media player performance

[mrfear]

Hi,

I have tested media player with some videos (.wmv) in original format and I have notice that there are many frames lost.
Reading in the guide I have found that only 192Kbit wmv video are considered playable perfectly so with windows media encoder I have converted the video in this format : 280*170 , 192 kbit.
I was very disappointed to see that frames lost are still present( of couse the are less).
Have you any clues to make a video playing perfectly?
Is that possible to handle a video of 30-40 Mb that is playable ( not a frame every 15 sec.)?

Thanks to all

[AnswerDude]

280X170 is kinda odd size, try 240x160 or 160x120. Good sample videos for wmv is BMW films, they have less-than-8mb pocket pc wmv version available now, take a look .
http://www.bmwfilms.com/

[mrfear]

Thank you for answering me...

Will the performance of media player change if I reserve more memory for executing apps( now I have set it to 32mb)?
Also I have tried the specific set for Ipaq and media encoder on microsoft site...I have better performance but still I have some frame lost.
I have noticed that lost frames change playing the same wmv more times, can it be a consequence of frequency switching of x-scale processor?

[AnswerDude]

Another suggestion I can make is to do the EUU3 upgrade. It includes WMP 8.5, and some users report better performances.
http://www29.compaq.com/falco/sp_detail.asp?Model=2593&Div=28&Os=126&SoftwareVer=16579

It's maybe something with the video itself, again the bmw films ran perfectly. You might want to convert it to mpeg or divx format. Pockettv does have a commercial version that is x-scale optimized.
PocketTV
http://www.pockettv.com/
PocketDivx
http://home.adelphia.net/~mdukette/release.html