[truelies]

Looks like N900 can't play video, will Nokia improvement this?

Tried: 

.MKV ---- not play

.VOB ----  not play

.avi-----"Audio Codec not supported"

.mpg----" Audio Codec not supported"

[CrispyDuck]

It will play avi and mpg but its the codec that was used when creating it thats no good.

Convert the video with a different codec until you get one that works.

Crispy

[cpitchford]

Two files I happen to have lying around.. one plays, the other reports unsupported codec.. seems AC3 is out!

Can't play:

RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 720 x 528, 23.98 fps, video: XviD, audio: Dolby AC3 (4 channels, 48000 Hz)

Can play:

RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 512 x 384, 23.98 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz)

[cpitchford]

Should point out, when trying to play the clip above, it reported unsupported audio codec! so AC3 does indeed appear to be unsupported, at least in AVI files maybe?

[toandres]

Convert the video with a different codec until you get one that works.

How do you do this Crispy?

[truelies]

Use what software to convert the video? Maybe Nokia should include a video converter in N900?

[CrispyDuck]

There are lots of converters out there.

Super used to be common with the n95

do a search for AVS video converter, ive found that to be the most stable.

Hint 

get a small film clip to use and play with settings till it looks best on your N900

Crispy

[CrispyDuck]

Ill see if i can come back with some settings as my old ones are for the N95 and as you know have a different screen resolution.

[CrispyDuck]

Well seems like its very picky about what it likes to play.

It will not play anything over 800 x 480 res 

It only seems to like Avi at 800 x 480

Hopefully in this almighty of an awaited update this might change

Crispy

[justin02]

Hi all,

I've tried several formats too, the best way I found is to use Pinnacle studio HD and then convert to mp4 rescaling down to 800x480 res, works like a treat. I even converted last night's Top Gear from BBC HD (I get it through satellite on a technotrend PC receiver, recordings go straight to my HDD), the native format is in H.264 .TS in high definition, looks great on the N900's screen.

[dharder]

That's funny because that's exactly what I'm trying to play. I have Top Gear HD in MKV with the following settings:

H.264, 1280 x 720, Millions

AC3, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz

25 fps

Says "Unable to play media. Media format not supported."

AVI files play awesomely. Thing that sucks is I transferred all my DVD collection to MKVs at home, when I probably should've done MP4s...?

[justin02]

Hell that should work but I think you'll have to downscale a bit, I get the feeling that the N900 doesn't like videos over it's maximum display resolution.

Pinnacle PCTV HD does the trick great.

[truelies]

How many bit rate did you choose?I selected 640*360, bit rate 1024kB/s. Picture not very smooth, got some small pause.

[tehrules]

There is an application (I think still in the extras-devel) that allows mkv

AC3 audio? This isn't a cinema system! I wouldn't expect dolby to work!

Standard formats are used, like in most hand held video players. Use mpeg layer 2 audio. 

And as for VOB? Thats DVD format, they're huge. Its not a "DVD" player.

Technology at this size is limited in what it can and can't do  

Message Edited by tehrules on 31-Dec-2009 01:33 PM

[mypeachtree]

I did get vobs to work on my N900. I thought it would only work with kMplayer but it recognized a 1.2 gb vob on my microdisk and played it in the basic player. I do have extra codes installed. I used to spend hours converting for my N97 so that I could watch videos now I can just copy them to the hard drive and play the videos natively.....I love my N900

[clydie_boy]

I TRIED PLAYING DVD MOVIES IN DIVX FORMAT WHICH IS THE ORIGINAL FORMAT THAT I DOWNLOADED THE MOVIES IN AND IT PLAYED ALL OF THE MOVIES PERFECTLY UNTIL JUST AWHILE AGO WHEN I TRIED TO PLAY ANY OF THE MOVIES ON MY LIST IT SAYS THAT FORMAT NOT SUPPORTED EVERY TIME I KEEP ON TRYING TO PLAY MY VIDEOS THE SAME THING HAPPENS.  CAN ANYONE HELP ME?  CAN I UNINSTALL THE PLAYER AND DOWNLOAD ANOTHER ONE FROM MAEMO OR SOME OTHER PLACE ON THE NET?

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[Sever]

dude. chill.

reboot your device. viola, problem fixed!

[CrispyDuck]

Yeah sometimes it does that.

Happened to me a few times.

Reboot sorted it nicely.

Crispy

[orkuto]

why dont u try downloading movies from sites like this i have been using these kind of sites.. its direct links and resumable... after downloading just convert it to mp4 with some converter to play out on the phone.

[ceroberts75]

it should be fine with avi files.   it uses those to play the intro, bootup screen.

i have created a few that i use with bootmenu to change the boot up video.