Thread: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
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byte_76 is offline byte_76
2010-03-27 , 22:52
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#21
Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
To get the facts straight:

1. Forget MHz/GHz. In the 21st century it is an almost completely meaningless indicator due to differences in processor architectures. Forget it. Really.

2. Only the built-in media player uses hardware acceleration. If you don't play it in that, it's not accelerated (=it's slow).

3. Flash will gain acceleration in 10.1 when it gets released for ARM.
I did not know that the built-in media player uses hardware acceleration because I rarely use it. The videos that do work in the built-in player do not run any better than in Mplayer with SiB and the flv videos do not work at all in the built-in player.

I hope that Nokia will make improvements to the media player to improve performance and hopefully a codec will be released to bring flv support because I have lots of flv videos.

As for VLC, I look forward to trying it and hope that it supports hardware acceleration.