Even though I longed to purchase a smartphone for years, I finally made the plunged and bought a Nokia E61. I have spent countless hours on figuring out wifi settings, and using the browser. But really wanted to get on Youtube and view video. I read somewhere that the e61 had video playback capability similiar to the video ipod less the storage space.
My question is how to do load video player software on the device or does it come with video player software through the cd suite that was shipped with the device, which I havent got around to doing yet, just got it yesterday!😉
I asked this exact question couple of weeks back as well, and the answer I got was that you can't..your best bet is "smartmovie" by lonelycatgames?..
something about need a full blown flash player, which your phone does not support..
but let me know if you find out something different..
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YouTube uses a non standard video format (actually I believe it is video encoded as Flash).
Your device already has a video player on it. Its called Real Player. This can play back MP4 videos. You will need to convert videos into a format suitable for playback (some may work without conversion).
Aletrnatively you can buy a program called SmartMovie. The benefit of SmartMovie is it supports more video formats (e.g. DivX encoded avi) and has a included PC converter.
To get video on to your phone you can do one of two things.
1. Plug your phone into your PC and use it in USB Mass Srorage Mode - copy files across as you would for any other disk drive.
2. Install PC Suite and use the File Manager component to copy / paste files to your device.
Just curious to know if the Motorola q can play internet video directly from website using real player?
E61aGem wrote:Just curious to know if the Motorola q can play internet video directly from website using real player?
Any smartphone can play a video stream directly from a website if it has the right software installed and a fast enough connection. I don't know if such software exists yet for the E61 though, but there's nothing stopping it being done technically.
Streaming is always more difficult than playing back files because the stream has to match the format of the video player on the phone, whereas with files you can always convert them to a suitable format.
The E61 does video fine, and in fact if you buy a 1 or 2 gigabyte miniSD memory card you can store a number of feature films on it. But you'll have to either convert the video files to work on Realplayer, or buy Smartmovie and use its built-in converter. Smartmovie is pretty excellent by the way, well worth the purchase price if you're into video on smartphones.
I have been able to do everything with this phone but play video. I noticed it has a built in flash lite player. Where can you find free flash lite content to test this? Also how do you take content that you play on your realplayer built in to the pc and get it on the memory card for your e61 to play it, thus far I have had no lock. Thanxs.
We'll have a guide to video (among other things on your phone) soon(ish). Basically the essential ingredient is to get it in the right format. Using Smart Movie makes this easy, other wise you need it in MP4 format using the H.263 format an AAC audio. There's a number of threads discussing this in the forums.
Real Player is used to play streams, some of these will work with the phone. You have to enter the urls into the Real Player or do this via streaming links in gallery.
Flash Lite stuff you can get from the Flash Lite Exchange, though there is not much available.
Wirelessly posted (Nokia E61: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413)
There is a free converter called "Super" that you can use to convert various video formats to Mpeg4 suitable for the E61.
You need to specify an AVI container,Mpeg4, 320x240 size and a bitrate of around 300 Kb/s for a really good result.
Smartmovie however will do everything right for you the first time, highly recommended !
Regards, Michael