I agree that VLC would be nice to have now- if optimized for the N900. Too many videos do not work that I have tried and this includes some MP4's that work on the Droid and G1. One of the advantages of the N900 is no need to convert, but not seeing that advantage yet. Sure it will come, just not seeing it yet. As long as the videos are less than 720p, I would expect avi, divx, mpeg, mp4 and wmv to play with no problems- just like VLC.

Again, the Archos 5 from last year has the same chipset and does play everything. Why are the current codecs so picky on the N900?