Originally Posted by starman (Post 474187)

I did a reboot and went straight to the film but still the 5 dots of DEATH... lol

the forum wont let me upload the handbrake preset :(

ill try and upload a movie trailer or something later on tonight to my mobileme account, in terms of legality, can I do that?? Rip a DVD to get a movie trailer, encode it and upload it???

Just to be on the right side of the law lol

Originally Posted by starman (Post 474156)

No the only way i can play the files since the 1.1 update is with kmplayer, even when i use the file manager to launch the movies they do not play, all i get is the 5 white dot loading screen

:(

Originally Posted by sierrafoxtrot (Post 474257)

in kmplayer gui, which player are you using? osso-media-server or mplayer? do the files play with both engines?

also, i think this bug's already been reported, and (supposedly) fixed

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5948

http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_5/PR1.1

changes to gstreamer maybe?

Originally Posted by sadfist (Post 474200)

You could just put the preset on your mobileme :D

Originally Posted by starman (Post 473604)

If this is posted elsewhere on these forums please link me, I did a search but couldn't find anything relevant.....

I have about 200 movies that I've converted into h.264/avc over the years when I had my iPhone, I've always had problems playing them on my N900, they play beautifully on iPhones (2G, 3G, 3GS)/iPod Touch's (1G)/Archos Box's/Blackberry Storms, yes I've tested all these devices over the years, these are the basic settings

I use Handbrake for mac

Size: 640x272 or 640x320 depending on the aspect ratio of the film
Encoder: x264
Quaitly: 53-60% constant depending on 'my opinion' the quailty of the film, I generally do action/sci-fi films at 60%, cartoons and dramas at 53%
FPS: same as source
Audio: AAC (Core Audio)

I've been using these settings for years and have worked over numerous devices...

When I first got my N900 the movies playback was very choppy with skipped frames, the minor update last week improved the playback slightly but skipped frames were still noticeable in fast moving scenes and now PR 1.1 refuses to play any of my media..

I have installed the extra decoders pack from devel but still no luck, as I do not have a Windows PC re-flashing my N900 is a problem, I know there is a flasher tool for mac's but to be honest I don't really wan't to risk 3rd Party Software fubar'ing my phone.

Any one got any ideas????

PS If anyone suggests re-encoding over 200 DVD's I will put a HEX on you..... :D

Originally Posted by starman (Post 474323)

in kmplayer

osso-media-server plays the files beautifully
mplayer i noticed the odd skipped frame
also had pm and that played them fine

so what does this mean??

Originally Posted by sierrafoxtrot (Post 474554)

osso-media-server is the internal media player engine (gstreamer), hence less skipping because it uses the GPU. i've found that the moment the media player fails to play a file (for whatever reason; actual unsupported format or due to it trying to cache video thumbs) all subsequent attempts will result in failure.

however, if i use osso-media-server via kmplayer to play an unsupported file (and failing obviously) i can still select a supported file and it will play fine.

beginning to think that it's something to do with the gui for mediaplayer itself and not the gstreamer component, as [can't remember who] showed an error log saying that it was caused by qtdemux.