Hi
Am I able to play XVID / AVI files that are copied directly to the MMC using the default player or mplayer?
If not can somone recommend the size and bit rate that the file needs to be compressed to?

Thanks

I had similar situation back a few moments ago. Here is my solution:

N770 is a toy. At the present time Mplayer hasn't got enough power to decode Divx fluelty, unlsess the reso is 320x240x25fps or so.

It seems to be quite foolish to recode the movies you want to watch with this offline. But you can do what you wish.

WiFi LAN is the keyword now.

I tried to connect to my Windows Workgroup with CIFS.ko kernel module and it did work: I saw all the shares on my XP I wanted and Mplayer could stream those also. Movies and MP3 files did not work like they should. all content stuttered and was not usable.

More propper way is to install Nokia's media stremer on the device and then install Twonky, TVersity, Nero 7 MediaHome or other UPnp AV server on some XP and let that solutuion deliver and transcode the videos/mp3 so that the devivce can utilize them propperly.

That has to be one of the silliest comments I've seen here in a long. Even at the resolution you mention, you're talking a 4" screen, HD resolution is not necessary. I encode my movies for 300K size and the quality is excellent. On a 2Gb that 6 movies, more then enough to enjoy on a flight across the US.

I use linux to encode my movie with the following 2 pass via mencoder.

mencoder dvd:// -dvd-device $1 -aid 128 -ovc lavc \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:turbo:a spect=16/9:\
acodec=mp3:abitrate=96:vpass=1 -vf crop=704:432:6:70,scale=512:240,crop=400:240 -ofps 25 \
-af volnorm=1 -oac lavc -o movie.avi \

mencoder dvd:// -dvd-device $1 -aid 128 -ovc lavc \
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=350:mbd=2:trell:v4mv:turbo:a spect=16/9:\
acodec=mp3:abitrate=96:vpass=2 -vf crop=704:432:6:70,scale=512:240,crop=400:240 -ofps 25 \
-af volnorm=1 -oac lavc -o movie.avi \

You may have to adjust the crop and ofps values depending on your source. I like using mencoder because I feel I have more control over the encoding, but if you looking for something a little easier check out

http://maemo.org/community/wiki/VideoEncoding