Hi guys,
I've just purchased a archos 101 and am "reasonably" happy with it... I wanted something to browse the web in a comfortable way without having to boot my PC.
Now I know I shouldn't expect wonders for the price I payed but I would like to get your input on following points:
- browsing is kinda choppy when scrolling. Not really a big deal but off course a smoother experience would be nice so if there are solutions here I would like to hear them I don't know if another browser might make a difference?
- video playback: this is a complaint from the misses , she was going to make a chocolate cake and wanted to view the "howto" movie online. It started up but was really choppy (this is the link to the movie: http://www.vt4.be/videos/chocoladetaart). I don't know if you guys can play this video smoothly with whatever setup you have?
I don't know the resolution of the video (I know the 101 can handle 720p) but if the resolution is higher is there a way to play it in lower resolution somehow without a lot of pre-video-watching-actions?
PS The video played back nicely on my HTC Desire with Redux 1.2 ROM (gingerbread)
What's the advice for this tablet in general to get the full potential out of it? Is installing urukdroid a must or are there other options?
PS I've set power management already to "overdrive"
Thx
B
Archos still doesn't have a GPU-accelerated version of Flash, so Flash playback in the Browser is a bit rough. I usually find that it's acceptable once you put it into fullscreen mode. Also, that video was fairly high res for Flash, usually I'm watching stuff through youtube at 360p, so you may want to test with some lower quality videos, and don't forget to go into fullscreen mode.
IIRC, there is no way to make the system capable of playing videos over 1280x720. I use Handbrake on my PC to downsample any of my 1080p stuff, but obviously it takes time to reencode. You could use something like TVersity to recode on-the-fly, but I always found it to be a PITA.
Installing Uruk isn't a must by any means, but I like to theme my device and do alot of other stuff that requires R/W access to the system. Performance is better in some ways as well, such as having ext4 partitions instead of the stock squashfs, but it's not a huge difference. Uruk also has advantages such as Ad-Hoc wifi connnections, better phone tethering compatibility, support for DVB, etc.
Overall though, if you just use it to browse the web, I don't think you'll see much difference with Urukdroid. Doesn't mean I don't recommend it though.
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IIRC, there is no way to make the system capable of playing videos over 1280x720.
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I know what you mean, but you can play 1080p on your Archos, but extreeeeemly slowly, around 0.3-0.5 frames pro second
@msticninja : did the video play ok on your device or was it jerky?
I've been experimenting a bit with browsers and so far opera mobile (not mini) seems to be the smoothest... if you activate "opera turbo" it's even faster but pictures are lower quality
I've tried stock browser, opera mini, opera mobile, dolphin HD and Skyfire
cheers
B
It was pretty jerky. When she was just standing talking it wasn't bad, but once 50% or more of the pixels were changing on each frame, it skipped badly until the movement settled down. It's just too high res for the flash optimization. You can either try to watch lower res vids, which I know is hard in this situation, or you can try to use a Download Helper to download the flash video, then play it in the stock Video Player. Should be no skipping there with the hardware acceleration.
Eventually, someone will either hack together or legitimately release a hardware-accelerated version of Flash for our Gen8 devices, and that should make it drastically better. At least I hope someone will.
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Eventually, someone will either hack together or legitimately release a hardware-accelerated version of Flash for our Gen8 devices, and that should make it drastically better. At least I hope someone will.
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I watched that video on my desktop computer and my quad core processor went to 25% on all 4 cores and had burst download speeds of 1Mbyte/s so watching this on a single core non optimized flash will be a disaster.
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I watched that video on my desktop computer and my quad core processor went to 25% on all 4 cores and had burst download speeds of 1Mbyte/s so watching this on a single core non optimized flash will be a disaster.
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what I don't understand then is that this video played perfectly on my desire... I know the desire is a great device but what's the difference compared to the archos?
berre said:
what I don't understand then is that this video played perfectly on my desire... I know the desire is a great device but what's the difference compared to the archos?
