impressions about the performance and features of TCPMP is very much welcome.

1) on "normal" video quality, the n800 is *a bit* better; video extremely laggy on both.
It is interesting, so we might already have more or less the same proformance in mplayer/ffmpeg. This makes the decision where to put efforts quite obvious: it is better to continue improving actively developed project (mplayer/ffmpeg) than a dead one (TCPMP)

By the way, does TCPMP have any kind of built-in benchmarking? For example, you can easily get information about the number of frames dropped by mplayer. If the same statistics can be obtained for TCPMP, that would make the comparison more "scientific"

2) when reducing the quality to "low" on the TCPMP, my acer plays the video smoothly (with a bit lower quality, but more than acceptable on the VGA screen). I haven't yet tried the command on my n800.
Currently 'lowres' decoding mode just started to work. It does not have all the needed optimizations yet: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...4&postcount=27

If people are more or less satisfied with the image quality when using this mode, I may invest more efforts into making it really fast.

I will post the comparison on youtube for you to see.
Good. You can also try some other videos to see if the results are consistent.