Should I get a GP32 in 2023, and what programs do you recommend for me to try on it?

[matzesu]

Just a quick response on your PN as the Board Software dont let me answer PNs which is strange, : I dont have any GP32 Stuff because my Adventure whit Retrohandhelds did begun whit the Pandora, i saw back then EvilDragon on an Youtube Video which was an Record of the German Gaming TV Show "Giga Games" , yes whe had and Gaming TV Channel back then, but its was canceled by Sky later..
EvilDragon had his GP2X and GP32 whit him and did talk about Retrohandhelds
So i did preeorder the Pandora

 

[TeDaDeS]

Just a quick response on your PN as the Board Software dont let me answer PNs which is strange, : I dont have any GP32 Stuff because my Adventure whit Retrohandhelds did begun whit the Pandora, i saw back then EvilDragon on an Youtube Video which was an Record of the German Gaming TV Show "Giga Games" , yes whe had and Gaming TV Channel back then, but its was canceled by Sky later..
EvilDragon had his GP2X and GP32 whit him and did talk about Retrohandhelds
So i did preeorder the Pandora

PMs are send, it just shows an error message.

 

[XboxMessiag]

UPDATE: so anyways when i play the video in gp cinema, the video is kind of at a low pitch, how do i fix that in virtualdub? thanks and have a happy new year. =)

 

[TeDaDeS]

UPDATE: so anyways when i play the video in gp cinema, the video is kind of at a low pitch, how do i fix that in virtualdub? thanks and have a happy new year. =)

You can check if you have set the output sample rate to 22050Hz. If you have 44Hz it might mess it up.

 

[XboxMessiag]

UPDATE: so anyways I just switched to linux full time. and i want to convert videos for my gp32 via ffmpeg. but is there a way to convert videos that are suited for the gp32 via ffmpeg? thanks and have a wonderful st patties day =)

 

[netcat]

Congratulations Linux is my favourite software of all time. Besides video games of course.

I used mencoder to transcode videos for my zaurus.

 

[XboxMessiag]

Congratulations Linux is my favourite software of all time. Besides video games of course.

I used mencoder to transcode videos for my zaurus.

how do i transcode videos to the gp32 format via mencoder? thanks and have a great day!

 

[TeDaDeS]

how do i transcode videos to the gp32 format via mencoder? thanks and have a great day!

You can try the following command:
mencoder input.mkv -o output_gp32.avi -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -srate 22050 -lameopts cbr:br=64 -ffourcc DIVX -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3 -vf scale=320:-3,harddup -ofps 25 -noskip

Change the following parameters for your video:
Your source video: input.mkv
Output video name: output_gp32.avi
Audio bitrate, 44kHz probably still too high, so using 22kHz: 22050
Video bitrate 250~350 where 250 is less quality for longer videos: vbitrate=350
Video FPS, 25FPS but lower can decrease video size even more: -ofps 25

Not to change:
Reencode audio: -oac mp3lame
Use libavcodec: -ovc lavc
Force video to GP32 screensize: scale=320:-3,harddup
Fixed audio bitrate at 64kbps, low quality audio but easier to decode: -lameopts cbr:br=64
Use DIVX as identifier to improve compatibility: -ffourcc DIVX
Libavcoded parameters for compatibility: vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:cmp=3:subcmp=3:mbcmp=3
- v4mv has better movement compensation, mbd=2 and trell and rest provide better quality video encoding
Disable frame skipping: -noskip

 

[XboxMessiag]

so anyways is there a ffmpeg command to encode vids to the gp32 format? thanks and have a great day!

 

[TeDaDeS]

so anyways is there a ffmpeg command to encode vids to the gp32 format? thanks and have a great day!

You can try the following command:
ffmpeg -i input_original_video.mkv -vf scale=320:240:flags=lanczos -c:v mpeg4 -b:v 200k -qscale:v 5 -r 20 -c:a libmp3lame -b:a 48k -ar 22050 -ac 2 -f avi output_gp32.avi
-i = input video
-vf = video filter settings
-c:v = control video-encoding
-b:v = bitrate
-r = rate of frames
-c:a = control audio-encoding
-f = format

You can increase "-b:v 200k" (to 250k for example) if the video looks too blocky, or lower the "-qscale:v 5" (to 4 for example) and if the video stutters lower the framerate "-r 20" (to 15 for example).