I would watch it using mplayer for N800, and that has worked for me. So far I preffer Xvid which is also mp4. I use the n770-encode.pl which uses mencoder to transcode most video formats into a Xvid (AVI) file. On 9/6/07, DrFredC.com <drfredc at drfredc.com> wrote: > > Ingo Kofler wrote: > Dear all, > > I am interested in buying either a Nokia 770 or 800 and one of my > criteria would be that it is capable of decoding H.264. On the official > Nokia homepage I've found that H.263 and MPEG-4 is supported. I know > that the mplayer or VLC supports this codec but I am wondering if the > processing power of the Nokia 770 or 800 is sufficient for that. > > Any experiences on that? > > I've loaded a 115Meg MP4 video I did on to my N800 of my son's soccer team > trip to Paris and Spain this summer. With N800s Media Player, there's a > message that it doesn't have the codex to play mp4s. MPlayer (maemo) > supposedly plays mp4s, but chokes on this particular MP4 file, chopping up > the audio and only rarely showing a change in video displays. This MP4 file > plays fine with QuickTime on my XP laptop. Perhaps I don't have the > optimum mp4 player or codex installed. Perhaps, because the MP4 comes from > a widescreen DVD format compressed to a smaller internet uploadbable MP4 > file (512x288 at 29 fps), it doesn't play well Nokia's MP4 MPlayer either > because it's a 'non-standard' frame size, too many fps or whatever. MPlayer > seems to try to process the file to display in full screen rather than it's > native 512x288 format. If so, that probably requires way more processing > power than the N800 has. I haven't had time to sort out what's going on. > > > What about the battery lifetime when watching videos (e.g., stored on > the memory card?) > > I haven't been able to play any prolonged video to determine battery life. > -- > > Always, Dr Fred C > drfredc at drfredc.com > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > -- Kahlil Johnson "Ya tengo GMAIL!!"
