N900 Videos

Chippy from UMPCportal shows us the N900’s TV-out capability. He’s playing a DivX video encoded at over 4 megabits per second.

First we see the movie playing on the N900 itself, then the camera moves back to reveal the same movie playing on a 50 inch TV screen. Chippy is using the N900’s PAL output for the TV playback, although the N900 can also be switched to NTSC. Chippy describes the output as “surprisingly good” and “not embarrassing at all”.

The DivX source file is 720 x 400 pixels, at a bitrate of 4.2Mbps. The TV-out connection is composite analogue. It connects via a cable which has a 3.5mm jack at the N900 end, and three RCA plugs at the TV end (white for audio left, red for audio right and yellow for video composite).

Twaelti has prepared this video demonstrating Quake III Arena running on an N900. The Maemo port was done by omcfadde, and makes use of the internet tablet’s hardware interfaces:

• the accelerometer to move and jump
• the touchscreen to aim, and
• the proximity sensor to fire

The game looks quite playable and frame rates are good.

The video shows the game on an “old TV”, using the N900’s TV-out facility. In the video, Twaelti takes us through a few levels and sometimes holds the internet tablet in front of the TV so that we can see how it’s being played.