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A better camcorder than what's available at the moment would be good.
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Posted: 2003-08-26 23:56:24
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A video player based on the Cam coder apps video playing facility but with support of AAC.
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Posted: 2003-08-27 00:16:51
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I have been playing with the cam api from SE.
Here are the limitations:
the processor of the p800 is shared between system resources and running applications. I have an mpeg4 iso codebase that is efficient enough to encode frames from the camera, but, the rate of frames/sec is not perfect due to the overhead of mp4 encoding, even at low bitrates, also, to multiplex audio into the mp4 file will require another overhead of audio conversion, which again takes up the full use of the cycles left over for the active running apps.
Thats one thing, and the other is, SE havent as of yet supplied an API to hook into their microphone functionality as far as I am aware.
Basically, if the system resources were managed differently, a smoother video frame rate can be captured with audio capture.
Issues:
a) System resources not managed efficiently, this cant be changed unless SE release API functions to manage this area (which I doubt them doing)
b) Full audio API not available yet. Only the Beatnik kit is available, which does not include functions for recording audio.
c) Whatever the firmware does with audio and internal camera firmware functionality, they both are a processor hog. Basically, Sony needs to start optimizing their code further and supply a better form of threading API, that will allow control of CPU usage.
I dont think you will see a combined camera/audio capture program for the P800 until Sony get off their asses and sort out their coding and release a new optimized codebase with a supporting API.
Inside information has it that Sony are plugging further efforts into their next generation models. So our sweet model will be left to dry unless they release the firmware and functionality to allow the hackers that be to play around at their hearts content.
Also, many of the other mobiles on the market have dedicated chipsets that handle mp4 vid/snd conversion, the P800 is not one of them, hence the huge requirement of processor power, which will kill the battery accordingly.
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Posted: 2003-08-27 00:42:41
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well what about creating a video player which plays a lot smoother in full screen which supports AAC and AMR codecs?
the p800 vid player stutters to display vids on anythng encoded over 48kbps the vid cam app video layer plays them a lot more smoothly if you know what i mean.
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Posted: 2003-08-27 00:47:58
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Now thats more interesting... I'll have a play over the next few days, see what I come up with.
It is very possible, but I think there is a limitation on the GDI being able to cope with anything more than 15 fps, due to the bandwidth between mem and cpu to screen.
But anything is possible with a little tweaking here and there.
Maybe a modular plugin design architecture based media player of some sort. So others can hook on plugins for other formats in the future.
Let me knock up a baseline proggie with simple audio (mp3,ogg,wav,aac) support and graphics (jpeg,gif,bmp) support for now and then build on that, it allows me to polish my understanding of the tweaks possible with the dev on the p800 at the same time. and then move on to mp1/mp4+xvid/avi support.
And looking at the other progs on offer, I bet you'll want skinning support too.
Ok, I'll get to work on this project tomorrow, as soon as I got the first beta ready, I'll post it up on here.
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Posted: 2003-08-27 00:58:27
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i would like a bare bones player no bells and whistle to bog down the p800.
maybe Mp4 support with AAC playback keep it simple give the processor as much leg room as possible. Get that out mate then start with the fancy stuff in my opinion.
All we wanna do is watch movies with reasonable quality in widescreen mode. Quality close enough to the cam coder player would be sufficent better than that would be sweet.
p.s par take in the hang man thread!
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Posted: 2003-08-27 01:14:33
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Would very much like to see an avi viewer,
1, A quicktime would be all i would want to be happy (with of course the widescreen function)
2, Not sure if this exists in one package yet,
but an image viewer that can resize, rotate and save as jpg/bmp/gif aswell as SlowView with the extra option of setting transparences on colours like PaintShopPro.
3,Plus a theme creator like that for the T610 will allows the image behind the preference icons and battery icons to changed. This would be easier as a PC application i suppose and would still be hugely grateful.
Thoae are my wish list,
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Posted: 2003-08-27 01:50:16
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Anything to get rid of the baby blue bloody GUI would be nice, ive used the themes but they dont change colours of the important things.
Wanna make a black GUI!!
Nice work on the sprayjob too, hope your insured
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Posted: 2003-08-27 02:01:00
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MAD BUGGER !!!
But a round of applause is deserved
Cant wait to see the finished product
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Posted: 2003-08-27 02:15:41
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Good Luck to you! Hope it comes out perfectly.
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Posted: 2003-08-27 03:00:58
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