TCMP slow?

[champweb]

I have the latest version of TCMP, but when playing larger movies it seems to buffer a lot. Anyone have any suggestions?

[VTDr0p0ut]

Resample the movies to a smaller bit-rate. You gotta remember we're dealing with a 300MHz cpu with very limited resources... imagine a base-line computer back in 1998 trying to run the same movie, and you'd probably end up with the same results

[champweb]

how do i resample a movie? These are movies that are downloaded...

[VTDr0p0ut]

Depends on format.... I typically use either Windows Media Encoder (using the SDK Batch example)

[nags]

What are y'all using for buffering settings?

[.plaid]

Originally Posted by nags

What are y'all using for buffering settings?

I have mine set at the defaults:

• 576KB normal buffer size
• 70% preload at underrun
• 64KB preload for audio

Granted I use PocketDivXEncoder to re-encode my movies (about 225MB when finished) and TV episodes (about 90MB for 1hr ep), but I've had no problems with buffering.

Best,
.

[jacobjer]

Originally Posted by nags

What are y'all using for buffering settings?

Nice page bro...anyway what do you suggest for buffering settings. I was using tcmp to watch youtube via the Q9m wifi and life was great until I started "tuning" everything. I don't know where I went wrong but I believe it was in buffer land. I couldn't remember what the default buffer settings were so I just uninstalled tcmp and reinstalled it to reacquire those settings. I always thought bigger was better but I was wrong. Anyway that seemed to fix the issues I was having with it loading.

[nags]

Originally Posted by .plaid

I have mine set at the defaults:

• 576KB normal buffer size
• 70% preload at underrun
• 64KB preload for audio

Granted I use PocketDivXEncoder to re-encode my movies (about 225MB when finished) and TV episodes (about 90MB for 1hr ep), but I've had no problems with buffering.

Best,
.

I'm going to give PockedDivx a shot. What do your settings look like in there?

[nags]

Originally Posted by jacobjer

Nice page bro...anyway what do you suggest for buffering settings. I was using tcmp to watch youtube via the Q9m wifi and life was great until I started "tuning" everything. I don't know where I went wrong but I believe it was in buffer land. I couldn't remember what the default buffer settings were so I just uninstalled tcmp and reinstalled it to reacquire those settings. I always thought bigger was better but I was wrong. Anyway that seemed to fix the issues I was having with it loading.

Do you mean the-nags.com?

[.plaid]

Originally Posted by nags

I'm going to give PockedDivx a shot. What do your settings look like in there?

Contrary to what I had said in an earlier post somewhere here, my settings are as follows:

• Phone type: PDA
• Output
  • Video: 12
  • Audio: 44100Hz, 32kbps, Stereo
• Advanced
  • VHQ checked
  • XviD checked

This yields a ~2hr movie @ ~225±10MB and a 1hr tv ep @ ~95±5MB.

You didn't ask, but the programs I use are:

1. cladDVD.NET (to rip from DVD)
2. DVD2AVI (to convert to AVI)
3. VirtualDub (to reencode it in XviD & sound I like)
4. PocketDivXEncoder (to shrink it to Qable size)

Hope this helps; keep the rubber-side down.

Best,
.