Watching movies on your Dreamcast

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 2:53 am

I just wanted to know if anyone has ever tried to use the Dreamcast media players. Right now they have two main ones, DC DIVX and Gypplay, Gypplay works with MPEG one while DCDivx sticks to mpeg 4 (Divx and Xvid) (still trying to get xvid to work) and the divx stuff you can get good video quality (VHS ape quality, a bit higher with letterbox sicne you can up the resolution a little.) but at the cost of the audio qualtiy (lets just say I will stick to gypplay for AMV watching on the TV.)

Professional 666 · Post by **Professional 666** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 4:39 am

I'd like to know which DivX/DC players work particularly well right now. I'm interested in running movies exceeding 352x288 resolutions, which over half a year ago the DivX players I found weren't reliable for yet.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 11:15 pm

right now the suggested resolution is 352x240 and they suggest bitrates between 500 (low end and perfect playback) to 700 (riskier but still in the real of posibility.) I've gotten full length movies to play at bitrates of 900. And this is in MPEG-4 mind you, they look alot better than they sound.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 11:39 pm

As in, it looks better than it sounds like it would look or....sound quallity is sacrificed for extra video quallity?

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 11:44 pm

my 900 bitrate encode looked VHS quality, and the audio quality can VASTLY depend on your audio codec, the stuff I usually encode with sounds pretty bad, but if you have something like MP3PRO then you can get audio that wont make you want to kill yourself. As for AMV's stick to gypplay, it beats out DCDIVX in the audio quality department and stability. I know there are way to get great audio out of DCDIVX bit rught now I have still been testing the bitrates I can get out of it.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 11:46 pm

In Gypplay I went and just put random mpegs off the net on it and they ALL worked, Tainted Doughnuts being.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 8:25 am

I thought about doing this to watch fansubs on my TV.

Only problem is the fansubs are high-bitrate 640x480 files

The 200Mhz cpu on the little Dreamcast just can't keep up.

~klinky

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 12:37 pm

klinky wrote:I thought about doing this to watch fansubs on my TV.

Only problem is the fansubs are high-bitrate 640x480 files

The 200Mhz cpu on the little Dreamcast just can't keep up.

~klinky

Poor wittle dweamcast

But still, it sounds like a nice way to play some AMV's.

Since I am in a dorm an my monitor is bigger than the TV that my roommate and I use

Yeah, I just go fullscreen.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Mon Mar 03, 2003 10:44 pm

klinky wrote:I thought about doing this to watch fansubs on my TV.

Only problem is the fansubs are high-bitrate 640x480 files

The 200Mhz cpu on the little Dreamcast just can't keep up.

~klinky

That is where you would be wrong klinky, if you don't mind doing a lot of searching, (and being trolled on) you can take something like azumanga daioh or stand alone complex and make softdec movies. MPEG - 1, the MINIMUM bitrate is 2000, so don't expect to get to many eps on one disk though. As far as CPU power, it is there, somewhere. I say the current media players just arent coded well enough. But if you don't mind re-encoding then you can do a two pass encode with a CBR of around 900 and get something near VHS qualtiy. (No block noise, but the pic is still slightly blurier than a VHS's would be.)

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 1:49 am

I hear xbox can be modded to play anything you want