Re: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
 

Oh, nononono, don't get me wrong, is just that when I did my powersearch, I got a lot of newer threads, like this one were I posted my problem:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39299

Starting new threads for old known problems is not good |:)

Re: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
 

can any one else confirm this ? 1st time video plays smoothly ,as that is just a flv song not a HD song ,but with the time passage video lags behind.why so ?
is it a pixel issue ?
flv file format issue ?
flash player issue ?
OR WHAT ?
this is really an obnoxious thing on my N900.unbelievable .seriously .

Re: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
 

Just one question: Are you playing it with SiB or Kmplayer?

MPlayer is/was known to do that in some flv videos.

Re: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
 

i tried that in KM player ,obviously media player isnt capable of performing sucha thing ,i tried to play smooth videos through every player ,server
osso media server
g-streamer
m player
i currently have media player and Km player .
any solution ?

Re: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
 

can any one make a new thread ?as i dont know how to do that .thanks in advance .
title should be ( slow flv videos solution ? )..
hope issue is debatable and needs a solution .

Re: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
 

how to get over this slow video playback on flv files ?
for example i have a flash video ,trying with km player ( 21.7 MB ) but video lags behind the voice .Can any one help ?

Re: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
 

Is there anyone who can explain this?

Few days after I bought my N900 I tried to play few movies with SiB (Mplayer interface). They worked great. Everything was great with stock cpu clock. Few Days ago I tired to play exactly the same video files with SiB and this is disappointing! My CPU is now overclocked to 850Mhz and I can't play those videos correctly! I try it also with better overcloking, and without it, with stock frequency. Few seconds video goes nice, then it suddenly stops for short moment, and speeds up, and than again goes nice, stops, speeds up. I tried different video players including built in one or KMplayer. Those players don`t have problems like SiB, but framerate is very low (15fps max). Is there any solution for this? I don`t want to change phone because of one unexplain problem, that shouldn't exist! Do you think it can be caused by kernel for power user? My phone can hadle full version of big facebook page, but can`t plays videos smoothly?!

One more thing. When I try to play Videos from youtube using MicroB Browser, they work great even on full screen. When I download this video and try to play it all of my players can`t handle this! I also tried to convert those videos, but still problem is the same!

Re: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
 

You did not say how much time passed between "few days after you bought your N900" and "few days ago", nor have you specify how much extra software, widgets and daemons you have installed in between. The most obvious answer suggests itself: something is stealing your CPU cycles. Either that or your eMMC is heavily fragmented. I've heard that this might affect disk read performance though I've never seen it myself. Another culprit is tracker. How long after you add a new video do you try playing it? It's just a speculation but it also might explain your online vs offline experience. While watching the video in your browser, it is streamed straight to the screen, perhaps via some temporary buffer on rootfs (I may be talking BS here, I do not know for sure where the browser keeps is temporary files, I only assume it is in /tmp) which is not watched by tracker but MyDocs (which I assume is where you keep your offline videos) is.

Re: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
 

and every video whether its normal or hd, damn it takes minutes to load. that suckssss. it kills me everytime

Re: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
 

Many things could be going on. I personally think that the N900 handling of videos is great, and have had almost no problems.

Maybe when someone has a problem with a video they should post it (or attempt to extract an excerpt from it using something that will not transcode it, like mencoder or ffmpeg with the appropriate parameters (see here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/59383...e-line-command).

What pichlo said is spot on though. What else is going on in the N900 in terms of running processes, and the state of the source as far as fragmentation goes is important.

Also, If you can live with it, try experimenting with frame dropping in mplayer and see if that helps.

I personally can't believe how much stuff you can run on a N900, even stock (including video wallpapers). But just because you can it doesn't mean you should. ;)