Nokia Video Manager - copy and transcode videos
Published by Rafe Blandford at 11:08 BST, April 12th 2007
Nokia has released Nokia Video Manager for Windows PC. The software helps you copy videos to your phone and transcodes them on the fly (converts them to an optimal format). Nokia Video Manager supports conversion from avi, mpeg, wmv and mov (DivX, XVid, MPEG-2 and Quicktime codecs) to mp4 (H.264). As such it is only compatible with devices that can play back the H.264 format.
Current S60 phones that are capable of playing H.264 are the the N75, N76, N80, and N93 (unconfirmed - some may require a firmware update) [Update: support for H.264 does not seem to guarantee playback, see the comment thread] and all S60 3rd Editions Feature Pack 1 phone - N95, Nokia 6290, Nokia 6110 and Nokia 5700. Officially only the 6290, 6110 and 5700 are supported, but that may be because the tool comes from the Mobile Phone rather than the Multimedia group.
H.264 is a good format to use because it is noted for achieving high data compression rates - this means it will result in smaller video files than other formats at the same quality level. It is the same format used in videos for Apple's iTunes service.
Video Manager can detect a connected Nokia phone and will allow you to directly copy videos to your device. If necessary it will transcode (change the format) the video for optimal playback on the device. You can also covert videos without a phone being connected and store them on your PC ready to copy them to your phone. The software can also play back videos so you can view your videos before they are copied to the phone.
The software will automatically scan a given set of folder for video files which are then listed in the main view. These can copy and converted to either the phone (if connected) or the PC. There are three level of video quality (low, medium and high) which can be set in the settings of the application.
The 'My collection' view shows you videos you have converted and copied to your PC and (of connected) any videos stored on your phone. You can use the application to copy videos back to your PC and manage videos already on your phone.
Nokia Video Manager is easy to use and greatly simplifies the process of getting your own video onto your phone.
Nokia Video Manager can be downloaded from the Nokia website.
Thanks to Jukka at the S60 Multimedia Blog for the tip off.
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Platforms: S60 3rd Edition
News Discussion
Orophin Anwarunya
I have to say, this is a class act from Nokia. Greatly simplifies things and i don't need to jump between M3 and Super for my video conversion needs. I really was wondering when they would release an update for the very dated Nokia Media Converter.
Good job.
Rafe
Yeah I'm impressed too. You will get better result if you tinker yourself, but this does a good job and the integration with the phone / PC suite is nice as it makes getting the video on to the phone dead simple.
DoS
I don't see N73 as being compatible. All my videos come out in the phone as audio only.
Rafe
I haven't tried it out on an N73. As mentioned you do need support for H.264 which I am fairly sure the N73 did not have at launch.
However Forum Nokia
tables suggest it does now, so a firmware update might help.
DoS
The Nokia Tables indeed say that N73 has H.264, however I have the latest FW for MusicEdition (which is the latest of all N73 versions, V 3.0705.1.0.31) and still nothing. Maybe only vanilla N73 FW has support for H.264 ? Can anyone that uses vanilla FW N73 could test that?
All I get in mine is the sound of the video.
Unregistered
I tried it on E61 and RealPlayer only played the audion, not the video of the mp4 clip.
xerxes
I'm on generic N73 firmware (3.0704.1.0.1) and I'm getting audio only too.
When I try to play a converted video in Realplayer it first gives an "unable to play clip" message then says "attempting to play each separately", then just plays the audio.
Unregistered
I converted 2 files. The third ... and every subsequent attempt to convert result in a progress bar that never progresses, and no video conversion. Reboots etc made no different.
As with other comments, my E62 plays Audio, but no video.
krisse
"I really was wondering when they would release an update for the very dated Nokia Media Converter."
Totally agree. Thank goodness they have done so.
jukkaeklund
N73 has H.264. Just guessing: some parameters (bitrate, FPS etc.) might be optimized for the officially compatible products and thus RealPlayer gives the error message. The message is always the same regardless of the actual error (missing codec, wrong parameters, ..)
RichardL
On my N95, Super seems to produce a lot better video quality (I set it to 320x240 25fps 500kbps video), as Nokia Video Manager only has 3 settings, low/medium/high quality. And high quality was only 15fps and low resolution.
Although I did not have my N95 connected to the PC at the time, so I don't know if it automatically adjusts when it detects different phones.
sjhong
My conversions to My Collection folder always fail and I get a "An unknown error occurred. Check log file for more information." message.
Any help?
Unregistered
Videos created with this app seems to play well also on N93.
Unregistered
im getting no video on my N95, only audio.
Unregistered
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Unregistered
I used this program to convert a XviD, avi file and I got a very funny upside down mirror effect, the image was upside down, and it was as if u where locking in a mirror... so it diden't realy worck for me... XD
PS: I have an nokia N95
Zorroson
And no-one seem to have a resolution for that. Also I could not choose "High Quality" which results in just 15fps :-( I have a 2GB memorycard, with 1˝GB available - so that should'nt be an issue. Also newest firmware 12.0.0.13.....
Unregistered
Looks like this piece of new software is hopeless. No-one knows for sure which handsets support H264. Oh well - back to a Windows device with the bombproof TCPMP for me!
Unregistered
Tried uploading mov files to my new N95 8GB but couldn't see anthing only the Audio is heard.
Any suggestions?
cricfancy
Hi All,
Related to your above posts, when i tried to open any .mov file in Video manager, it plays it in a strange manner.....after sometimes, the application hangs itself and makes my screen white in the background where the video file was played.........Any clues :con?
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Video manager works gr8 for small files (music vids n stuff) but flips the video vertically while converting full length movies.... so all the stuff appears as mirror image....
any codec issues here? pls advise
Unregistered
hi guys i love cartoons so i used the video mnger to convert some cartoons to watch on my nokia n95. it works just fine but then after 35-40mins the pic will freeze or go white and the audio will continue. any answers pls email me at
imranuddin4@sbcglobal.net
thanx
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