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Offline cmptrgy412

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Good codecs for a video player on rockbox?
« on: March 11, 2007, 05:28:03 PM »
Now that the Sansa has sound I feel more of a reason to help in rockbox development.

I have been messing around with the mpegplayer and it's sluggish to say the least with any good quality video.  

I was curious about what would be some good codecs to develop a player for.
The tradeoff of course being quality/size and of cpu usage of the codec.

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Offline donutman25

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Re: Good codecs for a video player on rockbox?
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2007, 07:01:09 PM »
How about mp4?

Its one of the easiest to convert to
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Offline safetydan

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Re: Good codecs for a video player on rockbox?
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2007, 07:17:04 PM »
Your best bet would be to work on optimising the existing codec. Porting another one doesn't really make sense.
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Offline GodEater

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Re: Good codecs for a video player on rockbox?
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2007, 04:26:22 AM »
Quote from: donutman25 on March 11, 2007, 07:01:09 PM
How about mp4?

Its one of the easiest to convert to

It may be easier to convert to - but it's computationally more expensive to decode it - which means the playback would be *worse* on your handheld player - not better.
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