Playing converted videos on your S60 -- Read inside

Hi all,
I use Media Studio for Nokia 2.5.1 and whilst this was not free i think it was only about 20euros via the Club Nokia site. You can convert from DVD, Hard Disk or other it converts to 3gp which runs beautifully in Real Player and this program offers a drop down list for your phone or you can choose other if its not listed. It is simple to use no manual settings required just click and go.

Marc
 
Hello Marc,

I've used Media Studio (now 3.0) as well, and had mixed results on my 6682. I found the avi files far superior to the 3gp, but you have to use their Mobile Media Player instead of Real Player. Also, on some movies converted from DVD, the audio/video will get out of sync. I was able to find this out by playing the large converted avi file on my PC, as the player on the phone wouldn't play the file. Other products, like "Smart Movie" and "DVDPlayer" (which seems to share the same code as Mobile Media Player) would play the file however. But it would require buying another license. So overall on shorter clips, the product worked well. Curious on your experiences

Tony
 
Hi Tony
I have at the moment Kill Bill 1 and Alien v Predator both of which have many dark scenes as well as fast action and have had no sync problems or any problems for that matter. The reason i prefer 3gp is the fact that they run in Real Player without having to install another media player. Although possibly the fact i am running them on a N93 may be a factor as this has a fast processor plus a separate 3d Graphics accelerator chip. I also have some shorter videos that were shot with a Sony T3 and these although being much shorter also converted well.

Marc
 
are you using the latest version? mysh updates all the time.. but was away the last month or so.... is the audio just for music? or is it the video?
 
i use this setting 4 videos in super converter:


1. Select the output container
select mp4

2. Select the output video codec
select MPEG-4

3. Select the output audio codec
select AAC

4. Set video parameters
Video scale size: 352 x 288
Frame/sec: 15 (or lower, exactly half of the original's rate is best choice)
Bitrate: 336 is safe, don't go over 384

5. Set audio parameters
The best option would be not to change anything, but SUPER doesn't have the option to just pass through. Double-click on your original file, and check bit rate and sampling rate from 'audio #0' box. Or you can put my safe settings:
Sampling freq: 44100
Channels: 2
Bitrate: 64

this is a very good setting, however there is a bit of hushing noise in the background do u know how to reduce it?which setting do i change?
 
The free tools used by SUPER ought to work on a Mac, if you can either find a copy built for that architecture or compile them yourself.

Buying QT Pro is by far the easiest way to go, though. I use it on my PC to make videos whenever the source is in a format it can read, and to hint them for streaming after encoding them in other tools when the source is something it can't read. It's not like it's extraordinarily expensive. If anything, it's cheap for what you get.

Toaster: 3gp isn't bad, as long as the bitrates and resolutions are appropriately high. h.264 (mp4) is obviously better, but 3gp will play on far more devices. What really sucks are phones that only support AMR-NB audio at 8k in the video player.
 
Frame rate as well as video bit rate may be the factor in the issues you bring up. Don’t be scared to play with the settings and find the ones that mean your needs

Here is a copy of the Borat trailer. But keep in mind no matter what video you encode quality varies depending on the settings you use. In direct correlation the better the quality the bigger the size so you need to find your sweet spot as I call it

http://rapidshare.de/files/27371872/Borat.3GP.html
 
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