On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Preston Crawford me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:
Understand. My price point is lower, unfortunately. Around $300.
The Treo 600 is available for $149 from most providers nowdays, maybe $249 if you already have a provider. Even the Treo 650 is $299.
Do we have to do this? I made my choice. I already have a cell phone.
And at that price point it's Tungstens and Zires. And all of them either have poor displays (visually)
Palm doesn't require a high-res display like a start-bar type environment. Furthermore, the Treo 650 does have a better display with higher resolution. I haven't seen anyone offering it for less than $299.
Right, and I paid $300 for a device that fits my needs. Why do we have to do this again?
or that screen whine problem.
??? How about the "battery whine" problem with Pocket PC ??? ;->
Like you said, it's a personal preference thing and beside the point.
I use mine for calender, contact, MP3, PDF ref, etc...
So do I.
That's what I want to know. How do I take a stream and have it split the pieces of the real audio stream as they come in? It's taking them in as a playlist and dumping them into one big mp3 file.
I could have swore there was an option to split on X size in mencoder.
No idea.
And that file is too unweildy for using with the MP3 player on my device, I fear.
No SD/MMC slot? My Kyocera 7135 / Treo 600 have been Godsends because they have that nice, small, little slot in their tough, rugged designs (I dropped the crap out of my phones -- and I've seen Pocket PCs crack on half the height).
*sigh*
Listen, my current cell phone works fine for me. I bike 20 miles a day to work. So I need my phone to be separate from my PDA so it can fly out of my bike shorts and slam on the ground at 30 mph. My PDA has a different usage pattern. So I'm not going to return my Pocket PC based on your recommendation. Can you stop with this?
I have an SD slot, my point is that I don't want to load up one gigantic MP3 file into the MP3 player application.
Besides, I don't want to have to copy that whole file at once. Or I'd like to be able to encode manually at a lower bitrate.
??? Mencoder has a lot of options, try'em out.
Okay.
Right now I'm using the command... /usr/bin/mplayer -playlist http://<servername>/feed.pls -dumpaudio -dumpfile atc.mp3
Depending on your MPlayer is built, it may take all the mencoder options. Play with them (hit the man page). Definitely RTFM here, sorry, but that's it.
Well, you should have just said RTFM and left it at that, probably.
Preston