I picked up my n800 after letting it sit in a drawer for a long time. I have 2008 on it and wanted to see how well it did with my collection of WMV files. I had the n800 fetch and install mplayer, I installed it and it performed - poorly.

Short of re-encoding (sort of defeats the purpose of an internet tablet if I need to convert content that I download before I can consume it), can I do anything to configure mplayer for better performance? Does the n810 work better? I think it has a much faster processor.


I have not even tried to go to youtube yet - I think I know what will happen there. It was slow before, and I do not anticipate that much has changed.


Feel free to flame on me for not digging deeper for an answer before starting a new thread, I can take it...

I like my n800 and prepared to start using it again, I just want to make the most of it.

The N810 has the same processor as the N800.

So I decided to take the experience to youtube... The experience is acceptable. The voice was not out of sync, but the frame-rate is a little slow. I am suprised that the n810 and n800 use the same processor.

For the most part I love my nokia gear. I will get an N95-3 pretty soon to compliment it... Sadly, my 9300 sits in a drawer now... I miss that phone.

I hope someone has some insights into playing WMV files on the n800. FLV support is nice, but I certainly want to view windows media content.

JJG

See my sig for software that will run under Windows (and very, very soon OS X) and convert all your videos into a format optimized for the N800/N810

nokia video converter actually slow down my videos... is there any other app which is easy to use?

Try this:
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mediaconverter/

or use whatever videoconverter you want (I recommend iSquint for the mac) and follow the guidelines here: http://maemo.org/community/wiki/VideoEncoding/

IMO, Mplayer is miserable playing any video format. I found that the default Media Player is the best and just stick to supported formats, converting anything else to MP4.

Besides the Nokia Video Convertor, I found the free RAD Video Tools converts Quicktime files nicely (among other formats), and have used the free Handbrake and MediaCoder as well.

That is also my experience, as well as feedback from tablet users too. However, upon streaming video, mplayer can start playing video when buffer is filled (under 5 seconds) while the media player, sometime, returns with error statement "video format not supported". And of course, if you willing to take the trouble to dl the copy, media player is now more than able to play it, it even plays better than mplayer. Go figure. I have observed similar trends via videocenter and kmplayer.

Bottom line, if a streaming video gives a blank screen with media player, try to watch it under mplayer. Chances are, it may render something. And while mplayer is struggling doing it, try to dl a copy of the video and then play with media player. Why is this so clumpsy? You asking me?


bun
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*blink* What? Can you please explain this?

Or wait, do you mean with mplayer? In which case, yes, mplayer doesn't handle certain files as well as the native media player. The files that ITVC puts out are optimized for the native player.

Uh, you're kidding, right? O_o MPlayer consistently plays way more stuff way better than the built-in media player. :\