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Very poor playback of video on p3600 (trinity)

Hi all.
I have a Trinity since just a couple of days and I´m very happy with everything about it, except for one huge thing that will make me get rid of it if it´s not solved shortly.
The problem is that for some reason I can´t watch divx movies or listen to mp3 files thru the standard player I´ve always used in windows mobile phones all the way back to the qtek s100. I use TCPMP (former Betaplayer) and I encode with PocketDivXEncover as usual. When I try to watch the movie I only get a very distortet image with a lot of pixels and strange colors, and very distorted and wierd sound for a couple of seconds, and then the screen goes black?! I still have my Qtek 9100 with the exact same program in it so I transferred the same exact video files to that phone and tried them, and they work and play perfectly and smoothly as they should. So obviously there is nothing wrong with the program or the video files, so what could be wrong?! I thought it might be something with the program then so I tried installing DivXPlayer and CorePlayer, but the same issues are there as well. Doesn´t work.
It´s totally fine to play mp3 files thru the built in windows media player, then they play just fine, and it´s also fine to play wmv video files thru media player.. But the wmv format is simply way too bad to watch movies on such a good screen. Divx is way better and I just can´t understand why this new and expensive product can´t play back divx files when all my old pocket pc and windows mobile phone of several years back can handle it with no problems at all.
I´ve tried searching around but havn´t found any sollution to the problem or what is causing it, just others with the same problems. Please help, I really don´t want to get rid of this phone as I think it has everything I could possibly want except for this major problem!!
Thanks!

same here i have the same problem, apparently if you select RAW buffer or something like that it sorts it, not got round to it yet, too much else to experiment on!
for video though i use "total video converter" & select "mobile mpg4" 320x240 500kbits/s and they play perfectly in media player

Ok, I´ve tried all the settings in TCPMP, putting it in directraw and everything, I can quite ok picture if I do that, but the sound still doesn´t work properly. It plays for a couple of seconds, then distorts in a wierd way and then stops playing even thou the video is still playing..
I´ll try the program and settings you stated and see if the result is satisfactry. I´ve never been able to get the same quality with wmv as with divx, so that´s why I don´t like wmv as a video format, escpecially on such a large and good screen and the trinity has.

steeth said:
Ok, I´ve tried all the settings in TCPMP, putting it in directraw and everything, I can quite ok picture if I do that, but the sound still doesn´t work properly. It plays for a couple of seconds, then distorts in a wierd way and then stops playing even thou the video is still playing..
I´ll try the program and settings you stated and see if the result is satisfactry. I´ve never been able to get the same quality with wmv as with divx, so that´s why I don´t like wmv as a video format, escpecially on such a large and good screen and the trinity has.
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there is a atifix.cab file around here which may solve your problem. Please use the search function...

Ok, just tried Total Video Converter with the settings you described, and it´s actually quite ok with the mp4 format. But still not as good as divx, can still see some pixel artefacts, but a lot better than the wmv format. So I guess until someone comes up with an explanation and sollution to the divx problem I´ll have to stick with mp4..
Thanks for your tip!

I am using PV Player that came with Orange, no problems here.

audio video sync

Hi guys loving my Ameo, had it 5 Weeks now, read all the posts about video problems, I have a great picture with tcpmp, the only trouble about 5 minutes into a video and the audio video goes way out of sync, I have tryed everything with tcpmp, no luck am i missing somthing, anybody got the same problems.
John

johnwalk said:
Hi guys loving my Ameo, had it 5 Weeks now, read all the posts about video problems, I have a great picture with tcpmp, the only trouble about 5 minutes into a video and the audio video goes way out of sync, I have tryed everything with tcpmp, no luck am i missing somthing, anybody got the same problems.
John
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I have the same problem with Windows Media play WMV's, the longer i watch the vid the more out of sync it seems to gets, normally the audio comes after the video, and the time just keeps increasing. then when i press pause. the video stops instantly and the audio carries on until it catches up.
However, if i plug the advantage in to the power surpply it doesn't seem to be as bad. It makes me think that it is due to the CPU speed, mentioned in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=305214
But if anyone has any ideas about how to keep it in sync it would be appricated.

ive tried it with the power cable plugged in. still losing sync. just stopping and starting it corrects sync problem. i have now tried a number of rips. all converted in different formats. resolutions and bit rates still lose sync. anybody got any ideas

same problem here..anybody who knows how to solve this problem?

Lestat79 said:
same problem here..anybody who knows how to solve this problem?
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which version of TCPMP are you using?

doesnt matter which i use,even with coreplayer it goes out of sync
this problem i did not have with mda pro

im affraid this is all to do with the ati chipset and tcpmp, until a fix is found this is going to happen. the best i can get is about 4 minutes. and ive tried most variations in frame size, rate, and bit rate, even files which play at 120% still lose sync.

i went back to watching movies on my psp partly because of this and also as the picture quality is much better as well!

Strange. I use TCPMP to watch all the films and TV shows I download from torrents, and they all play fine. I've never had any problems with the sound going out of sync.

I also never have any out of sync problem. This device rocks for video playback, by my standard. I do lots of youtube and downloaded movies, and the picture is really really good with TCPMP.

I converted a dvd movie to avi 1400MB(high settings) and with this video i have no out of sync.Very strange is with 700mb divx xvid movies its going out of sync.

I've the sync problem too in coreplayer and tcpmp.

