Best/simplest freeware to convert to .3gp for my phone?

[gastrof]

Title says it all.

I've tried using both the WinFF .3gp converter and the converter included in aTubeCatcher, and while both deliver the file to the phone, all I get is audio. Video comes out as a green screen. I'm converting a video that's about 84 minutes long. Could that be the problem? Length? (I've tried .mp4, .mpg, and .avi versions of the file to start out with, all full length. All play fine on my computer, all fail to play on the phone with video once converted. Oh, the .3gp files? If I play them on my computer, THEN they play with video! Just not on the phone!)

I have no idea what (if anything) I'm doing wrong. You'd think the file would just play. The converters aren't known to fail. Both programs have always worked well for me...until now.

[hech54]

If it's the same phone and the same converting software....it must be the original file/video that is at fault.

[Baldrick]

Try mobile media converter!

[hello_hello]

Title says it all.

Except maybe the make/model of the phone.

[Hikmet]

Use MediaCoder Handsets Edition.

[gastrof]

Title says it all.

Except maybe the make/model of the phone.

Didn't think it'd make a difference.

LG-840G.

[gastrof]

Try mobile media converter!

Won't complete its download.

I've tried twice.

Gets to 99% (and says it has 1 second to go) and it gets no further.

[gastrof]

ADDITIONAL:

The file displayed on my computer even tho' it never got to 100%, so I tried to use it to install MMC.

The program seemed to work, and it did convert the video and feed it into my phone.

The video wouldn't run. The phone said the video was the "wrong size".

I checked out the Media Info on the converted video, and found that the pixel counts were different from every video that does work on the phone. The only ones that run are 320x240. MMC produced a video that was something like 358x280 or something.

Also, very strange, the one video recorded on the phone's camera shows as a .3gp, but the videos fed to the phone by ATubeCatcher (downloaded right from YouTube using one of the alternate type options, in this case 3gp) show up as .mp4. And yet the Media Info on them still says they're .3gp format.

Aside from the one taken by the camera, these .3gp/.mp4 hybrids are the only vids that play, and ALL the vids that play are 320x240.

Yeah, I tried using WinFF to convert the 84 min. .3pg file to 320x240. It worked. It also wouldn't play on the phone. (It was doing the green screen thing again, with perfect audio.)

*sigh*

[Cornucopia]

Here's what you should do:
Record a short video clip with your phone. Does it play? Yes! So now you have a legit clip in the proper format and sizing that you know will play in your phone.
So, take that to your pc and use MediaInfo to find out all the settings/parameters of the file (which you could upload here - either the file itself or the MI readout or both), and use those settings when creating/converting other videos.

BTW "3gp" is a particular consumer-equipment-based sub-format of MP4. The container is (usually) MP4 regardless of what it's called. The video inside can be a couple of types, but is usually a form of h.264/AVC/MPEG4v10. However, there are various Profiles & Levels to the spec, and 3gp only counts as legit certain lower-complexity subsets of those (because of the CE nature of the spec).

Scott

[gastrof]

This is the camera video-

General
Complete name : F:\Video\Camera Album\0524131639-01.3gp
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : 3GPP Media Release 5
Codec ID : 3gp5
File size : 1.69 MiB
Duration : 21s 600ms
Overall bit rate : 655 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-05-24 16:40:19
Tagged date : UTC 2013-05-24 16:40:19
Video
ID : 1
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L4a
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : 20
Duration : 21s 600ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 652 Kbps
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 240 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 15.000 fps
Minimum frame rate : 14.925 fps
Maximum frame rate : 15.152 fps
Color space : YUV
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.556
Stream size : 1.65 MiB (98%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-05-24 16:40:19
Tagged date : UTC 2013-05-24 16:40:19
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AMR
Format/Info : Adaptive Multi-Rate
Format profile : Narrow band
Codec ID : samr
Duration : 21s 600ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 12.8 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 8 000 Hz
Bit depth : 13 bits
Stream size : 33.8 KiB (2%)
Writing library : Qcom Revision 1
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2013-05-24 16:40:19
Tagged date : UTC 2013-05-24 16:40:19

This is the info for one of the vids taken off YouTube's .3gp version of a video downloaded by aTubeCatcher.

