Epicenter
Well-Known Member
In response to a couple of misleading statements in this thread .. do not convert your songs from Mp3 to OGG Vorbis because you will LOSE quality due to transcoding artifacts. Rip your audio from source material and encode DIRECTLY to Vorbis and you can have better quality (esp. in music with especially high frequencies) at lower bitrate (e.g. a 96kbps Vorbis file usually sounds as good as a 196kbps MP3 file.)
Also, DivX or XViD 'movies' are not too big to fit comfortably on an SD card-- encode them to 320x240 and you should be able to fit a full 2-hour movie in 300mb, as long as the audio is compressed decently as well. For the best results resize the video using a good scaling algorithm like Lanczos3. Do not leave the video at its original size (e.g. 720x480) or it will force the GP2X to use its internal scaling hardware, which not only doesn't look very good, but will take hours off your battery life.
The GP2X is certainly well suited to video and audio playback with its dedicated MPEG4 decoder, fast ARM9 cores and 4:3 screen resolution, but it is worth mentioning the original players in the firmware are terrible pieces of shit, and you will probably want to use a third-party equivalent instead. There are quite a few nice music ones, but the video players are still rather lacking.
Also, DivX or XViD 'movies' are not too big to fit comfortably on an SD card-- encode them to 320x240 and you should be able to fit a full 2-hour movie in 300mb, as long as the audio is compressed decently as well. For the best results resize the video using a good scaling algorithm like Lanczos3. Do not leave the video at its original size (e.g. 720x480) or it will force the GP2X to use its internal scaling hardware, which not only doesn't look very good, but will take hours off your battery life.
The GP2X is certainly well suited to video and audio playback with its dedicated MPEG4 decoder, fast ARM9 cores and 4:3 screen resolution, but it is worth mentioning the original players in the firmware are terrible pieces of shit, and you will probably want to use a third-party equivalent instead. There are quite a few nice music ones, but the video players are still rather lacking.
