mpeg movie player

[aznofazns]

i finally got mpeg videos to play on my gigabeat f40. However, the video and audio are horribly off-sync for any video that i play. Is there any way to fix this or will i just need to wait until the mpeg player is updated with audio-video sync?

[Soader03]

Set the options Limit FPS to ON and Skip Framerate to ON... It should be ok

[aznofazns]

awesome it works now... i had skip frames on but limit frames was off. now it's perfect, thanks.

[aznofazns]

as a second question... does anyone know what the buffer limit is for the gigabeat when playing videos? in other words, what is the maximum number of megabytes of an mpeg movie you can play without any problems?

[Mad Cow]

It's around 25 megabytes I think.

[aznofazns]

ok yeah... i just tested a family guy episode of 219mb and it stopped after less than 10 minutes

[Mad Cow]

ok yeah... i just tested a family guy episode of 219mb and it stopped after less than 10 minutes

10 minutes? Wow that mus be some low bitrate file. I can barely get past 3 minutes with some random quickly encoded music videos.

[Chronon]

Well cartoons traditionally have few colors and you can get away with a much lower video bitrate than for, say, a music video or movie.  They also usually look fine with relatively lower frame rates.

[Llorean]

Well a lot of cartoons are animated on twos (or in some cases on threes or even worse depending on what it originated as) so you could in theory get away with half the framerate (assuming your file doesn't already have a halved framerate) without concern.

[Mad Cow]

That makes sense, never thought of it that way.