Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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2007-10-31 , 07:49
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Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
I'm quite surprised that the N-series internet tablets have limited video support upon purchase.

Based on the maturity and capabilities of current libraries (take ffmpeg and libavcodec for example), there is little reason why the majority of videos can't be played out-of-the-box.
Apart from:
  • Unoptimised codecs relying on speedy computers
  • x86 rather than ARM optimised codecs
  • Codecs relying on floating point, rather than VFP or fixed point, calculations
  • Crippled video bandwidth

With a suitable amount of very hard work, mplayer (based on the two libraries above) can now play DivX/MP3 files much better than the built-in gstreamer implementation, but the benefits on one codec's optimisations don't necessarily apply to another.

Cheers,

Andrew
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