Video Converters Compared

By jake61

There are many ways to get video onto your E61 or E62, here they are:

DivX Mobile (DivX player for E61 if you don’t like RealPlayer and 3gp file format) MyMobileClips (an online video converter)

TMPGEnc 4.0 (according to Techmundo.org somewhat better than Super because it uses DivX player instead of the standard RealPlayer)

SmartMovie (known from older versions of S60)

And finally perhaps the most talked about SUPER (Daniel at e61life.com prefers this versus DivX)

Later I will compare the different ways and tell you My favorite but for now you can tell us your favorite by posting it in the comments.

14 Responses to “Video Converters Compared”

  1. Daniel Says:

    Looking forward to read a big review on your blog.

  2. kXe Says:

    I use ffmpeg:
    mp4 in 3gp container
    189kbs
    aac audio

    ffmpeg -i /input.avi -y -threads 2 -map 0.0:0.0 -f 3gp -vcodec mpeg4 -b 189 -aspect 16:9 -s 320×176 -r 15 -g 12 -me epzs -acodec aac -ab 64 -ar 11025 -ac 2 -map 0.1:0.1 -benchmark /output.3gp

    until ffmpegx http://ffmpegx.com/ has an mp4 in 3gp container option, then i won’t have to bother with the cli anymore

    Plays perfect in realplayer btw

    Maurice

  3. Enrico Says:

    kXe: I’m using darwinports ffmpeg version SVN-r6399.
    I get several errors:
    Unknown codec ‘aac’
    Unsupported codec for output stream #0.1
    Which ffmpeg are you using?

  4. Michael Says:

    smartmovie is a very good choice for those that do not want to learn dozens of settings

    I also like to support the author, he is on the front with native apps for S60V3.

    Regards, Michael

  5. jake61 Says:

    Thanks Michael, I’ve added smartmovie to the list of video apps

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  7. Victor Says:

    In my humble opinion Makayama’s Media Studio for Nokia is the best video converter for the E61. And the only one that can go straight from DVD to Nokia. http://www.makayama.com/dvdtonokia.html

  8. jake61 Says:

    Thanks Victor for telling us about Makayama’s Media Studio, I’ll try the demo and report back asap…

  9. Zwiggles Says:

    Does anyone know if there is a Mac video converter? Any help would be wicked! Rob

  10. Pete Says:

    Does anyone know whether you can create chapters with 3GP?
    My problem is that if I create a movie and need to stop playback, I can’t skip through the movie to my last location when I resume (with RealPlayer anyway).

    Cheers,

  11. jake61 Says:

    My tip Pete is use DivXPlayer there it has cool-fast forwarding (try it out – you’ll see)

  12. jake61 Says:

    Zwiggles : there is a Mac converter – I think its http://www.ffmpegx.com

  13. moe hamdan Says:

    i like the super converter can anyone tell me how to raise the output volume if its in avi.xvid format
    thx

  14. unsupendusa Says:

    Eh.. I recognize your interest in my rainy stress Wanna joke?) When do you need to oil a mouse? When it squeaks.

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