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danrweki is offline danrweki
2010-10-05 , 14:31
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Hallo my frends, just wondering i installed Extra Decoders Support but still the media player cannnot seem to play these files. what could be the issue. obviously i upgraded my firm ware to PR 1.2
 
Yuan is offline Yuan
2010-10-05 , 15:13
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same thing happens to me, and sometimes the .avi files don't work though this is very seldom, it says the audio codec blah blah blah is not compatible.
 
anthonie is offline anthonie
2010-10-05 , 15:20
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Provided you have restricted codecs installed and use apt-get:

root -> apt-get install mplayer
cd folder_where_file_resides
mplayer name_of_file.mkv

Terminal, yes. I was not able to get it to work in the regular video player but for me mplayer is fine as my gf is spanish and loves to watch with subs enabled and mplayer allows just that from the command line.
 
IsaacDFP is offline IsaacDFP
2010-10-05 , 15:21
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I think it is mainly dependant on the codec that is used to compressed your video files... I honestly have no problems with .avi files at all. But 720p .mkv files is something that the N900 cannot play... Gotta wait for the N9 for that :P
But im pretty sure the N900 can/could play 480p .mkv
 
dekin is offline dekin
2010-10-05 , 16:39
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weird too. sumtimes i get to play .mp4 files and sumtimes it refuses to play.wonder whats the problem????
 
danrweki is offline danrweki
2010-10-06 , 12:13
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woh, i did download mplayer...works great, but any one know when VLC is finally comin on board
 
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2010-10-06 , 12:26
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Originally Posted by dekin View Post
weird too. sumtimes i get to play .mp4 files and sumtimes it refuses to play.wonder whats the problem????
mp4 files may contain drm stuff. If they do, you can't play them on your N900.
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acvetkov is offline acvetkov
2010-10-06 , 12:44
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N900 can`t play videos with higher resolution then its display i.e. 800x480. With mplayer you can downscale it, but you will see slideshow due to the high CPU utilization of the downscale process.
 
anthonie is offline anthonie
2010-10-06 , 13:06
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Originally Posted by acvetkov View Post
N900 can`t play videos with higher resolution then its display i.e. 800x480. With mplayer you can downscale it, but you will see slideshow due to the high CPU utilization of the downscale process.
Better to use ffmpeg from commandline to downscale and re-encode the file, before playing it.
 
Yuan is offline Yuan
2010-10-08 , 03:22
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Before i was able to play the BEAUTIFUL LIAR.avi files in mediabox for several times then suddenly today it refuses to play...what is happening?
 
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