Originally Posted by Amiga
It is said in the documentation that AVC encoding is still very buggy. If your using it by setting
use_avc_hw = 1
in the pmp.ini Jocky says to make sure to play a few seconds of the "avc-enable.avi". I found this needs to be done before you play each video or if you stop and restart a video.
The buggy problems I noted using AVC was
1) The screen size would change on it's own here and there, I guess as the demuxer was try to encode to the proper size 480x272 from what I have it set to originally?
2) Intermittent video freeze up. I could still exit the program using Home, most of the time.
3) Too many files in one directory appear to cause the PSP to blue screen crash? (not sure if this is fact yet or not)
I'm going to play later with using a different rendering method over AVC and see how it goes.
Anyone having issues just getting installed, this program is not "confusing crap" as noted above, just follow the directions for installation under section 3 of the "README-PMPVLC Player.txt". It's just as easy to use as PiMP Streamer.
When you edit the pmp.ini file, best to open in Wordpad or something for the Unix text conversion (basically CRLF's between the two are usually off cause Windows sucks :P ).
1) Set the VLC, PMP, and Live server to the proper IP address on your network that's hosting those items. For me it's my main rig for VLC and PMP but my other system for Live as it has my TV card.
2) Then set the videopath and musicpath 1 through 5 to your folders which contain video/music on your PC. So for instance change "d:\Movies\;" to "c:\MEDIA\MOVIES\;" Just make sure to leave the ending backslash and semi-colon.
3) If you change from the default AVC encoding, well I have no info yet as I have not done it. Looks pretty easy though. Change
use_avc_hw = 1
to
use_avc_hw = 0
I assume. I don't think you have to pick a different video codec? Not sure here, but he gives recommended settings about halfway through the readme.
I plan to start with these and work my way around a little.I recommend these settings as they are most stable and deliver reasonable good quality:
res_horiz = 360;
res_vert = 272;
vid_codec = DIV3;
vid_bitrate = 600;
vid_fps = 25;
aud_codec = mp3;
aud_bitrate = 48;
aud_channels = 2;
container = ogg;
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