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Originally Posted by paww
none of them are 'powerful' enough to handle 'full resolution' video files
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I'm not sure it is an application issue but rather a hardware issue.
Nowhere in the specsheets for the IQ or *any* of the comparable webpads is there mention of graphics acceleration hardware which means that there likely isn't any.
(A couple of the players do have a setting to choose betweem "hardware decoding" and software decoding but I have yet to see it make a difference. On MP4 or any other format.)
From my experience with PDAs I know that 340p video is the most that can be reliably be played and decoded with a 533MHz ARM processor and even that is going to depend on the codec. Codecs that are aggressive in compressing the video will tax the hardware more than MPEG2 will, for example.
That you can get fairly decent video out of the IQ is witnessed by the Youtube app but that requires content formatted at fairly low resolution even for Youtube's "HD" mode. Where he Youtube apps clearly shines is in *scaling* that low-res video to full-screen mode without trashing the frame rate.
Until somebody can prove otherwise, I would temper my expectations for video playback on the IQ. Youtube's "high-res" web video may very well be its upper limit. Which is no handicap for a webpad with no pretensions of being a *media* pad.