Thread: N9 FAQ: facts vs. fiction
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govprog is offline govprog
2011-07-10 , 08:35
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#25
Originally Posted by shallimus View Post
The N9 is capable of 720p video playback, right?
Fact: the N9 is capable of playing video using its "Wide codec support: H.263, MPEG4-SP & ASP, H.264 BP/MP, WMV9 / VC-1 and Mkv (Matroska)"

So the N9 is capable of displaying 720p video, right?
Fiction: Not possible. Weasel words from Nokia marketing might make you think that it can, but the N9 display resolution is FWVGA (854 x 480 pixels), but 720p video is 1280x720 pixels. However, the N9 screen is 16:9, so it should show scale wide-screen video quite nicely.
... And Galaxy S2 is capable of playing 1080p though the screen has the same (!)resolution. Not suprising really.

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Matroska isn't a video codec.
Fact: No, it's not. But let's stay on-topic...
The official Divx company said that their Divx+ encode videos in .mkv .As a result, there is a high chance that a .mkv video is encoded with Divx+(Link) or at least playable with Divx+ decoding package.
Does the N9 support Flash?
This has caused some confusion. The answer is:
Fact: the N9 has native support for Flash video.
Fiction: the browser does not support Flash (yes yes, just like the iPhone).
iPhone users can get adobe flash playback with a 3rd party browser(i.e:skyfire). The mentioned internet browser also enables android users to play silverlight content.(e.g:NetFlix,IMDb and etc.) In addition, they said that it's likely they will start porting their browser into Meego platform. Even if they don't, users could still get flash playback by installing Firefox(Apparently). So to say that a platform does support flash content and another one does not is a certain misguide mostly caused by company ads like google (and others)
Last edited by govprog; 2011-07-10 at 18:43.