Comments on: Bacon on BlackBerry: Multimedia http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/bacon-on-blackberry-multimedia/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Sat, 18 May 2013 20:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Bacon on BlackBerry http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/bacon-on-blackberry-multimedia/comment-page-1/#comment-211714 Bacon on BlackBerry Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:11:02 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/005919/#comment-211714 BlackBerries with WiFi are capable of streaming high-bitrate streams. The Shoutcast streams I listen to are 96-160kbps (which is higher quality than FM radio) and would be great to be able to listen to those while mobile. The CDMA BlackBerries should be able to handle good quality MP3 streams as well.

There’s no performance hit (or battery life hit) for adding more software CODECs — all-caps just for spite =) — on the device. They’re not active unless actually used in decoding a video/audio stream so there’s no more impact on battery life than the existing codecs (depending on the technical characteristics of the codec as some are more processor intensive than others).

It’s much more user-friendly to support a video/audio format natively rather than having to go through the video/audio conversion process every time you load video/audio on the device (which also looses quality).

]]> By: Bacon on BlackBerry http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/bacon-on-blackberry-multimedia/comment-page-1/#comment-487598 Bacon on BlackBerry Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:11:00 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/005919/#comment-487598 BlackBerries with WiFi are capable of streaming high-bitrate streams. The Shoutcast streams I listen to are 96-160kbps (which is higher quality than FM radio) and would be great to be able to listen to those while mobile. The CDMA BlackBerries should be able to handle good quality MP3 streams as well.

There’s no performance hit (or battery life hit) for adding more software CODECs — all-caps just for spite =) — on the device. They’re not active unless actually used in decoding a video/audio stream so there’s no more impact on battery life than the existing codecs (depending on the technical characteristics of the codec as some are more processor intensive than others).

It’s much more user-friendly to support a video/audio format natively rather than having to go through the video/audio conversion process every time you load video/audio on the device (which also looses quality).

]]> By: Tommy M http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/bacon-on-blackberry-multimedia/comment-page-1/#comment-210661 Tommy M Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:36:29 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/005919/#comment-210661 well if those other 2 dont want to use their BB for anything other than business, then both of you need to #%%$$$%^$ up.. Bacon, I applaud you for providing the info.. This is why we live in America!!! We can make those choices without SF’s like these making ridiculous comments about things that dont concern them!!!

I want to know where you got the Seinfeld episode(s) as I want to download them on my Curve.

]]> By: Tommy M http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/bacon-on-blackberry-multimedia/comment-page-1/#comment-487597 Tommy M Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:36:00 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/005919/#comment-487597 well if those other 2 dont want to use their BB for anything other than business, then both of you need to #%%$$$%^$ up.. Bacon, I applaud you for providing the info.. This is why we live in America!!! We can make those choices without SF’s like these making ridiculous comments about things that dont concern them!!!

I want to know where you got the Seinfeld episode(s) as I want to download them on my Curve.

]]> By: Chris L. http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/bacon-on-blackberry-multimedia/comment-page-1/#comment-203109 Chris L. Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:52:38 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/005919/#comment-203109 Amen brother phlo, preach on!

]]> By: Chris L. http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/bacon-on-blackberry-multimedia/comment-page-1/#comment-487596 Chris L. Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:52:00 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/005919/#comment-487596 Amen brother phlo, preach on!

]]> By: phlo http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/bacon-on-blackberry-multimedia/comment-page-1/#comment-201734 phlo Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:07:59 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/005919/#comment-201734 Excuse me but what the fuck? FM radio? We’re talking about business devices here. If you want to listen to radio, get a Zune, be happy. Streaming music is a stupid idea too; the vast majority of streams is available as mp3 whose quality sucks male genitalia with bitrates lower than 96 kbps (which I wouldn’t expect 2G devices to constantly be able to receive).
Resizing Pics and rotating videos are nice ideas. Adding more codecs (“codec”‘s no acronym, caps not appropriate) would probably be a royal pain in the ass as most decoders only support one particular family and the main cpu probably won’t have the performance to decode yet. Adding other hardware decoders would screw with battery runtime, make the devices larger and heavier — not something most users would want.

]]> By: phlo http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/bacon-on-blackberry-multimedia/comment-page-1/#comment-487595 phlo Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:07:00 +0000 http://blackberrycool.com/2007/11/02/005919/#comment-487595 Excuse me but what the fuck? FM radio? We’re talking about business devices here. If you want to listen to radio, get a Zune, be happy. Streaming music is a stupid idea too; the vast majority of streams is available as mp3 whose quality sucks male genitalia with bitrates lower than 96 kbps (which I wouldn’t expect 2G devices to constantly be able to receive).
Resizing Pics and rotating videos are nice ideas. Adding more codecs (“codec”‘s no acronym, caps not appropriate) would probably be a royal pain in the ass as most decoders only support one particular family and the main cpu probably won’t have the performance to decode yet. Adding other hardware decoders would screw with battery runtime, make the devices larger and heavier — not something most users would want.

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