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Hardware acceleration enabled flash maybe.
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Hardware acceleration enabled flash maybe.
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Yes, the GPU acceleration makes a huge difference, more than I thought it should, until I realized that GPUs process data differently, with multiple cores/threads, and the fact that they're designed solely to pump out pixels, not numbers. (Yes, I know that's kind of an idiosyncrasy)
If we get GPU acceleration, it would probably be capable of playing flash games even.
update: just installed Flash Player 10.2.156.12 instead of 10.3 and there is big improvement in the video! it's still a bit choppy but much much more "viewable"
cheers
B
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Question does anyone have anyinfo on how the overclocking process is going with the tytn or 8525. If we could overclock this btch it would be great....miss my 81/wizard when she was pushing 262mhz.
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Question does anyone have anyinfo on how the overclocking process is going with the tytn or 8525. If we could overclock this btch it would be great....miss my 81/wizard when she was pushing 262mhz.
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Yes but this ***** is pushing 400MHz??
Afaik theres been nothing new about overclocking the Hermes lately....do you really need to?
i would like to overclock, so far i haven't been able to stream music from the internet via wifi and send it via bluetooth to my stereo... hopefully soon i wish i had the technical know how to assist in the effort... to all you who do thanks so much
The Hermes has more than enough processing power to achieve this, all but the most up to date ROMs have had problems with A2DP....you could try one of the more up to date ROMs??
Black shadow (4.0) has A2DP down to a fine art
Maybe the new Faria Super clean ROM?
Also worth shutting down/uninstalling some 3rd party apps that might be running in the background??
well, i believe it does need to be overclocked ....have u tried running divx files. certin files run great but other tend to lag. Also multitasking between large apps even with the memory sometimes studders . Yea shes pushing 400mhz but the fact that u can reach 500+ is tempting ...and as well all mod our hermes it would be cool to see how this damn samsung processor overclocked. Pictures adobe files even word documents or pdf files does load. Overclocking may assist in speeding these things up as to when i checked task man the percentage cpu load was crazy slowing everything down especially on pdfs while lets say browsing the net .
i've deffinitly tried having TCPMP as the only thing running... think i should i try a different app?
I didn't realize the Black ROMs were any good with A2DP, that's deff something i'm gonna check out... i don't think i have a terrible amount of stuff installed 19.79MB storage 22.12MB program free at idle so maybe it's time for a rom update
yea i watch movies all the time...on my 85 now granted its a blessing over the wizard. But it still lags when certian spots of the movie ....cpu related def. I mean we all overclock our cpus for speeding up peformance. The more apps we get loaded on this hermes the more u toogle and need some boost. THe 400mhz is nice....but aint nothing wrong with more speed.
Also im running custel 2.5 and have my tweak set to 58 and my ad2p sounds sweet no hiss no lag. Great stuff ad2p is really set right now. My concern is more multitasking and divx files.
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well, i believe it does need to be overclocked ....have u tried running divx files. certin files run great but other tend to lag. Also multitasking between large apps even with the memory sometimes studders . Yea shes pushing 400mhz but the fact that u can reach 500+ is tempting ...and as well all mod our hermes it would be cool to see how this damn samsung processor overclocked. Pictures adobe files even word documents or pdf files does load. Overclocking may assist in speeding these things up as to when i checked task man the percentage cpu load was crazy slowing everything down especially on pdfs while lets say browsing the net .
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Perhaps you should try a different ROM, if you search my posts ive had success with divx and Xvid plenty of times, even full movies over the 400MB mark. They run in sync and the only problem is that Coreplayer leaves artifacts due to incompatabilities with the ATIimageON drivers. Trust me the speed and power of the hermes is somewhat restricted by the poor ROMs we have been given by carriers and HTC. DEFINATLY try a newer WM6 ROM. Also give a tweak to the caching aswell, using Shadowmites program or pimp my black.
