GPDivX


Rigor Mortis

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Is GPDivX being actively developed? Will there be sound in the near future? Or will movie park stay the only real solution for GP32 video?
 
I think that the only hope for sound is Moviepark, all the media players look like they have been discontinued :blink:
 
GpDivx has had sound since Beta 0.3 - its just very very shite.

Or rather, it needs you to used uncompressed .wav audio at the lowest possible bitrate (1KB/s - 8kbs) mono.
But I don't think its still in development; if it is, then the next ver should be ludicrously feature packed since its been a year or so since its release.

GPMP might still be; don't know - *that* was a good player, but it may have just been written not as a free competitor to Moviepark, but as a demonstration as to how good the GP32 could get movie-wise. Unfortunately, the demo we've had released is limited to files of 6 and a half mins or smaller.

Moviepark is the best around for now - although unless another free player comes out, I doubt they'll bother to improve it hugely; when there's no alternative, and what's already there is good enough for people to buy, they won't continue development, as there's no need to. Or that's my take on things at least; could be wrong - perhaps a new ver is in the works...
 
Is there anyone around who could *cough*hack GPMP*cough* and remove the limit?

(Not that it's a terribly big deal, since movie park is pretty cheap.)
 
Hadn't thought of that... the dev'r might get annoyed (never a good idea to annoy developers :) ) but hey - someone might do it, I suppose. Won't be me, I suspect, on account of not knowing where to look...
 
I expect GPMP uses static memory allocation at the moment, so six & a half is the predefined limit. Else I can't think of a reason to put any limit at all in.
 
I would love for an updated version of moviepark to come out. Anything, Divx? ok sure, bring it on. :D
 
Well, the reason might be to keep it used as a demo, as opposed to being turned into a primary player...

Thinking this mainly on account of it being the same time for any size movie - whether 156kbs or 20 (which is virtually unwatchable, but a lot smaller). I'd have thought if it was a memory allocation thingamy it'd be limited by file-size instead of time. Probably wrong though...
 
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