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I found this very useful program called Media Converter 2, that is very useful to convert videos for to play on the N810.

I converted Cromartie High School for the trip I’m going on this morning. I used N810 High settings, 2 passes and audio gain.

Before I started encoding I needed to extract the subtitles from the MKV files, cause the program doesn’t include them automatically unless they are in the folder where your source file is and are called the same as the source, just with the extension .srt. I extracted the subs with mkvextractgui which is a very nice little application, for extracting video, subtitles and audio from MKV files.

The end result is pretty good, playable in Canola2, I don’t complain and I’m going to laugh so much in the train.

I read the thread on Internettablettalk.com, on how to make some minor tweaks to the N810, which have seemed to help a bit on the sluggishness when running a lot of programs on it. Though not much. The browser also got a little bit snappier and that is about it.

You can try out the settings yourself, though I’m not taking any responsibility if you screw anything up.

First close your microB browser and start editing this file: /home/user/.mozzila/microb/prefs.js
scroll down till you find this line:

user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 8192);

Edit it so it looks just like it. It increases the browser cache from two to eight megabytes.
Then add the following lines to the bottom of the file:

user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay",2000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 1250000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 1000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 4);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 4);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 1);

EDIT:
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 2);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 1);
These settings should be better according to brontide, since 4 connections swamps the device.

This should help a bit on the browser being a little slow.

If you do not use the media player that comes with the N810 and use Canola or something like that you can disable the service that autodetects media for the built-in media player:

mv /etc/rc2.d/S99metalayer-crawler0 /etc/rc2.d/D99metalayer-crawler0

This can only be done by having root access.

Next up is adding some swap to your tablet.

Go to control panel > memory > virtual memory and add some memory there.

Now we have swap set up. The only thing we need to do now is making some kernel tweaks, and then we are done.

Download this sysctl file and place it in /etc/init.d/

chmod 755 sysctl

ln -s /etc/init.d/sysctl /etc/rc2.d/S99sysctl

Last step is to apply settings to /etc/sysctl.conf

Here is my file: sysctl.conf

This should help a little on your responsiveness on your N810 and in the browser.

All credits should go to brontide that made this thread on the InternettabletTalk forum.

YAY, finally got my N810, there wasn’t any problems receiving or what so ever. I just went to nokia’s homepage, ordered it, payed and then a package came with UPS. Now I’m messing around with it, and already feel like its going to be a nice companion. The next thing I’m waiting for is a 8 GB microSD card for it, so i can store some stuff in the N810, even though it has 2 GB of space available already.

So the Nokia N810 Internet tablet has been out for some months various places on earth, but it hasn’t been released officially in Denmark. I decided to get me one of these Internet tablets, which I ordered from Nokia direct, where you can get it for approximate €490 with freight included in the price, which is pretty common for this device. I could have gotten it from a Danish retailer, for about 200DKK more, so I decided to get it directly from Nokia, and save the 200DKK for a 8 GB microSD card.

Now I’m looking forward to get the device, It should be able to view flash 9 objects with its Mozilla based browser, which means I would be able to watch videos from youtube, and other similar sites. But also play ScummWM games, and do other cool stuff, such as navigate through the GPS, listen to music, remote control my server and instant message with my friends. All this comes in a nice small package with a pretty big screen, and built in 2GB space. I’m so excited and can’t wait for it to arrive.

For those who don’t know what a Nokia N810 is you can go to Nokia’s webpage and see for your self.