General
Complete name : F:\Video\Camera Album\XXXXXXXX.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : 3GPP Media Release 6 Basic
Codec ID : 3gp6
File size : 6.70 MiB
Duration : 4mn 7s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 227 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-03-05 22:41:22
Tagged date : UTC 2013-03-05 22:41:22
gsst : 0
gstd : 248081
gssd : B4A7D0001HH1370017156367400
gshh : r1---sn-ab5e6nlz.c.youtube.com
Video
ID : 1
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L1
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : 20
Duration : 4mn 7s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 193 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 293 Kbps
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 180 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.140
Stream size : 5.70 MiB (85%)
Title : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011
Writing library : Lavc52.41.0
Encoded date : UTC 2013-03-05 22:41:22
Tagged date : UTC 2013-03-05 22:41:26
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 4mn 7s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 32.0 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 35.6 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel positions : Front: C
Sampling rate : 22.05 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 968 KiB (14%)
Title : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011
Encoded date : UTC 2013-03-05 22:41:24
Tagged date : UTC 2013-03-05 22:41:26

And another one-

General
Complete name : F:\Video\Camera Album\XXXXXXX.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42
File size : 6.57 MiB
Duration : 3mn 36s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 254 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2010-05-18 17:56:57
Tagged date : UTC 2010-05-18 17:56:57
gsst : 0
gstd : 217291
gssd : BADC21F23HH1370017042295148
gshh : r9---sn-ab5e6ney.c.youtube.com
Video
ID : 2
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L3
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : 20
Duration : 3mn 36s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 190 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 376 Kbps
Width : 320 pixels
Height : 240 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 29.723 fps
Original frame rate : 29.916 fps
Minimum frame rate : 0.880 fps
Maximum frame rate : 29.917 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.083
Stream size : 4.92 MiB (75%)
Title : (C) 2007 Google Inc. v08.13.2007.
Writing library : XviD 1.1.0 Beta2 (UTC 2005-04-04)
Encoded date : UTC 2010-05-18 17:56:57
Tagged date : UTC 2010-05-18 17:56:57
Audio
ID : 1
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 3mn 36s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 62.0 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 77.6 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel positions : Front: C
Sampling rate : 22.05 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 1.61 MiB (24%)
Title : (C) 2007 Google Inc. v08.13.2007.
Encoded date : UTC 2010-05-18 17:56:57
Tagged date : UTC 2010-05-18 17:56:57

(I've removed the file names.)

Notice one of the downloaded videos is widescreen (16x9), the other 4x3, as was the camera video.

The suggestion that I try to match those readings, tho', doesn't help. I'm depending on the software to do the conversion, and the software I'm using has no extensive controls (and I'd likely not know how to use them if they did). Even the one (MMC) recommended above had absolutely no controls at all. You just hit a button and it converts the file. Trouble is, it used a width figure other than 320, and the phone didn't like it.

[gastrof]

Would anyone here use this software to do the conversion?

http://download.cnet.com/Free-Video-to-LG-Phones-Converter/3000-2194_4-75337833.html

It's supposedly for LG phones.

[bat999]

*sigh*

FFmpeg might play.

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "scale=320:trunc(ow/a/2)*2" -c:v mpeg4 -b:v 640k -c:a libopencore_amrnb -b:a 12.2k -ar 8k -ac 1 output.3gp

Try the attached file.

[gastrof]

*sigh*

FFmpeg might play.

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "scale=320:trunc(ow/a/2)*2" -c:v mpeg4 -b:v 640k -c:a libopencore_amrnb -b:a 12.2k -ar 8k -ac 1 output.3gp

Try the attached file.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Is this a link to something?

Is that a video file type you think will work on my phone?

What are you saying?

[hello_hello]

I couldn't find any specific info on your phone and without that it's only possible to guess. Did the phone come with a manual which includes specifications regarding the type of video it'll play? Looking at the mediainfo stuff you posted I'd guess the problem's most likely resolution. It may only support a maximum video width of 320.

[aedipuss]

does your phone go by a name? 840g isn't coming up.

try xmediarecode. there are lots of lg presets - find one that works for your phone.

[Capmaster]

I used to have compatibility problems like you describe. I use Free 3GP Video Converter now.

I have a Windows 8 smartphone and use Full Moon to transfer the finished videos wirelessly.

[gastrof]

does your phone go by a name? 840g isn't coming up.

try xmediarecode. there are lots of lg presets - find one that works for your phone.

Just what IS "xmediarecode"?

Oh, and I'm afraid LG 840g is all I have for the phone. Have no idea if there's another way to describe it.