Category Archives: N800

MediaCoder Profile for N800 Video Encoding 9

I use MediaCoder for most of my encoding/transcoding of video for playback on my PC and other devices. The N800 has a peculiar set of parameters for it’s video – if it doesn’t match up then it either won’t play back or will be very choppy. I ended up selling the N800 but I thought I would pass this profile along to anyone who might use it. 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <MediaCoderPrefs>   <node key="overall">     <node key="generic">       <node key="autoRevert">         <value>Never</value>       </node>     </node>     <node key="ui">       <node key="optionTab">         <value>3</value>       </node>       <node key="param">         <value>1069,767,47,50</value>       </node>       <node key="noWelcome">         <value>4068</value>       </node>     </node>     <node key="task"/>    ….

Using a Wiimote from your Wii to play games on N800 1

This great post over at Internet Tablet Talk describes how to pair the Nintento Wii control (wiimote) to the Maemo OS2008 using Bluetooth. Functionality is pretty limited at the moment, but I was able to play lxdoom using the wii remote. That is pretty damn cool and opens up a lot of gaming possibilites with the N800, since a bunch of emulators have already been ported to it! Old NES games, here I come!

Installing LogMeIn Hamachi on the Nokia N800 to join your PVPN 4

In case you were wondering, I just invented the phrase PVPN – Personal Virtual Private Network. I use Hamachi to connect my work, home and laptop PCs and I’ve found it invaluable over the past few years for a number of reasons. Music over VPN, Remote Desktop/VNC over VPN, and more. So now, I’d like to join my N800 to this growing network to make easy and secure access and file transfer wherever I am connected. Fortunately the folks at Logmein have compiled a client for the N770, and this also works on OS2008 on the N800 (Let me know on the N810). This is an alternate take on the wiki article at Logmeinwiki. Note: For the commands below I will have assumed that you have already installed the openssh server so you can access the N800 via an SSH client with root access. You can also use the built….

Adding memory swap space to the N800 3

Adding swap space is pretty easy. This will add more, but slower ram; helping you when dealing with large files. In general, linux likes to have twice the amount of swap space as RAM. Since the N800 has 128M memory, I’m adding 256M. We’ll see how this perform in the long run. Before, no swap in use: 12345Nokia-N800-51-3:~# free               total         used         free       shared      buffers   Mem:       126828        87248        39580            0         1012  Swap:            0            0            0 Total:       126828        87248        39580 Performing commands to add swap file and use it….

Using 3G/UMTS/HSDPA Network with Cingular/AT&T 8525 on the Nokia N800 2

When I bought the Nokia N800 a key feature is not only the ability to surf the internet with Wifi but also to pair it with your phone via bluetooth and access the internet anywhere. have a Cingular 8525 (I guess now an AT&T 8525) which has 3G internet available, but it did not work out of the box with the N800. To begin with some definitions, there are 2 ways that you typically connect to a phone for internet. Bluetooth DUN (Dial Up Networking) and Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network). Bluetooth DUN is the “old” way to connect, and some of the updates Microsoft is pushing out to their Windows Mobile devices are disabling it. Unfortunately, this is the way that the N800 uses to connect to the internet. To fix this problem, some maemo hackers put together a package called “maemo-pan“. This package enables the ability to connect….