Thread: Will this approach work for watching video on the N800?
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2007-05-07 , 10:05
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Originally Posted by sdrman View Post
The files you plan to make will probably play very well. Most of the hardware issues I've read about involve the limited display controller bandwidth. At resolutions of 400x240 or less it's not an issue. Higher resolutions also work very well with the latest mplayer and patched xserver. I'm playing 480x288x30fps 600k video 128k audio with no dropped frames.
I tried, for a laugh, 640x384, 23fps,+/-400kbps and found it to be chopping up every ten seconds or so. The 400x240 ones OTOH play beautifully at almost any bitrate (I tend to go for lower rates to reduce file sizes; it's not as if I'm expecting home theatre results on a portable player anyway).

I did switch from Media Converter to VirtualDub (Xvid codec) for my re-encoding.