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patstew is offline patstew
2010-04-16 , 13:33
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#1381
Originally Posted by jakiman View Post
Higher res video still would look better than a lower res or a pixel matching resolution (800x480) video on the N900's screen. I did get 1280x720 videos to play on my N900 using mpalyer. But it is painfully slow. About 3-5 fps with my overclocked 1Ghz N900. Sound is fine but video is non-watchable and out of sync. Wish mplayer used the DSP. Then it may be able to play most HD files.
It's virtually impossible for a video to look better than a video with the same resolution as the screen. You're almost certainly better off reencoding an HD video to 800x480 using a good encoder with a good scaler than relying on the N900 to do high quality scaling in real time. Either way, you're looking at a 800x480 picture on the N900, any other resolution is physically impossible. The only case where it might be a bad idea to reencode is when you've got the video in a stupidly low bitrate to begin with. [/offtopic]