Anyone know if something out there is available that will let us play most any file format on the N800 (and be able to handle subtitles).

VLC would be nice if someone could port it. Any word of this? Is it possible?

What about mplayer? There is a port already available, together with a simple GUI, and can read all the files that its desktop counterpart can read.

The short answer is no, but mplayer is available. The long answer is that next time, please conduct even the most rudimentary of searches before creating a new, ultimately worthless post.

but mplayer in maemo isn't capable show ie. dreambox ts streams...
vlc should work, I think so :-)

I disagree with the prevailing consensus that people should be made to quake in fear before posting questions. I think that repeat questions are ok, but I think that those who object to them should feel free not to respond.

I agree geneven. Rookies seem to be looked down upon or expected to know much more than they do.

Yes the SEARCH feature is there, YES it should be used but why must at least one person SMART off about it?

Just answer the quest, ignore the question or give a POLITE HINT about the search function.

Why didn't you do it yourself, then ?...

Agreed.

There is one big disadvantage. Repeated questions (and answers) make searching for the answer much harder. Which thread would you read if search gives you 10 similar topics? Will you read all of them? Will you be happy if each of them contains different partial info and most of them just suggestion to do a search or pointers to different topics? Will you give up and create 11th similar thread apologizing that you cannot find the information and ask same question again? I think this is scenario is very likely.

So this is about maintaining order and reducing noise to minimum. Newbies are the ones who will profit from this most of all.

Just tried to enter VLC into search box and there is couple of threads asking same question.

Hence we should have some FAQs around for stuff...somehow, sites like these need some structured thing like that...

or maybe pinned topics?

I am not trying to be pissy, but I really can't stand it when people can't even be bothered to type a few self-obvious search terms into a box before starting a thread.

I think the general consensus is that Wiki's are good platforms for faq type stuff. This site even has one. http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi....php/Main_Page
The multimedia section isn't very well fleshed out right now.

There are enough questions/threads on multimedia stuff that perhaps we could use a audio/video sub-forum? Anyone have any thoughts on the matter?