Gp32 purely for movies

[Gir]

Hi,

I was wondering the opinions or experiences of playing video on the gp32. (How much can be stored at reasonable quality on a 128mb card, is the framrate horrible...) and also is movie park still availible for purchase? There were some threads indicating a termination of its license soon or something of the like.

Also, has anyone owned or heard about the archos multimedia video devices, esp the older jbm20 units (they seem promisingly inexpensive and seemingly could function as a unit to swap and store gp32 files via the card reader without a PC,)

Aside from everything else though, I'm basically wondering if the gp32 is a suitible portable video player, or if anyone has experience with a better fairly inexpensive alternative (please not pda's though,) considering the archos and others as options...

Any experiences or answers would be appreciated.

 

[Meonlyeviler]

You have an awsome icon, I declare your icon to be the new gp32 mascot

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

There are alternatives, but most of them are expensive (much much better quality though).

But if you wanna go with the GP32, its fine. Moviepark will cease being sold soon, but its successor is already out, called GP Cinema, which can do 15fps as opposed to 10. Quality is great, and its easy to convert movies over. Its also still very cheap at about AU$10

 

[zboy9]

It's fun and rewarding to watch videos on the Gp32. You get that feeling, I mean it takes more work than simply popping in a disk like a DVD player, you actually have to encode the movie and DIY. The movies can look just about as good or as bad as you want them to.

 

[Klown]

Moviepark will cease being sold soon

They stopped selling it in july.

 

[DArkMann]

I have a JBM20 - one of the first ones after seeing the review on Tom's Hardware.

It is very good, but I will be upgrading to the new AV340 as soon as the camera is available - mainly for the bigger screen and even better video quality. It's a very different experience from the GP, as it does 25 or 30fps and will send it to a TV.

That said, what GPCinema does is remarkable and always gets astonished looks from people when I demo it. The only problem is that 128Mb is just not enough when the average file for the Archos is 1Gb.

Software wise, you do the same thing to make a film, just different settings for DIVX