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Got a small..issue...I like podcasts a lot and I thought I'd be able to use my N810 for watching many of the video podcasts I'm subscribing to - but I've tried 3-4 of them now and I'm experiencing the same issue:
The video is VERY laggy. To the extent that I only see 2-3 frames...and a lot of black. No real animations/movements.
Sometimes the audio plays ok but sometimes that is choppy.

I use:
gPodder to download and then through gPodder I play the video podcasts either in Media Player or mPlayer. Same results.
I've also tried using Media Box and play the downloaded video from the folder it's in but same result.

I have maxed the virtual memory/swap.

I store the videos on the internal 2gb card.

Podcasts I've tried:
- Attack of the Show
- Gadget Pr0n
- Barely Political
- TrailerTV
- The New Yorker Animated Cartoons

All..with the same result....

The ones that works the best was the The New Yorker Animated Cartoons and TrailerTV .. but even in those there was some lag...hickups that made it hard to watch.

Same results in mPlayer or Media Player.

Help?

Anyone got any ideas - and/or tell me about a video podcast you subscribe to and how you play it and I'll see what my results are.

It sounds like you might be having the issues with the mp4 format that most video podcasts are in.
Last I saw, the only real way of getting it to work was transcoding to another format.

Ouch that means watching video-podcasts on the N810 becomes quite the chore.

LF: Podcast-download-app that gives you the option to automatically convert your downloads to a suitable format

Sometimes video podcasts provide an alternative link with lower-quality versions of the files that seem to work on the tablets but look ugly. (look for "3gp" video feed)

As for performance, my experience is that MPlayer is the best way to play videos on the tablet, although for some formats, the built-in Media Player works better.

Transcoding directly on the tablet is not really an option, as it would - obviously - take longer than the playback. If you really want to do this, you can find out how to write a post-download hook script for gPodder on this wiki page: http://wiki.gpodder.org/wiki/Time_stretching

Another option that I wanted to do some time but did not get around to do yet is to provide a webservice that acts as a "filter" for normal video podcasts and that uses tablet-encode to dynamically convert videos to a format perfect for the tablets, so if you would want to use http://example.com/podcast.rss as a video podcast on the tablet, you could add http://example.org/service/tabletvid...om/podcast.rss to gPodder and that would contain the same content as the original feed, but with the enclosure URLs changed so that a download would trigger a server-side video conversion and then you always have a well-playable video on your tablet, independend on how much bandwidth the original video has.

Hi and thanks.
I'll try playing through MPlayer.

And oh man, that on-line converter option sounds great!!!
Any timing on that? ;-)

is it possible to play videos by putting their URL to KM player or Mplayer ?
i tried playing one and Mplayer says unable to connect server ?
is it possible to run videos like this from any site just by URL ?
i cant ,i dont know if any one else tried ,succeeded or failed ?
would be so happy if any one cares to help ..