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.
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.
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...
Which really is beside the point and I probably shouldn't have mentioned it so this didn't turn into a "why aren't you using Linux and a Palm" issue.
Palm just works and works nice for myself. I've been using Palm-based phones for almost 5 years now.
If I want more, I'll go with an ultra-light notebook.
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.
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).
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.
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.