Re: How to play vdr recordings on your phone

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Ed wrote:

Clipped from
http://www.pvrguide.no-ip.com/bbs/index.php?showtopic=4959

If you have a nice new mobile phone there is a good chance it supports 
3pg video files. For example the Nokia 6320.
Follow these steps to transfer a vdr recording to your phone.
Lets face it - it will impress your mates when you watch tv on your mobile 
(Sorry to all the linux fans. This uses a windows pc for the transfer 
and processing so you need to copy your files off to that pc using samba 
shares or winscp)

To make the conversion work you will need codec drivers to see the video 
and hear the audio. The easiest way to get everything you need is to 
download the ffdshow codec set.

Get a copy of PVAStrumento and run it.
Click on the file browse button "..."
Select vdr file (you can select multiple files if recording is split)
Select MAKE PS
Use all default settings except set packet size to 2048
If you are getting the output from this program split into seperate 
files then take out the 3 options that say 'split if .......' in video 
and audio.
This may not be a good idea as the video or audio format has changed 
during the recording.
Change the file name and take away the starting '\' otherwise the output 
file is going to be on the root of your C: drive.
Hit start (this takes just few minutes but some people have said it 
looks like it freezes at about 90% and waits for 10 minutes)

Now get a copy of VirtualDub-MPeg2 (note it has to be the MPEG2 version 
not the standard version)
click on file and open and select the MPEG file you just created.
You need to set one option. Click on video / compression and select the 
codec for compression (eg ffdshow codec)
select save as AVI
(This takes about the same time as the recording)
If it errors out during the encode with an error about bad frames - run 
it again but select options and debug and tell it not to stop encoding.

and for the final step you need the Nokia Media player. Note if you have 
installed the cd that comes with your nokia phone that gives you the 
suite of tools you will probably already have this installed.
Click on file and open.
select your new avi file.
press STOP as it will start playing it.
click on file and save as
select '3gp video files' as the type of file and select the 'no size 
limit' and the screen size of your mobile phone for example for a nokia 
you would use 128x96
select the location and give it a name.
(this step takes about the same time as the recording)
Once this file has been created you can transfer to your phone memory 
and watch.

This may not be the fastest method (or give the best quality) but I have 
to start somewhere. Feel free to comment if you know of better tools or 
better settings.





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