I picked up my n800 after letting it sit in a drawer for a long time. I have 2008 on it and wanted to see how well it did with my collection of WMV files. I had the n800 fetch and install mplayer, I installed it and it performed - poorly.

Short of re-encoding (sort of defeats the purpose of an internet tablet if I need to convert content that I download before I can consume it), can I do anything to configure mplayer for better performance? Does the n810 work better? I think it has a much faster processor.


I have not even tried to go to youtube yet - I think I know what will happen there. It was slow before, and I do not anticipate that much has changed.


Feel free to flame on me for not digging deeper for an answer before starting a new thread, I can take it...

I like my n800 and prepared to start using it again, I just want to make the most of it.