2tirabosco:

If using mplayer, it is better to have video encoded to some fixed set of resolutions, see details on maemo mplayer homepage: http://mplayer.garage.maemo.org/

Lower resolution does not mean better performance for mplayer currently (it is different from built-in player), you will just lose some quality. For 16:9 video it is better to use 400x224 resolution, mplayer will use fast and high quality hardware scaling in this case. If you try anything different from optimal resolution (width equal to 400 or height equal to 240), mplayer will have to fallback to lower quality and slower software scaling.

Probably the best video codec for mplayer is mpeg4 and audio codec - mp3.

By the way, mplayer also has gui on nokia 770 and you can type url for streaming in the top editbox (it still can't be saved to form playlist for future reuse though). GUI is still very simplistic, but its future development heavily depends on users feedback. As we did not see many feature requests in mplayer thread lately, does it mean that everyone is satisfied with its current state?

Thanks for your suggestions. The codec choices I made were because it were the only ones that worked in vlc, it seems that something ffmeg and mpeg4 is broken in newer vlc releases than 8.4.a as mpeg4 didn't work. I tried vlc 8.4.a and your resolution and codec advises and with the appropiate cache size with the result that mplayer played fine what I threw at him.

Bye, tira.

So I finally pull out my 770 that I bought a year ago to start tinkering with and stumble across this thread... Great!!! Seems to work fine... However, I found something kind of peculiar that I can't seem to figure out... I ripped my DVDs to ISO images on my drive... If I open the image with VLC from the GUI, all is fine (both local playback and HTTP streaming)... If I try to open it with VLC via command line args the video is fine but no audio (either locally or streaming)... Did a bit of googling but not much luck...

thoughts?

Another option for streaming video to your tablet is media-serv. See http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php...e_mediautils_1 for a download link to it and its companion script table-encode. I use it to stream media from my desktop to my n800 all the time with very good results.

-SG

Heres how I stream video. It doesnt seem to work properly with mp4 though. Its slow motion..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kluZz1izXyo