Hi, after stalking the forums for a while and eventually getting my n900 I was wondering about the TV out. I've used it a few times with unaltered videos (which look pretty reasonable on my 24" monitor) but they always seem a bit weak on the TV. What would be the best resolution, format etc for playing videos from the n900 to the TV?

Oh and this would be in Europe so PAL rather than NTSC

cheers

I wonder how the TV out actually scales the output as it is squeezing a 800x480 down to a 640x480 or so signal... Also it doesn't always show the same information but that's an unrelated bug.

Maybe try with: (on debian)
tablet-encode --preset=n900

Given that the TV out is PAL/NTSC you're not gonna get much improvement, regardless of how you encode your videos, I'd recommend encoding things for the best experience on the device itself, and that should also maximize your TV experience.

Unless the mediaplayer application is smart enough to avoid an additional scaling operation when doing TV out, which I doubt.

If you tried to encode your videos for the tv resolution, I'd imagine it would just get scaled up to the n900 native res, and then rescaled back down for tv out.

I'm pretty into keeping movies on my phone and also playing them through a tv, so I've messed around with this extensively, to say the least.

So far, these are the best settings that I've found for both keeping a pretty good amount of space on your device/microsd, but at the same time giving good playback on a tv. I also wanted to make sure that lag and hicupping was virutally nonexistent.

I also encode all of my movies from a 720p source file. The software I use is avs video converter.

- I convert to an AVI file with MPEG4 codec
- 1000 kbps average
- i do a little bit of math using the resolution of the 720p source to get a video thats something by 480. (The "something" depends on the particular video)
- Audio bitrate is set to 128 kbps, mp3, stereo 16 bit 44,100 hz
- Frame rate = 24

Any questions let me know