n80 video playback!!

You need to use one of the following codecs:
MPEG-4 VSP or MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)

Audio stream can be:
AMR-NB, AMR-WB, RealAudio 7,8, 10, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+

Using ACC and H.264 results in me being able to hear the audio but its a black screen when played.

Make sure you use version 1.2 of H.264 not 1.3.

See http://blogs.s60.com/s60multimedia/2006/04/how_to_convert_ipod_video_for.html

Suprised and saddened to see that there are no freeware DivX players for Symbian phones, or at least none that I could find. All my DivX movies coded for my smartphone will be consigned to the bin and Pocket DivX Encoder is an ace freeware encoder for making them!

Nokia do their own free tool:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/0,,034-63,00.html

You'll need to register on the forums.

SmartMovie is out now for S60 3rd edition, that's probably worth getting if you're planning on watching movies on your phone.

Best tool I've found is ImTOO 3GP Video Converter. It allows conversion to 3GPv2 which allows you to have decent bitrates. Also converts from the Google Video downloadable format (PSP and iPOD) so there's tons of free vids out there!

So far I have found "SUPER" very useful for encoding video for use on my N80. http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html its a free download and works very well.
The setting I use are:
Output container = MP4
Output Video Codec = H.263
Output Audio Codec = AAC

Set the video size to a max of 352X288 and bitrate between 512 and 1200, then every thing will work fine. Only problem I have is that there is no thumbnail shown on the N80 just a generic icon, but other than that it works great...

This might sound like a stupid question.. but whenever I create a video to play on my n80, the video always plays on its side. When looking at the portrait screen, the video is turned 90 degrees and therefore the top quarter and bottom quarter is black.

How can I get the phone to play a video (created with the right dimenions in mind) using the entire portrate size of the screen, up right ? I can not figure it out.

Anyone know ? Id be amazed if you couldnt play videos full screen in portraite.

I found yasa 3gp video converter. It works great on convert videos to 3gp.
http://www.yasasoft.com/3gpvideoconverter/

For Mac users, the free MPEG Streamclip http://www.squared5.com/ works great to convert movies.

ravin3d wrote:So far I have found "SUPER" very useful for encoding video for use on my N80. http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html its a free download and works very well.
The setting I use are:
Output container = MP4
Output Video Codec = H.263
Output Audio Codec = AAC

Set the video size to a max of 352X288 and bitrate between 512 and 1200, then every thing will work fine. Only problem I have is that there is no thumbnail shown on the N80 just a generic icon, but other than that it works great...

This sounded great, so I downloaded and had a go - I'm probably being really thick but after it's converted the file, where does it go? I can't seem to see where it goes to.... :con?

Any help would be appreciated. EDIT - Found them now in Programmes, eRightSoft, SUPER, Output folder. You guys are too slow < grins >

Dayzzeeeee

Hi,

Settings which worked for me :
http://www.multimedia-architects.ch/downloads/superSettings.JPG

BTW, output file is there : C:\Program Files\eRightSoft\SUPER\OutPut

ImTOO 3GP Video Converter. its a great tool.

Sevv wrote:This might sound like a stupid question.. but whenever I create a video to play on my n80, the video always plays on its side. When looking at the portrait screen, the video is turned 90 degrees and therefore the top quarter and bottom quarter is black.

How can I get the phone to play a video (created with the right dimenions in mind) using the entire portrate size of the screen, up right ? I can not figure it out.

Stop the video and press the upper left button and choose "full screen" in the menu - or simply press "2" on the numeric keyboard! - and then your videos will play full screen in portrait mode 416 x 352. Very nice.