Why did N900 claim that it plays all types of media files - Page 6 - maemo.org

olighak | # 51 | 2009-12-04, 01:06 | Report

Originally Posted by romanianusa View Post

When out of the box..you can't even play wmv and avi file?? Very disappointed with false ads. Where do i download the the codecs to make this work.

Yep,

Even basic .wav files can´t be played on mine and all ads specify that format as well. Pretty unhandy as I get voicemails emailed to me as .wav from work and hence can´t listen to them on my phone, but have to upload them to my laptop first, arghhhh.

I wonder when codec support for wav and wmv, which according the Nokia-alternate-reality, is already on my device, is coming to the actual reality most of us other folks live in.

Last edited by olighak; 2009-12-04 at 01:09.

attila77 | # 52 | 2009-12-04, 01:40 | Report

Explain, in your own words, what "basic .wav" means to you.

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attila77 | # 53 | 2009-12-04, 01:57 | Report

Also, as for WMV. It plays non-drm-ed WMV9 files with hardware acceleration. Mplayer is able to play the ancient WMV1,2,8 variants but without HW accel. Drm is a no-go in any form or shape. No idea how this fits somebody's alternate reality or philosophical stance on whether this means WMV support or not.

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olighak | # 54 | 2009-12-04, 02:21 | Report

Originally Posted by attila77 View Post

Explain, in your own words, what "basic .wav" means to you.

.wav is a pretty basic format for any player to play. It is probably the most generic format used.

I don´t remember many players I´ve had, $5 in value and above that couldn´t play the format.

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pagesix1536 | # 55 | 2009-12-04, 02:33 | Report

Eh, it won't matter...isn't VLC being worked on for the N900? That should pick up any slack.

hypnotik | # 56 | 2009-12-04, 02:40 | Report

Well this is a bummer, I just encoded a title from a DVD (using Handbrake):

MP4 file container, H.264 (x264) Video, AAC (faac) Audio, Chapter Markers
source: 720x576 output: 704x400
Video: Encoder H.264(x264) Target size: 700(MB)(3960(kbps) abr)
Audio Track 1: English(AC3)(2.0 ch) Encoder: AAC (faac) Mixdown: Stereo SampleRate: Auto(khz) Bitrate: 128(kbps), DRC: Off

Saves to .m4v but WON'T play on device.

Any ideas on why it won't play?

EDIT: I installed the codec pack from here: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=397776&postcount=1 but still no dice

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shadowjk | # 57 | 2009-12-04, 03:29 | Report

Use h264 baseline profile. main profile wont work.

Anyone tried whether gmc and qpel work with mpeg4 asp/xvid/divx?

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DeeGee | # 58 | 2009-12-04, 03:58 | Report

I have been dabbling around with video encoding, and if I'll receive my N900 today, I'll be sure to test what exact limitations there are in the internal (h264 / mpeg4) dsp decoder.

I'd Imagine that you can play almost anything with mplayer, but that is going to do the decoding using the cpu and probably uses up the battery faster.

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qole | # 59 | 2009-12-04, 04:36 | Report

On the N8x0, the DSP is extremely picky about dimensions; everything had to be, IIRC, multiples of 16. I haven't tested this on the N900 yet.

phreck | # 60 | 2009-12-04, 06:14 | Report

well. guess i cheated by installing codec support from the other repos. jsut went through my 2tb network share and played 5 random avi files. all of them played. i know im not within the out of boc scenario, but you can greatly expand the devices media capabilities in a few simple steps.

just throwing it out there.