Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 25th Jan 2007 00:04 UTC
Our Nokia friends were very generous to send us over their newest Internet Tablet, the N800, for a review. Read more below about our experience with this Linux-based mobile gem.
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Member since:2005-06-29
That would be great... but still, all these codecs and the GStreamer need to be optimized and also modified to be able to use the media hardware acceleration that N770 and N800 uses...
...too bad they had a lot of time since N770 to do that and the situation still the same... = (I'd love to be wrong.)
Member since:2007-01-25
And that is why you pay Fluendo for the plugins. They have ARM builds already, the N800 uses the DSP if you use XVideo, so all that remains is to potentially use the DSP in decoding the actual frame data. However with the YUV to RGB conversion and scaling happening in the DSP already, it may be fast enough already.
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2007-01-25
You said:
Personally, I would prefer Nokia to move away from Real Player (or just use it only for RA/RAM) and instead use mplayer and also port the mplayer-plugin for use with the Opera browser. This only only will allow for broader codec support (after licensing them of course) but for WMV/QT support inside web pages that currently is not possible. This is an internet tablet after all.
If you can show me where I can download licensed ARM-compiled mplayer plugins for both WMV and QT (I presume you mean MPEG4 or Sorenson, as QT is a container format), then you deserve a medal. MPlayer manages to play these formats on the typical desktop by (generally) illegally re-using the Windows codecs. These will not work on the N800 as it doesn't have an x86 compatible processor.
A better solution would be for Nokia to license more of the Fluendo GStreamer plugins for WMV, MPEG4, and so on. They don't have Sorenson though.