Converting from 3gp to regular video

[lanceaustin]

like i have got video clips on 3gp format is there any option in windows which i can use to convert them into avi or wave or any video format...

 

[pbxman]

http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,5184,5371,00.html

As far as I know - it's proprietary and you need their player..

Im sure someone will hack it soon - looks like this guy got close:

"I noticed that Nokia's .3gp File are simpy ffh263 encoded Therefore, it's easy to get MPlayer playing those videos.First download MPlayer and install it. (Note that mplayer should have support for ffmpeg, so ffmpeg developer libraries have to be installed). If you try to watch a video from your Nokia with mplayer right now, it will most likely fail with an error message like this one:

Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33363273.

This is easily fixed though:

1. Copy the codecs.conf file from mplayer sources etc/ directory to ~/.mplayer/
2. Add the following line under the videocodec ffh263 (just search for it) section:

format 0x33363273

Watching videos should work now. Also converting is possible

This command converts the .3gp to a DivX4:
# mencoder -ovc divx4 -nosound "Video.3gp" -o Video.avi

I'm still profiling a bit. I will update this entry, as soon as I found an appropriate bitrate and got sound conversion working"



pbxman
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