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Archos Recorder + Rockbox Plays Video

Posted by timothy on from the unintended dept.

elinenbe writes "Rockbox, the open source firmware for the Archos Recorder, Player, FM, Recorder V2, and now the Neo can play grayscale videos at over 60FPS. A demo version of the DOOM3 intro along with a few other sample clips have been made so far. This is the Archos that was NOT designed for movies, but for MP3s -- go Rockbox!"

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  1. All I can think of is by MC68040 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    .. "that's neat, but if that would have been a standard feature everyone would have said it sucked", on the other hand as it's not designed to play video, it's neat alright.

    Go non-corporate developers.

  2. LCD Response Time by zalas · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Is the LCD on that thing supposed to be able to keep up with 60fps? I mean, I don't think they were designing the LCD on the MP3 with Video playback in mind...

  3. Re:Not so big by maelstrom · · Score: 3, Interesting

    s/DUCK/DUCT/g

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  4. Re:Does Archos play non-evil formats? by The+Human+Cow · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Apparently the hardware decoders are not immediately able to play vorbis or anything other than MP3, and the processor is too slow to allow software conversion on-the-fly. That said, they're still working on a way to do it.

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  5. A better idea by plinius · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Clearly what is needed is not another tiny hard drive-based video player.

    What you people should be doing is hacking one of those DVD-based video players with the 10 inch screens, adding a USB port or something.

    Future PDAs will be converged devices, with phones, cameras, and DVD....at least until MRAM arrives.