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Alex Atkin UK	2010-03-28 , 00:32
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Originally Posted by byte_76

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.

You mentioned Vivo, surely they are available in H264 (.mp4) as well as flv? I can't check as Vivo is blocked in the UK due to licensing

but almost all files on Youtube are available in mp4 these days and play perfectly on iPod and the N900.

I have downloaded music videos from Youtube in mp4 format before and they play perfectly in media player. You really shouldn't be playing in anything else unless it absolutely doesn't work. I love mplayer but its real CPU hog (as is vlc) even on desktop Linux, its not even closely comparable to playing back the same files in Windows for example.

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