On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Preston Crawford <me at 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