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Originally Posted by qole
From what I understand, the OMAP 2420 is only capable of driving a 640x480 display, and so to get an 800x480 display Nokia had to use a third party display controller. So some of the hardware acceleration is lost there. The rest of it is lost because we don't have a driver for the hardware acceleration. So, effectively, we have almost no hardware acceleration for video.
This topic is still being discussed by Nokia and they have said that there is still hope for the community to get our hands on some kind of video acceleration drivers in the future. How much impact that will have on video playback performance has yet to be determined.
Here is an email thread that I stumbled upon:
http://www.mail-archive.com/maemo-de.../msg08831.html
It basically brings about 2 points. First, "Using a closed CPU like the TI OMAP (2420) in an open device like the N800
wasn't the best pairing." By this they mean the hardware accelerators. Yes, the OMAP 3 is open source now, (with hardware accelerators and all) but the new devices will open up with monstrous price tags which will make many to wait for sometime.
The N800/810 seems to be an ideal device for me. Basic browsing, reading documents and watching videos at D1 res, and I know the 2420 has all the muscle to do this. Waiting and upgrading to the (more expensive) next version does not seem a prudent solution.
The second point being "...solution would be that the open source community can convince TI
to release those technical documents to the public."
Now this is prudent.
I think the user as well as developer community should go ahead and do this, and harness the full power of the N800/810.
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2009-05-30
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#93
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Are you by chance looking for -nozoom mplayer option?
That was all I was looking for and it works perfectly!
Many thanks again!
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2009-05-30
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#94
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Bunanson, Addison,
I would suggest to go for a slight cropping instead of a slight stretching, but it's a matter of taste.
Bundyo, i suppose your video is 24 fps ?
Does it play well ?
Last edited by totololo; 2009-05-30 at 10:27.
I would suggest to go for a slight cropping instead of a slight stretching, but it's a matter of taste.
Bundyo, i suppose your video is 24 fps ?
Does it play well ?
Last edited by totololo; 2009-05-30 at 10:27.
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Originally Posted by totololo
I prefer a slight stretching. To me, it takes a lot of stretching to see distortion. And cropping - you dont know what you are missing. I HATE borders. And of course, as you said it well, it's a matter of taste
Bunanson, Addison,
I would suggest to go for a slight cropping instead of a slight stretching, but it's a matter of taste...
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#96
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Hmm that depends on the footage your watching. I took camera footage I recorded using my Canon (standard box video) and it looked terrible stretched. Granted the video was never looked that great to begin with so a toss through tablet-encode did the job well.
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2009-06-04
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#97
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You know, after changing the zoom option that Serge suggested, I don't even bother converting videos anymore.
Two benefits from this. Pixel perfect display (no stretchy weirdness like bunanson likes and no need for cropping) and not having to constantly waste time doing all of the video conversion junk.
The only negatives are that you've got a smaller display and it will chunk up a little during moments of extreme video changes.
Granted, the video files are already in .avi format and are cartoons.
Well, at least I thought this deserved a quick mention.
Two benefits from this. Pixel perfect display (no stretchy weirdness like bunanson likes and no need for cropping) and not having to constantly waste time doing all of the video conversion junk.
The only negatives are that you've got a smaller display and it will chunk up a little during moments of extreme video changes.
Granted, the video files are already in .avi format and are cartoons.
Well, at least I thought this deserved a quick mention.
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Originally Posted by Addison
Scaler has high quality (bicubic) and preserves aspect ratio. Pixels are stretched keeping all the proportions. So you just get a bigger picture. Nothing is cropped, so you still see black bars around the picture for the videos which are not 15:9.
You know, after changing the zoom option that Serge suggested, I don't even bother converting videos anymore.
Two benefits from this. Pixel perfect display (no stretchy weirdness like bunanson likes and no need for cropping)
and not having to constantly waste time doing all of the video conversion junk.
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Hi,
I stumbled upon this thread and got the idea to target the amount of pixels when encoding. I put the option to do this in my GUI for mencoder (SubVideo.exe). Windoze users can get it from http://www.tulehdus.com/SubVideo/
It seems to be ok to target 200.000 pixels for the N800
-mil
I stumbled upon this thread and got the idea to target the amount of pixels when encoding. I put the option to do this in my GUI for mencoder (SubVideo.exe). Windoze users can get it from http://www.tulehdus.com/SubVideo/
It seems to be ok to target 200.000 pixels for the N800
-mil
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2009-06-04
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Addison & Serge :
The HW scaler in our N8xx is a lot better than what is written in the old topic about video on NIT. But i noticed that it works better with certain picture sizes than others. I don't believe that any video form the web will be nicely played thanks to the scaler.
Mil : In fact, it depends a lot on the framerate too.
The HW scaler in our N8xx is a lot better than what is written in the old topic about video on NIT. But i noticed that it works better with certain picture sizes than others. I don't believe that any video form the web will be nicely played thanks to the scaler.
Mil : In fact, it depends a lot on the framerate too.
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Tablet should be 15:9 (800 X 480)
/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf add,
aspect=15:9 will get you a full screen with, well, acceptable stretching.
@Addison: More aspect discussions here, http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=24067
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Last edited by bunanson; 2009-05-30 at 03:59.