Fullscreen video in new firmware

Did anyone notice how LOW in frames per second is the video playback on full screen mode???
Come on SE that crappy VICS player has a 10 times better frames per second playback on full screen!!!! Do something with packet video!!!!!!
:silly: WE WANT BETTER VIDEO PLAYBACK ON FULL SCREEN MODE!!! :multi: 😮nfire:
I managed to encode an hour of MP4 Video in about 50MB it would be nice to watch my favourite show on my P800!!! 😛opcorn: But I am talking about video playback and not slideshow!!!

:cry: yeah, the video is kinda jerky on fullscreen mode...

Maybe that was why they didn't introduce us with the full screen mode before.

can some1 try to see if you can find a good setting for encoding in fullscrean mode? I've been playing around with PVAuthor to optimise it for fullscran mode but so far results are still a bit laggy 😞

Perhaps due to the processor not being fast enough, same problem with the 9210 it has a 52Mhz processor so you can't ask it to do too much, the P800 has a 206Mhz Arm9, which sounds plenty but I'm thinking running large screen video and the OS and all the other stuff in the background may have something to do with it.

Also are you encoding the video to the size of the screen?...or are you using standard P800 size videos, in which case it is stretching the video which I assume is more of a strain on the phone hence why it is constantly trying to catch up with itself.

Hi, that's precisely the problem I am facing right now. I've been using PVAuthor to encode MP4s, but after the new firmware upgrade and trying to encode in widescreen, I realised that PVAuthor does not have, say, 320x208 resolution, and give only either 192x144 (which is the normal ones that I enconded), and the next resolution is 320x224, which is obviously too big 😞 Any one got any suggestions?

[quote="Jordan"]Perhaps due to the processor not being fast enough, same problem with the 9210 it has a 52Mhz processor so you can't ask it to do too much, the P800 has a 206Mhz Arm9, which sounds plenty but I'm thinking running large screen video and the OS and all the other stuff in the background may have something to do with it.

Also are you encoding the video to the size of the screen?...or are you using standard P800 size videos, in which case it is stretching the video which I assume is more of a strain on the phone hence why it is constantly trying to catch up with itself.[/quote]

Actually the processor runs at 156Mhz(been tested), and I doubt that processor speed is the problem here as EDoom runs very well in full screen mode, and I would think EDoom requires even more resurces to run.

But then again I guess better media players will come soon. Too bad the VICS player doesn't really hold up, still slow and buggy and uses a proprietary video format with no encoder publically available...

[quote="Raven"][quote="Jordan"]Perhaps due to the processor not being fast enough, same problem with the 9210 it has a 52Mhz processor so you can't ask it to do too much, the P800 has a 206Mhz Arm9, which sounds plenty but I'm thinking running large screen video and the OS and all the other stuff in the background may have something to do with it.

Also are you encoding the video to the size of the screen?...or are you using standard P800 size videos, in which case it is stretching the video which I assume is more of a strain on the phone hence why it is constantly trying to catch up with itself.[/quote]

Actually the processor runs at 156Mhz(been tested), and I doubt that processor speed is the problem here as EDoom runs very well in full screen mode, and I would think EDoom requires even more resurces to run.

But then again I guess better media players will come soon. Too bad the VICS player doesn't really hold up, still slow and buggy and uses a proprietary video format with no encoder publically available...[/quote]

Doom runs on the 9210 with no problems, it isn't a heavy sapping resource killer like video playback, I think it's a hardware issue or the size/fps of the clips being played.

[quote="Jordan"]
Doom runs on the 9210 with no problems, it isn't a heavy sapping resource killer like video playback, I think it's a hardware issue or the size/fps of the clips being played.[/quote]

Yes, it might be the default video player in the P800 is extremely hungry on resources. So I would think that a lighter video/media player than the one from Packet Video would be a nice alternative. Seing as the VICS player, although buggy and slow as hell, can handle more FPS...

I haven't got the R2D upgrade yet so I really don't know how bad the full screen playback is, just hearing from other users that it isn't very smooth. I will try some different encoding options when I get the upgrade to see if it can be improved..

I tryed to encode a video with the Sorenson Squeeze for MPEG-4 (Actually the best Software availlable at the moment. You can download it for 1Month testing, with branding an digital stamp on the Videos). It workes PERFECT for 204x172Pixel and I tested with 320x208 Pixels but it doesn't work. It works only with 204x172 Pixel and then stretching it to widescreen. I will test another time and post it here.

[quote="frei"]I tryed to encode a video with the Sorenson Squeeze for MPEG-4 (Actually the best Software availlable at the moment. You can download it for 1Month testing, with branding an digital stamp on the Videos). It workes PERFECT for 204x172Pixel and I tested with 320x208 Pixels but it doesn't work. It works only with 204x172 Pixel and then stretching it to widescreen. I will test another time and post it here.[/quote]

Hmmm.. I've tried Sorenson and I've noticed several bad things about this program;

1) The 204x172 setting isn't even there, I can't seem to find it..
2) It only seems to accept AVi files, it won't accept any MPEG at all.
3) I finally managed to encode a Type O Negative music video(AVI) to MP4 at 160x180 Pixels, but when I opened it in my P800 the video wouldn't actually start playing, just the sound. The video just displayed the first frame with an ad saying something about Sorenson, only the sound played, but it didn't even do a good job at that. Even with the best stereo AAC codec it was way to low.

All the negative points I've experienced might be due to the fact that this is only the trial version, but why would I buy this ridiculously expensive program if I can't even get a decent demo of it?!