So, you have a phone capable of playing 3GPP file format video via RealPlayer, and if you go to Apple’s Quicktime site and Download the free 3GPP component to QuickTime you can export any movie file which is readable in QuickTime into 3GPP and upload it to your 3650 via your bluetooth connection.
For example, I did this with my DVD of The Two Towers the other day. For quite some time now, I’ve been using DVDibbler, which is an advanced GUI for the Mac OS X port of Mencoder, to rip my collection of DVDs to DiVx files. Basically, I pop a DVD that I own into my 12-inch before I go to bed at night, tweak all the settings in DVDibbler, and start it up. When I wake in the morning, I have a nice little copy of the movie compressed at about 600MB to just over a GIG. Why do this? Well, for one, it allows me to reburn an average of 6 movies to one DVD. This is not only a good method of backup, but it is good for watching these movies on the road. My entire Akira Kurasawa collection of movies fits on 2 DVDs. That’s nice. Also, it means that they are ready for exporting to 3GPP for watching on my 3650.
So, the other night I decided to try this and it took roughly 3 hours for the 1.12GB file of The Two Towers to compress to the 98.4MB 3GPP version of the movie. Not too bad, although with 98.4MB of data to be watched, you might want to invest in some memory expansion for your 3650 and a nice easy way to transport the data to it. I only have the 16MB card that came with my 3650, so I simply opened the 3GPP file and selected my favorite scene (the one where gollum talks to himself) and using QuickTime Pro copied this into a new file which exported at 1.3MB. Loaded this up to the phone via the bluetooth and watched away. Picture came out nice, though a little squashed as I forgot to account for the letterbox to regular shift in my 3GPP conversion. The sound was audible, but much better if using a headset. Now, I just have to invest in one of those 128MB MM cards for the 3650, so I can start watching stuff while waiting in line at the meat counter at the grocery store…
Leave a Reply