Converting videos to play on G1

[living_sword]

By default, G1 supports only MP4 and 3GP formats. There are several video converter you could use, I recommend Any Video Converter- Free version (http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/) (Windows). Below are the recommended settings,

http://www.modmygphone.com/wiki/images/0/0a/Videosett.png

[Lukster]

Thanks for the settings and .exe , havent tried that one..

I also would recommend the all in 1 and free SUPER © . here:http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

[Manup456]

Both those formats suck my mings .rm format looks way better than those i have a bunch of 3gp an mp4 an the video quality sucks we need something better than this. The G1 is way to advanced to have week video.

[living_sword]

Both those formats suck my mings .rm format looks way better than those i have a bunch of 3gp an mp4 an the video quality sucks we need something better than this. The G1 is way to advanced to have week video.

I've been playing around with WMV videos for a while now. You can play WMV if you keep the video bitrate below 300 kbps.

[Manup456]

Oh yeah sounds good ill try that thanks,hey you have any movies you want to share?

[living_sword]

Oh yeah sounds good ill try that thanks,hey you have any movies you want to share?

movies as in links to the files ? those are not allowed here :)

[Manup456]

No by email lol....;);)

[marysvillemojo]

It seemed to look fine with these settings... although the file size turned out quite large http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j206/MarysvilleMojo/settingsG1.jpg

[living_sword]

keep the videos at 480x320 and video bitrate below 600.

[ZERO COOL]

Great information guys ..Thanks.

[superg05]

yes thats what i do use the iphone conversion setting would upload the application but dont know if its allowed moderator?

[jamarco]

I have a gphone, however, it seems very hard to watch video on it. Does someone knows how this new technology plays a video using the modmyGphone software?

[jamarco]

what do you mean by preferring yahoo?

[Manup456]

O.k i used the program in post one an used all those settings provided,but the movie plays an the words play much faster than the movie?

[marysvillemojo]

before converting the movie right click it and go to properties... check the frame rate. sometimes its better not to change that while converting... try re-converting it with its original frame rate

[blkg1]

Hey guys
not to hijack this thread but I'm new and wasn't even sure if its ok to ask about this on the forum or not but... I have a bunch of protected video that I have bought over the Zune marketplace and would like to obviously get it on my g1 wmv but protected. Is there a protected video converter you guys recommend? If not, can i just change the bit rate down to 300? Still learning so have mercy if doing something wrong haha:D

[TomasPistola]

I'm using VideoFab to convert my exisiting video files and DVDFab to convert my DVD's both have worked really well. I've got a version of Dark Knight that plays flawlessley.

[blkg1]

Hey thanks man I will give it a shot still havnt seen dark night! Need to get around to watchin it

[TomasPistola]

Hey thanks man I will give it a shot still havnt seen dark night! Need to get around to watchin it


It's a badass movie for sure.

If you use that software, use the iphone profile and it'll do fine.

[blkg1]

Will do bud thanks again I will let ya know how it went when I get around to trying to make it work

[blkg1]

I tried using videofab and used the ipod/iphone file conversion to mp4 but the video and sound came out messed up and garbled. Is that a problem with my computer or maybe because my wmv files im trying to convert to mp4 for g1 are protected with drm?

[TomasPistola]

DRM could cause it. I haven't had any garbled audio on the 30 or so files I've encoded.

[blkg1]

Im just not sure what to do... WMV drm must be hard to remove most video converters i have tried havnt worked even ones that are labeled as "protected" video converters. As i said before my videos im trying to convert are from the ZUNE Marketplace... should i start buying my videos from itunes instead are those easier to convert to MP4 possibly?:confused: