Oren tries to clear up the which API works with which codecs question

Some of the most common questions we hear from S60 multimedia developers concern the differences in multimedia support among different S60 devices. Because the multimedia feature set in a given device depends in large part on the device hardware, different devices may support different audio and video codecs. These hardware dependencies also affect the SDK; a particular API may only work with a subset of the supported codecs in the device.

My colleague Florin Lohan came up with a clever way to get to the bottom of this problem, and find out more about these hardware issues for you in the developer community. He wrote a simple S60 application that lists the codecs supported in the device, and ran it on every S60 device he could find to compile a comprehensive list of devices, API’s, and codecs. You can download it and try it out on your favorite S60 device.

Read on for more info about the codecs and API’s. We plan to publish this information to Forum Nokia (NYSE: NOK) as well in the near future.

Source: S60 Multimedia Blog

Huge chart, if you’re a developer then this should be right up your alley. I can’t wait until more and more phones get a hardware accelerated UI, the Nokia N95 is going to be the first step towards the death of the traditional phone experience.