garbled video playback in any player?
 

hello,

i hope this is a known issue. my new n810 seems fine, latest system, but when i tried to playback some videos, various formats, various codecs they all came up totally garbled and scrambled, usually very small and you could sort of see the outlines of the movement in the video, but it was sort of like watching a scrambled tv signal. this even happened after i used the Nokia Internet Tablet Media Converter software. i would really appreciate any help or links.

thank you,
joe

Re: garbled video playback in any player?
 

dude, don't double post the exact same thread. maybe no one knows the answer, or the right person hasn't logged on yet.

try the media conversion link in my signature, thats what i use.

///EDIT

I got a duplicate thread deleted! I feel so accomplished... me and my tags. :D



(junior moderator, right here ;))

Re: garbled video playback in any player?
 

it's not a normal thing, what ur experiencing, so i would have t say no, it doesn't happen in mytube.

if the steps in the link in my sig don't work, i'd suggest reflashing the tablet.

Re: garbled video playback in any player?
 

mplayer

try it. Or use some other video conversion program (like WinFF)

Re: garbled video playback in any player?
 

i re-flashed the unit and videos work now. had been using mplayer. had downloaded and tried all players actually and nothing had worked. am restoring apps now so if it stops working then one of the apps or packages i had installed breaks video playback. hopefully not. i will try to be a good noob from now on.

thanks,
joe

Re: garbled video playback in any player?
 

I have the same problem: Video is garbled, can see outlines, but most of the screen is green or black (depending on the player). Neither using canola nor mplayer made a difference. Simple restart did not help either.
It would be nice if I would not have to flash the NIT because it took me while to get the NIT the way I wanted.
Anyone know a solution yet?

Programs I installed recently:
Carman
GPE Calendar
erminig
GPE summary (always running)
youamp

Could any of those be the culprits?

Could it have anything to do with using tablet-encoder for the first time? (Previously encoded videos don't work either now, though)

Re: garbled video playback in any player?
 

Hello all,

I have also had this garbled video problem. I don't see any stated answers here, so I'm posting some screenshots to show what's going on. I can't figure out if I did anything special to make this happen, but video worked perfectly in full screen and not previously. It was after I installed mytube that I noticed the problem.

I'm running OS2008 on a N810. The first image is of the garbled video. The second is of the garbled video in full screen. The third is of the video "fixed" whenever anything overlays it, such as a menu item.

Thank you for your help,

tarek : )

Re: garbled video playback in any player?
 

Hello all,

To follow this up, it turns out to have been secondary to modifying the kernel for android. This was ultimately fixed with:

flash-and-reboot

That's it!

tarek : )

Re: garbled video playback in any player?
 

Strange, I did not change anything in the kernel and never tried to install android.
The problem appears to be the same, though.
I still did not dare to flash the thing. So, if anyone can come up with an alternative way, I'd still be very grateful.

Re: garbled video playback in any player?
 

Hi,

I just got a N810 and experienced the same problems. Resolution: Flash it!!! If you use windows use the automated flasher software it takes 15 seconds to flash plus the time to download 125 megabytes. Even if the software alerts you that the last version is your current, don't care about it. Pretty easy and fast. I just can't understand why Nokia releases the hardware with such a bug!!!!!!