Call for help!
May 26, 2008 4:50 pm freesoftware, maemoI received my copy of Big Buck Bunny today, and I’m leaving for Berlin tomorrow morning for LinuxTag.
I’d like to be able toshow BBB on my Nokia N810, but when I copy the AVI file from the DVD onto the tablet, it doesn’t load (“File format not supported” it says). Same goes for “Elephants Dream”. The same also goes for the Nokia N800 (although there I just get a message the there is no application that can manage the file format).
Can anyone point me towards the codecs I’ll need to get this working tonight, please? I’d hunt myself (really I would) if I wasn’t packing a bag and putting kids to bed.
Thanks Lazyweb!
May 26th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Try tablet-encode (a wrapper around mencoder) This will encode the video into somepthing playable on the N8x0
http://mediautils.garage.maemo.org/tablet-encode.html
May 26th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I believe that the avi is in a HD format and a fixed resolution. You therefore need to reduce the resolution in order to play on an N800/810.
How you do This I have no idea. You could try ripping the dvd to a lower res so you can play it.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
The easiest, is to download the
Nokia – IT Video Converter at:
http://www.nokia.com/A4688059
http://nds1.nokia.com/NOKIA_COM_1/Microsites/BetaLabs/applications/apps/Internet_Tablet_Video_Converter-0.32.exe
May 26th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Try to play it with MPlayer. It should work. Anyway, with tablet-encode it works for sure. Good luck!
May 26th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Have you tried
mplayer?
I’ve had no problem viewing 600 MB mpg4 films with it.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
hi,
two things:
1) there is a size limit to the screensize as bigger clips would play with too low fps anyway.
2) mpeg4-asp is unfortunately not supported. transcoding to mpeg4-sp needed (or h264-bp).
yes its confusing and a mess :/