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plutonium239 2010-02-25 08:13
Max resolution to watch videos?
 
What's the maximum resolution I can watch a movie on my N900? 800x480? Do I have to convert a movie with higher resolution or is there another option?

Fargus 2010-02-25 08:33
Re: Max resolution to watch videos?
 
You can watch videos stored in a higher resolution and the N900 will reduce them down to fit on the screen. In common with sretching lower resolutions up to the full screen, this takes work for the N900 to achieve.

The reason for converting files to the natural resolution of the N900 is to avoid this workload on the unit. There are several threads on video conversion and a good article in the Wiki too covering how to do this.

maxximuscool 2010-02-25 08:41
Re: Max resolution to watch videos?
 
anything less than 720p can be played on N900

slender 2010-02-25 08:42
Re: Max resolution to watch videos?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by maxximuscool (Post 545477)
anything less than 720p can be played on N900
Depends on used codec and bitrate. No easy answer for this.

Lazarpandar 2010-02-25 08:49
Re: Max resolution to watch videos?
 
Using MPlayer + KMplayer I've watched every standard DVD rip (720x480) I've come across without any problems.

slender 2010-02-25 08:52
Re: Max resolution to watch videos?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lazarpandar (Post 545485)
Using MPlayer + KMplayer I've watched every standard DVD rip (720x480) I've come across without any problems.
Any ISO references to this :) *grin*

plutonium239 2010-02-25 09:05
Re: Max resolution to watch videos?
 
I was trying to play an mp4 with resolution of 720x574 on Mplayer + KMplayer. Didn't work, though. That's why I asked. Using SIB and MPlayer only Audio worked well while the video itself was in slow-motion. Any ideas?

krznik 2010-02-25 09:18
Re: Max resolution to watch videos?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by plutonium239 (Post 545498)
I was trying to play an mp4 with resolution of 720x574 on Mplayer + KMplayer. Didn't work, though. That's why I asked. Using SIB and MPlayer only Audio worked well while the video itself was in slow-motion. Any ideas?
try reducing the vertical resolution to less than 480?

I was re-encoding H.264 videos with resolution > 1024x??? with Handbrake with the default N900.plist. Found out anything greater than 800x480 (either horizontal or veritcal resolution) wouldn't play.

plutonium239 2010-02-25 09:33
Re: Max resolution to watch videos?
 
Well Fargus said, that

Quote:
You can watch videos stored in a higher resolution and the N900 will reduce them down to fit on the screen. In common with sretching lower resolutions up to the full screen, this takes work for the N900 to achieve.
Now, what's true? Do I have to convert to a lower resolution or will the N900 fit a high-res video to screen?

cehajicm 2010-02-25 09:35
Re: Max resolution to watch videos?
 
By running video with higher resolution then supported mplayer claims:

FATAL: Cannot initialise video driver.

Source image dimensions are too high: yyy x zzz (maximum is 864x648)

Audio playes fine :)

FYI I've ran mplayer from console in order to see what is going on....


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