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	JeffElkins	2007-11-19 , 18:55
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Originally Posted by TA-t3

TCPMP is a pretty amazing application. It plays anything, no worries about reformatting even. And on (at this stage) old Palm hardware, at that..

Exactly. My videos (1.5 terabytes so far) are a mixture of xVid/DivX and H.264. I watch them on everything from a media server on a 60" LCD HDTV down to the Treo 700P. I'm a video snob, and they are very high quality.

I have tried mplayer (use it all the time on the desktop), in fact I just compiled it according to Serg's instructions yesterday and the N800 choked on a bog-normal avi cartoon I downloaded somewhere:

Code:

           ************************************************
           **** Your system is too SLOW to play this!  ****
           ************************************************

Possible reasons, problems, workarounds:
- Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver
  - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA.
  - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start.
- Slow video output
  - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop!
- Slow CPU
  - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX on a slow CPU! Try some of the lavdopts,
    e.g. -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all.
- Broken file
  - Try various combinations of -nobps -ni -forceidx -mc 0.
- Slow media (NFS/SMB mounts, DVD, VCD etc)
  - Try -cache 8192.
- Are you using -cache to play a non-interleaved AVI file?
  - Try -nocache.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/video.html for tuning/speedup tips.
If none of this helps you, read DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not tossing my N800, I didn't buy it for video, but the claims made for video and the 400mhz clock were a bit overstated to say the least.

And no, I'm not at all interested in re-encoding video especially for the N800.

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