Some N8 Help Please
 

Just regarding the HD playback on the phone.

1. Youtube sucks even in HQ - am I doing something wrong? Amendment in settings?

2. Noticed it will not play any avi. file formats - again - my mistake or do they need converting first?

3. I have a 720p HD film in MP4 format - however it will not play on my phone. I just get the broken video icon on screen when I attempt to start it. I noticed the Source Code trailer already on the phone is in the MP4 format so unsure what I have done wrong

Re: Some N8 Help Please
 

1- Well, HQ will only be so good on a 640x360 screen. There might be something else going on though.

2 and 3- often depends what codec is used to create the video in either container. The videos may have been encoded with a codec that the N8 can't decode. I can't remember off the top of my head which ones it can do so I'd check the manual and check your files.

Re: Some N8 Help Please
 

I understand that the N8 will not play HD movies over 2gb - is that correct?

Problem is I have a HD movie which is in an MP4 format but will not play on my N8 (broken icon appears) this file is currently 490mb

So I attempted it to convert it to an MKV format but the output folder shows that the file would increase from 490mb to over 7gb!!

What the hell?? All I want to do is play a HD movie from my phone to my TV.

I keep reading that the N8 plays a wide aray of video formats - but it would not play my HD movies in avi format or MP4. Any converters out there to keep the size down? Do I have to split them - how would I do this? Would it mean the movie stopping every half hour or so and me selecting the new file to reload?

Re: Some N8 Help Please
 

It probably only plays h264 baseline profile, most content in the wild is high profile.