Jonathan Greene on 10 April 2007:

You might also want to try VisualHub or the free iSquint which will let you batch convert files…

http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/
http://www.isquint.org/

heybige on 10 April 2007:

I believe export is a Pro feature. You can always use super to convert files

Khalid on 10 April 2007:

My file/video does not play on my computer with Quicktime Pro.. but plays well with RealPlayer and Windows Media Player

what to do?

Cris on 11 April 2007:

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btc on 12 April 2007:

I made a tutorial using completely free, simple to use software with varying quality profiles (up to TV out) for H264 encoding.

If anyones interested the guide is here:
http://www.n95users.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=281

K-Jay on 18 April 2007:

Also Mark have you done thorough testing to make sure that those are the possible video settings that can be played back on a Nokia N95? Also when i used this method to convert a video, according to my N95 it has a bitrate of 846kbps instead of 700kbps! Why is this?

MacWilliam on 19 April 2007:

I’ve tried this for my Nokia N73 but the video doesn’t play with Real Player, I only hear the sound. How can I convert for the N73?

King on 24 April 2007:

i followed this but apparently it didnt play the movie in Quicktime. Perhaps I am missing that Codec/Component thing..Could someone with a kind heart pls teach me how to get that codec so that i could follow these intsructions and finally be able to convert movies to my N95? i never had any movie played using my new cellphone, help me pls. thanks so much

hoodiaweightloss on 29 April 2007:

Wanted to compliment on your site, it looks really good .

Hank

Mechdon on 8 May 2007:

I think it has to do with the source of the video/file extension….I tried for some other movie files and they worked perfectly

Bill Compton on 4 June 2007:

Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

Matt on 5 June 2007:

Hi guys.

I have a small problem…
i have a lot of stuff i want to convert and most of it is .mov and .avi, i am new to the converting side of things so does anyone know the easy way of going about playing them on my n95?

Thanks,

Matt

Ben on 10 June 2007:

my video manager does not recognise my phone and it says pc suite not installed? Help! i also tried just converting the videos to my collection but i don’t think it was working cus it was taking ages. how long does it normally take? the files i was trying to convert were 170Mb

bt on 16 June 2007:

any software to convert rmvb to mpeg 4?
tq

jeff on 22 June 2007:

hi im really confused i got a nokia n95 2days ago and i tried to do wat it says above but it dont ever work my movie files are avi format and i have downloaded quicktime pro 7 and still cant get it to work im in a pc using windows xp i just wanna put a couple of episodes of buffy on my phone lol any one help ?

Ben Iffland on 28 June 2007:

****For those of you that have Media Centers and a Nokia N95***

I have been using “Mobile TV Center” which is an add-in to Windows Media Center computers which basically converts any recorded TV that is on your Media Center to 3gp format. All you need to do is install it on your Media Center and then either leave a memeory card in your memory card slot on your Media Center or plug your phone into the USB port and it auto-magically converts the recorded TV files to your card/phone. Works quite well. It isnt free but is a no hassle way of automating this (great if you communte on a train etc and always want last nights episode of #######). The only downside is that is isnt all that configurable at the moment. i.e my wife records programs that I’m not interested in and it copies all uncopied recorded TV to your card. Quality is good though and you can point it to a folder of your choice so doesnt have to be just recorded TV. Media Center use DVR-MS video format by the way.

If anyone knows of any other Media Center tools for converting videos/DVDs etc please let me know.

:o)

mike on 18 July 2007:

anyone out there that has an ipod video the video you have ripped for them will work on n95. a good program to use is xilisoft dvd ripper excellant for ripping dvds in various formats

Maximus on 26 August 2007:

guys,
my movies are not playing with quicktime pro. I have downloaded xvid but the bloody thing doesn’t show pics or sound. Can i have some advise

Mirza on 8 September 2007:

Well, i got it to work but when i press save the progress bar just flashes from 0 to 100% in 5 secs and the mp4 file saved only sizes to 60 kbs and obviously does not play. Am I missing something here? What sort of video file types(wmv, mpg etc) can be converted this way????Can anyone help me out?

Adrian on 11 October 2007:

Videos which I converted with the above settings are not getting displayed on my N95. The Phone only plays the sound.

Any ideas what settings I got wrong? I’ve also tested different Source Movies but that did not seem to be the problem. :/

miken958gb on 29 October 2007:

Just download a trial version of DVDFab Platinum - used it with some of my films and works a treat - can select a preset for nokia N95 in the dvd to cell phone option. Now trying to find another package so that I can handle ts streams from my satbox with out having to convert them to dvd first…

Hamster on 4 November 2007:

Hi my Nokia N95 says that it is unable to play media clip what do i have to do.

steamywindows on 20 November 2007:

I’m using the above setting but with the 3gp extention which is working fine, but only works in Real player and not the Nokia video app. the disadvatages of this is that you have to start right back at the beginning of the movie if you stop and start it. Any sugestions?
N95 8GB

April Brill on 22 November 2007:

Keep up the good work.
It is interesting.

