Hello Gents (and others :P)

Guys i just received a birthday present from my wife (an N96) and having completed the necessary 4 week study course, have started trying to use the thing.

Have been playing around all evening trying to convert video to play on the phone and it supposedly accepts the following:

MPEG-4 Part 2 (H.263/SP), up to VGA 30 fps, hardware-accelerated codec, scaled to max QVGA on device screen, or max SDTV on TV-out
MPEG-4 Part 10 (H.264/AVC), up to VGA 30 fps, hardware-accelerated codec, scaled to max QVGA on device screen, or SDTV on TV-out
Windows Media Video (WMV9), up to CIF/QVGA 30 fps, hardware-accelerated codec, scaled to max QVGA on device screen, or SDTV on TV-out
RealVideo QCIF at 30 fps
Flash video support in browser
DRM support: OMA DRM 1, OMA DRM 2, WM DRM


Well i have tried the first 2, and im now up to number 3 (WMV9)!
First two were jerky or didnt work at all, but i already have 1 wmv9 file that plays well, so i figure i would try and find a good converter (Free preferred) to test some other files with

Any recommendations on a good mpg etc to WMV9 video converter?

Thanks

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Handbrake / Visualdub / Visualhub should do it.

If the n96 is anything like the n95, which I assume it is, just get the divx player and load it, its free from the divx site.

got that loaded on my wifes n95, I just convert the videos to 320x200 (or something close to that) and they all look and play awesome.

H.264 was jerky? The iPhone decoder/OpenGL output must be pretty decent cause .MP4s are silky smooth.

xvid4psp is an awesome program btw.

I use vlc and this to batch convert a dir full of mpegs to play on the 360 (before it got other codec support)

for %%a in (*.mpg) do cmd /c ""C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -vvv "%%a" :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV1,vb=2600,width=1024,height=576,acodec=wma,ab=96,channels=2,samplerate=44100,deinterlace,scale=1,threads=2}:std{access=file,mux=asf,dst="%%a".wmv} vlc://quit"

The supported MPEG specs sound identical to the iPod/iPhone; find an ipod converter and give it a whirl.

If its jerky the bitrate is too high

Any recommendations on a good mpg etc to WMV9 video converter?

Here's what I usually do:

* For MPEG source content, use VirtualDubMod to extract them to some Windows format (I usually use Xvid, but obviously you need to have xvid codec installed)
* For .mov/.mp4 source content, use RadGameTools to extract them to .avi
* Use windows media encoder to encode them to WMV9. The WMEncoder is one of MS'es best free tools ever.