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I’ve noticed that even with it supporting all these extensions, my Pearl 8130 (Alltel) won’t play the videos in media player unless I re-name them to .3gp. What’s your take on this, Kel?

Richard,
Sorry about the delay in responding. I have files of type .3gp and .mp4 that work for me. AVI files do not seem to play at all. I’m assuming that certain parameters have to be just right in the production or conversion of a video file for the BlackBerry’s video codec to be able to “understand” it. It’s hard to believe that just renaming a file to be of type .3gp has worked for you. But I had an LG phone that wouldn’t play ringtone sound files unless they were named .mid–even if they were not MIDI files but rather .mp3. Strange.
Kelly

I know this is an old article, but I think you’re a great source of information, so I wanted to throw this out there…

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

Takes you to avidemux which is an open-source video converter on mac, pc, and linux.

I’m running it on Ubuntu 8.04, and using the ‘auto -> iPod’ menu it has successfully and easily converted all of my older videos (an assortment of WMV, MPG, OGM, and AVI) into 320×240 Mp4s.

Some of my anime has two sound channels (English and Japanese) and a subtitle track. With avidemux I chose which sound channel to use, but I had to extract the subtitle track using other software, then import the file into avidemux.

DArtagnon,
That looks like a fantastic product. Thanks for letting me/us know about it.
Kelly