Jez on 26 November 2007:

Does anyone know how to transfer the file onto an n95 8gb as you cant take the memory card out anymore ?

N95 user on 4 December 2007:

Dan M. I don’t recommend the N95 for you. Anyone that uses Txt speak in situations other than txting on a cell phone probably lacks the mental capacity to operate anything this functionally complex.

The rest of you should check out Super http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

- Fast fast fast!
- Converts all movie formats.
- Free.
- Did I mention it was fast?

ni on 4 December 2007:

Hi I tried these steps for my N95 8GB and I just get the message “invalid clip operation canceled”. Is there a different process for the N95 8GB?

Sameh Makram on 10 January 2008:

Dude are you serious about how slow this Nokia Video Manager is???

Clive Goodwin on 15 January 2008:

I’m trying to put Transformers on my phone & having real trouble… Tried the settings at the top & I only get sound! I’m trying the Export movie to 3GP method, as explained by Madoktor instead of the MPEG4 to see if that works!? I’ll post my results later ;o)

sifte on 16 January 2008:

Clive Goodwin

thanks for sharing the info!
one question though, you phone is N95-1 v12 firmware right?
do you know if it makes any difference between N95-1 and N95-2 in terms of converting/playing video!

thanks again

Starscream on 19 January 2008:

Okay guys ive succesfully converted the file into mp4 format as it was described on this site using Quicktime. Now the problem occurs when i try to play that file on my N95 8gb it opens it but then say cannot play the file please i need help.
Thanx

Yolly on 19 January 2008:

Hi-

Thanks for the info.

While we are troubleshooting here- i set up mail for exchange and it is wokring great.

However, when i delete the email off the phone, it also deletes it off the server and my outlook. I understand they are synced, but with the phone like a blackberry, the emails would remain in outlook and on the server.

Is there a setting or something I can do so that the email when deleted from my phone does not also delete from the server and outlook?

Thanks.

sifte on 20 January 2008:

Clive

I dont know why but quicktime just does nt work for me!! It converts very well, and after conversion quicktime does playback the video. But when I transfer to my N95 8GB I only get audio!
and so far only ImTOO worked perfectly and everytime!! The quality is ok (I cant compare as others did nt quite work!)

Hope Nokia would update their software in near future (highly unlikely)

Where is Mark? on 29 January 2008:

All these question and Mark is not here to help/answer?…Lol.

I just got my N95 yesterday… I’m having a lot of problems as well. I’ve been online for hours looking for solutions and nothing.
SUPER did not work for my computer. It said my computer did not have the requirements/CPU (Funny, cause I just got my computer last week)
I tried IMTOO…nothing…My Nokia Real Player will not play the videos.. but plays the sound. 3pg file(s)(IMTOO) was way off sync as well.
I’ve downloaded a lot of crap… just to try to put 2 FREAKIN’ MOVIES (300 & GLADIATOR) and no luck. I hope this will work… if not, then I guess I’m going to go with Coreplayer!
Sad because I wanted to stick with Nokias Real PLayer instead of a 3rd party.

(I have the N95-3 NAM)

Zep on 6 March 2008:

I’ve tried your method with my Mac (Quicktime seems to be the only way to make a video…)

Sadly, I can’t read the MP4 video with my N95 8go (it tells me “error audio/video”.. I can hear sound but there’s no image).

How can I do ??

Thank you

Mark on 22 March 2008:

Guys use DVD Fab Platinum.

1. Open The Programme.
2. Source at the top select your file. It can be in the form of an iso or maybe a Folder that you have ripped to your Drive. You can also stick a dvd in your player and use directly from there.
3. Target. Click on the folder and select desktop. (it’s what i do) You can save it elsewhere it’s upto you.
4. In the Menu On the left DVD TO MOBILE select Cell Phone. It should by default select the main movie only in the title section. On the right you have Audio, select your audio.
5. Under that there is a subpicture section DE-SELECT this unless you want the subtitles to showup in the end file while playing it on your phone. (I didn’t de-select this the first time and was frigging annoyed to have the subtitles hardcoded into the file while playing so remember to do this.).
6. Click on Next.
7. Under task list should be your file. Click on Configure at the bottom.
8. This is important. The bit that says Device has TWO dropdown boxes. Leave the first as Cellphone. On the 2nd box, drop it down and select Nokia 93/95 (mp4). Remember to do this each time you do a file.
9. I leave everything else in that page as default. All i do is make sure the FRAME RESOLUTION is set to 320×240 which it normally is, but check just to be sure. You could also change the encoding to 2-pass which does give out a better finish film, but i’m not to fussy and usually leave it one-pass. Have a fiddle and see what you prefer. Once that is done just click on OK and then start. Leave the software alone for a while while it does it’s thing and you should have a mp4 file inside a folder created on your desktop when it’s done. Just copy that file to your my videos section on your phone and away you go.

