Movies For 3G Phones & PDAs

4thorder wrote on 1/21/2004, 9:36 PM

I notice the next generation of personal technology has the ability to play compressed video I am assuming in dvix or MP4 format.

Does anyone know more about this and what size of movies, resolution, bitrate and color depth these devices will be able to handle?
thx

4th order

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Spot|DSE wrote on 1/21/2004, 9:48 PM

3PPP is based around Quicktime and MP4, and some PDA devices play WMV and REAL, 320 x 240/15 frames is pretty standard for PDA, but my limited knowledge of cell phones is 176 x 144, 8fps. Ulead's M-Style, available in Asia, edits for cell, and actuall edits ON the cell. I saw a Philips phone with a video cam and editor when I was recently in Singapore. Scary stuff...I wonder when the belt buckle version of Vegas is coming.

satish wrote on 1/21/2004, 10:59 PM

Many next gen cellphones have hardware capabilities to play MPEG1/MPEG4 audio/video. Typical resolutions are QCIF (176x44 pixels), CIF (352x288 pixels) or SQCIF (128x96). Most displays do 15/16 bits color and some of them can do 24 bits. Not sure about the bitrates...