Thread: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-03-28 , 10:23
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Originally Posted by byte_76 View Post
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.
To avoid confusion - the built-in media player acceleration happens on codecs/format level. The accelerated ones are IIRC MP4, DIVX, XVID, WMV9, baseline H264. It might play back others (especially with the extra codecs pack), but that does not mean everything gets acceleration.

As for VLC, I look forward to trying it and hope that it supports hardware acceleration.
Sadly, it doesn't. And if it would, it would have to go through the same subsystem as the media player goes through, i.e. they would in essence have the same performance (the media player is just a front-end for the gstreamer multimedia framework).
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