Hi. My first post here. Got N9 couple of days ago. I understand that there is no network video player app. no smb/cifs mounting app. Right?

I, however, used to play videos from network shares over wifi even during PocketPC days... so, old habits die hard, I had to find solution to this

my server is a low power atom running utorrent and file shares, with a pinch of cloud sync and 1080p mp-hc. it is ok as it is, but is too slow for transcoding on the fly solutions like PLEX, SUBSONIC, TVERSITY, ORB

so, I installed hfs (http file server) from http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

this is a simple one-exe-file that immediately raises file server on a desired port. maybe you can use server of your choice, I guess it is not too important

then, if you open stock web browser and navigate to your files (in my case http://192.168.1.x/Torrents ) you can simply click any AVI file and stock video playet picks it up from there. it, however, only offers to download mkv files. Renaming those to .avi allows streaming them too, but I think n9 is not powerful enough for decoding 720p mkv or any high/mainline encoded h264. so, there is little use in streaming mkvs anyway, unless you have got them properly encoded.

Maybe someone more professional than me can refine this method, e.g. edit some conf files to have stock browser understand "mkv" extension?