N900 Xvid movies. Does it do DVD resolution?
 

Does the N900 play Xvid files that are quiet large without reencoding? DVD resolution size with high quality stream size for example.

Those files that are adapted to fit a 700 mb cd for example.

Raptor

Re: N900 Xvid movies. Does it do DVD resolution?
 

I'd imagine it should play them just fine. I think I read somewhere that people have played 720p h.264 movies with it, so standard mpeg4 asp (which XviD technically is) shouldn't be a problem.

Re: N900 Xvid movies. Does it do DVD resolution?
 

Does it support subtitles and all the fancy stuff like that?

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I'm sure some kind of APP will allow subtites. It shouldn't be too difficult, should it?

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With mplayer on my N810 I have beautiful subtitles now. It will be there on the n900 too..

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Second!

The N8x0 already handles 700mb rips quite well. So long as the action isn't too heavy w/ variable bit rate, they play wonderfully. I suspect that the N900 will chew through them. Also with optimization (using the DSP/shaders for calculations etc), we may further see higher resolutions still.

I should note that I think very high res video, like 1080p playback on handhelds is not terribly useful. When you consider the file-size of a video at 1080p and the length of time it would take to transfer, it doesn't make a lot of sense.

In this same chain of reasoning, 1080p outs for video are a little ridiculous right now. Of course, 1080p outs for other content could still be cool, but based on the res, perhaps not terribly useful in real world either.

As transfer speeds improve (lightpeak?) and storage size increases, 1080p video will find relevance on handhelds. Until then, it's a novelty at best.

I think Nokia's video res targets and composite outs are right-on-the-money.

Wow, that was off on a tangent....

}:^)~

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I agree. Also, the difference between SD, 720P, and 1080P is going to be less distinct and significant on a 3.5" screen than on a 60" screen.

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That plus there's only 480 physical vertical lines to play with anyway.

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Not having to convert divx and xvid 700meg rips will be sweet :)

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That's true, but I prefer to transcode the videos for the obvious reasons - smaller size, embedded subtitles (if needed), better battery life (presumably).

Also, transcoding is bound to get very fast soon with OpenCL/CUDA becoming more mature and gaining popularity. Not to mention the regular advances in CPU technology.

Re: N900 Xvid movies. Does it do DVD resolution?
 

True for the space concerns, but the accelerated chipset should offset some of the concern about battery life.

I would rather play them straight and rotate on a 16gb card than go through the steps of converting all the time to a more efficient MP4 codec. Even on my Q8200 it takes longer to convert than I would like and only saves about 35% of space unless you want to lower the bit rate more and see blockies on a 800X480 display ;)

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Not as helpful as you might think as you will also need a good RAID or SSD setup or else your transcoding will still be held back by the HDD speed.

Re: N900 Xvid movies. Does it do DVD resolution?
 

Should easily manage 720p, as my current phone the i8910 does with the same CPU/physical RAM. Generally you don't need that though, since you're watching onscreen, but it is nice to TV-Out 720p via DLNA to your PS3/a friends PS3 sometimes...