Try running Core player
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well, i believe it does need to be overclocked ....have u tried running divx files. certin files run great but other tend to lag. Also multitasking between large apps even with the memory sometimes studders . Yea shes pushing 400mhz but the fact that u can reach 500+ is tempting ...and as well all mod our hermes it would be cool to see how this damn samsung processor overclocked. Pictures adobe files even word documents or pdf files does load. Overclocking may assist in speeding these things up as to when i checked task man the percentage cpu load was crazy slowing everything down especially on pdfs while lets say browsing the net .
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i only use TCPMP Been using it for years, but i will try shadow currently i been using a perfect version of custel 2.5 wihich is wm6 caching is set to around 4k but will try
from the wiki said:
Is it possible to overclock the 400MHz Samsung processor?
NO, don't use Pocket Hack Master 4.06, beta, or any version, UNTIL ALL BUGS ARE WORKED OUT. It is SUPPOSED TO HAVE support for Samsung S3C2440 since this version, but it doesn't work yet. Be careful with the settings because it causes crashes and can hard reset your device. It also causes a partial hard reset, which then needs 2 manual hard resets to correct! This software is not ready for prime time. Author never answered emails concerning this! Related forum threads: 1 and 2
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http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_FAQs
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before I ask any question I check the wiki, and i search the forum the regular way and with google
i.e "hermes overclock site:forum.xda-developers.com"
as for the dixv skips... have the movies been re-encoded for ppc resolution and bitrate?
Any chance or hope we can get a CyanogenMod for the aria that comes with flash "lite" or could we install it ourselves on "CyanogenMod 7 for Aria"?.
I am trying to squeeze the most performance from my aria, and would like to give CyanogenMod a try over my current rom "Liberated 2.2.2 oc 806mhz". But i do not want to loose the ability to watch youtube or surf the web with 'flash'. My games are a little choppy but certanly much better over "stock at&t rom at 600mhz" so i would like to give "CyanogenMod gingerbread 2.3 oc 806mhz" a try.
As of now i OC my aria to 864mhz during play time, and underclock for normal use..But of course i am weary of freeze up. So far no problems and games run pretty good. (Backbreaker, Driftmania, and Motorbike Gp are my benchmark games). I also have hardware acceleration enabled through blade buddy(good or bad?)
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Any chance or hope we can get a CyanogenMod for the aria that comes with flash "lite" or could we install it ourselves on "CyanogenMod 7 for Aria"?.
I am trying to squeeze the most performance from my aria, and would like to give CyanogenMod a try over my current rom "Liberated 2.2.2 oc 806mhz". But i do not want to loose the ability to watch youtube or surf the web with 'flash'. My games are a little choppy but certanly much better over "stock at&t rom at 600mhz" so i would like to give "CyanogenMod gingerbread 2.3 oc 806mhz" a try.
As of now i OC my aria to 864mhz during play time, and underclock for normal use..But of course i am weary of freeze up. So far no problems and games run pretty good. (Backbreaker, Driftmania, and Motorbike Gp are my benchmark games). I also have hardware acceleration enabled through blade buddy(good or bad?)
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'Flash Lite' is a HTC proprietary application that runs on HTC Sense, so there is no chance that it will be ported to CM7.
You can still watch most YouTube videos, either through the YouTube app or through the mobile website, because it actually doesn't use Flash to deliver that content. And as far as I know, Flash Lite doesn't even work with the full YouTube site anyway, unless I'm mistaken. (Been forever since I used Flash Lite.)
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You can still watch most YouTube videos, either through the YouTube app or through the mobile website, because it actually doesn't use Flash to deliver that content. And as far as I know, Flash Lite doesn't even work with the full YouTube site anyway, unless I'm mistaken. (Been forever since I used Flash Lite.)
