![]() ![]() Think of the NMR not as a PVR but as a handy MPEG 4 conversion tool, and you're well on your way to seeing its value. I was unable to try Windows Media Player 10 for Pocket PC, but I understand the third-party BetaPlayer The Windows Mobile version of WMP 9 handled the video flawlessly, but didn't produce any sound because it doesn't support G.726. If you don't like Microsoft's code, the VideoLAN Client (VLC) media player had no problem with either video or audio data.Ĭodec problems also hindered my efforts to play the video on a Medion Pocket PC. WMP under Mac OS X played the files without a hitch, but I had to download the G.726 audio codec from Sharp's website before I could play anything on a WinXP SP 2 box. The results are better when you copy the files over to a computer and run it in Windows Media Player - the NMR saves its MPEG 4 data into. While the sound's the same dull mono on both - the audio codec was designed for voice telephony, not movies - you can clearly see the difference between the two rates on a TV, but even in SuperFine it's not going to look any better than VHS - worse, in fact. I encoded the opening four minutes of Terminator 2: Judgement Day first in SuperFine mode, then again using Normal mode. ![]() Take a look at the sample shots on the next page. But play it back on, say, a Pocket PC and it looks just fine. That's why it looks so rough on a TV - that resolution is about half that of a standard DVD picture. ![]() The picture is reduced to 352 x 240, though you can knock it back to half that to get more video on your memory card. A 512MB card, for example, will yield over 45m of video in Super Fine mode, or almost 178m using Economy. You can't change the sound setting, but the NMR offers a range of video compression settings, from 1536Kbps (aka 'Super Fine') down to 384Kbps ('Economy'), allowing you to reduce the picture quality to increase the recording time. The latter goes from stereo down to mono, encoded at 32Kbps with an 8kHz sample rate. The unit compresses video and audio on the fly, using MPEG 4 for the picture and G.726 for the sound. But these are peripheral uses - the NMR's really about recording video. ![]()
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