Thanks for the post.
Before I buy the 770, can an owner report on
its observed real video streaming capabilities?
Does the device stream video from the realone
video site? Is there any limitation of its
real video streaming power to stream from other
real video sites?
Lastly, has anyone have a ballpark prediction
of when we can expect an app permitting the
770 to stream wmv, and qt video files?
Thanks. Green
greencloudz: If you're looking for a media center, I'd go with something geared more specifically towards that. I've had my 770 for a week now and I don't think it'd be the most suitable thing for portable video. While it can play a lot of formats, it's lacking in storage and horsepower. (I've noticed decent quality videos stuttering mildly(not enough that I wouldn't watch them, but if you're a videophile you'd complain)).
If that's your primary use for a handheld, I'd go with something that's got a 20-40gb HDD and support for .wmv
If you just want to casually watch videos (there is a great converter out there that will dump to 770 optimized quality, also reducing file size) then you may want to look into a 770. There's so much this thing can do, my mind's being blown daily. (I'm still cracking the crooked smile that appeared when I got the VNC viewer working in 2 mins. Imagine seeing your desktop and controlling it from the palm of your hand. Insane).
Thanks Hedgecore. Good data. Since I'll be mainly be web browsing and
streaming the brief news videos, and the like, I don't mind some stutter.
Looks like most of my viewing will be of realvideo,and mpeg, til KMPlayer,
or such, is released for the novice.
Ciao. Green
The list shows support for .aac files but I have been unable to get the audio player to recognize the .acc songs I copied over from my computer (and these are unprotected -- not from iTunes store). Suggestions?
The list shows support for .aac files but I have been unable to get the audio player to recognize the .acc songs I copied over from my computer (and these are unprotected -- not from iTunes store). Suggestions?
1. Check to make sure that the files have an .aac extension & not the .m4a one that the iPod software gives them. For some reason (likely a design mis-decision by one of the Gnome project coders), the sound player looks at the extension & not at the file type. Had someone at Nokia noticed this & done the necessary tweak so Sound Player would read the proper extention, then it would make the device far more user friendly for the non-Linux "Aunt Tilly" types.
(BTW, I would appreciate it if someone ported the UNIX tool "file" to the Nokia 770.)
2. Which version of the firmware are you using? Once I fixed the extension problem, I was able to get some mpeg4 files I created with the iPod software on my wife's laptop -- but only with the version 45 firmware. After I upgraded to the version 51 firmware, the Nokia 770 tells me that those files are in an "unsupported file format" & it cannot open them. It would be nice had Nokia documented just what they fixed/changed between the 2 releases -- as professional programmers are supposed to do.
I'd like to get my M4A/AAC files from iTunes working. One thing that is cool about iTunes (and maybe other music players) is that you can drag songs from iTunes to the 770's memory card folder without looking for the original songs in Windows Explorer. This is an easy way to get a playlist of songs onto the 770.
Now onto something less obvious: I can confirm Geoffs observation that changing the extension from .m4a to .aac does help Audio Player recognize the file, but it still doesn't play. Hmmm....
Since this thread is about audio and video, I'll throw out some things I discovered while trying to get video on the 770. I noticed Google Video allows for the downloading of .mp4
for the PSP and iPod and have not been successful at playing these files natively on the 770. I had to convert the videos to .avi or .mpg using Mplayer's video encoder. I use a low-res encoding of 288x160, video bitrate at 256, and an audio bitrate of 96. This gets the job done, but video still ends up a little bit distorted. If anyone has a better method of video encoding, let me know.
