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I love my MemPlug for backup and for reading docs with CSpotRun, but I have to say that the
current version of gMovie that's included is pretty poor. The quality of the movies is worse
than ActiveSky, FireViewer, TealMovie, and EyeMod2. The quality of the images is also worse
than any of the photo album apps I've used. I wish Splash Photo would add support for
expansion memory like the MemPlug; that would be awesome! (I could REALLY keep a full
photo album with me then!)

I'm curious to know what other MemPlug owners think about the gMedia software. Is it
useful to you? Do you use other movie/photo apps, or is the quality of the gMedia app
sufficient for you?

p.s. I wonder if the Pi Tech developers will include a filemover utility so that if someday
better media apps are available that access the external memory, we can replace the
gMedia stuff...

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Well, I admit that FireViewer and TealMovie are better than GMovie. I can't seem to find a grayscale/FPS combination that works, really. I haven't gotten PiViewer to work; all my JPGs are the wrong format I guess, and I don't have a digital camera (yet).

I do have a whole e-library on there, and that's great. Hopefully with the (apparent) ease that PiDeveloper modified CSpotRun to work with the MemPlug, hopefully other developers can include this functionality.

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gMedia really stinks.

I was looking forward to is but the program isn't 16-bit and the pictures way too jagged, even the ones I manually resized.

Personally I don't even care about movies that much since the visor doesn't have good audio support (What we need is someone to combine a SoundsGood & the MemPlug!). For images I just wish PiViewer would have scaling options so we could view normal picture.

Other than that the MemPlug is an awesome Springboard, I keep all my docs and a ton of other stuff on it.

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I could tolerate it if it has sound.

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Tealmovie converts AVIs perfectly. gMovie for some reason has a "wavering" effect and seems to slow converted AVIs down (and Quicktime doesn't help). What we need is for Tealmovie to work with memplug. I won't hold my breath. For now I'll just continue with my Kopsis flashadapter.

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QuickTime support good, playback bad

I bought gMovie Maker and MemPlug the first days they were available, specifically because I need a solution to play movies that start as QuickTime on my Prism. So while I am thrilled that a Palm movie player is providing a converter for QuickTime and Mac, and that the MemPlug supports that player, the playback quality and feature set are WAY behind Tealmovie. Tealmovie really needs to provide a Mac/QuickTime file converter work with PiDeveloper to port to the MemPlug. Almost all multimedia content is originally authored in Quicktime even if it is eventually streamed or delivered with Real or WM.

Similarly, I am thrilled that there is a reader that works on the MemPlug (CSpotRun), I am just sorry it is not iSilo or another HTML reader. The developer of iSilo claims to have emailed PiDeveloper and hasn't heard anything.

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Re: QuickTime support good, playback bad

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Originally posted by andyland
Almost all multimedia content is originally authored in Quicktime even if it is eventually streamed or delivered with Real or WM.

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Re: Re: QuickTime support good, playback bad

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Originally posted by EricG
Most of my stuff is MPEG-1, ASF, MPEG-4 (divx,avi format)

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Your right about mpeg-4/divx - homebrew, that's why I said, "My" stuff.. I take my camcorder movies and zap them into Divx (MPAA - yes there are legitimate uses for the Divx codec, despite what (your) MPAA President - Jack Valenti says)

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Updated gMovie Player 1.1.3 available for download!

Hello MemPlug Users,

gMovie Player 1.1.3 (English and Japanese versions) is now available for free download from our website, http://www.genericmedia.com/products.html#download.

Improvements:
- support for 16 bit colour devices
- improved playback quality
- Palm OS 4.0 compliant

Thanks for your critical feedback on gMovie Player 1.1.2. We have followed your comments with interest, and hope to improve current and future gMovie products with your help.

Please, also check back at our website periodically for the latest updates to the gMovie products.

generic support

Registered: Jan 2001
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Thank you for the update.
It's really improved the playback and the color quality.
I just wondering if PiDeveloper can make another flash update, so the Gmovie Player can stay on Memplug Flash memory.

one more question, Why when I play a movie using Gmovie player, It just played maybe 3/4 of the movie length and it's start over from the begining. Before i updtae the Gmovie player, it start over after it played 1/2 of the movie.
Is this a bug?

Thank's

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Last edited by akur on 04-07-2001 at 07:22 PM

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I second the fact that videos look much better, I may have to invest in a larger card now.

I do have a problem now though, all of the JPEGs I convert come up with: "FileName" cannot be played on this device. Delete "FileName"?

I've tried several pictures all with the same results.

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