Thread: The N800 as a PMP?
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2007-11-30 , 11:47
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Originally Posted by Diztinct View Post
Thanks for your reply!

I just have this "condition" that I don't want to have to do transcoding... :/

But is there any hope that better software is released for the N800, allowing it to play videos without transcoding? I mean - is it "theoretically" powerful enough?

Are there any third party software "projects" for video playing on the N800 in the works that we can look forward to?
Sorry to be this blunt, but don't even bother with the N800 as a PMP, it falls miserably short. Like you stated, you don't want to have to transcode all your DivX/XviD files and i agree with you.

I personally have over 250gb's of DivX/XviD files that i play on my Archos AV500 and Treo 700Wx. it seems that one would have to recode everything to 320x240 just for the benefit of the N800, which is a chore.

One thing though, at least on OS 2008 my N800 could handle DivX files but it was choppy and laggy and not worth the trouble. I personally don't regard the N800 as a video device anyway as it's never worked well at being one.

I only wish that maybe the VLC folks (or even the TCPMP folks) might have an interest in the N800. I'll bet they wouldn't suffer for donations from folks here.

Just my opinion.