The above works but I went another direction since there is still the issue with the high power HD encoding of many media files that is too much for the N900. There is a thread with an on phone solution but it is a hack which includes hand installing files rather than a simple repository based .deb solution, an earlier version left me boot-looped and I had to reflash. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ght=720p+video

First you need to install Transmission on your server, then you need to fix the login password for transmission by modding some config files.
http://superuser.com/questions/11364...-client-server
Do that and then start transmission-daemon on your server.

Secondly you need to connect to a server, an asset not everyone has but they can even use a Linux laptop at home over DSL or cable and a dyndns.org dynamic domain address, this setup assumes that there is NAT but you have mapped out port 1234 to your server.

Once the server address and Transmission are set up run the below on your client machine or phone, it will forward the 9091 port from the server to your local machine.

ssh -p 1234 -L 9091:localhost:9091 user@whateveryouwant.dyndns.org

then I connect to the transmission web client with whatever web browser by going to http://127.0.0.1:9091 and using the web client to cut/paste the magnet link

The files will go into whatever users download dir you set in the config file (default is /home/$user/download)
You might have to convert your file I use ffmpeg with the ubuntu-restricted-extras so I have all of the codecs I need, go into the download dir, start screen so you can detach for large conversions or batch conversion, and convert like this:

ffmpeg -i some720pvid.mp4.mkb n900vid.avi (or n900talk.mp3)

I actually made scripts to convert many media types to either AVI or MP3 and delete the originals since some talk shows like The Daily Show often work well as podcasts customize as you like and it will convert every file of the type in the directory.

find /home/user/ConvertInbox/ -type f -name "*mp4" -exec ffmpeg -i {} -sameq {}.mp3 \;

The server quickly blasts it with quad core power into a useful format and in a bit I you ready to drink from your home fiber optic 35MB/s firehose!

To make finding and grabbing my files easier I made a directory called Server in /media chmod the permissions and use this script to mount it via sshfs(on the extras rep) to make it appear in the file manager as a Server, I put this in a script in my N900's /home/user:

sudo sshfs -o reconnect,allow_other,uid=1000 -p 1234 user@whateveryouwant.dyndns.org:/../../../../home/user/downloads /media/Server

I find the N900FTP app to be too buggy and unfinished compared to the above solution for browsing files though you can use microM to browse and download files too as they are mounted locally.