Comments on: VisualOn provides ARM Powered video playback without hardware acceleration

By: Squid

Squid — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:25:00 +0000

In reply to A5IT.

There’s also the perpetually delayed CorePlayer for Android (http://twitter.com/corecodec). They have one of, if not, the most efficient CPU based H.264 decoder. Their decoder for Windows is the only way for older netbooks to play quite a few 720p videos without hardware acceleration. The performance of their Android implementation is still TBD though.

By: A5IT

A5IT — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:12:00 +0000

Uh oh, looks like Archos might be losing the one feature that makes their tablets stand out, video playback.

By: Alexudal

Alexudal — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:34:00 +0000

In reply to Charbax.

As examples:
http://forum.doom9.org/~forum.test/showthread.php?t=135034, check the links in the whole thread;
http://www.kickasstorrents.com/killa-sample-x264-1080p-hd-mkv-test-clip-t3989153.html
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1009-page4.html
http://www.highdefforum.com/high-definition-movies-video-clips/6537-official-hd-video-clip-list.html <— tons of "official" test HD clips

You may want to check how these play on your note-/netbook first, the moment some of them start stutter, choke, lose frames, pixelate, block on fast pano's, you would know you need to put exactly these clips on your USB flash stick, to check what is true in VisualOn guys presentation. My "personal" interest is to see any phone based on Samsung S3C6410 (like Samsung Moment, or Spica) playing these high rate clips: I have a Pandigital Novel cheapo eReader tablet which might have another, better life to it, quite unexpectedly…

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By: Charbax

Charbax — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:32:00 +0000

In reply to Alexudal. Can you refer me to a bunch of easy to download video sample packs that I could load on a MicroSD card or USB stick to do some testing? I didn't bring enough HD MKV samples with me here to the conference. It would be cool to test high profile high bitrate HD samples out.

By: Alexudal

Alexudal — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:42:00 +0000

I have posted here once (yesterday), and I want to ask for the same favor again: Mr. Charbax, could you please make yourself a collection of HD clips with all different bitrates, up to blurays’ high quality rips, in different containers, on your USB flash stick?
Then please walk again to the same VisualOn booth and copy your collection to ANY of these phones. I’d prefer the weakest of them all, with ARM11 SoCs. See what happens. Otherwise, it smells of very weird trash talk that DSPs are just a waste of silicon and the VisualOn software decoders can do much better.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:57:00 +0000

Now that we have playback how far are they from applying the same concept to video editing 😉

By: Ominous

Ominous — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:58:00 +0000

Excellent 🙂 Tnx for sharing these videos.
You should consider additional microphone plugged in 🙂