Re: Performance of mplayer playing back WMV is miserable
 

That would be nice if a player engine could be broadly integrated in the tablet. The default player plays almost none of my videos. D:

Re: Performance of mplayer playing back WMV is miserable
 

Hence my original suggestion to transcode the videos using the ITVC.

Re: Performance of mplayer playing back WMV is miserable
 

In case its not clear, the 400MHz ARM CPU just does not have the power
to decode full-resolution videos. Its a pity as the screen has such high
resolution. Some "downloaded" AVIs are low enough resolution, and
mplayer seems to be the best bet.

Re: Performance of mplayer playing back WMV is miserable
 

Not entirely accurate. Due to the oversized screen and the 3rd-party LCD controller that necessitates, we're prevented from using the full potential of both the main ARM core and the IVA video decoder that's built-in.

Re: Performance of mplayer playing back WMV is miserable
 

why does mplayer play divx movies so slowly? is there a way to make divx movies play faster? its actually pretty annoying when im watching a movie at about 15 fps.

Re: Performance of mplayer playing back WMV is miserable
 

What DivX movies, what resolution, how do you play them?

Re: Performance of mplayer playing back WMV is miserable
 

ln my experience, video playback is CPU-limited. LCD controller bandwidth is limited, but I usually max out the CPU first.

I think the DSP has the most potential to improve video playback, since it's virtually unused.

Re: Performance of mplayer playing back WMV is miserable
 

Yes and no. The controller prevents us from using the IVA (well, perhaps more accurately, made Nokia decide not to use it—for whatever reason), which would help a LOT with video decoding, but there's also things involved with the controller that impact the efficiency of decoding (someone with better knowledge of mplayer could speak to this more completely than myself), so just because it's pegging the CPU doesn't tell the full story.

Well, since the stock kernel drops CPU to 330MHz when DSP is in use, you'd actually get worse playback.

Re: Performance of mplayer playing back WMV is miserable
 

By IVA, you mean the onboard graphics, right? Being a Linux user, l guess I just assumed there'd never be driver support for advanced features of the graphics "card". :(

Re: Performance of mplayer playing back WMV is miserable
 

True, but since it's not a limitation of the hardware, it's easily fixed. :)