playing 640 by 480 videos on zune... Shutters a bit but getting close

[spot]

ok, i got my zune to play a 640 by 480 hd video. The problem was the video was glitchy.
I did this by using the hd hack to just manually put it in there.

Now my xbox 360 did play the 640 by 480 with a 1745 bitrate video when i pluged the zune into it.

So, tomorrow i will try to get a 640 by 480 with a lower bitrate, something like 1200 or 1400 and see what happens. The good thing is we may be able to find a work around for television output.

I do not have a tv out cable, just my xbox 360 which does just uses the zune as a hd and processes the video internally. So, i will have to go pick one of those up soon to see how it works without using the 360.

I will be working a double shift tomorrow. I will be back sat evening or sunday morning.

I will keep you up to date on how it goes. please post if you found the limits of the zunes video processing.

[lpxxfaintxx]

Yea, I tried doing that a long time ago... the video 'skipped' a lot. Wasn't watchable..

[PureThermite]

Originally Posted by lpxxfaintxx

Yea, I tried doing that a long time ago... the video 'skipped' a lot. Wasn't watchable..

Same here. Maybe it's because the Zune had to actively downsize it to fit on the 320x240 screen?

I think i'll try TV out and see how that works.

[spot]

ok, im watching a wmv-hd rip right now via the xbox-360. So, at least you can use it as a portable hd on the xbox with hd videos.

the xbox will play 720p via usb to the zune no problem but cant handle 1080p.
the 720p video has a resolution of 1028 by 720 and a bitrate of 6433kbps.
The 1080p videos are 1440 by 1080 and have a bitrate of 8470kbps.

My portable hd can do it no problem, but the zune just cant seem to load it fast enough since the bitrate is so high.

And i will not even try to play this on the zune alone for fear that it will die, going from 320 to 1024 seems to be too much of a jump for me.

later.

[PureThermite]

Okay, well, I tried playing a 640 x 480 file via TV OUT, and it still lags.

So I guess it's simply that the Zune firmware wasn't designed with higher-def in mind for playback. : /

[JeremyMiller]

Oh Well.
Not like it's really a big deal.
I think you're the only guys that even care about that, haha.

[mincho]

Yeah i hope a future update can fix this.

[dyingtoday]

I uploaded a 640 x 480 wmaHD file which was roughly almost 900 MB's to my Zune and it works perfectly. The only problem I seem to notice is when you fast foward the video it lags for around a second before moving.

[Aden]

Yes, but we have worked out the zune CAN play 640x480. And its not the size, whether 10mb or 10gigs. Its also the bitrate to take into account.

I have manage to play 640x480 with 900kb/s and managed without any lag.
I see this as an achieveemnt so far, but wish to improve it somehow.

[spot]

Originally Posted by dyingtoday

I uploaded a 640 x 480 wmaHD file which was roughly almost 900 MB's to my Zune and it works perfectly. The only problem I seem to notice is when you fast foward the video it lags for around a second before moving.

WMA or WMV?


a wmvhd file will have a high bitrate. like about 3000kbps to show ture high def video. The prefered resolution is also about 1280 by 720. Same as 720p.

the best i have done so far is a 640 x 480 with a bitrate of 910. I encoded the same video and uped the bitrate until it started to skip. The max i could get was 910kbps.

I hope that its a software limitation and not a hardware.

[Aden]

I think he meant wmvHD.

I think it is a software limitation. The hardware should easily be capable. I can see 640x480 at 1000kb/s becoming the standard on the zune within the next 6 months due to updates in firmware.[br]Posted on: 06-01-2007, 18:15:42_________________________________________________N ow watching BORAT on my zune. 35minutes in No problems yet.
640 x 480 at 1210 kb/s

[poxtomod]

I think MS should at least offer higher resolution output through the xbox360 than 320x240, it should stop mandatory lower quality re-encoding. This would not benefit headphone jack video out users though because composite/Rca jacks are limited to 240-320 lines of horizontal display. Least of all less encoding time would make videos more enjoyable, and increase the storage aspects of the Zune.

I am not sure why the wma's are so controlled, I guess it must be less stable to output larger size video files. I would assume it drains battery power even more than usual when playing large files. Maybe the battery is the real problem.....big files=more playing energy=1.5 to 2 battery hours of video=useless video out quality on external screens.

[Aden]

Higher quaility does effect videos'. Your estimates are right, i watched Borat ( 1 hour 20mins) in 640 x 480, at over 1000kb/s, and it drained battery harshly, i didnt get time to charge before today, and only managed to watch on more episode of southpark before v. low battery.