Is 400x240 the Max. Video Resolution on N800?
 

Is it possible to play video on the N800 with resolution higher than 400x240? I want to convert some DVDs to my N800, but I'm not able to play any video with resolution higher than 400x240.

I know the default media player can only handle video resolution up to 400x240, but I thought I read it somewhere that the Mplayer is able to handle video with higher resolution. Is it true?

Re: Is 400x240 the Max. Video Resolution on N800?
 

Will you SEARCH, for God's sake.

Entering "video resolution" into the handy search feature results in several threads, including these below. Try reading them.

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...deo+resolution

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...deo+resolution

Sorry if my reply seems harsh, but the number of easily answered questions asked through sheer laziness is getting ridiculous.

Re: Is 400x240 the Max. Video Resolution on N800?
 

Agree with you w14, however, maybe we ("advanced" users) should make an effort on maintaining the Wiki.

Re: Is 400x240 the Max. Video Resolution on N800?
 

Attached is screen of Konttori's res options (although i just use 400x240)

Re: Is 400x240 the Max. Video Resolution on N800?
 

Mplayer can surely play videos with higher resolutions.The only thing to remember: maximum bitrate it can handle well without frame drops is somewhere between 400 to 800 kbps (for xvid codec).Audio should be MP3 as it does not loads CPU with its decoding.

Re: Is 400x240 the Max. Video Resolution on N800?
 

Do you mean 40 to 80kbps? 800kbps is a huge datarate.

I was able to run a 155 kbps datarate, 688x288 XVID successfully, created with FairUseWizard. Mplayer did however choke on a 188kbps datarate, 704x368 XVID.

The 155kbps movie file worked out to be about 900Mb, the 188kbps was more like 1.3Gb.

Both files play fine on an Archos 604 and 605 (which also runs a version of open source Linux) so one would think, with proper tweaking, they should run fine on the n800 (unless the Archos has some sort of hardware decoding in it's video chipset.)

Re: Is 400x240 the Max. Video Resolution on N800?
 

Erm, you're confusing Kbps and KB/sec. PowerUser is referring to the former.

Re: Is 400x240 the Max. Video Resolution on N800?
 

Ahhh...kilabits vs. kilabytes. So I should divide his numbers by 8 yielding 50 to 100kBps. That is probably a good number from an efficiency standpoint on a flash device but like I said, I've had success with as high as 1,240kbps in Mplayer. I prefer to leave the file in as high a quailty format as possible, and not encode it several times for different devices. We view the files on a laptop, Mediacenter PC connected to an 37" flatscreen and an Archos 604 and now a 605. I let FairUseWizard truncate off the blackspace and only keep the "real" pixels in the DVD vob datafile.

The files come out looking very close to the original DVD with a bit more highlight clipping.