Thread: Why can't N900 play videos smoothly?
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2010-03-28 , 11:17
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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
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).
It's not so bad: the built-in player do it through gstreamer and any other player that use gstreamer as backend will get hardware acceleration too. But it supports only a limited set of codecs and this is not a technical problem, but licensing and patents AFAIK.
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