Nokia Smartphone Connectivity Suite for Linux?

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/9/28 Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>:
> Hey all,
>
> I bought myself a new Nokia N97. It's not my first - I had E71, 6120c, 6288
> and 6680 - All by Nokia.
>
> I never found a good enough application similar to Nokia's PC Suite in
> functionality and looks...
>
> How hard can it be?
>
> I would tackle this myself - if I knew how...
>
> I am now looking for a way to convert videos to a format supported by the
> N97. I would like to have a GUI application where I could choose my phone
> model and add the videos to a list and then converting them and just copy
> the file to my phone.
>
> I tried using ffmpeg in the CLI, but I don't know what are the optimum
> settings for Bit Rate, Aspect Ratio, resolution and A/V Codecs...
>
> I got cropped or stretched picture, or "Type not supported" error or just
> audio.
>
> Can someone point me to an existing project?
>
> I could get by with the CLI (if someone provides me with the correct
> options) but I am looking for something I can "sell" to a tottal noob - I am
> trying to convince my Mom to switch to Linux, and this is one of the uses I
> could not find an alternative for.
>
> Thanks!
>

Try this gem:
http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm

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