anyone here watch video podcast on their n800? is it possible to even watch quicktime mov files on the n800?

I haven't gotten QT movies to work on my N800... QT is a proprietary video codec after all... But:

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/12/26/146233.shtml

And, I don't know if I've tried MPlayer on the N800 yet... You might want to give it a whirl.

-T.

if you open the programm manager and take a look the mplayer, tabbing info, you can see something like this: it play mostMPEG,......,QT/MOV/MP4,......
probably this description is not maemo specific but aimed to a'normal' linux dist.

i tried to watch some video streams, none of them worked well, best result was a stumbling slide show. the inbuild mplayer denies playing this videos.
the installed mplayer v1.0rc1-14.800 sometimes crashes or stay black. kmplayer is only another frontend, as far as i know.

it seems that nokia used another video hardware on n800, so it is a lot SLOWER then the OLDER n770.
probably you can only watch bite-sized videos on your n800

look at this article:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/list...velopers/19711
greets

cite:
> Looks like graphics bus on N800 is 3x slower than on Nokia 770. It might
> be caused by inefficient framebuffer driver implementation in its initial
> revision. But if it is a hardware issue, getting normal video playback at
> native framerate may be troublesome. Performing software downscaling of
> video before sending data to the graphics chip may be a solution, but it
> sacrifices image quality. Switching to 12bit YUV format from 16bit will save
> ~33% of bus bandwidth, but it can't compensate 3x performance regression
> and may be not enough for 30 fps fullscreen video playback.

Unfortunately, it's a hardware issue. What we can do is get the LCD
controller to perform colourspace conversion from a custom planar format
('YUV420') and the scaling as well. Unfortunately this isn't a
colourkey, but only a simple rectangle, so the semantics are actually
quite complex. But it works well enough that we've shipped an X server
and kernel with this support. We've tried jacking the RFBI frequency up
a bit, and the most we could get was a ~10% improvement, with a loss in
stability: anything above that would kill your device quick smart,
whereas this one only crashed it every day or so.
end cite

www.tversity.com runnning on PC with Media Streamer or Canola running on the N800. TVersity will transcode QT movies and other Audio/Video podcasts to a format supported by the N800 on the fly as long as the correct Codecs & Filters are installed on the PC.

Then its just a matter of adding your interest in various Video URL and/or Podcast feeds to TVeristy and TVersity will then share the podcasts onto your home network for use by numerous Wired & Wireless devices including Wii, Xbox 360, UPnP Players, N800 etc. (Transcoded as required)

Not to mention your locally stored content