BEST standalone DVD (svcd) ACCESSPEED en "loopability" ???

[latcho]

Did Anybody did some survey on the ACCES AND LOOPINGSPEED of clips on standalone DVD-players?

If not:

Would anybody be interested in participating a set-up of such a survey, and bugging some stores to test the whole range of a (nice-price) mark DVD-PLAYA's.
I'M INTERESTED IN THESE TEST:

- the "rewind"-speed of the loopplay for clips of 1 minute (DVD or SVCD). eg. shortest interuption
- the accecibility of the loopplay-function.
- pricing VS best results
-checking the ability of playing SVCD's (together with the loop-function: becauce I noticed that some players that can play an SVCD, drop the loop-function).


IF YOU ALLREADY HAVE SOME EXPERIENCES, PLEASE DROP A LINE
THANX !



LATCHO


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[holly]

"Kiss"? Do you mean the Koss, or am I missing out on a Gene Simmons' promotional tongue/Glitter Rock edition DVD Player?

[robotfunk]

I think rewind speed is a very important issue. I can't think how many times I missed the return time of a rented DVD because it was still rewinding.

[latcho]

Originally posted by holly
"Kiss"? Do you mean the Koss, or am I missing out on a Gene Simmons' promotional tongue/Glitter Rock edition DVD Player?

It certainly rocks of it's DIVX-capabilities
KISS PLAYA URL

[sleepytom]

kiss, koss, ross, toss

hmm dodgy far east generic crap rebadged with a range of rhyming brand names. - it all comes out of the same factory so who cares??

as far as i can tell there is little in it in turms of loop performance between players - i've not see anything that does a seemless loop so the difrence between a small stutter and a slightly larger one is irelivent imho

much more important is the ability to turn off the OSD - this is why i like the pioneer players, you can compleatly remove the OSD - it doesn't flash anything up at all and they play everything inc SVCD

only drawback is the requirement to use the remote to access the loop function - i've programed just the buttons i need into my sony clie using omniremote pro which gives me a nice backlit display and i don't have to look at a load of buttons to find loop

[latcho]

" i've programed just the buttons i need into my sony clie using omniremote pro which gives me a nice backlit display "

SOUNDS LIKE A SWEET SOLUTION !

[holly]

100% agree with Tom. If you want clean loops on DVD you gotta burn them onto the disc. Looping delay is usually about a second at best, and without a sample buffer we won't be seeing anything less. On-Screen-display is the real evil.

[latcho]

indeed, why don't they pull in that 8 gigs of RAM

[digitalaqua]

even on my pc with hardware mpeg2 decoding and playing .m2v files off the harddrive, it gives a little jitter (less than 1/2 second but still noticable) as it loops. well well annoying. anyone played about with divx? is there an encoding setting that will make the files not look like blocky shit and still loop perfectly ?

[sleepytom]

divx is a useless codec - they refuse to mantain any form of backwards compatability and its a large processor overhead to decode - smooth looping is a player issue anyway, M$ media player can't loop reliably at all - the only player that can loop video with audio sample acuracy is VJamm 2 Pro

chances are that your hardware decoder is not able to loop properly - we used to find this with some old MJPEG boards - there is just an inherant stutter when the file starts to play again.