HI!

I need a new portable media player, and the N800 caught my eye, because of its OS-freedom and excellent touch interface.

At first I was discouraged due to poor playback videos i saw on videos of the player at work.

But then I discovered all these cool Linux apps compatible with the N800, including Canola and MPlayer, and mpeg4 videos play FLAWLESSLY and look great. (23fps+, 480x272 resolution or similar)

I was wondering how the audio quality is thru the headphones - a lot of people said the Nokia headphones suck, and if i plug in good headphones, it will sound Very good just like any other mp3 player.

I don't really care about Youtube performance as I don't use it much. I'm more interested in movies offline. Which is why i'm wondering if the playback is good using a linux app like Canola.

by "good" i mean 23fps+ and a decent resolution (like 480x272 or similar). and the audio quality i want as good as any old mp3 player.

can the N800 do this for me?

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and one more question: how does file browsing work on the N800? is there seamless SD card integration?

oh AND it allows SDHC now, right? so then i can have 16GB+16GB cards right? 32GB on such a device is AWESOMe and KILLS the iPod Touch in many many many many many ways!

Video playback performance is fine with the built-in media player as long as you take a few minutes to re-encode hi-res video to the right resolution for the device. The problem is that the full 800 x 480 screen resolution is way too much to handle at 30 fps for a 400 MHz ARM processor, but lower resolutions look good and play back smoothly.

Personally I think the audio sounds fine through my Sennheiser headphones.

The two SD cards are fully integrated into the built-in file system. Even better, with OS2008 any Windows shared folders you have on the network also appear seamlessly integrated.

well for about the last week or so, I have been living off of my n800 since my laptop cpu fried.

videocenter and media player so fine with some video podcasts, tikibar and ask a ninja are right out even with mplayer. most of revision 3 stuff, and rocket boom works fine.

I use handbreak, and ubuntu convert it to modify playable files. good video playback requires proper encoding.

sound is fine. but I mostly listen to podcasts. sound is as good as my ipod nano.

check out media box for playback and gpodder for podcast download. Canola is not podcast prime time quite yet.

Have fun with your n800!

Sound is good (if the source is good) through my AKG 240S headphones.