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@Hedgecore

There is a frontend to tablet-encode as far as i know (java based).
I wrote another one in python/qt but i will have to port it from 770-encode to tablet-encode sometime.

Read the full article.

I'm another Windowsless customer (all mac house + 2 NITs).

Not even going to read the article.

I was going to give this a try on my work laptop but administrative rights are required for installation.

At home I have only computers running Linux so this application is not useful for me. I'll keep on using tablet-encode instead.

It's meant for newbies, who are almost certainly running Windows. They've deliberately kept features to a minimum so that it's as easy to use as possible.

The idea is to help sell the N800/N810 to the consumer market, who may find existing converters too difficult to use.

There are already more complex, much more advanced third party video converters for other OSes including Linux.

i am using XP on the laptop at work so I can give u some feedback regarding the application.

the GUI is very nice, same layout as the one one the n800 and the encodes are pretty fast.

on the maximum setting i can encode a music video very fast but aldo it plays flawlessly on the n800 the PQ is very low, and blocky so I dont really like it

Yeah, it sucks that it's Windows only, but Nokia is waking up. This, for example, was a huge deal a few months back, and with the exponential growth of open source OSes and OSX, plus the shift to web apps, the Windows only curse is being lifted. Plus, as noted above, there's still a large number of folks who are most familiar with Windows, and they (Nokia) want to expand the consumer base for the NITs. Of course they could be more egalitarian in their software offerings, but right now, it's a good move that gets them more potential users.

What's really big about this is that Nokia is hinting at a strategy for building a market for the NITs. Yeah, they may have skipped over some customers for now, but they're doing everything they can to encourage the platform itself. That's good for the future of the tablet.

common, windows isnt THAT bad ... !!!
(im gonna get killed here, but i stand up to my choices )

I don't see anyone here making an OS war out of it. It's simply a matter of "most of us aren't running it, so why would we install it just for this program?" and "if Nokia wants to give a useful tool to its users, they should consider more than just windows for that purpose, esp. since the device they're supporting is itself running linux".

Heh. I remember when that quote would have most certainly have ended with "a macintosh". :-}