Video Clips.

Leigh Honeywell leigh at hypatia.ca
Tue Apr 21 07:16:49 UTC 2009


For simply playing 3gp on a computer, vlc (videolan.org, apt-get install
vlc) will also do the trick.  Alfred's luck with his phone will depend
highly on what kind of phone it is.

-Leigh

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 07:52:25PM -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> For cell phone import/export/upload/download/transfer/soup you'll want 
> to check out Bitpim: http://www.bitpim.org/
> 
> Unfortunately, Canadian carriers cripple their phones so severely that 
> even Bitpim cannot i/e/u/d/t/s to the phone (I don't want to single out 
> any particular carrier, like Telus).  Google  "edit seem block" to find 
> out how to de-cripple a phone.  What is DRM good for, again?
> 
> 3GP format is a form of Apple Quicktime, see 
> http://filext.com/file-extension/3gp
> 
> --Bob.
> 
> 
> Alfred wrote:
> > While we are all familiar now with Video Clip Problems, I have a small
> > PVR (That's a Solid State VCR with out a Tape in it). It records in 3GP
> > format with the sound, for up to 2 hours, per session. I could get it to
> > play back the video, but there was no Sound with it, with the Codecs on
> > Medibuntu. In the Ubuntu Software Catalogue , is a set of Codecs called
> > Flumotion. Does anyone have experiences with them? I'm trying to get the
> > Playback with the sound too. It's a Video Format that is used with Cell
> > Phones 174 X 144 I think it is. With a 2 Gig Flash Drive/Card it can
> > record up to about 32 hours, as sessions. I have the USB Cord for my
> > Cell Phone, but have not figured out how to upload to my Cell Phone this
> > kind of Video. What Programs to use for that. I might be that the cell
> > Phone would be able to play the sound.
> > 
> > Alfred!
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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