Nokia 770 capable of playing divx videos / movies ?

[janjansenbe]

Hi all,

Does anybody (who received already his Nokia 770) know if it's possible to play divx videos with the current Nokia 770 ? Does somebody have already experience with it ?

I was thinking about the following : when sitting on the train, waiting for the bus, etc. after plugging in a 1 GB RS-MMC containing a divx movie, ... it would be nice if the Nokia 770 could play it.

I am a bit afraid that the current availability of RAM would not be sufficient ?

Cheers, Jan

[Tainek]

Divx/Xvid movies use far to much CPU time to run properly on the device unfortunatly

[fredoll]

I'm not sure about that : TCPMP can handle non reformated DivX on a Palm ...
And if the DSP can be used ...

O Fred

[Tainek]

i hope i'm wrong then ;)

[janjansenbe]

So, for the moment it's still not clear if it works, or can work with the appropriate software, or that the hardware isn't made for it.

[RealNitro]

Take a look at this (http://www.maemo.org/maemowiki/VideoEncoding?highlight=%28video%29) page. If you convert your video files to the right format, they should work on the 770. I converted 9 episodes of red vs. blue (originally divx files, small ones though) with settings mentioned on that wiki page, and they run great! I haven't tried any bigger files yet though (the converted files were about 10mb each, I managed to squeeze them all in :p ).

[andymulhearn]

I can vouch for RealNitro's comments. I've ripped a load of video at the smallest size settings and the results are quite good. I have found that the Video player is pretty picky though

[janjansenbe]

Hi, thanks for this usefull information. Since I don't have my Nokia 770 yet (stock sold out already) I would like to know the following :

- the size of a converted divx movie (for example a divx movie of 700 MB) after using the memcoder, will the result fit on a 512 MB RS-MMC ?
- the result of playing such a converted movie on the Nokia 770

Cheers, Jan

[andymulhearn]

Jan,

I can't answer your question but I can provide some information that may help.

I rip my original DVDs at 640*480, 500kbps, 25fps and 128bit audio - so I can watch them on a laptop without them looking too bad on the large screen.

The I used the menplayer settings from the Wiki to reduce the size, frame rate and audio quality so they play on my 770.

A 90 minute film (the two part Pilot to Firefly - Serenity) starts out at about 330meg and reduces to 230. A 40 minute episode goes from 190meg to about 110. These play OK on the 770, though there are some artefacts and from opening the file to playback start takes a while.

Compare to my iPaq 4700 this is quite weak - the iPaq will play the originals using TCMP with no problems. But then it is three time as fast on clock speed alone.