Would you do me a favour and see if you can play any of the videos on
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5wqxotk
please? For obvious reasons, the URL is censored by phpBB even though it is valid Japanese.
For reference, these are encoded with a quantizer of 23, for Japanese Drama the resolution is 640x352 and for anime I resized the videos to 848x480.
My friend's Nokia N900 (ARM Cortex A8, 600MHz) was unable to play any of those smoothly. Then again, I don't know if he had Flash 10.1 or not, which supposedly adds hardware acceleration even for smartphones. Since I don't even have the moolah for a proper Snapdragon/Tegra 2 handset, I settled for a ARMv6 phone instead (LG Optimus One), which can't handle Flash but your data would be useful if I wanted to upgrade in the future.
Thanks in advance.