N900 media support
The N900 supports MP4, WMV, and AVI media container formats.
The following sections are part of a work in progress.
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Video Formats
| Video Codec | Supported (Yes/No/Unconfirmed) | Additional Software [1] |
|---|---|---|
| MPEG-1/2 | Yes (MPEG-2 Transport Stream) | Extra Decoders Support |
| FLV | Yes | Extra Decoders Support |
| DIVX1 | Unconfirmed | |
| DIVX2 | Unconfirmed | |
| DIVX3 | Unconfirmed | |
| MPEG-4 ASP | Unconfirmed | |
| DivX 4 | Unconfirmed | |
| DivX5 | Unconfirmed | |
| Divx6 | Unconfirmed | |
| XviD | Yes | |
| 3ivX | Unconfirmed | |
| H.261 | Unconfirmed | |
| H.263 / H.263i | Unconfirmed | |
| H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC | Yes | |
| Theora | Unconfirmed | |
| WMV 1/2 | Unconfirmed | |
| WMV 3 | Unconfirmed | |
| WMV-9 | Unconfirmed | |
| Real Video 1/2 | Yes | Extra Decoders Support |
| Real Video 3/4 | Yes | Extra Decoders Support |
| D4 | Unconfirmed | |
| Cinepak | Unconfirmed | |
| Dirac / VC-2 | Unconfirmed | |
| MJPEG (A/B) | Unconfirmed | |
| VC-1 | Unconfirmed | |
| Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime) | Unconfirmed | |
| DV (Digital Video) | Unconfirmed | |
| On2 VP3/VP5/VP6 | Unconfirmed | |
| Indeo Video v3 (IV32) | Unconfirmed | |
| Indeo Video 4/5 (IV41, IV51) | Unconfirmed |
Audio Formats
| Audio Codec | Supported (Yes/No/Unconfirmed) | Additional Software [1] |
|---|---|---|
| MPEG Layer 1/2 | Unconfirmed | |
| MP3 - MPEG Layer 3 | Yes | |
| AAC - MPEG-4 part3 | Yes | |
| Vorbis | Yes | OGG Support |
| AC3 - A/52 (Dolby Digital) | Yes | Extra Decoders Support |
| E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus) 3 | Unconfirmed | |
| Araw | Yes | |
| WMA 1/2 | Unconfirmed | |
| WMA 3 | Unconfirmed | |
| FLAC | Yes | OGG Support |
| Real Audio 2 | Unconfirmed | Extra Decoders Support |
| MIDI | Unconfirmed | |
| MLP / TrueHD 3 | Unconfirmed | |
| QDM2/QDMC (QuickTime) | Unconfirmed | |
| Speex | Unconfirmed | |
| DTS | Unconfirmed | |
| Musepack / MPC | Unconfirmed | |
| ALAC | Unconfirmed | |
| ATRAC 3 | Unconfirmed | |
| Wavpack | Unconfirmed | |
| Mod (.s3m, .it, .mod) | Unconfirmed | |
| TrueAudio (TTA) | Unconfirmed | |
| APE (Monkey Audio) | Unconfirmed | |
| Alaw/µlaw | Unconfirmed | |
| AMR (3GPP) | Unconfirmed | |
| LPCM | Unconfirmed | |
| ADPCM | Unconfirmed | |
| QCELP | Unconfirmed | |
| DV Audio | Unconfirmed | |
| MACE | Unconfirmed |
Further information
Adapted from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html
Adding third-party media support
Matroska files require: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good-extra Matroska files also require to be run on terminal as root:
/usr/bin/tracker-register-mimetype -c Videos -a video/x-matroska
Flv files require: gstreamer0.10-flv
To play VP6 inside flv or any format not supported (but supported by mplayer/vlc) by the media player, you need to install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg.
External subtitles cannot be played by the media player, this requires a new media player but that can be based on GStreamer. This would require the subparse element from gst-plugins-base compiled for the device. ( http://maemo.org/packages/view/mafw-gst-subtitles-applet/ ? )
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Please do not update 'Additional Software' if its only available in extras-testing or extras-devel