[AndyCR512]

I get the best results with MP4 container, H.264 encoding, 640-width video (widescreen), and about 700KBPS. At those settings, video is pretty much smooth for me in WMP, with occasional lagginess. I'm really not very happy with how these devices do with video, but there is a price to pay for the screen resolution being what it is. Those who say the Omnia does a much better job at video fail to remember that we're talking 96,000 pixels vs 307,200. If you encode video at low resolution or play it at low resolution, it's far smoother.

I believe the video drivers are the bottleneck here, however. If there were a player which used OpenGL for rendering, I have a feeling video would be perfectly fine on these devices.

As it stands, I can get 640x480 xVid at 1.1Mbits to bench at almost 90% in TCPMP (DirectDraw with ATI Driver), so it's at least decent.