nivek Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Hey, I was just wondering if anyone has tried using the MD as a backup device--has anyone tried putting MPEG4 video on their players and then trying to play it back? Any success? I'm just a little curious...looking to get an NHF800 and I wonder if using it to playback video would work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Hey, I was just wondering if anyone has tried using the MD as a backup device--has anyone tried putting MPEG4 video on their players and then trying to play it back? Any success? I'm just a little curious...looking to get an NHF800 and I wonder if using it to playback video would work... ←That should be HiMD, not MD. MD has no data storage capabilities [MD-Data does, yes].I haven't tried doing much with my HiMD in terms of data storage or transport, because it's simply too slow. While technically the read speed with Hi-MD media [around 10Mbps peak] is enough for video use, I couldn't see it be more practical than CDR or DVDR, really.Reason being [and I've used this example before, but I'll give it a go again]:With 700MB of data - I could walk down the street, buy a pack of CDRs, walk back, prep things to burn, burn at 40x, and copy the contents of the disc to another computer all in less time than it would take the HiMD just to write the 700MB.In any case, yes, the bandwidth is enough to video playback of files that aren't too high in resolution or quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 write speed is a problem of mo media sadly. but they are still able to do better then the current himd units do. i think the agreed on reason for that is that the engine driveing the disk is underpowerd so to not kill the battery. it would have been interesting if they was able to make a setup with two engines. the second one would kick in if the himd was hooked to a usb port so that it could draw more power and therefor spin the disk faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I have placed XviD movies on a HiMD disc for playback while at school and it works like a charm (after it finally copies to it that is) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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