Ok so I re-ripped Rambo II using starman's handbrake settings. Initially couldn't play either rip of the movie, whether opened from Media Player or File Manager. Rebooted my N900, weirdly, still couldn't play either one via the file manager, starman's settings consistently gave the "Unable to play media unsupported format" error.

My original rip, which has similar codecs/settings also wouldn't play from the file browser (media player opened then quit to the music/video/etc. screen). It did however seem to play fine when selected via the Media Player.

I encourage everyone to get in the bug tracker and report/vote to get the Media Player into a respectable state. Or vote for the "please consider open sourcing the media player" enhancement request


https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1235