Video Playback?

[JyuOH]

Well I plan on getting a gp2x within the next week and i'm curious how good the video playback is. Can it handle avi well? what about mp4/mkv.

 

[PSyMastR]

It does not support MP4 or MKv files.

It supports:
DivX
XviD

 

[jmetal88]

It handles DivX/XviD AVI very well, at resolutions up to 720x480. I'm not sure if it can play other types of AVI (I assume it can't), because I haven't tried. It should technically be able to play mp4, but it doesn't (although last time I checked was a couple of Firmwares ago, they might have changed something since then). And I have no idea what mkv even is.

I just make sure I run all my videos through Pocket DivX encoder, they all run perfectly after going through that. I actually use the highest quality Archos settings on that. GP2X handles that without even clocking to the full 200 mhz (most of the time).

EDIT: PSyMastR beat me to it.

 

[JyuOH]

Thanks for the info! I guess i will have to encode my mkv files to something else then. Hopefully that wont be to hard.

 

[Shikaku]

Or you can just redo the container... if it is already in XviD/DivX.

But that's beyond most people here =)

 

[Vimacs]

mencoder foo.mkv -o bar.avi -ovc copy -oac copy

 

[BradN]

ah, the wonders of linux... mplayer does some evil things when you try to use it to software encode dvd-ready mpeg2 from a capture card though.

 

[JyuOH]

mencoder foo.mkv -o bar.avi -ovc copy -oac copy

What exactly is this?

 

[PSyMastR]

command line for your mkv to avi using mencoder. either use linux command line, or a windows bat file. where foo.mkv is the source and bar.avi is the output.

 

[Vimacs]

Get mplayer/mencoder bundle here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

 

[Yod4z]

it can already support OGM container like AVi but you have to rename the .ogm file to .avi.
It support MP3 and OGG audio sound codec and Xvid/Divx video codec

 

[Ranma13]

It does not support Xvid 1.10. It only plays back audio but not video. And MP4 is just a container format.

 

[semyaza]

I was referred to PocketDIVX not long ago. I think it's in the FAQ section somewhere. I also found this for windows which works ok http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/ but I just use mencoder in linux. Been getting loads of stuff of youtube , Two Ronnies Fork Handles/Four Candles sketch for one