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Originally Posted by aludal
To brecklundin:
-- do you know how good or bad Nokia N95 or N99 is with streaming video/TV?
Well, in any case it looks like one might better wait for 9" Kindle 2.0 (with colour touch (O)LED, more horsepower for video/graphics stylus input, to hack it into, or just upgrade it into an art panel/book commenting/authoring/co-operating tool/cell phone/personal TV/video player/EVDO modem for laptop/GPS, or all above and whatnot
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Sorry I have zero experience with the N95 or N99. The issue might be different as those are actually smart phones vs. the N8x0 devices are classed as internet tablets.
My solution for the whole thing is I am going to buy myself a present because I am doing all my remodeling of the house myself this summer. So with part of the cash I will save, apart for the need for a couple extra buckets of Vicodin as a result of all the home, ummm, improvements, but I am gonna get a TabletKiosk Sahara i440D Slate PC. It's everything I have been wanting. I will likely have the sell blood and possiably a lung and a kidney. But by the gawds I am gonna own one by the end of June. I am ordering next week.
Then I will have my N800, my laptops as well as the Sahara Slate. weeeeeeeee....
Sorry I could not offer any help on the video for your devices though. Have you visited the Nokia Users site thought? There might be some tools there where you can either view streams and/or re-encode captured or ripped video to a format your device can play. I am unsure if they can play either Amazon Unboxed or iTunes but it would seem to make sense they could.
There might be a copy of mplayer for the N9x devices. And if it has the correct codecs at least the potential to play video is there. I might add ( forget what I previously mentioned and am too lazy to re-read it all...hehehehe...forgive me for being a lazy, lazy guy...) but the reason the N8x0 devices have probs is due to the encoding settings for most video streams. I am sure I mentioned it's simply fussy and needs a format at about 400x200 @ 24fps. And there is a great tool from Nokia to convert videos in a batch to run on your device.
Anyway, in case you dint know it exists here is a link to the offical Nokia site with software (free of course) for your devices:
http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=...ations,landing
I am not sure if there is a site similar to the
http://garage.maemo.org which is the Nokia supported site for those developing applications for the internet tablets running ITOS2008.
One day, maybe before I get run over by that bus with my name on it, we'll see common sense video streaming where the servers can re-encode for your device on the fly. It WILL happen. I actually see Amazon looking to create so way to stream video to their own device...or not. But somehow I feel that is a few decades out...hehehehehe....