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So iam guessing an android friendly html. In that case what rom would squeeze the best gaming performance. my current set up or another. and does enabling hardware acceleration make a differance
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So iam guessing an android friendly html. In that case what rom would squeeze the best gaming performance. my current set up or another. and does enabling hardware acceleration make a differance
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The aria may not be tgr ideal gaming platform but so far everygame I've tried playing has worked for me. I'm currently running cm7. I keep my phone at 320min/768 max ondemand for the most part. I use tasker to automatically run some games at higher clock speeds and with the performance governor when I open them (major battery drain if the phones not plugged in to charge though). Vm heap size can also be raised for intensive games. I also keep surface dithering off which helps. Of course flash based games are a no-go on cm7. Not sure if the flash lite liberated roms will allow you to play flash games either though.
Sent from my cm7 Aria.
"Vm heap size can also be raised for intensive games."
what would be a good value?
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"Vm heap size can also be raised for intensive games."
what would be a good value?
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I've found 32 to be sufficient for the most part. 48 is even better but it tends to make the phone a little less responsive overall. Its unfortunate that it can't be adjusted without a reboot so you could just crank it up for gaming and bring it back down for regular use.
Sent from my cm7 Aria.
I have it now at 32. Need for speed shift runs well i am very happy about that!
I was trying to find a way to lower the resolution on some "HD" games but have not found anything. as you all know those games need more screen that the aria can offer.
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I have it now at 32. Need for speed shift runs well i am very happy about that!
I was trying to find a way to lower the resolution on some "HD" games but have not found anything. as you all know those games need more screen that the aria can offer.
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There's an app available that raises the pixel density of the screen. That might be just the ticket for such games. Its called something along the lines of 'Pixel Density Changer'. I don't recall if I saw it n the market or here on xda. I'm sure a quick search will turn it up.
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Ok Thank you @CallMeAria.. Just to make sure with cm7 are you able to watch youtube videos, or web content using xscope(streaming videos)
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Ok Thank you @CallMeAria.. Just to make sure with cm7 are you able to watch youtube videos, or web content using xscope(streaming videos)
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Youtube yes, but only the mobile version of the site. Of course there's also the youtube app and youtube downloaders. There is also a megavideo app that allows you to watch video from that site.
Sent from my cm7 Aria.
FWIW, I have tried GtabCom, Flashback, and Clemsyn/Calkulin6 recently, and I think I am going to stick with Clem/Calk6 (froyo). Here's what I found, and the order of the comparison topics reflects my priorities:
Boot time: quicker on clem/calk6 - takes about 24s from power button press to lock screen
Responsiveness: snappier on clem/calk6.
Stability (FCs, freeze-ups): better on clem/calk6
Video playback: Tied. Even though froyo has HW acceleration, video playback seems to be about the same for the quality of videos that I watch
Netflix: Tied. Available and working on both
upnp: Tied. Access to content over upnp works on both
Web browsing: Tied. HC has a better shortcut widget but Clem/Calk has a snappier browsing experience.
Apps/games: Tied. Everything I play seems to work on both platforms
Flash web games: Tied. Sites like Kongregate seem to work on both.
Flash video: Tied.
Sexiness: HC. HC is WAY sexier than froyo
Widgets: HC. Related to sexiness. Widgets are way better on HC.
Gmail widget: HC. Have not found a decent gmail widget on Clem/Calk
Location: HC. IP-based location not working on Clem/Calk6
Camera: Froyo. Works on froyo but I don't use it
Overall, I would say that in comparing functionality, froyo and HC are tied. HC is definitely better looking, but for me beauty is only skin deep , and speed and reliability are keeping me on Froyo.
Could you run this hw acceleration stress test on calkulin + clemsyn combo and let us know what fps the tablet could get :
http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/HWACCEL/
Thanks
Thanks for posting.
How about battery life? Supposedly Gingerbread fixed a lot of the battery life problems and HC implemented that. Did you do anything with battery life comparision?
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Could you run this hw acceleration stress test on calkulin + clemsyn combo and let us know what fps the tablet could get :
http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/HWACCEL/
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I'm also on Calkulin+ClemsynCombo v6 (an prefer it)...I get 10 FPS...my Windows PC @ work gets 12FPS.
Al
jhermit said:
Thanks for posting.
