Comments on: Encoding video for the Blackberry Curve on a Mac

By: Don Divinagracia

Don Divinagracia — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:20:59 +0000

Hi,
Good article… Alva, I am just curious, when exporting using 3GP, what settings do you apply? I tried using the 3GP settings on my Blacberry 8800 with:

Video Format: MPEG-4
data Rate: 64 kbits/sec
Image size: 320×240 QVGA (kept spect ration Letterbox)
Frame rate: 15

Though I am able to view the video on my phone, The video is a little choppy…

I don’t mean to sound a perfectionist, but the sample video that was preloaded on my device is way smooooooth. Anybody know the exact settings for that video? All I know is that it was mp4. Thanks guys.

By: TWheatn

TWheatn — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:54:50 +0000

Great Tip. Surprising how painful it was to find this but this is a great post.
Also the follow up with the improved settings for a Curve was very helpful.

Now to find the optimal settings for converting jpgs to send to my Curve

Thanks

By: brian

brian — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:23:39 +0000

Alva, what settings should we use for the QT/Leopard method? There’s a lot to choose from in there! TIA.

By: michaelb

michaelb — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:11:40 +0000

Alva, keep in mind when that post was written Leopard was not released publicly yet, but thanks for that tip.

By: Alva

Alva — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:23:37 +0000

Umm. Using QT on Leopard you then export using 3gpp option (rather than avi) to desktop then load it onto the Blackberry Curve. Seems to be the way it was designed to work.

By: Glen Richardson

Glen Richardson — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:52:24 +0000

Hi Michael,

Thanks for publishing this article, very helpful indeed.

I have a Blackberry Curve 8310 and every video conversion application I tried made the sound go out of sync.

Menucoder works great and very easy to use (just a right click). I edited the Automator workflow file to scale=320 and vbitrate=500 . Works great, very good quality !

Thanks again, I can now watch the WSOP 2007 on my Blackberry !

Glen.