Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900
 

I'm trying to install the package but I get a message stating:
Unable to install 'Extra Decoders Support'
The conflicting package was: Maemo 5 (1.2009.44.1003)

what could be the probelm?
thanks

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900
 

Maybe the fact you have old firmware ?

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900
 

Thanks for the information, I have done the updates from the N900, and it doesn't indicate any new updates available. why is that ?


[Edit]
I don't know how but somehow it shows me I have available updates to the Firmware.

I'll start updating and inform you

again, thanks for the help

[Edit]
I did the firmware update and everything is working perfectly.

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900
 

Great to hear! You're welcome :)

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900
 

just wondering if anything above h264 baseline is being worked on, as mplayer plays some videos i have at 90% speed (which isn't quite there) so I am pretty confident about this one going all the way once supported.

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900
 

after installing the Extra decoders support, now iam not able to play the videos ,which i recorded with n900.

any solution?

edit: strange some videos are not playing stating "Unsupported media type"

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900
 

With mplayer and extra codecs installed, i tried a little experiment:

WMV 720p - plays, sound is great, video is pretty slow
MOV 720p - nope
AVI 720p - plays first seconds, then stops
MP4 720p - plays, sound is great, video is pretty slow
MP4 1080p - plays first seconds, then stops
MKV 720x576, Dual Audio, 3 Subtitles - plays, sound is great, video is pretty slow

I think the N900 is capable of playing 720p videos or mkv videos without bigger problems, but the software for it needs to be tweaked (since it's not officialy supported yet).

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900
 

Can you tell us what codecs were actually used for the videos, rather than what containers they were in? They'll be far more likely to make a difference to playback performance.

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900
 

Sure:
WMV 720p: WMV9 video codec - 3300 kb/s, WMA audio codec - 192 kb/s
MOV 720p: AVC1 video codec - 5700 kb/s, AAC audio codec - 128 kb/s
AVI 720p: XVID MPEG-4 video codec - 4700 kb/s, PCM audio codec - 1411 kb/s
MP4 720p: AVC1 video codec - 3300 kb/s, AAC audio - 128 kb/s
MP4 1080p: AVC1 video codec - 3700 kb/s, AAC audio - 128 kb/s
MKV (720x480): AVC1 video codec - 1600 kb/s, 2 AAC audio tracks, 2 *** subtitle tracks

It's not a problem at all, i'm actually impressed with the N900 - plays regular xvid, divx, wmv, mpeg2, youtube mp4 files no problemo... i just though i'd do some tests :D

Re: Extra Decoders Support for the N900
 

Which player did you use to play that? And if kmplayer, which backend was kmplayer set to use?

I'd think the last mkv file in your list would be playable under the standad mediaplayer / mafw