Re: Missing features of the N800
 

About the zipping and rarring stuff:

Some ppl send photos. Would u send say 19 photos individualy, or just make a rar or zip of them. Besides I like rar too on my mac and tend to send rar packadges to myself by gmail. So that I can access them on the road.

Then about the video:

The reason I like h.264 is the fact that my macintosh is an old powerbook, wich is not very powerfull despite the name. So I need to buy elgato turbo stick wich speeds encoding a lot. The con side is that the output is h.264. It's eather buying a faster macintosh, or selling the n800 and getting the touch. The later option is much cheaper :(

But I will look for Isquit first.

Re: Missing features of the N800
 

Well, FWIW most image formats (jpeg, png, gif, etc) are already highly compressed just like video. So other then putting a single file wrapper around them, there isn't any real advantage to zipping or raring them. If you want to access them on the road, something like Flickr might be a better option.

Re: Missing features of the N800
 

Well it's not so much about saving space. It's about the filestructure more.

Can you explain more? What am I encoding, and what is the output? Also how click and play is the solution? ATM I am using MediaConverterOSXPPC software and with Dark Angel episodes it does fairly well. But some videos are too hard for it :(

Also I looked for iSquint, but atm the price is a turnoffpoint for me. As I have very limited income at the moment, I am in no position to buy any kind of new software or hardware.

Re: Missing features of the N800
 

It transcodes videos on your Mac using VLC to a format that Maemo MPlayer can handle on N800. It does this on the fly and without touching your files in any way. Transcoding requires some horsepower though so I'm not sure if anything below G5 can handle it in realtime. I've only tested it with Tiger, but it should work with older ones too if you can install Ruby and VLC on it.

Re: Missing features of the N800
 

Personally I would like to see :

* SSH terminal & Graphical login across network to other systems,

* A WiFi<->Aterisks<->SIP<->POTS interconnect

* Better integration with LinuxMCE/MythTV and the ability to save IR codes from other devices and have the ability to put all the remotes in the wastebin and just get the wife to use only our N800 ;-)


Well just my 2c worth guys & gals.

Re: Missing features of the N800
 

Well, you can install either openssh or beardrop, so you have the ssh terminal. For the graphical login you can either use a vnc client (did't try it yet) or forward X via ssh (though I don't know how to use the touch screen keyboard in that case).
The latest rt-comm supports sip, so you can connect to asterisk.
And the remotes, well, AFAIK the n800 doesn't have an infrared emitter.