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I'm a Maemo n00b, so I have no idea if this will work for you but it's worth a shot: I was getting the same error message with .mkv and.avi files. I opened them through the file manager and they worked fine -- I can now open them directly through the default media player.

I downloaded extra decoders support and am running PR 1.2.

Already tried with the file manager too . No success

well iv tried playing it via KM player, but its just does not play. It says buffering and then just exits.

Seems I'm not the only one with problems.
Really noone of the linux/maemo geeks can help ?

any updates on this..??

Mplayer and KMplayer will play just about any format you place into it. If it's still not playing then your source video has an issue. Commonly if your source video it to large in size ( 1200 x 900 ) it won't play because the player is trying to compress and crop with is a lot of work.

Best to reencode your source videos with something like Handbrake to what the N900 needs.

But it doesn't even plays mp3s or mp4s.

Reflashed now and everything's working fine again.


Is there a way to zoom a movie ?
The black bars at top and bottom are really annoying and I would like to remove them by zooming in the entire picture.
Is there a way to do that with the built in or any other player ?

aww i just read this and i used to get this problem when i tried to play files that have a higher resolution than the supported one and a restart always fixed it

Well, you could just use VLC-player. Its pretty fast and easy to install, just add the following repository:
Address: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/maemo/
Distripution: fremantle
Components: free