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MP4 / 3GP confusion

0 replies · 2,231 views · Started 01 July 2005

Hi all, this is my first post so please be gentle 😊

I'm new to 'modern' mobile phones and have recently bought a Nokia 6260 which I do particularly like (except perhaps it's a bit big, I'm used to a Samsung T100.)

However as I'm new to these I don't understand the MP4 and 3GP formats much. For example a friend bluetoothed me a video which plays perfectly yet I see from the nokia browser it is an MP4 file - yet when I download MP4's from the Net they won't play on the phone - "incompatible format."

Additionally some MP4's play on the Nokia Media Player on the PC and some MP4's don't; this leads me to think there are sub-formats of that filetype.

Is there a guide or can anyone explain these filetypes to me and also, which is the best way to convert various formats to a Nokia playable file?

Finally which is the best format (or sub-format) to use? From what I've seen the MP4's are better quality but much larger filesizes than 3GP.

Thanks in advance.