I followed all the directions from the first post - it worked like a charm! I'll be enjoying my movies on Pearl while traveling! Awsome work! Thank You!

BTW... it's a lil bit off topic... but.... How can I download movies form YouTube? Please help!

KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion!

~MrKyoo

PURELY AWESOME!!! This Batch script works great!!! I tweaked it a little (just for my file locations, etc.), and it works flawlessly.

Thankyou --- Danimal4326 for all of your work!!!

I can't get P DVD Studio to work with any output files on my Pearl. Mencoder works great. I have selected .avi for the output and a variety for frame rates with no success at all. Any ideas?

Thanks alot for all the walkthroughs...

it took the 2 3 hour nights to figure it out..

video was perfect...both ways...

but audio was non exsistant....

before returning the phone i started over...

and removed the sd card (installed by sum1else)

replaced, and audio worked perfectly....

i was about to throw the phone...

haha...

but its great..

just one question tho...

while i was talking to my girlfreind, on my bluetooth headset..

and in my acura with bluetooth..

i could hear the audio from the movie...

while i watched it..

but if i ended the call....

then it didint work..i couldint hear the audio on my bluetooth...

anyway to hook that up?

any responce would be greatly appreciated...

fyi _ if your audio is inop...check the install of the sd card...

thanks alot guys..

one more thing...

any good free dvd to avi converters?

thanks alot

-mitch r g

Fix..


Not Dvd To Avi

Sry..


Free Dvd Ripping Programs..

Hard To See My Typos With My Head Up My ...
Thanks

Mitch R G

well... i dont know how to use DOS so im not even going to try messing with it..
but i got a avi file that is 699 mb is there a way to make it smaller?

I sucessfully got video encoded with quictime on a mac. You must have quicktime pro. Here is a pic with M:I:III on my pearl.

Hi, First Post!

Read through the entire thread. Using the original script from the first post, everything seems to work fine. When I try to play the 40 MB file on the computer using Windows Media Player I get audio but no video. It says "Error downloading codec". Should it play video? Can't try the BB yet because my memory card did not arrive yet. Any thoughts on what I did wrong?

Thanks, Drew

Once you transfer it to your phone both the video and audio should play.

Try testing the file with mplayer?

Start -> Run...-> C:/Programs/mplayer/mplayer.exe filename.avi

You have to point it all to the right paths, of course.

Works for me.

For Linux users there are several GUI tools that help encode video such as "KVideoEncoder", "ManDVD", "3gp movie wizard", etc. See http://kde-apps.org and GnomeFiles - GNOME/GTK+ Software Repository for more information.

Thanks, that did work! Now to get the chip and load the first season of Arrested Development on the phone. Thanks again.

How do you do this step? Do I have to do this step by like typing that whole thing out and manually entering in the input file name and giving it an output file?

Sorry if this is a retarted question

Hi guys - new to the forum, hoping you can help.

I've downloaded and installed SUPER as in the first post and managed to successfully encode 1 short movie clip with no problems.

However, since then every time I use SUPER or Mencoder.exe or any of the other similar front-end GUIs my whole PC completely freezes as soon I start to encode.

I've uninstalled and re-installed everything several times but keep encountering the same problem.

Any ideas?

Win2000
AMD AThlon XP2200+
1024MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Many thanks in advance

Wrote a little front end for the mencoder for all you guys who are not familiar with DOS or don't wanna use it.

Can download it here

Website:home dot comcast dot net/~cas2777/files/BBVE-1.zip

Should be pretty self explanatory. Let me know what you guys think.

I downloaded it from the site, but when I try to Run the Blackberry Video encoder it creates and error. I am doing something wrong?

You'll need the .NET 2.0 framework.

I have the NET 2.0 framework, but I thought I should load it again just to make sure. I still get the error message when I try to run the program. I am not having luck converting a quicktime movie into into a form that I can use on the 8100. I am clueless when it comes to DOS so I went the Super route and it comes up with an error message every time I try to encode the quicktime movie. I am excited to see what cas27 put together, but I cannot get it to work.

I just tested a .mov file and it worked fine for me.

Do you have a link of a mov file you're trying that I can test with?

I'm having trouble putting videos onto my Pearl. I used the link in your sig. I was finally able to put it on my Pearl, BUT no audio (which a video with no audio doesn't really help much). I also tried the instructions on the first part of this thread. Didn't help at all. I have run out of ideas. Please Help!!

Thanks!

I think I dled the right file..cos I can see mplayer.exe and the mencoder applications, and I do the exact thing to right click it and create shortcut, and set the target as what you posted..but I once I pasted the code and press enter..it says.."the system cannot find the file specified"...what did i do wrong

http://www.blackberryforums.com/347875-post121.html

~MrKyoo

Try AVS Media...... it's easy to use and it works.

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8100/4.2.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/176)

Thanks buddy!!!!
I know how it works now!!!

