[ltp] Watching movies off compact flash?

[dopez]

On Tuesday 8 February 2005 12:54, Crispian Thorne wrote:
> In just over a week I'm off to Boston for LinuxWorld. This will mean a 4
> hour train journey each way on Amtrak, and as I'm not travelling
> "business class" I'm pretty sure there won't be AC outlets to plug in to.

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> So what do you think- is it worth it, will it actually use less power (I
> have no idea how much juice these things need), or would this be a
> complete waste? Thoughts please...

Not sure if this is of any use but i travel quite often these days and take my 
R51 with me to entertain me. Since the travel is less then 3 hours i can go 
on a standard battery but to make sure it doesnt get completely drained i try 
to save some power too, basicly i just cat the avi to /dev/null and use 
mplayer (or xine) to play it after catting so the harddisk can spin down, but 
that would only work nice if you have enough memory and watch smaller files.

Perhaps you can split up the files into something that fits in memory and only 
have to spin up the hd once in a while to buffer the next file, would save 
you a few bucks on CF memory.

FWIW i can get a little over 2 hours of watching avi/divx with buffering the 
file to memory and spinning down the harddisk and setting the LCD at lowest 
setting.

> --
> Crispian Thorne
> linux@crispian.org
> *linux & lovin' it*
> Linux User # 329400

greetings,
dopez