How about battery life? Supposedly Gingerbread fixed a lot of the battery life problems and HC implemented that. Did you do anything with battery life comparision?
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Good point - I forgot about this in my original post. I think that battery life is much better in Clem/Calk6, and this is also important to me however I don't have any hard measurements to back this up. There are some threads that talk about included apps that reduce battery life in HC.
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Could you run this hw acceleration stress test on calkulin + clemsyn combo and let us know what fps the tablet could get :
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I'm also on Calkulin+ClemsynCombo v6 (an prefer it)...I get 10 FPS...my Windows PC @ work gets 12FPS.
Al
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Al, thanks for posting the result. I assume that you are using the stock browser ?
People who used HC alpha reported their test results to be between 4 - 12 fps. So it seemed that the full hw acceleration of froyo is not being utilized in browing ?
Could you repeat the test with different browsers, i.e. firefox, Dolphin HD v4.5 and opera mobile ?
Your 12 fps score on the PC is low. A $30 cheap 5450 radeon video card with 1 MB memory could improve the score to 60 + fps and you will notice a significant improvement.
Dave
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Al, thanks for posting the result. I assume that you are using the stock browser ?
People who used HC alpha reported their test results to be between 4 - 12 fps. So it seemed that the full hw acceleration of froyo is not being utilized in browing ?
Could you repeat the test with different browsers, i.e. firefox, Dolphin HD v4.5 and opera mobile ?
Your 12 fps score on the PC is low. A $30 cheap 5450 radeon video card with 1 MB memory could improve the score to 60 + fps and you will notice a significant improvement.
Dave
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Here's the results for Dolphin HD - 12 FPS & Firefox 6 FPS.
Couldn't locate a copy of Opera Mobile...market and amazon show my gtab as incompatible.
Yeah, business PC @ work not much for graphics- shared memory s.cks...your tax dollars @ work (it's a government PC).
Flash web games on Facebook (zynga, CivWorld, etc) are awful on both.
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Flash web games on Facebook (zynga, CivWorld, etc) are awful on both.
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Bejeweled Blitz works fine for me through facebook, played on both Calk/Clem and BC/Clem both OCed 1400
Problem for me is the 'sexiness' of HC makes it very hard for me to go back to my old rom (Beasty/Clem) despite the fact it is noticeably faster then Gtab. Plus you lose out on some great tablet apps like News360.
Reeser,
What other tablet apps do you like since I do like News360 and a number of apps I find are definitely designed for phones instead of tablets.
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Problem for me is the 'sexiness' of HC makes it very hard for me to go back to my old rom (Beasty/Clem) despite the fact it is noticeably faster then Gtab. Plus you lose out on some great tablet apps like News360.
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You gain very little but lose a lot with HC. Mainly NO HW Acceleration. If I have good hardware then I want to be able to get the full benefits it has. HC is definitely the latest but gor GTabs, not the greatest IMO.
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FWIW, I have tried GtabCom
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That's what I use. I prefer an OS designed for a Tablet, when using a Tablet.
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That's what I use. I prefer an OS designed for a Tablet, when using a Tablet.
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Yeah but it's like using a pc with an awesome video card only that he awesome video card is disabled in favor of lame intel graphics.
Just to get a consesus going. I've went back and forth between GTC and Clem/Calk5, I keep going back to Froyo. It may not have all the bells and whistles but it's just not worth it for what I lose in HC.
I'll stay on Froyo until I encounter a must have app that will only run on HC.
Here is the one thing that is detering me from going back to Froyo (and its so minor..)
PORTRAIT ORIENTATION. I WANT MY SOFT KEYS TO BE ON THE BOTTOM.
If Honeycomb would play hulu I would stay there, but I only get sound or video but not both in any of the solutions I have tried....anyone have a working hulu fix for Honeycomb?
I also agree, I also switch back to Gingerbread or Honeycomb due to the buttons on the bottom, if someone could create a utility for this I would probably stay with Froyo. As it is I switch between Beasty's, CM7Tab and Flashback and GtabComb on nearly a daily basis...So conflicted!