Heres my convert script, copy the text below into a text file and rename the file convert.cmd

The usage should be self explanatory... there are three basic options, ripping to scale 1:1, ripping to 240x140 resized scale, ripping from a DVD source where you just specify the path to the video_ts folder e.g "d:\video_ts" .
You can also adjust the volume level as the last argument.

e.g convert c:\orgmovie.avi c:\output.avi 2s 6

this will convert the orgmovie.avi source file with a 1:1 apect ratio and setting the volume to 6

Hope this helps !

@echo off

set arg1=%1
set arg2=%2
set arg3=%3
set arg4=%4

if "%arg1%"=="" goto mesg
if "%arg2%"=="" goto mesg
if "%arg3%"=="dvd" goto dvd
if "%arg3%"=="2s" goto 2S
if "%arg3%"=="rs" goto rs

goto mesg
@echo on
:rs
mencoder -vf scale=240:140 "%arg1%" -o "%arg2%" -of avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=240 -lameopts br=64:vol=%arg4%
@echo off
goto end

:dvd
@echo on
mencoder -vf scale -zoom -xy 240 dvd://1 -dvd -device %arg1% -o "%arg2%" -of avi -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=240 -lameopts br=64:vol=%arg4%
@echo off
goto end

:2S
@echo on
mencoder -vf scale -zoom -xy 240 "%arg1%" -o "%arg2%" -of avi -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=240 -lameopts br=64:vol=%arg4%
@echo off
goto end

:mesg
echo missing argument
echo ================================================== =================================
echo " usage
echo " convert <source> <outputfile> <source/apect ratio> <volume level>
echo "
echo " source/apsect arguments are
echo " dvd - if source is a dvd
echo " 2s - keeps aspect ratio
echo " rs - Resize ratio 240x140
echo "
echo ================================================== =================================

:end

Originally Posted by zx6racer
Does anyone have any videos already converted that they can upload for us to try ???

i dont have a clue how to do any of this...and i am tired of reading all this stuff when i dont understand a damn thing...hahaaa...so i guess until i talk to somebody on the phone and they give me step by step on how to *download the programs and change codes and all that other stuff ,,,,i just want to watch videos on my phone...hahaaa...can i upload some like zx said...thanks...204C217A

I made a program to solve the cmd input. I need 10 POSTS!!!

A BIG THANKS TO THIS STICKY...I GOT THE SUPER C UP AND RUNNING...and it was easy...watching movies now...my ? is it is making the movie file on my phone more mb than it is on my ltop...is there something i sould do on super c to make the movie file smaller...maybe video scale size or something...thanks again...finally up and running...

<C:\filename.extension> You can't just put benchwarmers.

GregH

I have got the command line version of mencoder
to work really well on all my old downloads, music video's.
I was able to move some podcast to my phone as well.
What really pisses me off is the new apple format M4V
Even though I PAID for and downloaded to my ipod it will not work because of DRM.
That's right they have gone so freaking far that even though I paid them.
I am not able to play the file on anything but there DRM players! (quicktime and ipod)
I can not get it to burn either. Nor will mencoder read it.
The only thing I can find out there is Tunebites,
which says it will break the DRM code and output to MPEG,
I could then use mencoder to avi and toss it on my phone, but they want 45bucks
for the platinum version of tunebites. :(
Might have to break down and pay, AGAIN!

I'm going to talk to someone first at tunebites and make sure they can break that DRM
before I pay though. Has anyone tried it yet???

This is why we pirate, because they screw us even when we pay. GregH

everything is working great now with the super c and videos on my phone.if people are not sure what to do with the 1st method then get the 2nd one down cause it is easy...also is there a way to make the video full screen on my phone when it is playing...not a big deal but just wondering...thanks again to everybody that has helped me out getting the most out of my bb...

Whats up guys? im new to the forum been trying to put the boon dock saints on my Pearl. Im having no luck, can anyone help? i keep getting this....compiled wit CPU detection...cannot open file..exiting.... anyone know what im doing wrong by chance? thanks

Do you REALLY think that taking the card out fixed your audio problem ? The data either gets read or not off the card. There's no middle ground. If you had video, the card was working fine, trust me. Now the fact that you had to take the battery out and reset the phone in the process, most than likely fixed your audio problem!

Are you saying you can't even burn those files to a CD, and then rip them back onto your computer from the CD you made? I wasn't aware of any DRM that prevented you from burning a file to a CD. If so, that truly sucks!

Granted, going this route does change the sound quality a bit.

Yes it will not burn. I found many cases on the net as well where people have come to a dead end with apples new .M4V files. Tunebites says they can break this in this method.

You play the .M4V file in one of the players that can play with the DRM quicktime in this case. As you play it reads the feed and records it to a new file that no longer has the DRM . I will most likey buy this tunebites in the near future. Still doing some research but I have talked to people that say it works.

GregH

is there a way to make the video full screen on my phone when it is playing...not a big deal but just wondering

I struggled with trying to burn my legally purchased itunes files to CD so I could play them in my car, or using other software or whatever. I could never get it to work (itunes always said something like "the file(s) is/are protected and cannot be burned to CD". After wasting plenty of time, and trying different versions, and searching for solutions, I swore I would never download DRM protected music again.