Thread: N800 not suitable as a portable media player?
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Serge is offline Serge
2008-01-23 , 16:43
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#24
Originally Posted by cashless View Post
I have had Mplayer installed on my N800 since the day I got it. And no, it often doesn't recognize the format of my avi's.
Please submit a bug with the detailed information (information about what audio/video codecs were used for these .avi files is most interesting).

It doesn't even play mp4's converted in the Nokia Converter without major chopping.
MP4 format and H.264/AAC codecs support on ARM is a known limitation of MPlayer (these codecs don't have ARM-specific optimizations in mplayer/ffmpeg yet). MPlayer is best used with MPEG4 ASP (DIVX/XVID) videos at the moment. Other formats and codecs may be also used with mplayer more or less successfully, but some have less optimizations than the others. Some codecs are buggy or disabled. Adding/verifying their support is based on users' feedback.

If you you are not interested in watching DIVX/XVID videos and prefer other formats, mplayer may not suit your needs well. It is hard to please everyone.
 

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