Transcoding shows to a Motorola A920 (MPEG4) phone

[srigby]

Hi Guys,

I picked up a Motorola A920 3G phone here in Australia a little while ago and I want to be able to transcode shows and stick them on an SD memory card to watch later (supports upto 256Mb).

This is similar what the IPAQ guys do, except I need MPEG4 not WMV.

PVS seems to support two types of MPEG4 video, but only WMV audio. I'm pretty sure I've got the appropriate MPEG audio codec on my PC - is PVS stopping me from using it?

The video player in the phone supports bit rates upto 256K.

Anyone transcode to an MPEG audio soundtrack?

[srigby]

OK, so maybe the subject threw you off.

All I want to know though is whether it's possible to have MP3 as an audio option for a transcoding profile. The only options available to me at the moment are all Windows Media.

Thanks...

[RobertH]

even if you could get the mp3 encoder as the audio format I doubt the phone would play the resulting file back unless it knew how to parse the wmv file to get to the video/audio streams

wmv is not the default format for distrubiting mpg4 data, there are several (qt, mp4, avi, wmv) and all of them are different stream ecapsulation formats

[srigby]

If you go back and re-read my original post, I mention that it supports the MPEG4 format - not WMV. I only mentioned WMV because that's what all the PocketPCs use.

PVS seems to support MPEG4 Video, so I'm half way there. The problem is the audio. MPEG3 might work, but it appears MPEG4 AAC Audio is what I really should be using.

Anyone know anything about that?

Appreciate the reply

[soul assassin]

hi
ive been using a nec 808 3g phone here in uk

ive been using the nokia multimedia converter to make .3gp clips, which are compatable with both phones (i believe)

also i have used a program called mpegable to create .mp4 files

hope this helps

[srigby]

Hi, and thanks for the reply.

Ideally what I was looking for was support from within PVS so that it could automagically transcode the recording and I could just download the resulting file into my phone.

But I'll definately try what you suggested.

Is the A920 out in the UK already? Should be. It's a great phone.

[soul assassin]

Originally posted by srigby

Is the A920 out in the UK already? Should be. It's a great phone.

yes the a920 came out here earlier this month, sure does look impressive

unfortunately i brought the 808 a month earlier, only 64mb memory and no expansion slot, it was the best specced phone at the time (the previous motorola had expansion slot but was unable to video call) so me and g/f got one each and am still happy knowing it easily pees on most phones (not a920 of course )

however we cant get out of the walled garden internet over here (yet) so would be unable to access snapstream from it directly

[srigby]

Yes, in the UK they havn't enabled Internet access. We have it here, I downloaded Mpegable and was getting 30K a sec!!

Mpegable announced a partnership with Three recently and they'll soon be releasing a version of X4 Live with support for Three phones!!

When I transcode a show and download it to my phone, I get grey video but the sound is fine. The wierd thing is the Philips Platform4 player for the PC plays the transcoded file perfectly - but the phone doesn't!

I'm looking forward to the new version of Mpegable.

[srigby]

For those who are interested, the new version of Mpegable X4Live is out - but doesn't seem to properly support the Motorola A920 (even though it's supposed to!)