Hi all,
I'm converting some videos to .3gp to play on my Nokia 6230 but at the moment I'm having to do it in two stages.
First I convert my source (usually MPG) to AVI and then use Quicktime Pro to export the .avi to .3gp. I just wondered if theres a way to get rid of the 'middle' step.
I'm having to do it this way because when I open the .mpg in Quicktime and try to export it says 'track contains no audio'.
Anyone got any ideas how I can do this? I've tried frameserving from VirtualDub, but QT won't read the .vdr file ;o(
Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
NiVZ
P.S I'm using QT instead of Nokia Multimedia because it gives better audio quality.
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Yeah, that's a drag. QT has NEVER supported demuxing of MPEG streams, so it only sees this "muxed" track in its payload. For some reason, it is able to see the video, and for some other reason it is able to play the audio, but you can't export it in QT.
What are you on PC or Mac?
If PC, I'd demux and decode to AVI/WAV with TMPGEnc or VirtualDub or similar and then use QT encoder for the 3gp part (as I believe it is one of the few encoders that does that format so far). Pretty much like you're already doing. I know, 2 steps aren't as good as 1, but 2 steps still isn't too bad.
If Mac, I'd demux w/ bbMPEG, decode audio to AIF with SoundApp (but leave the *.mpv alone as QT can handle it). Then open both A and V in QT and copy/paste so you have 1 file with both A+V streams, then export to the 3gp.
HTH,
Scott -
Thanks for the info. I'll just keep going as I am for the moment until a better method presents itself.
I'm on a PC, so I've been using VirtualDub to convert MPG to AVI and then QT Pro to convert to a 3GP (MP4 for video and AMR 12.2 for Audio).
For ASFfiles I've been using EO Video to convert to AVI and then QT Pro to convert to 3GP.
Thanks again,
NiVZ -
Go to nokia's website and download "Nokia Multimedia Player".Its like it says a media player but it has the option to save the video as .3gp format. No "middle steps", no nothing. Even better, you can download "Nokia Multimedia Converter". It converts video files to .3gp and audio files to .amr. I don't know about 6230, but my 6600 cannot playback .mp3 files without a certain program and I use the converter to convert my favorite songs to .amr format and use them as ringtones.
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