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2008-01-21 , 22:45
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Originally Posted by OppositeOfIgnorance View Post
OR howbout someone develop an ON-DEVICE video converter (YES, ON MAEMO) not on a PC.
Ha . . . hahaha. Yeah, no. Performance issues aside, I'm not even sure anybody has done any ARM video encoders.

Originally Posted by OppositeOfIgnorance View Post
but someone tell me, why the hell cant the N800 playback high-res files to begin with? lack of hardware?
Because the LCD resolution exceeds the ability of the SoC's built-in controller (limited to 640x480, LCD is 800x480), Nokia had to use a 3rd party LCD controller that is attached through a slow serial interface. This has three consequences, firstly, datarate and resolution to the controller is limited to about 1500Kbps and 400x240 respectively (not quite hard limits, as the heavy optimizations in mplayer show, but still), second, we are unable to use the built-in video decoder and, third, the performance of the built-in PowerVR would probably be sub-par, so we don't have drivers for it.

Thankfully, we shouldn't have any of these issues with the next NIT release.
 

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