> Some times smaller MPEGs will not play, but large
r ones will (??). I'm confused.
>
> Sometimes I would try playing the same MPEG (what
ever you call these movie things) over and over. Som
etimes it will play and sometimes it won't. (???) I'
m confused.
>
> Sometimes i would try playing a small MPEG (aroun
d 700 kb) over and over and over and over and over,
but it just won't play.

there are a few reasons why all this would happen...
for one, the browsers only play one kind of mpeg f
ile, there is a note about this in the quick notes d
atabase... it has to be encoded a certain way, if t
here is any deviation from that most basic format, i
t does not work...

also, many people are not that bright and create a v
ideo file and name it mpeg, even if the file is quic
ktime, avi, real, or other format... i see people n
ame any audio file mp3 or wav, any text file html, e
tc....


> Why is it that Planetweb can play things up to 6
mb, but the DreamPassport cannot?

i would assume it has to do with the size of the med
ia player, but, i have no idea...
see, there is a limited amount of memory the softwar
e has access to (i think it is 8 megs?), so, if the
video player takes up 6 megs, that leaves only 2 meg
s left for the files...
of course, it doesn't have that much memory availabl
e, because the browser itself takes some of it, etc.
...

(and on a more tech note, i don't think the browser
gives over ALL potential memory to the player since
you can watch mpegs from the email client (so, the e
mail client is still loaded)... and on dpp watching
a vid does not require chab shutting down and such
like loading irc does (so the chab client is still l
oaded), yet i recall that dp3 DOES shut down chab to
play video files... in fact, on dp3, chab must be
shut down even to open the email client or file mana
ger, so, it seems they had some memory issues back t
hen... dpp does not do this, whatever that indicate
s...)

it could be that dp is a more memory-hungry program
than pw (would make sense, since it does so much mor
e), and that the mpeg player is larger than the pw m
p3 player, ergo, you can only play small files becau
se of the space left over...
but, that is just a barely-educated guess...


> The XDP browser, can it play MPEGs better than Dr
eampassport 3? How about DreamPassport 2?

see above... they all have the same player, they al
l have the same hardware memory...
though, i think i read once a claim that the xdp has
been modified to play larger files... i could be w
rong...


> Is there a browser than CAN play MPEGs better tha
n Dreampassport 3??

the bottom line is that this is asking a lot of such
a simple piece of software with such limited memory
...

i would expect that webtv has much better video choi
ces, since it presumably has a lot more memory, and
presumably has a realmedia player, which is used on
the web a hell of a lot more than mpeg, probably the
least used video format on the web...



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