Thread: Limiting factor on N900 high definition video playback?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-04-11 , 03:51
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Originally Posted by jakiman View Post
(Heck, now that N900 can be overclocked to 1Ghz, it's faster than nearly ALL the mobile phones out in the market right now.)
The fact that it can be overclocked is irrelevant, doing so is a warranty-voiding exercise and won't be practiced by most people.

It's as if there is some form of resolution limit which is imposed on both default media player and mplayer and just exits out when it's too high. So it doesn't even try playing the file.
mplayer has to be convinced to downscale the image when playing a 720p video. And even when it does, it's all software decoding so it's quite slow. A proper build would require using the DSP which, as I understand it, the default media player uses.

But again, it deliberately restricts what formats you can play, and nothing I've encoded or thrown at it has ever worked.