Video Conversion
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Converting video that will play well on the Nokia 770 is a bit of an art.
Our conversion process right now consists of using Andrew Flagg's 770-encode Perl script.
It works quite well. The trick was getting the supporting software, namely mencoder and the various codecs, installed.
On a Mac Powerbook: Install ffmpegX along with all the trimmings. Since this installed Universal binary versions of mencoder, you also have to install the MacPorts.org version of MPlayer using
port install MPlayer +darwin_powerpc +binary_codecs
On a Ubuntu Linux system it's a matter of "feeling your way through" the installation. Start with mplayer and all the codecs you can find. Keep trying until you can successfully run the 770-encode.pl script and get something useful out.
Two examples, both from the same 77 MB Quicktime .mov file:
770-encode.pl test.mov test-002.avi
770-encode.pl --two-pass --preset=best test.mov test-005.avi
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