video/audio on nokia 6300

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:15 am

Ok, i know this doesnt belong on this site at all, but before i go register on alot of weird forums to get help, i tought i would ask here first.

I am the proud owner of a brand new nokia 6300. I would like to test some video on it, but its not exactly my area od expertise.

The manual this list of compatiple formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, H.263 og H.264 and where to go from there i really dont know. I was going to use virtualdub to resize the videos, but without know which codecs and stuff i can use, its really hard. All i really know is that my screen resolution is 240*320.

So if you know something about this subjec, please give me a hint or two.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:50 am

MP4 probably refers to the MPEG-4 "container format", and according to Wikipedia, several video codecs can be used - H.264 being the most common.

There is an open source encoder and decoder available it seems:
http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html --Encoder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libavcodec --Decoder.

I think other formats can be used as well... you should try reading a few Wikipedia articles or searching Google.

Good luck.

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:14 pm

If you want a legal alternative, (Considering you're in a place that recognizes software patents.) Adobe Premiere Elements isn't half bad, supports many formats, and is only around $100.

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:00 am

i found that videora does a ok job, using h.264 and aac. It is ment to be used with ipods and iphones though, but who cares?

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:56 pm

Why use a commercial program when you have so much free alternatives?

For converting formats, I use SUPER:
http://www.stahuj.centrum.cz/multimedia ... ]=built+22

It can, of course, resize the video, set the screen ratio (16:9, 4:3), and it supports many file formats (3GP, MOV, AVI, AMR, MPEG, etc) and much more.

Regards
inflater

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:25 pm

inflater wrote:Why use a commercial program when you have so much free alternatives?

Because after days of searching videora was the thing i could find which wasnt a complete failure.
Anyway, ill check it out.

Thanks

Oh, and videora converted files didnt work on my phone i found out.