Thread: movies on your n900
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pete is offline pete
2010-01-15 , 23:43
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Originally Posted by oldpmaguy View Post
What is the maximum vertical dimension the N900 can handle? Is it 700? I'd like to get the video as hi-res as possible for the TV-out side of things. But, I don't want to go over the limit of viewable images on the N900's display. Thanks. Is this information available somehwe, BTW? I don't think the manual gets into such delicacies, does it?
The max res is 848x480 I think, so it will support that vertical res of 480 pixels exactly. I've been using 720x304/384, etc., from DVDs so that it looks good also playing on PS3 on my TV (720p). TV out at that res actually looks superb, not much different to DVDs IMHO, on a 50" plasma. Depends on how picky you are I suppose

It will play larger res's and scale them, but I don't think anyone has really tested that so far. It will scale down 1024x no problem, but the upper limit on x, y? Who knows?

EDIT: sorry, I mean the stored resolution of 1024 (normal for PAL movies on DVD). Result is the same 720.

You can save space by messing around with encoding settings, but I am pretty content with the standard one as it's enough to cart around 20-30 movies and a whole series of a TV show in the phone (using 32GB+16GB).
Last edited by pete; 2010-01-15 at 23:50.