Hi,

Complete newbie here. I'm concious there is a newbie forum, but I need expereinced Media Player users to give their feedback. Hence this forum.

So... I became a proud owner of N800 2 weeks ago and bought it predominatly for browsing and controlling my Home Automation system. That's all working well.

I would also like to occasionally use it for Video Playback. I've read umpteen threads about Canola2, Mediabox, Kagu and others. Obviously, everyone has their preferences.

My questions are :

1. Is the N800/N810 intended to be used for Video playback ? Video on most format seems very jerky. Certanly my HTC phone along with CorePlayer seems to handle video alot better. The impression I get is that most people are down-scaling SD footage to allow the tablet to handle the video better. Correct me if I'm wrong.
   
2. Are all of the Video Apps I've mentioned above 'wrapper' applications to MPlayer ? For example, I've read Canola2 uses Mplayer, but how comes I can't see MPlayer in my application library ? It only eems to have installed with Mediabox.
   
3. There seems to be a high emphasis on playback from uPnP shares, but how about bog standard nework shares ? Obviously the file manager hs the abiliity to see shares. My experience has been : On Canola2 - No network share can be used (Only seems to see internal mem and cards) and Mediabox v0.95 crashes when attempting to define a watched network share.
   
4. I've read somewhere about an MPlayer v2. Should I be using this as my baseline Player to improve playback ? If yes, will the 'wrapper' applications (Canola, Mediabox etc..) be able to harness it's enhanced abilities ?

Any advice or answers would be much appreciated!