AgentBignose said:
I've the sync problem too in coreplayer and tcpmp.
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is it not possible to get codecs to add to pocket media player so it will play divx etc? As far as i know media player supports the graphics chip so performance should be better

leoni1980 said:
is it not possible to get codecs to add to pocket media player so it will play divx etc? As far as i know media player supports the graphics chip so performance should be better
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if it was possible , someone would have done it woudnt they?
this problem is one of the major sucky things about this device

Posting to an old post, I know, but as I'm also having the audio/video sync problems, I thought I'd ask everybody that DOESN'T have the problem if they'd be so kind as to specify their EXACT settings.
In my case I'm using Core player.
Under Video I'm using ATI Imageon, Video quality = High, Smooth zoom = on, Dither = ticked and Accelaration = unticked (I have problems with it ticked)
Under Advanced I've even ticked Override AVI timing based on Audio, but no difference. I've also changed the A/V offset to -0.45 seconds, as per another post relating to this issue, with no result.
Under buffering my normal buffer size is 4192, set to preload at 70% underrun, with preload for audio set at 65 KB.
I've ticked Microdrive mode. with the buffer size being 16000 KB and the starting point being 1472 KB

HTC Wizard not playing videos properly

Hi,
I recently got an HTC Wizard and I like the PDA Phone very much. However I am having problems with video playback. None of the video files I have play very well on the Wizard. I get very jumpy video and choppy sound. I have tried playing WMV and Divix files and they will not play on either TCPMP WM Player. I tried closing all running programs but the videos still do not play well. I thought it might be a slow SD card but the videos play perfectly on my Dell Axim X50V. Is there a better Media player I could try? Or maybe updated codecs?
Thanks

calguy99 said:
Hi,
I recently got an HTC Wizard and I like the PDA Phone very much. However I am having problems with video playback. None of the video files I have play very well on the Wizard. I get very jumpy video and choppy sound. I have tried playing WMV and Divix files and they will not play on either TCPMP WM Player. I tried closing all running programs but the videos still do not play well. I thought it might be a slow SD card but the videos play perfectly on my Dell Axim X50V. Is there a better Media player I could try? Or maybe updated codecs?
Thanks
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ER, simple tip:
Try resampling the videos to 240x320. Resizing the videos(any one of them, shrinking) takes a lot of oomph, which the Wizard does not have.
Tip:
1.Use PocketDivXEncoder. Simple tool. You can't mess up with this.
2.Overclock to ~240MHz
3. The Dell has a FASTER processor, so there might be some hiccups on the Wizard.

Video Playback on Iolite/XDA Orbit 2

hi folks.. i have an O2 XDA Orbit 2, and the video playback sucks. I know about the HTC video driver "issue", and i've tried numerous players nd formats, but still get lag or synch problems with playback. At the moment i use windows media and divx player, but i wondered if any of you clever people had discovered the best conversion settings? I use pocket dvd studi /pqdvd to convert divx movies for my pda, with limited success.
Any ideas, or o i just accept my fone aint powerful enough to play video and buy something else?
cheers
Dave

try coreplayer with qtv enabled. This has the best playback. Oh and it also depends on the video settings of the ROM.
You could also search for gfx boost in these forums, that might help.

TCPMP

Hi guys!
I have recently tried getting TCPMP to work on TP2. Without any luck.
Firstly there seemed to be a problem with it running on WinMo 6.1. That has however been fixed in a thead somewhere here on xda dev.
I have tried all three of these fixes, and while they managed to get TCPMP open after install (Not get the crash.txt msg), it caused the TP2 to crash when opening a video file (even when trying to run the video that comes with the phone (my documents -> movies)).
Anyone know of any other solutions? because i have been searching but havent found anything to get this working.
Cheers!

same problem to me, I can't even play the video recorded with my TP2. It just hang.

its special TCPMP thats, working here. I have this functional, if you want to post it, just let mi know.
JF

Make it so, please.

Why don't you use Coreplayer for playing movie clips?
I'm having not issues playing most types of movie file... Great player!

Probably because Coreplayer is not freeware.
TCPMP is the predecessor of Coreplayer

its here: http://www.digitwins.com/download/TCPMP-0.72RC1.zip
JF

No luck yet
Thanks for the link, but is this version working on yours? At least I was able to open a video file (mp4) without my TP2 crashing like it did with other recomps I've tried, but the image is all messed up with green lines and **** all over the place...

Sorry, Im not using TCPMP for viewing pics. Didnt noticed that. And Im not gonna use it fot it ;-)
JF

Hi there... i'm having problems to get work on tp2 a player that supports subtitles. Do you know anyone? Thank you very much.
Regards.

Coreplayer dont use in touch pro 2
Coreplayer dont use with processor touch pro 2. In the web of Coreplayer it ist possible reed.
Thank you and sorry for me english

I just use this app now works like a charm.
http://divx-player-mobile.en.softonic.com/pocketpc

It is not possible for me :
- Core player can't start, I don't see the app after pressing the icon
- TCPMP-0.72RC1 open, but the videos are not working, it crashes
Is it a problem of 3D driver or somethong like that?

Well I too am using Coreplayer and it works just fine. v1.3.2 build 6909 for ARM. Plays VGA .avi files perectly...

Had the same problem with TCPMP crashing until I unchecked "DirectDraw" in Video Settings (i.e. use GDI or Raw Frame Buffer).

twana, that is brilliant, I'd given up on TCMP having tried every version I could find.
Did you find out how to fix the blacked-out buttons in the toolbar?

Black buttons are caused by the theme you're using. And yes even HTC standard theme is causing this

Hello!
Thank you Twana, TCPMP works fine for me when I put "GDI" in the video settings!
It is great.

cheetahx said:
its here: http://www.digitwins.com/download/TCPMP-0.72RC1.zip
JF
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Thanks a lot.
Now my babies can watch toons on my rhodium!
bye

coreplayer/tcpmp
Selecting gdi/rawframe buffer in video settings is a must. Also check tools -> preferences -> file associations if you want them to play aac mp4 etc it must be checked there.