Sifte on 23 March 2008:

Hassan>> try ImTOO MP4 video converter 3
Mark>> DVD Fab Platinum is only good when you have the DVD in hand, but its a good piece of software, thanks!

JettaMan on 14 April 2008:

Hello, I’ve been looking around for a long time but I can’t find a program that converts Real Media formats to mp4. Windows, and Apple’s doesn’t do it. Do you guys know where I can get a program to do that?

CONFUSED GIRL on 15 May 2008:

I have recently got a new N95 8gb phone. I am trying to transfer movies which are already in 3gp format from my pc to my cell using Lifeblog n nokia video manager. But i get an error saying some required codec is missing. What does that mean? After reading all the above comments I think King n Graham are facing the same problem as me. What are codecs? How do I know which codecs I need n from which site can i download them? Are they free or do u need to pay for them? I need answers to these questions. Someone PLEASE help me!

Mark on 27 May 2008:

Ley_Ho_Mah

What setting do you use and does it give you a movie at fullscreen..?

Sifte on 28 May 2008:

Apologies.
SUPER worked for me this time, last time I used Vista and could not make it to work (VISTA SUX).

with SUPER you can even crop your videos to see full screen, you just need to know how much to crop, I had a link before, will post if I can find. I like Super cz I had problems with Audio/Video Sync with other conversions but that can arise from other issues like PC config/Processor usage etc.

There is another great free software called PS3Video9. A great guy named “btc” provided his tutorial few months ago but the link has changed. the following is the working link -

http://www.n95users.com/forum/third-party-apps/1158-ps3video9-video-conversion.html

Hope this helps.

¬Sifte

Palpal on 1 June 2008:

Hi there,

Why are you guys encoding with 700kbits on a 320×240 video? The old VHS size. h.264 should do great with a lot less.

After a few tests with VisualHub I have come to the conclusion that a 700mb movie at… maybe 716 x 296 pixels should be less than 250mb converted for the Nokia phone. Your goal should be good quality, small file size. Why overdo the bitrate, when it can be hard to see the difference.

Check - Mpeg4 and h.264 in VisualHub
Check - Two pass VBR

Calculate aspect ratio. Ex. 716 x 296 pixels…
716/296=2.42 -> 320/2.42=132
Result: 320×132 pixels

Set file size within 250mb for a 700mb file.
Set sound to Auto (good sound is important)

Encode!

This should result in a file well under 250mb at a bitrate around 300kbits. Quality above artifacts and with a clear image.

A finger rule for me encoding movies and TV-series to 320×240 from 600 or 700 pixel files is: File size = 36%.

That should be enough data. Don’t forget the aspect ratio.

Happy encoding!

Ben on 14 June 2008:

Hey guys,

I found a lot of this quite useful but also perhaps misleading if you are using an N95 8gb with the latest Symbian OS and converting videos on a Mac (I have no idea how Quicktime Pro works on the PC). The problem I found, which seems to be a common one, was that no matter how I jiggered about with the settings, h.264 movies were coming back with either bad sound or no image. Perhaps had I had more patience I might have found the ideal setting, but from what I have read this seems to be difficult and (oddly) seems to vary.

In a last ditch attempt I tried the default settings, (although I have since bumped up kbps to 512 for better quality and switch on “preserve aspect ratio” so as not to crimp the movies) and the output MP4s play without a hitch.

This converts .AVI perfectly well (including torrents) that can be played back in the N95 8gb Realplayer app. at fullscreen in either orientation. I have yet to try it on alternative file types supported by Quicktime. The conversion rate changes a 350 meg .AVI into a 195 meg MP4.

To clarify, the settings I am using are:

File Format: MP4 (ISMA)
Video Format: Mpeg-4 (Improved)
Data Rate: 512 kbits/sec
Preserve aspect ratio using letterbox
Framerate: 30
Key Frame: every 24 frames

Quicktime Pro version 7.4.5
Intel Macbook OS 10.5.3
The Nokia is from O2 UK and is the N95 8GB Black running Symbian 0S S60 3rd Edition

Hope that helps some people

Ben

whits on 29 June 2008:

Just downloaded Rambo 08 to my N95 8GB plays great sounds great, just converted avi file to mp4 using I’m TOO convertor np’s!!! Got full version on a disc with serial number.