AMV Telephone

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:58 am

This past weekend I got a new cell phone (Sony Ericsson W810i), and I figured I'd be able to watch AMVs on it, being that it has a media player and file transferring dealie. Unfortunately, none of the videos I've tried so far have worked right. The only extension that plays at all is .mp4 (which I'd expected somewhat, though I'd assumed .mpg would work too), and those only played the audio. Guessing that the problem was they were too large, I tried resizing one to the same resolution as one of the sample videos, but still no luck.

Halp?

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:05 am

I can only say that on my Sony Ericsson K750i doesn´t work x264 and AAC+ in mp4. I don´t have an "old" mp4 on my comp so I can´t try something else.

and those only played the audio.

I guess there was AAC or lame mp3 in it.

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:31 am

No clue if it'd actually work, but perhaps you should trying using the iPod video converter, if any MP4 standard is going to be playable, I would assume that one would.

Have you tried the converter posted in Zero's thread? Any technical manual with detailed information?

NeoQuixotic · Post by **NeoQuixotic** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:15 pm

Some stuff I dug up with a Google search:

http://developer.sonyericsson.com/messa ... geID=80487
http://www.3g.co.uk/3GForum/showthread.php?t=48488
http://www.xilisoft.com/3gp-video-converter.html (I've used this before for converting videos on a Razr.)

And remember, .mp4 is just a container and can contain a variety of codecs.

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:55 pm

anubisx00 wrote:And remember, .mp4 is just a container and can contain a variety of codecs.

Right, and the mp4s I imported were x264s made using the new MP4box (PCM audio, since Bauzi mentioned it). I'm not sure what codec the videos that came with the phone use, though, so I only mentioned the container.

Orwell wrote:Any technical manual with detailed information?

All I could find in the manual about it was how to transfer files.

I'll try out the stuff you guys suggested later tonight. Thanks.

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:42 pm

Contact me in IRC sometime.

Phones usually want:
MPEG-4 SP (basically XviD without B-frames) + AAC
MPEG-4 ASP (XviD) + AAC
H.264 Baseline profile (no cabac, no bframes etc) + AAC.

I've had working videos for a 2 year old phone and my most recentl one does 320x240 H.264, so drop me a line in IRC and I'll come up with a script of some sort. I already made a few, it might just be a case of sending you those or editing them.

ZephyrStar · Post by **ZephyrStar** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:03 am

*ring*ring*ring*ring*ring*ring*ring*ring*

phone!

I should do this too, but I doubt my phone supports mp4 of any kind...It'll take videos, but they reeeally suck and use some kinda weird format (could be something simple though...I've not really played with any of it at all)

*shrug*

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 7:54 am

though it might kill some quality, getting some ipod converter is a safe bet

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:07 am

You'll probably need a 3gp video converter. The phone supports H.263 (MPEG-4 ASP) video in .3GP or .MP4 containers. Resolution should be 320 x 240 maximum, bitrate should be 340kbps or less, not sure on framerates.

Most iPod or PSP video converters should be able to do the conversion. Use MPEG-4 settings, not H.264 (AVC) to be safe. H.264 may work, though. Just use the baseline profile like Zero1 said. It should accept videos similar to what the PSP takes, since both products share certain DNA.