Hello all,
I've been compressing various films, tv progs etc. with both Nokia's multimedia converter 2.0 and Dr. DivX, and although the playback on the phone is watchable, there still seems to be a fair amount of blocky artifacts on even the shortest clip.
I realise that realplayer only allows 15fps, but is there an alternative application that could allow better quality, or am I going to have to buy a 512mb rsmmc and keep movie files fairly large?
Nokia's multimedia convertor is crap. Get yourself a copy of Smartmovie, then you can view movies full screen, in landscape or portrait orientation. It plays DivX or XviD format, so you can compress them as much or as little as you want. I got Gladiator down to 92MB whilst still very good quality with great sound. As a rule of thumb, my avi files tend to be around 30MB/hour.
There is apparantly another similar app called PV Player, but I've never tried it as Smartmovie does all I need.
Excellent! What a great app SmartMovie is, knew I'd been missing out on something! Everything plays purrrrrfectly crystal clear with no noticable framerate loss.
Thanks very much murf for the reply
Glad to be of service, but searching/reading through this forum would have found you the same advice, as that's where I found it in the first place.
It's about time Nokia & the other phone manufacturers started employing their own software engineers to write these apps for free instead of expecting us to pay 3rd party developers for stuff that should be a part of the phone.