Thinking Of Buying A Gp2x

[kaaspeer]

Allright i was looking for an allround media player when i came across this GP2X.
It seems cool because it supports XviD DivX etc plus i can play games on it.

But will it be a good buy as a media centre?
Can it play most movies fluently?

Plus i've read that you need some good batteries for this thing and it doesn't accept most memory cards. After what brands should i be looking at for those 2?

 

[nickspoon]

Yes, buy it.

Most to all SD cards work with the unit, a few more don't work for flashing, but that's been overcome.

I recommend Ansmann 2500s for very good quality, but if you want low-cost batteries you could try 7dayshop (UK)

Most to all XviD and DivX movies work, you just have to encode them to 320x240. (the GP2X will scale movies to that anyway, but do it to save space).

 

[kaaspeer]

If i encode those movies to a smaller size how much space will it take on the SD card? I was thinking of buying an 1GB SD card

 

[aapje89]

it will not be as good as a media centre. (lol)

 

[Silberstein]

SD card compabillety will improve, and even now it should take most cards? (I'm not all that wellinformed on this subject)

As far as I know it plays all movies fluently (30 fps). Acctually you can play divx files with larger resolution than 320x240 and they will be hardware scaled so you can watch them without having to renecode them. (Provided you have enough space on your sd card )

EDIT: Oops, some fast replies already. Well, well

 

[subin]

EDIT: Oops, some fast replies already. Well, well

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yeah, people are pretty defensive about the gp2x XD (in a good way. >.>)

 

[unlucky]

A media centre? if you like games then get a gp2x if you dont get something with a hard drive.... You'll soon spend the difference in cost just on sd cards if you want to take a good amount of movies with you. Get something from archos

 

[vic20-ian]

A media centre? if you like games then get a gp2x if you dont get something with a hard drive.... You'll soon spend the difference in cost just on sd cards if you want to take a good amount of movies with you. Get something from archos

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or Argos ;-)

 

[Deed]

I think gp2x is not a good choice as a media center. Most of my movie files are not recognized by my gp2x ("unknown format") ... It is good for emulators and homebrew games. Movie and mp3 playback is just a "plus" in my opinion.

 

[kaaspeer]

my problem is is that i like games and movies
I mean a downscaled movie should be like... 400mb tops?
2 movies and the rest is like snes roms... 200mb of snes roms is like 40 games.


And how long will good batteries last? I've read a couple of hours but is that 4 hours or so?

 

[nickspoon]

You can fit 2 hours of movie in about... 200-300MB before it becomes shit quality and unwatchable.

 

[Wolfspirit]

Shit quality? Is that a technical term?

 

[donny662]

Shit quality? Is that a technical term?

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It sure is. That term becomes useable when more than 30% of the blocks are visible or there are greater than 100 mosquitos (another technical term) on screen.

 

[kaaspeer]

Rofl ok, anyway it still sounds very interresting to me

 

[AcidiC]

What are some good movie encoders that you guys recommend? Free of course
And what would you say the minimum watching quality would be? (varies between the different programs I imagine..)

 

[nickspoon]

I recommend PocketDivXEncoder for Windows. When it asks you what setting you want, choose PDA.

 

[vossy]

buy it!

i know nothing about developing or using computers in any detailed way and i have found it fine so far. the main reason i got it was that if you get a psp or whatever you have to spend £20 or however much it is per game or with a gp2x you can have hundreds, even thousands of games for free!
yeah, i had a few problems getting drmd to work but that was because i was being too neat with my card organisation
i got frodo working first time and also miss driller and tilematch (both great games!)
im also positive i will have more problems getting other emulators and applications working (like narcissu,help me please someone!) but i know that by coming on here i could get it solved.
i find the movie player does the job nicely, but i have only tried it with a few episodes of initial d with subtitles (which are a bit small but still easy enough to read). all worked first time on the system with no re-incoding needed.
mp3's work great too.