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What is fastest Video Bitrate on Blackjack
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Posted by: Kevad007

I have been frustrated with the Video performance of the Blackjack and my own tests seem to indicate that with Windows Media Player the highest Video Bitrate which does not result in jumpy or impaired video performance is about 200 kbps. This is pretty low even for only 320 by 240 size as there is a lot of compression artifacting seen then, and it seems trying to get 30fps is very difficult. I have heard that Cingular asked Samsung to increase the video resolution and/or color range near the end the process to bring it to market and that it ended up not configured correctly for optimal video performance. Then you have their small video playback which uses Real Video format in Windows Media, a strange brew to me, and I see sync with voice problems, and frozen, skipped frames all the time, I mean where do we get the commercial advertized "stunning video". I agree the screen is bright and colorful, the text is sharp and many graphics and images look very very nice on the display. But beyond using a 220mhz processor which limits video playback, the video should be able to playback at a faster rate than 200kbps. So has anyone found a combination of a different video player, tweaks, hacks, registry changes, different co-decs, overclocking etc.... that makes a noticable difference to allow more decent full screen, smooth video playback. For instance Core, or some combination of things. If so what steps, can you list them in detail with links etc., and after doing successful steps to improve video, what is the fastest Video Bitrate at full screen size/res, and fps which can be squeezed out of the Blackjack?

Posted by: Kevad007

Is there no one who has used Core Player on the Blackjack? If you have, what is the ideal bitrate you can play 320 by 240 video at?

Posted by: suthurnlatino

Doesn't the bitrate depend on how the video files themselves were encoded? The content from Cingular video looks like it was made for LG/Samsung/Motorola's regular 3G phones not really the smartphones/pda types.

Posted by: MP3Wanted

I have been looking at this and trying lots of different software. But no matter what setting I use there is one issue or another.

I cant find a perfect solution yet cause all the freaking decent looking software will only let you encode 5min of video or something stupid(to eval). So it makes it very hard to decide what is a decent piece of conversion software.

All the free stuff has one issue or another, some are sooo slow. Others just dont have the options you need.

The best one I have found for at least giving consistant results is Windows Media encoder. But it will not read directly from my DVDs, so you first have to convert it to AVI. I tried other options but WME crashes alot with MPG vids.

Grrrrr I am going crazy!!! Anyone have any decent advise??

Posted by: indiana-moto

I have been using Windows Movie Maker, makes smooth playback video. Settings: 218kpb/15fps. When you encode the video, use the (Video for Pocket PC full screen setting) under other settings. Encodes the video to play full screen perfectly on the blackjack.

Posted by: MP3Wanted

So 218kbps, 15fps on the video? What are you setting the audio to?

Ill try those vid settings. But movie maker doesnt seem to read DVD. So ill still have to convert them first.

Oh yea, Windows media player will sync the videos to the phone AND it converts them. But it makes them for a smaller screen. Cant seem to figure out how to edit that profile to make it 320x240.

Posted by: indiana-moto

WMP may make them smaller resolution. With movie maker with will format then to 320x240 and WMP on the blacjack will play them full screen. For audio, Movie Maker doesn;t give you option to change the audio bitrate, but from my past encoding of music, on the blackjacks small mono speaker, 96kbs or if your feeling fricky 128kbs are of good quality and remember to do it mono, otherwise when playback time comes the audio will be split into 2 channels of only 1 that the blackjack can playback.

Posted by: indiana-moto

For dvd encoding, you should first use a program like (dvddycrypter - its freeware) to decode the dvd to (.vob). Which can be renames as an (.mpg) which Movie Maker can read, decrypting takes very little time. Whe the dvd is dycrypted, all the vob files are saved to a folder of your choice. Find the largest vob, which should be the bulk of your movie (main movie, no previews, commercials or commentary) Import that into Movie Maker and away you go.

Posted by: MP3Wanted

Oh yea I use dvddycrypter. I guess it always splits the files to 1gig files, but I can change that and try renaming.

I used vobmerger(Something like that) to make a mpg file but WME crashes everytime it tries to load that file. But it works fine if I first convert that to a avi with another program. I think the same thing happened with WMM.

But ill try again by just ripping them to 1 vob file and renaming.

Thanks

Posted by: juiceppc

Try overclocking your BlackJack with Omap clock but it has to be app unlocked first. Sorry I can't find the post but I think it's in the smartphone forum. Search: "Overclock Blackjack".