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Convert Video to play on Nokia Phone with Ffmpeg

Jan 08
2007

FreeSoftware, GNU/Linux, Debian, FreeDesktop, Phone, Nokia, SymbianOS, NokiaE70

You can get the latest full (Chinese) version of the following document from OSWikiHK.

Install ffmpeg

Add following line in /etc/apt/sources.list :

deb ftp://ftp.hk.debian.org/unofficial/debian-multimedia/ sid main

Update the data of repositories and install ffmpeg:

apt-get update
apt-get install ffmpeg

Convert to 3GP format

ffmpeg -i U2d–Jes5AU.flv -y -b 400 -s cif -r 25 -acodec amr_wb -ab 50 -ac 1 -ar 16000 U2d–Jes5AU.3gp

i: Video file to be converted
s: The resolution of the output video, the syntax is “widthxheight“. cif means 320×240
b: The video bitrate of the output video. (in bit/sec)
r: The frame per second (fps) of the output video.
acodec: The audio codec of the output video
ab: The audio bitrate of the output video. (in bit/sec)
ac: The number of audio channel of the output video. 1 means mono
ar: The frequency of the output video. (in Hz)

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Comments(3)

Nokia e70

Aug 09
2006

Technology, Phone, Nokia, SymbianOS, NokiaE70

Let took about my new toy - Nokia e70. I have plan to buy this phone since last year and it finally out last month. Support WIFI and QWERT keyboard are the main reasons I was attracted. With the help of pys60, I can program something without those damn Java.