Nokia video converter
 

I am using the nokia video converter to convert .avi files to use on my noia. They work fine until about haqlfway through and the file just stops on every video I convert, any idea why this is happening?

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Not sure, do you have a different video you can try converting the videos on? If it still doesn't work its obviously a bug and should be reported, the software is still beta.

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I have tried converting 5 videos and each of them say they converted fine. I noticed the size of each is much smaller than the original. Is that what it is supossed to be? IS there any type of settings I can change?

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BTW, I learned the hard way that you can use any converter to convert a video -- just make sure it uses 24 FPS.

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Ok, I just realized it is exactly the half way point of EVERY video where the video just stops on my nokia.

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I have some problems using Nokia's Video Converter encoder, and have since switched to this one:

http://xoomer.alice.it/sepaolo/n800vc/

Nokia's Video Converter seems to fall apart on every 3rd video. no idea why, but I've had good results with the software I am using now and see no reason to go back, unless Nokia's sofware offers better quality with smaller filesizes

Hope this helps

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Ghoonk,

Does this work well with the new OS2008?

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Ghoonk,

I just tried it and it worked without my other problem. Can you tell me what setting you used. What FPS?

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I have read several reports about the Video Converter producing videos that stop halfway, but we have been unable to reproduce these errors. Can you please file a bug at https://bugs.maemo.org? In the bug report please provide as much data as possible about your system as well as the original video. I'd love to be able to fix this bug, but we have to be able to analyze it first.

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Vbrillon,

I just sent you an email, please let me know who to send file to and I will do so.

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My settings:

Resolution: 400x240
Auto Crop : depends on how the original video is formatted. I try all three until I find one that makes the picture look normal.
Frame Rate : 25 fps (box left unchecked, no idea what that's for)
Aspect Ratio : 15/9 (read somewhere here that this is the aspect ratio of the N800 anyway)
Bitrate : 512

Audio bitrate: 96
No resample

I only wish it was able to do a bulk conversion using drag and drop. Instead, I have to manually drop each video into the converter, and after setting the preferences correctly, click Add and repeat.

A bit of a pain when you have around 50 episode of Initial D anime to encode :P

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Ghoonk, thank you. Its working perfectly. I transferred over a bunch of my daughters tv shows and it worked perfectly

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I've encountered similar situations. A bunch of my home videos (2~3 minutes) were converted to .mp4 with the "better" settings (640kbps video, 400x240, 27 fps, 96kbps audio). They played fine on desktop PC and N810/OS2008/Media Player. However some of those .mp4 videos are having the same stopping problem on Motorola phones (krzr and rizr). I'll try the lower settings.

[edit] Just tried lower settings, same problem.

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Not to everybody: don't use .mp4, .mp4 has AAC audio which will not be decoded by the DSP. Use .avi with MP3 audio instead.

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That could be the issue - but the video converter outputs .mp4 files. Is there anyway to change that? My input files are in wmv format that produced by Windows Movie Maker.

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I have a whole bunch of short movies (BMW Films, the ones starring Clive Owen) converted from WMV format. No issues, using the N800 Video Convert 0.8.4 software. I'm not using the beta, by the way.