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The phone uses RealPlayer and supports most popular formats. My concern was MP3 support, and it does have it. The phone does apparently support forward lock DRM, but a little explanation is in order (as I hate DRM and would never support it). If I have a regular MP3 (downloaded from one of my DJ sites, or ripped myself), I can transfer the MP3 to and from the phone without any problem. The phone doesn't have some translator that wrecks my non-DRM files. The DRM only applies if the file you're importing to the phone has DRM. I don't know all of the details on what commercially supports this, but I did gloss over the DRM section in the developer's manual. DRM aside, the music portion of the media player easily supports AAC(+), MP3, RealAudio, MIDI, and WAV.
RealPlayer also supports many video formats, particularly MPEG-4, MPEG-3, H.263, 3gP, and RealVideo. However, the issue with simply importing your DivX is that you'll really want to downsample the video. Most respectable DivX video is 720x480 (or so) while this screen only displays 320x240. This means you're carrying around a lot of wasted space. I have
Pavtube Video converterand it will convert a 700 mb movie (legal of course) to about 75 mb in 3gP. Video is nicely watchable, but it's a small screen. On the MPX200, the problem with video was that the processor couldn't handle it displaying that much data, so it would be like watching one frame every few seconds.
There are however, two limitations on your media. The first is your microSD card (USDC) size. The phone comes with a 128 mb USDC, and that fills up incredibly fast. The max size for the USDC is 2gb which is much more respectable, but still limiting. Most phones don't support anything higher than 2gb and my understanding is that this is a technical issue with the addressing, not some stupid licensing limit. The second limitation is that playlists are capped at 50 files. There are firmware updates available on the web, and there are fixes for this, but they're not for the Feint of Mind (tm). I haven't yet really had a problem with the second issue, as I still only have a 128 mb USDC.
The media player will not play into mono headsets without the voice recognition hack. The media player works fine in stereo headsets (the included headset is stereo). Also, RealPlayer's playlisting is rather annoying. It should scan your phone on boot and whenever disconnecting from a computer, but instead, files must be manually added to the library. Listening to music sounds great, and when the clamshell is closed, you can use the buttons on the left side to change the song and the volume.
[ This Message was edited by: jiet on 2008-02-18 02:23 ]
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Posted: 2008-02-18 03:12:34
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jiet, there is also a winamp player if you look on the web
Actually there are many players better than real player on Ming.
About your comment on the fw found on the web, why do you think that they're not good? I have found some good modded fw's that work flawlessly. Tho more of fw is available for the E2.
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Posted: 2008-02-18 07:42:22
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