video playing error
 

Hi guys i need your help, i have n9 16gb pr 1.2. Problem is my wife took a video of my daughter from her nokia e6 , and transfered it to my n9 through Bluetooth, but when i played it on n9 it only played for 2 seconds , and then an error appears on screen saying
' you cant play these types of file on this device '
i checked it for some more videos,and format is MP4 but no use. Can anyone help.
thanks

Re: video playing error
 

some symbian based phone videos are not compatible with Harmattan, codec missmatch, so your out of luck. You need to re-encode them in a PC to supported codec-format before they play in N9.

Re: video playing error
 

its for the CODEC not for the container, i dont know which codec uses E6 but its for sure, it is one not supported by N9, sorry i know its a shame

Re: video playing error
 

I mean that E6 shoots 720p in medium or high profile, which is not supported by N9. You need to re-encode 720p to 480p baseprofile, and then it should play fine even on .mp4 files. (medium and high profiles will not play even on 480p).

Re: video playing error
 

thanks to both for this info. Can you help me how i can re-code on pc. Which software can do that?

Re: video playing error
 

^You may have heard about vlc, ffmpeg or mencoder... There is also many Windows-based software for re-encode. Maybe Handbrake?

Re: video playing error
 

I use ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i movie.mp4 -s 854x480 -vcodec libx264 -b 4096k -profile baseline -acodec copy -threads 0 out.mp4