Yes. The default youtube videos look like "low quality" compared to what i see from my laptop. Maybe some optimization to make it play smoothly. I think there is thread about this and answer was that zoutube shows little better quality.

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And about specs. For example Nokias offical maemo page has picture of vimeo page (in your dreams with this device). *Grin*

[QUOTE=pastyman;496452]While i understand your gripe, i dont think its fair to compare the N900 to an IPOD touch for several reasons, i havent messed with the HD2 though, so i cant comment on that one. The N900 is trying to provide you with a better mobile/desktop experience akin to what you would expect on a tablet/mid with added phone functionality. Please note, that the youtube you view is via the MicroB web Browser, not a third party youtube app... Just sayin. The N900 does pretty good with youtube natively in a browser....

I have no problem playing Youtube clips inside MicroB at fullscreen on my n900. I have the zoutube app installed but it keeps crashing/not responding when attempting to play videos.

I thought the 9 trailer was HD but I stand corrected. The quality is pretty decent though. My desktop PC can play full HD clips with no problem, in fact, I haven't used a modern desktop PC (5 years old and younger) that couldn't play HD smoothly.

Adobe's flash player uses its own software h264 decoder, which is quite slow. Additionally, I've been told that due to the design of flash, it has to convert the video to RGB (in software) in order to alphablend the player controls on top of the video...

The built in media player uses DSP accelerated h264 decoder through gstreamer, and the N900 has hardware YUB->RGB acceleration for displaying the video.

It probably adds up to a factor of 2 or so in performance. Dedicated youtube clients will always be faster...

I have a question thats in this general realm: How do you transfer dvd's to the device? can you just rip and then drag and drop when youre in mass storage mode? I tried that with my digital copy of my Star Trek blu ray and I was informed the file is copyright protected.

Thanks all!

DVDs are made up of VOB and TS files. I am not sure if media player can play those.

It has nothing to do with the HD settings and the screen being small. The HTC desire can capture HD 720p video and show this video after capture.

I for 99% know the n900 is capable of doing the same, everyone is just to lazy to make it possible on the n900.

This doesnt really anoy me. but it does anoy me that youtube video is very poor on the n900. Then i hear people say download the app.... well i dont know if you tried them yourself but the apps suck and 99% of the time doesnt even work!

Im sure with some codecs support you can easily show high quality youtube video's atleast the quality where pixels in the video are not an inch wide COME ON GUYS! its really poor. And nokia keeps saying that the n900 reinvented the web... well its really sad if you ask me. people whom i show youtube on my n900 are asking me, "why is the quality so poor? " the only thing i can say is... well its because nokia is too lazy to implement a lite version of flash 10 to the browser.

And stop saying its not possible due to n900 limitations. because its was perfectly demonstrated on the n900.... Its always about money!

I stopped hoping nokia would support it someday. because everything the community is asking is not planned. as nokia says.

I hope a third party browser will someday support flash 10 or atleast html5 so i can view html5 youtube.

Its sad people it really is.... spending 600 euro's for an "Internet" device with a lifetime of 6 months. and absolutely no support for keeping up to date to viewing new websites. I really cant imagine how long nokia can keep up with dissapointing their customers... it will end someday. Im a huge nokia fanboy... always been... but even i am starting to wonder if a new nokia after this one is a smart thing to do...