Harddisk-question

[steponeloops]

Seeing that 2 GB is not soooo much if we would like to use the GP2X as a travel movie player, I asked myself if there's a possibility to connect wireless harddisks (via an SDIO adaptor).

The harddisk could remain in the suitcase/pocket etc. - no mess with cables.

I already found out that there are small blue tooth Harddisks, but I doubt they would be useful as Bluetooth provides too less bandwith.

Does anyone know if there are Wlan HDDs - should be small and battery powered?! Could anything like that be done?

Peace
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[Skitzo]

There are USB harddrives like the one you've described which I assume would be a hell of a lot cheaper and faster when reading and writing data. The only thing is no one knows if they will actually work with the GP2X. Wait a week or two until everyone has their consoles and then we'll start to find out what works and what doesn't.

 

[V3X]

well, there's this
http://www.theregister.com/2004/03/25/asus...ifi_hard_drive/

 

[Inopia]

wouldn't something like this http://www.dpreview.com/news/0507/05072102xsdrive_vp2260.asp be a whole lot easier ?

 

[declaration]

If you reencode your video files (resolution etc), you'll be able to fit 10+ good quality movies on a 2gb card.

Get two cards and you'll be all set.

 

[Digitalrat]

Problem is that there aren't any sdio-drivers for Linux yet...

 

[jedthehumanoid]

If you reencode your video files (resolution etc), you'll be able to fit 10+ good quality movies on a 2gb card.

Get two cards and you'll be all set.

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In what kind of quality is that?
Like 300kbit/s for video and Audio?
Do you have an example of such clip?

...And it's not my intention of acting like a dick, I have tried to get good quality and low bitrate when encoding, I'm really interested in seing it work. Maybe h.264?

 

[Aaaaaaaa]

wouldn't something like this http://www.dpreview.com/news/0507/05072102xsdrive_vp2260.asp be a whole lot easier ?

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Nah, you can only write from the cards to the hard drive, not the other way round.


it seems pointless

 

[Hanz™]

If you reencode your video files (resolution etc), you'll be able to fit 10+ good quality movies on a 2gb card.

Get two cards and you'll be all set.

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I doubt it.

 

[Minkoff]

For really high quality (at 320 x 240), you should get something like 1 minute for every 5 MB. Your average movie is 125 minutes long. If you sacrifice a very small amount of quality you can probably fit in about 8 movies between 2 2 GB cards... I think.

 

[Jarska333]

Well, one can fit a movie on 128MB SMC...

1MB/min, 2000 (about) mins... 33 hours

 

[jedthehumanoid]

For really high quality (at 320 x 240), you should get something like 1 minute for every 5 MB. Your average movie is 125 minutes long. If you sacrifice a very small amount of quality you can probably fit in about 8 movies between 2 2 GB cards... I think.

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2h 5min for a average movie?
But yeah i get your point...and thats 4 movies per card, opposed to declarations 10+ movies

Well, one can fit a movie on 128MB SMC...

1MB/min, 2000 (about) mins... 33 hours

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My music are about 1mb/min, does that really suffice for movies?

While on the subject, does anybody know if Gp2x is capable of h.264 encoded movies, i noticed better quality on lower bitrate movies when encoding with x264.

 

[reallynotnick]

I usally say a movie is about 500mb.

I would really enjoy h.264 though, I could probally get the movies down to 400mb and they would still look better.

 

[Jarska333]

Movies looked fine on GP32 with 1MB/min, the sound wasn't very good, but I could understand spoken english from it, so it was sufficient.

 

[declaration]

yeah, many of us have been watching movies happily on our GP32s with a 128mb SMC. The resolution is the same, so that gives an extra 72mb worth of improvements to 200mb.

Its a lot of work reencoding everything to a good quality but its definitely worth it if you intend on taking it on holiday etc.

 

[Prothall]

While converting the movies is cake, doesn't it take upwards of five hour for each one unless you happen to work in the movie business?

 

[Hanz™]

While converting the movies is cake, doesn't it take upwards of five hour for each one unless you happen to work in the movie business?

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Takes about as long as the actual movie is. Personally the only quality loss I can cope with is a lower resolution.

 

[trooper]

Well, Depending on the version of the divx and xvid codecs supported in mplayer on the GP2x. You could use "pocket divx encoder", Which is incredibly fast at re/encoding videos, ~1/3 -1/4 of the films duration.

Trooper

 

[dwarrior]

I don't know what computers you have, but my 3 year old comp takes about 10-12 minutes for each hour film. Using Vdub and the realmagic xvid codec.

As I see it, if you want excellent quallity, 250meg wil suffice.

 

[mison]

(Inopia @ Nov 7 2005, 11:54 AM)
wouldn't something like this http://www.dpreview.com/news/0507/05072102xsdrive_vp2260.asp be a whole lot easier ?

Nah, you can only write from the cards to the hard drive, not the other way round.


it seems pointless

well, there's a model from the same brand that can also write from hd to sd.
X'S-DRIVE SUPER VP6210

unfortunately quite expensive, found one with a 20gb hd on ebay for 199 €.