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Yeah but it's like using a pc with an awesome video card only that he awesome video card is disabled in favor of lame intel graphics.
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I hear this often, but in my actual use I don't see any issues with overclocked performance in graphics. I must not be playing enough games - I use it for email, reading, browsing, etc. Maybe watch a video now and then (on the far less than 720p screen, watching "HD" video makes no sense)
So, yeah. Whatever floats your boat.
I've been wondering about the hardware acceleration issue as well. It came up in the Illuminate thread, since he's claimed that HA is working on his rom. Folks there have tested some graphics intense games and they worked fine on their system. They can play video with software decoding, so what exactly does HA give us as a benefit.
Can anyone that's running a HC rom please run an Antutu benchmark and report their 2D and 3D rendering results?
the other benchmark test mainly concentrate on CPU performance, not graphics rendering. I had run a Neocore test and got 62.7FPS with Calk/Clem. I've been told that the test is outdated, but if it produces the same results with a HC rom, then we'll know that HA doesn't effect graphics rendering as much as we thought.
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Todd Evans
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I've been wondering about the hardware acceleration issue as well. It came up in the Illuminate thread, since he's claimed that HA is working on his rom. Folks there have tested some graphics intense games and they worked fine on their system. They can play video with software decoding, so what exactly does HA give us as a benefit.
Can anyone that's running a HC rom please run an Antutu benchmark and report their 2D and 3D rendering results?
the other benchmark test mainly concentrate on CPU performance, not graphics rendering. I had run a Neocore test and got 62.7FPS with Calk/Clem. I've been told that the test is outdated, but if it produces the same results with a HC rom, then we'll know that HA doesn't effect graphics rendering as much as we thought.
Thanks,
Todd Evans
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Antutu v2.1
Flashback 7.1
2d 315
3d 1030
Hi chaps,
I have tried searching, but nothing that is spot on other than talking about AVI being a container etc.
I have two phones... and LG O2X and the just turned up Evo 3D (Almost 2 days on one charge at present lol (42 hours so far)). I thought I'd do a video test, so i started playing Bolt from my NAS drive to both my phones to just check general video quality.
O2X: Very very smooth fluid playback, occasional blip.
Evo 3D: Video just seems like it is playing at a low frame rate, it isn't fluid.
What might the O2X have that the Evo 3D doesn't? I know the O2X can record at 1080p and playback at 1080P.. but the evo 3d isn't exactly a slouch?
I looked through all my video's (and they are all in avi files).
What codec, bitrate, and resolution is the video?
According to windows:
Frame Width: 640
Frame Height: 336
Size: 701 MB
Frame rate: 23 fps
Data Rate: 891Kbps
Total bitrate: 1017kbps
Running it in Winamp pro.. it says it's an MPEG 4 Part2 (codec) XVID
I managed to find an MP4 anime I had... and that seems to play ok.
Do you have the GSM model? if so it could be down to the thottled GPU.
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Do you have the GSM model? if so it could be down to the thottled GPU.
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Yes, as a matter of fact I do have a GSM model... It wasn't in low power mode at the time if that's what you mean?
If not... tell me more about this throttling (or direct me where to look if that's not too much trouble )
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Yes, as a matter of fact I do have a GSM model... It wasn't in low power mode at the time if that's what you mean?
If not... tell me more about this throttling (or direct me where to look if that's not too much trouble )
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All the GSM roms and stock afaik suffer from very poor results in gpu tests.. nenamark @25fps (worse than a well set up Adreno205 GPU).. it should be @ 45fps mark @ stock 1.2mhz cpu speed as proved by the CDMA versions based on stock 2.17.x.x roms.. with 1.8mhz speeds it probably break into the 50's.
by throttling i mean the behaviour the gpu seems to be showing by watching, for example, the performance needle/meter in nenmark 2,
it sways all over the place! even with a static display at the end of the test. i know this test quite well and it doesn't behave like this on other phones.
all this wouldn't suprise me if it affected hardware decoded avi playback too
Thank you for the explanation (Doesn't stop me wondering how I sort it out though lol).
