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Forum: Multimedia 2010-04-14, 20:27
Replies: 5
Views: 1,324
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Video over upnp problem

i've found it to be codec dependant. some things work.
Forum: Games 2010-02-04, 14:53
Replies: 42
Views: 12,644
Posted By dtrouton
Re: EA games coming to the n900?

Someone saw an ad in a UK mag for FIFA on the N900. The thread is at
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=39807 and a pic of the ad is at http://share.ovi.com/media/Barts.76.stuff/Barts.76.10008...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-02-02, 10:43
Replies: 10
Views: 3,658
Posted By dtrouton
Re: problem with Conky

Just checked my phone, which I updated to 51-1 over the air, and it's hostname is still set to 42-11
Forum: Off Topic 2010-01-28, 17:22
Replies: 42
Views: 19,645
Posted By dtrouton
Re: N910

The Nexus multi-tasks. The draw back with the snap dragon is the lack of dedicated graphics, as I recall -- it relies on the raw processor grunt, hence why a 1GHz snap dragon is comparable to the...
Forum: Off Topic 2010-01-26, 12:23
Replies: 935
Views: 117,994
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Need invites? Have invites? Google Voice, Wave, etc. Share or get them here.

If anyone has any google voice invites I'd love one.

I've a bunch of google wave invites, drop me a PM
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-01-22, 11:34
Replies: 439
Views: 131,745
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Nokia to offer free navigation??

It's fairly un likely though that Nokia isn't holding back a complete and ready Ovi Maps with free navigation just because of a deal of Sygic. It's much more likely they've let Sygic know that the...
Forum: Applications 2010-01-22, 10:47
Replies: 4
Views: 2,633
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Turn by turn sat nav

Hey there, welcome to the forum!

You'll find quite a lot of discussion at this thread (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=41652). The summary is basically:

It's not clear. Nokia have...
Forum: Applications 2010-01-21, 13:27
Replies: 16
Views: 4,786
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Sky Remote Record

How well does http://tv.sky.com/tvlistings work in the browser for you?
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-01-20, 08:59
Replies: 111
Views: 16,883
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Seriously disalusioned with phone and battery life...

Something which can affect battery life of any phone is signal strength. If you're in an area with poor or no reception your battery will run dry much faster. This is because your phone will ramp...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-01-19, 14:44
Replies: 13
Views: 2,917
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Device showing no space left but hardly any apps are installed?

It sounds as though you may have some apps from devel or testing installed which have gone to the root filesystem rather than /opt/ (which has the 2GB limit). The root file system is much smaller.
...
Forum: Multimedia 2010-01-12, 12:19
Replies: 7
Views: 2,782
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Possible to automatically pause playback when headphones disconnect?

There is a thread about this already, and an app someone is working on. See

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33215
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-12-23, 13:26
Replies: 12
Views: 7,156
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Optus Internet Settings for Australia

There is a table of useful info here

http://www.jmango.com.au/web/support/mobile-internet-settings.html
Forum: Applications 2009-11-20, 16:23
Replies: 21
Views: 8,543
Posted By dtrouton
Re: xmarks

I've read reports of weave working. If thats the case you could have weave and xmarks installed on one browser and sync using that (unless you don't use a firefox browser anywhere else)
Forum: Multimedia 2009-11-20, 16:22
Replies: 106
Views: 63,164
Posted By dtrouton
Re: BBC IPlayer on the N900 - A different approach

I'm pretty sure the flash H.264 is either not optimised or not using hardware acceleration. The open bug on this was actually closed with a comment that it would only be resolved when an optimised...
Forum: Multimedia 2009-11-20, 11:59
Replies: 106
Views: 63,164
Posted By dtrouton
Re: BBC IPlayer on the N900 - A different approach

Just tried playing a stream on my desktop browser and it reports as H.264 640x360 480kbps

So I'm back to thinking it's the H.264 codec which is the problem
Forum: Multimedia 2009-11-20, 11:26
Replies: 106
Views: 63,164
Posted By dtrouton
Re: BBC IPlayer on the N900 - A different approach

I thought the iplayer streams had stopped using VP6 by default since the 2.0 update? I remember the new bloke in charge making a big deal about moving to H.264

EDIT: Going by this table...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2009-11-18, 13:10
Replies: 197
Views: 133,489
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Maemo 6 loosing source compatibility with plain Qt, and Symbian^4

Just googleing Qt Direct UI turned up a ton of stuff about this. Direct UI is nokias "finger friendly" UI add on to Qt which will be used on both Maemo and Symbian (and maybe not just Maemo 6 and...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-11-11, 15:30
Replies: 113
Views: 31,549
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Important UK issue - N900 doesn't work on 3 mobile?

If it really is only a problem with newer 3 USIM cards I'd imagine they've changed supplier. There are lots of fancy things that can go on there these days (Java SIMs, etc) and tools to allow better...
Forum: Competitors 2009-11-11, 12:15
Replies: 41
Views: 12,865
Posted By dtrouton
Re: The N900 Strategy and Why the iPhone is So Hard to Beat

I did read it, and it's a good point, but I think they aren't making a fair comparison (if you read my previous post). I can see where they get 1.6 billion US figure for Apple, but the 1.1 billion...
Forum: Competitors 2009-11-11, 11:11
Replies: 41
Views: 12,865
Posted By dtrouton
Re: The N900 Strategy and Why the iPhone is So Hard to Beat

Yes, that is a much better comparison, and really shows the strength of Apple's current postion (without the nonsense hyperbole of Apple making more money than Nokia from phones, it's profit magins...
Forum: Multimedia 2009-11-11, 09:46
Replies: 4
Views: 1,955
Posted By dtrouton
Re: This is not god

The problem is that the iplayer site is serving up the high bitrate H.264 video as it would to a normal desktop. If you search the forums you'll see some discussion on things like get_iplayer to get...
Forum: General 2009-11-11, 09:39
Replies: 15
Views: 4,098
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Apple becomes top phone maker by profits

This was my post from another thread discussing these number:

OK I think I see where their 1.6 billion from iPhones comes from...

Apple sold something like 7.1 million hadnsets, they've assumed...
Forum: Competitors 2009-11-11, 09:30
Replies: 41
Views: 12,865
Posted By dtrouton
Re: The N900 Strategy and Why the iPhone is So Hard to Beat

OK I think I see where their 1.6 billion from iPhones comes from...

Apple sold something like 7.1 million hadnsets, they've assumed a profit margin from the reports of around 225 dollars per...
Forum: Competitors 2009-11-11, 09:16
Replies: 41
Views: 12,865
Posted By dtrouton
Re: The N900 Strategy and Why the iPhone is So Hard to Beat

Interesting stuff. I think nokia has defintely been badly hit in the high end market, and they have lacked a credible alternative. I'm really interested to know though where apple will go next. ...
Forum: Nokia N900 2009-11-10, 13:38
Replies: 9
Views: 5,527
Posted By dtrouton
Re: Issues with MFE!!

What's the error message?
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