Real One Video Formats

[thomas__hb]

Ive recently bought a Nokia N-Gage, and it has a Real One player built in. Unfortunately, the formats supported (.3gp, .amr, .mp4, .rm, .ram, .ra and .rv) seem to be fairly sparse and unpopular. Are there any tools that will convert common formats like WMV/AVI/MPEG into the supported formats. Im not concerned about two step conversions. ie: AVI to MPEG to AMR or whatever.

[Jaggannath]

Apparently it's not an issue, according to the below:

"The N-Gage features a port of the Real One Player that can not only stream trailers, music videos and the like from the internet, but the included software can virtually convert every video file you have on your hard disk into a suitable format. When moving a video file from your PC to the N-Gage the software can automatically convert most formats including MPEG, AVI (and therefore including the lately very popular DivX format), Quicktime and MP3 files - the latter only if you wish to convert them to AAC to save extra space at the cost of a little quality."
From N-Gage Review

[Jaggannath]

Here's a better article, with a How To guide to step you through the process mate

N-Gage How To Guide

[thomas__hb]

Stupidly, Nokia has chosen to use two different connections for it's two different software. Bluetooth for PC Suite, and USB for Nokia Audio Manager. This means the only way for us not prepared to pay another AU$80-90 for a bluetooth dongle to transfer data other than music through the audio software is to do it through Windows Explorer when the MMC card shows up in removable storage (WINXP).
The article linked to above says that the USB/Bluetooth decision was because of security, but it's hardly a vulnerable connection being a local hardwired one, and secondly, contact details are hardly volatile information.
So while nokia made a stupid decision, i still need a converter seeing as i cant use the software (PC Suite wont even open and let me use the conversion software without a phone connected)

Any Ideas?

[thomas__hb]

ah, another aussie!

thanks for your help

[thomas__hb]

The Nokia Multimedia Software looks like it may do the trick.

Thanks!