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AVI playback
GodEater:
And as Llorean says, even with more video codecs supported in the plugin, you would STILL have to resize the videos before you load them onto a Rockbox player, or they won't display right. A lot of original firmware's get to gloss this fact over by forcing you to use some particular piece of software to sync your files with your player, and that then do this scaling on the fly - so you don't notice it's happening.
One of the trade offs you get with Rockbox is we don't make you use any syncing software - it's up to the user - but that means you're going to have to manually do some stuff you'd get "for free" with specialised syncing software.
reszerve:
Just a follow up query on this - why would you need to resize the video file? Don't devices like the gigabeat f/x/s have enough grunt to rescale in real time?
Clearly resizing to to actual screen size lowers CPU work on playback, but based on my experience with desktop PC's, even those of ten years ago did not seem to find on the fly rescaling too hard.
Is this just another way of saying many of the target devices don't have enough grunt?
GodEater:
The Gigabeat S might have enough grunt to do it. The F/X I'm not so sure about. *No* other Rockbox target has got anything like the processing power to do it. The iPod Video doesn't even have enough grunt to playback movies that ARE the right size for it at a decent framerate.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: reszerve on January 09, 2010, 12:37:14 AM ---Clearly resizing to to actual screen size lowers CPU work on playback, but based on my experience with desktop PC's, even those of ten years ago did not seem to find on the fly rescaling too hard.
--- End quote ---
Ten years ago PCs already ran at 1GHz and had GPUs. Even the S is many times slower.
XVilka:
May you can add only support of AVI container (and may be others, for example mkv) from libavformat (part of ffmpeg)?
And other codecs can added more simply.
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