Omnia i900 Video Quality

[Guest d1mitrov]

Ok so i have the i900 and me and my friend were comparing phones the other day. He has the Sony Xperia X1. We were watching youtube videos and they looked much smoother on his phone that they did on my omnia. Now i understand the X1 has a better resolution screen. What i dont get is how come in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K76aTskEd_w...feature=related the two are compared and the picture looks exactly the same. Any thoughts??!?!

[Guest dwallersv]

Ok so i have the i900 and me and my friend were comparing phones the other day. He has the Sony Xperia X1. We were watching youtube videos and they looked much smoother on his phone that they did on my omnia. Now i understand the X1 has a better resolution screen. What i dont get is how come in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K76aTskEd_w...feature=related the two are compared and the picture looks exactly the same. Any thoughts??!?!

Much depends on the quality, resolution, codec, etc. that your YouTube player askes for from the YouTube site. I use CorePlayer as my YouTube browser and player; it has a configuration page to set the quality, resolution, and encoding it requests from the YouTube servers. Switching this from the default "FLV (Medium Bandwidth)" to "FLV (High Bandwidth)" improved quality and resolution markedly. Since CorePlayer has a good h264 codec, I changed it to "H264 (normal quality)" and it was even better, playing with no dropouts or anything. So, took it to the max and set to "H264 (720p)" and got stunning results from a quality/resolution perspective, but experienced too many dropped frames to make this usable (I need to try it in a stronger signal area), and it's overkill for a 400x240 screen anyway.

Bottom line: Quality depends on your player, and what it's asking YouTube to send it. If you can't configure this, and the quality looks poor, get a different player. I recommend CorePlayer 1.3.

The differences you're seeing between your Omnia and your friends HTC have absolutely nothing to do with the devices themselves. It's all software, baby!