Hi,

Well, one reason to get the N810 was to play videos. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be able to handle 800x480 videos so I wanted to see what it would handle.

While doing that I found there weren't really any super-appropriate converters around to let you fuss with settings. The best was Media Converter at https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mediaconverter . It's made for the N770 and N800, though, and didn't have quite enough control and capability to deal with the N810. To make a short story I ended up editing the source and created a converter for the N810.

The converter is here:
MediaConverter2
Version 2.06 - posted Dec 05, 2008

[Changelog]
2.06 Added multicore/processor support
2.05 Reformatted for more space in Linux
2.05 Added a Stop button
2.05 Improved mousehelp
2.05 Fixed space characters in Linux filenames
2.05 Updated mencoder.exe win32 to latest binary
2.04 built with backrev 5 java to help with compatability - fixed a few version issues
2.04 repaired volume normlization switch
2.03 Added audio transcoding options. Improved xvid,divx5 quality.
2.02 Added xvid,divx5,h.264 support
2.01 Added xml settings, fix a few bugs
2.00 Support additional frame rates and resolutions, fix cropping

The next two posts describe installation/ how to use it and my video findings.

Mark