I keep playing around with video conversion settings. It's hard now for me to be content with 400x240 anymore - as you'll see why.

I played the new "World Enough and Time" episode (normal, not HD version) from Star Trek New Voyages at http://stnv.dragonfly.com/ and automatically copied it using the Firefox "Download Helper" Add-On.

It looks REALLY incredible on my N800/'07/MPlayer for some reason (VERY sharp and vivid - digital pre-enhancement no doubt) And it plays quite smoothly (just a tiny line of verical "smearing" along the bottom edge).

Overall, I think this is THE N800/810 video file you want to show off to your friends (including iPod owners! ).

Mplayer file infomation says it's AVI/DIVX/750x384/750 kbps video, & DSPMP3/32/44100 audio.

I'm now converting DVDs to 750x384 video w/ DVD Shrink/Super and usually have to tweak up the audio volume to +20 on VOB files I ripped. I keep the vid bitrate closer to 500-600 kbps and the frame rate at 23.79-something (but I'm going to go for 25fps next time).

I'm now thinking that chosing Super's DV50 encoding option over DIVX results in smoother and better looking play. I also need to jiggle the rates better somehow to sync the sound better. Maybe the 25 fps option will work better for this, too.

Of course, most of my choice DVDs are relatively grainy movies from the 60's to begin with, so none looks as nice as the Trek direct-to-digital file, even with duplicating the same file info settings.

Maybe MPlayer on OS 08 will be better at smoother playback as well?