i like to say it again (and again... and again...):
the display resolution is only 800 * 480 pixels.
so higher resolutions won't bring any advantages - on the contrary: it will only suck your battery even faster. ^^

video port is only PAL / NTSC. with the specific resolutions.

Seriously we want HD recording. I don't care about the screen resolution. I care about the output video resolution. We need this.

pls help me.......

yes you can play high quality HD MKV VIDEOS.....after a some efford i found the maximum quality that u can play in your n900(quality was amazing to me)....here are the steps


1) install the extra codecs for the media player ...u will find this in file manager ...install it first


2)download the converter called "Any DVD Converter Professional" or if u have this then fine you can start


3)if you have any 720p or 1080p MKV high quality videos ...then use one the video to start to convert ...


4)in Any DVD Converter Professional first click on the "Add video" icon and add your highest quality MKV video...then in right side under the output profile ....there is a dropdown button sellect "video files" and also there is an another drop down button beside of that from there you have to sellect "Matroska Movie(*.mkv)"

then look right side down....there are some options to set
in video options sellect video options as"mpeg4" frame size as"800*480"(if its not available type it manually)...video bitrate as(4000)if u increase more than 4000 picture quality will get increased more and more....video frame rate as 30


in audio options select audio codec as "Mp3"(pls dont select any other it wont wok)....audio bitrate as 320....and sample rate as 48000

finally inorder to make your video full screen there is one more setting....go to edit->options->video under "Video Resize" make sure to tick Fit to height and Expand to Frame size boxes...


thats all u need to do just convert and enjoy the Tru HD in your n900.....remember here you r playing the mkv format not the mp4 bcos n900 is capable of playing MKV by doing thsese conversion..


i hope this will help the guys whoever have N900 and desire to play eye catching HD vido playback

Hey is that using the baseline profile? The N900 can only handle the baseline "low-level" profiles...and most of the encoding gurus who deliver our hd content via a certain swedish portal use high-level profiles. Which, honestly, is the whole point of .264: lower bitrate, higher quality, screw the battery...

i find it easier to just re-encode my hd stuff in 800x4xx / mp4 / QF=2. Works out quite well, at pretty much the same bitrates you've mentioned up there, no complexity involved...

It does? any links? What are they using, mplayer? VLC?

I was under the impression they were on the same level as we are.

That said, I've never had any problems with watching movies, I've got mostly high compressed h264 or 640x480 avi's. For my more difficult codecs (some anime and odd re-encodes) I can overclock to 950MHz and never see studder.

I can appreciate the convenience of not having to re-encode from HD formats, but its worth it to avoid even the occassional studder and battery issues of more demanding videos.

Has everyone here tried kmplayer or SiB for their videos? Fantastic GUI frontends for mplayer.

After all the downsampling, resizing and transcoding it would be a stretch to call the result "HD" video.

Read this
http://wiki.maemo.org/Video_encoding#Introduction

And use HandBrake with the provided preset-file to transcode videos to N900.

Someone suggested using mplayer. mplayer does not have hardware accelerated decodecs, so it is not as optimizied as the default media player which has DSP-optimized gstreamer-plugins for some codecs and for some (baseline) settings.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Video_encoding...on_Codec_Usage