Well my device is in its current state since about two weeks, and I reboot about every other day So yes, I did reboot since the install. Made another discovery though, after the reboot this morning, my DivX testfile played again. I tried one which then didnt work, and after that nothing worked at all.
So breaks down like this: the N900 plays all files its able to play, once you stumble across a misscoded or otherwise unreadable/unplayable file the mediaplayer stalls and I supppose you'd have to kill the daemon or reboot the device to get things sorted again. Does this show up in bugzilla? I'm about to exceed my free data limit so if one of you guys is bored ATM one could dig around in bugzilla until I get home late tonight and do it myself...