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I ask because I haven't seen an update in a long time, and I have a bunch of files which still don't play right with it, with the sound and video out of sync.

It is because people have found a better solution? Because MPlayer has been pretty useless because of that sync problem and the built in player won't play them at all. It would be hard for me to believe that people here would be satisfied with that, so what am I missing?

I'm using Media Box and it works really well no sync issues

Does the mediabox play any of the .mkv files that mplayer could play and built in media player could not?

Mediabox doesn't recognise the mkv container format last I tried.

So what were the audio and video codecs and resolution of the mkv files you couldn't play with mediaplayer?

All mkv files I have tried with mplayer have sync issues, but play reasonably well in mediaplayer.

Ultimately your best bet is to transcode to a target that works well on n900 hardware.

Unfortunately, it doesn't play any more than the built-in media player plays.

Really, guys. I have a bunch of MP4 x264 files that won't play except under mplayer, and that has sync issues?

Don't tell me that transcoding is the answer. That's a pain in the ***.

Transcoding *is* the answer. The n900 supports what it supports, if you want to play some other format, then play it on a device that supports it.

Of course you are welcome to contribute to the development of better codecs.

However it does appear that the best way to effect change is to come here and complain about things. At least that would be my impression gained from the extraordinary level of moaning that goes on in these forums.

>> However it does appear that the best way to effect change is to come here and complain about things.

Cause Nokia is deaf and this is the only place that can effect change in the phone.

They're probably using main or extended profile H.264, which the N900 doesn't support for a hardware decode. If you're on windows, I'd recommend mediainfo to check this. On Linux you can just use the 'file' command.

Mplayer can decode those profiles, in theory, but it's not hardware-accelerated & the CPU won't be able to keep up (hence the sync issues). It's not a practical solution for any reasonably-sized video clip.

Like paulkoan says, either transcode (aim for iphone/ipod profiles) or watch it on another device.

Don't give the nokia development team a hard time, they're busy guys - BOTH OF THEM WORK REALLY HARD

I am waiting the DSP optimized version of Theora codec in Gstreamer-plugins. Then just use ffmpeg2theora to transcode anything I want to be viewed in N900. It will be better solution than having just basic profile H.264.