[mythtv-users] MythFrontend on the Nokia n800

[Yan Seiner]

Steve Peters - Priority Electronics
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>>I needed to transcode video down to 320x240 and rotated 90 deg
>>(the Sharp
>>screen is 480x640 native) and 15 FPS to get acceptable video and
>>low-enough CPU usage.  The screen is small enough where this makes no
>>difference; visually the detail is similar to native DVD
>>resolution on a
>>big-screen LCD.
>>
>>So yes, it's possible to show video, but there has to be a heck of a
>>backend transcoding in realtime...
>>
>>--Yan
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> That's too bad. My verizon phone can play my mythrecordings just fine at
> 640x480 and 30fps in xvid format.

What phone is this?  I need a quad-band unlocked phone.  If it played
movies, so much the better.

> I was actually thinking of getting one
> of
> the N800's cause of the bigger screen, but if you have to transcode that
> much, seems like a waste. I do transcodes of my videos anyways, so for me,
> it's just a matter of copying it over to my phone and playing it, no
> additional transcoding needed.

Well, this was on a Zaurus, and not on a N8x0.  The Zaurus has some
framebuffer issues.  But honestly, I've tried both 320x240 and 640x480,
and visually the screen is too small to see the difference.  The Sharp LCD
is one of the best out there, and even at that low resolution movies look
great.

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