Thread: New N900 video encoding guide added to wiki
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Originally Posted by philipl View Post
I'm not convinced that an un-separated guide is helpful (I have no problem with a single page but honestly, pages are cheap so a landing page that links to N900 and pre-N900 guides makes the most sense to me).
Pages are cheap to create but expensive to maintain. How is a user to know the page they've found is the maintained up-to-date one?

The considerations are so different between N900 and pre-N900 that you'd end up with every section having two parts. Even the choice of encoding software isn't clear - Handbrake is a good fit for the N900 but as the newest version has only very basic xvid support, it's unlikely to be the right choice for the older models.
As someone who's been playing with video encoding for Maemo since the 770 came out, the considerations are honestly not that different. Diablo/Fremantle provide more support for H.264, but MPEG 4 video/MP3 audio in an AVI container (with a "DIVX" FOURCC for 770 compatibility), i.e. DivX/Xvid, is the best bet across all Maemo versions.

The biggest changes are resolutions and bitrates which are the highest you can reasonably push to. A simple table is enough for that.
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