What app are you using? I find that using Diceplayer and MXplayer - I get nearly flawless playback. Diceplayer is better for up to 1080P content, but MXplayer is almost as good and free.
That said - I'm playing from my memory card.
you can flash a custom kernel @1.5 GHz
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What app are you using? I find that using Diceplayer and MXplayer - I get nearly flawless playback. Diceplayer is better for up to 1080P content, but MXplayer is almost as good and free.
That said - I'm playing from my memory card.
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Youtube video's and the sample 'green hornet' (etc) video's play just fine. It's the AVI's that seem to make it have a low frame rate (At least that's how it appears). The 02X is fine with it (A downside is that the O2X couldn't play a native MPEG4, where as the EVO 3D could :-D )
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I don't want to root and flash yet, as I have my rooted O2X and need to sell that first before I start playing with this phone too much. The O2X did 1.4 very easily (I need also need to keep my warranty intact until a case FINALLY decides it's gonna turn up in the mail.. grr! lol).
You can try 'Emit'
you have to install the pc app too, but it plays xvids etc smoothly even on my San Francisco Blade phone
I know about the lag the OP is talking about. I've tried nearly all video player software on my EVO3D and the only one that plays XVID AVI files perfectly is Diceplayer. Every other player had issues with either poor framerate or audio/video sync issues. Diceplayer handles XVID files very well on this phone. I wonder why none of the other players play them right?
Hello, can maybe some one post some videos on how FPse performance with GS3?
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Hello, can maybe some one post some videos on how FPse performance with GS3?
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I've seen that, nice video.
I've tested it. Originally it ran at 256 fps, so I had to turn on vsync to cap it at 60 fps.
Runs super smooth here
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
I've been having a tinker with FPse myself.
Running version 0.11.24.
Using Final Fantasy 9 as a test ISO, it runs amazingly well in "software" mode, if you turn off frame limiting the area's I checked were running at 250+fps.
I didn't notice any bugs either. but graphically, the game looks horrible, pixelated and blurry.
Now, there's an openGL plugin for FPse, which makes it look fantastic, much better then software mode. but it's choppy and buggy. Not unplayable mind you, (40 - 100 fps) but it can dip to 20 at some scenes.
Now the worst part is, currently the OpenGL plugin does not support the MALI400 GPU in the S3. If you try to directly run an ISO using the pluggin, it will not load on the S3, just shows a black screen.
there is a "trick" to load a game using the plugin though, but I wont bother getting into detail.
The dev is reportedly soon going to release fpse 0.11.27, which will allow the openGL plugin to run on a MALI400 GPU.
Check out the thread on fpsece.net.
also @NZtechfreak.
thats an N64 emu, not FPse.
dark_day said:
also @NZtechfreak.
thats an N64 emu, not FPse.
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Try actually watching the video before commenting, I show FPse also. Sorry, but I think I know what I'm talking about here.
In the video I run Tekken 3 just with the software GPU plugin and it runs fine, will try it out with my other games and see, but certainly Tekken 3 has no issue so it isn't universal that it doesn't work (its running 32-bit rendering with anti-aliasing on in the video at 60fps). Apparently the 0.11.27 version coming out any day will have a major revision to make things work better with the Mali too.
Thank you for all your replies more confident about buying S3 just reading the post about signal issues...
I tried it and it runs well in software mode.
I have managed to play with the Open GL plugin (Einhander and Grandia), the graphics are very very good and the frame rate is ok.
But as dark_day says, you have to do a very anoying trick (with Tekhen3) to play.
Also I didn't manage to play with the iControlPad and the OpenGL plugin whereas it works well in software mode.
My only problem in software mode, if someone has an answer : I didn't manage to play in 4:3. Even when I select original screen size it's still in 16:9.