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Originally Posted by darkjedi007

Maybe I missed something in the post, but are QTV drivers included in the phone? Or do I have to install it manually?

I have noticed that Coreplayer plays video files better than TCPMP, less dropped frames/smoother and such. I also know that a lot of people have experienced blue flickering with Coreplayer. Does that mean that the QTV overlay is already being used?

No no- Qtv isn't a display driver that you install manually. Its support built into the hardware, waiting to be used. Problem is that most third party applications don't know how to use it, so they just call the standard DirectDraw set instead. If you recall, on the Mogul/Kaiser/Touch, at first people had to disable DirectDraw use to get proper video since the drivers weren't supported well by the OS/hardware. This is the opposite- the capability is there, but the apps don't use it.

Coreplayer 1.x started using Qtv overlay by default instead of DirectDraw. 1.1 only worked on GSM chips, though. The blue flicker only exists when using the overlay method to output video to an external display.
However even the older Coreplayer did a better job at decoding than TCPMP, using some more efficient code that helped drop less frames. The difference appeared on benchmarks, but wasn't dramatic until Qtv support came out.

Originally Posted by TreyBeno

I have noticed that the mp4 format does give better quality in WMP. I watch a few podcasts that are in the mp4 format and Im getting clear tv quality playback with no frame drops. There is no flickering in fast action sequences too. I run a stock sprint TP and can see some merit in the OP.

I should probably mention that these aren't just random theories I had. This is based on information from Core Labs as well as countless threads on XDA. I noticed that a lot of the discussion never made it over here, which led to my post.

Originally Posted by Evil Kaneval

Thanks a lot for this information. I look forward to trying the QTV drivers when or if they become available in this thread.

Your welcome. But, as I mentioned before, these aren't *that* kind of driver. You don't install a .dll or something to make this work. The video playing application needs to send information to the hardware decoder which is just sitting and waiting for this stuff.

I already tried the H264 codecs and watched Wall-E in TCPMP through Saturn Liberty and was completely underwhelmed. This is just my opinion though as this is certainly not a competition. The more information, the better.

Agreed. I'm not sure why Technology1 chose to take it as a personal challenge, but I'm not talking about streaming video quality here. Streaming quality, while definitely getting better these days, is still no match for encoded local content. What I'd LOVE to see is QTV eventually ported over to TCPMP.