Re: Does the N900 playback video and Flash well or not?
 

G1 plays HQ video with wifi and does it well, so the N900 with it's hardware assist should do it without "breaking a sweat". The built in player codec only allows full screen with the G1, but it plays great. Jetflcks also uses HQ for content and looks as good as my MP4's using H264.

A comical thing on the Android market is when people talk about the diffrent players and raving about one's video quality over another. Thing is they all use the same MP4 codecs that are built into the framework of Android. You have no choice but to use the built-in codecs if you want it to not be a slide show.

All of the Android market video apps are only UI's.

Re: Does the N900 playback video and Flash well or not?
 

The N900 screen is 800px wide - why the hell wouldn't it be able to display a 720px wide video? It may not be real HD (which, IMO, starts at 720p), but it's Youtube's version of HD which should be fully supported by a device that's just coming onto the market now.

Re: Does the N900 playback video and Flash well or not?
 

Sorry, I misspelt, it's 720 pixels tall, not wide.

There will NOT be support for youtube's High Definition videos since flash is so horribly optimized that they shutter even on dual core processors.

Re: Does the N900 playback video and Flash well or not?
 

Not on Youtube it's not.

More like DVD resolution...

Not stuttering on mine... but you're right in that Flash is horribly optimized. 50%+ CPU load on a modern Core2Duo is not acceptable - however, what about all the promises of hardware accelerated Flash? Will that make Youtube's "HD" videos watchable?

Re: Does the N900 playback video and Flash well or not?
 

Yes, Flash 10 promises us the hardware accelerated video, but we'll just have to wait and see.

Re: Does the N900 playback video and Flash well or not?
 

I respectfully think a lot of people will be let down with 10.1, since even optimized will require N900 level hardware to get a decent experience with it.

Adobe basically said you will need a chipset like the 3430 to get a "desktop experience".

There will be a lot of non-driver, 7200 series chipset using people out there that will be pi$$ed in 2010. Well, at least the Xperia 2 has drivers, so at least five 7200 users will be happy ;)

Re: Does the N900 playback video and Flash well or not?
 

What? I need to play 4K video on my phone! Total dealbreaker.

Re: Does the N900 playback video and Flash well or not?
 

Maybe not 4k, but 720x480 H.264/Flash support would be nice, so that in a few years, when Youtube pulls the plug on SD and HQ, you'll still be able to watch a video or two online ;)

Re: Does the N900 playback video and Flash well or not?
 

Youtube's HQ is actually 864x480
Youtube's HD is actually 1280x720

source

Pulling the plug on SD and HD :D Don't make me laugh, bandwidth is really expensive, It's not like Youtube is switching to HD video any time soon :D

Re: Does the N900 playback video and Flash well or not?
 

So why does YouTube's HD take up less than half of my screen's width (1680px)? Do they automatically scale it down to <1024px width for netbooks and older computers? Doesn't make much sense, considering that most of those don't have the CPU power to render the videos in the first place ;)

-edit- Never mind, looks like Youtube really does scale 'em down to fit the player: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Youtubecompfull.png