PDA playback

[ToiletDuck]

Hi guys it's been a long while since I've been here. I'm a pilot. I do quite a bit of flying around. Sometimes I'm the one behind the controls sometimes I'm not. I have a couple questions.

1) Has anyone here encoded for PDA playback?
2) Was your PDA a VGA screen or QVGA?
3) What specs should I look for in a PDA to playback movies I create?

I didn't know how large I should make my files. Right now I've been looking at the Toshiba e805. It supports both QVGA and VGA. Is there really that bad of a quality difference when watching something on QVGA? I was hoping to keep the encodes I do smaller so that I could fit several movies on my compact flash II cards. Any advice? Also which encodeing method needs the least amount of system to play it back? .wmv/xvid/quicktime/realmedia? Thanks for any advice.

Duck

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I have a Dell Axim x50, which clocks at 520Mhz maximum. I general I encode to xvid cq=8 (or even down to 12) with max settings with 48kbits AAC-HE audio. h264 baseline is also a possibility, but in practice I found I had to keep the quality slightly lower as it was much more likely to lag for a second during high bitrate scenes.
As to the resolution you pick, my screen is 320x240 (176 for 16:9 content), and I usually encode to that resolution so the player doesn't have to resize, but that choice is heavily dependant on whether you want better size/quality, the source and your screen's physical size.

[ToiletDuck]

I have a Dell Axim x50, which clocks at 520Mhz maximum. I general I encode to xvid cq=8 (or even down to 12) with max settings with 48kbits AAC-HE audio. h264 baseline is also a possibility, but in practice I found I had to keep the quality slightly lower as it was much more likely to lag for a second during high bitrate scenes.
As to the resolution you pick, my screen is 320x240 (176 for 16:9 content), and I usually encode to that resolution so the player doesn't have to resize, but that choice is heavily dependant on whether you want better size/quality, the source and your screen's physical size.

Thanks for the response! How do you rate the quality of the 320x240 screen? Do you find it ok?

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Yeah, it's reasonably watchable for anime, although subtitles can be hard to read if they are fancy fonts.
For live action TV it's also acceptable, but not that great for movies or anything high detail - not enough detail is kept in the resolution or compression to make it worthwhile.

[ToiletDuck]

Wow i must have drank too much tequilla last night. I have no knowldge of having read your post lol. thanks again for the response.