Playing M4V files in the Nokia 800

[rla1999]

Is there a way to play M4V files for Mac in the Nokia N800? If so, what program is out there for it? or Is there a good video converter out there I can use to convert the M4V files to files playable in the N800?

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

RLA1999

[jperez2009]

Google is your friend when it comes to finding converter software. :)

Convert to MP4/FLV/AVI, install MPlayer and view either in MPlayer, Media Player, Canola2 (resource heavy), KMPlayer, etc.

MV4 to MP4 Search Results (http://www.google.com/search?q=m4v+to+mp4&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)

MV4 to FLV Search Results (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=T3E&q=m4v+to+flv&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10)

MV4 to AVI Search Results (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=ykZ&q=m4v+to+avi&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10)

Jesse~

[benny1967]

as far as I know, there's no such thing as an M4V file... technically. it's just a file extension that's used by some vendors instead of the MP4 you'd normally see.

So what you have is an MPEG4 file. If it's created for playback on an Apple device, it's probably MPEG4/AVC (=H.264) instead of the regular MPEG4/ASP.

N800/N810 does play such files. There are restrictions to bitrate and other encoding parameters, though, so if it doesn't play, it's not because it's "M4V", but because it happens to be not the right kind of M4V.

Depending on which platform you're running on your desktop, use any method described in the Wiki (http://wiki.maemo.org/Video_encoding) to make the file run.

(Oh, btw: on H.264 files, Nokia's Media Player usually does a better job than mplayer and other players using mplayer as their backend.)

[rla1999]

Google is your friend when it comes to finding converter software. :)

Convert to MP4/FLV/AVI, install MPlayer and view either in MPlayer, Media Player, Canola2 (resource heavy), KMPlayer, etc.

MV4 to MP4 Search Results (http://www.google.com/search?q=m4v+to+mp4&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)

MV4 to FLV Search Results (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=T3E&q=m4v+to+flv&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10)

MV4 to AVI Search Results (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=ykZ&q=m4v+to+avi&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10)

Jesse~
Jesse, That was the first thing I did. But none of the video converter software I downloaded seemed to work. At least not the free ones. I am sure if I pay for them I could get what I need. But it's not worth it.

[rla1999]

as far as I know, there's no such thing as an M4V file... technically. it's just a file extension that's used by some vendors instead of the MP4 you'd normally see.

So what you have is an MPEG4 file. If it's created for playback on an Apple device, it's probably MPEG4/AVC (=H.264) instead of the regular MPEG4/ASP.

N800/N810 does play such files. There are restrictions to bitrate and other encoding parameters, though, so if it doesn't play, it's not because it's "M4V", but because it happens to be not the right kind of M4V.

Depending on which platform you're running on your desktop, use any method described in the Wiki (http://wiki.maemo.org/Video_encoding) to make the file run.

(Oh, btw: on H.264 files, Nokia's Media Player usually does a better job than mplayer and other players using mplayer as their backend.)
Thanks for the site link, Benny. It's very informative.

[bunanson]

Open your video file with gspot (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/v26x/index.htm), it will tell you codec info.

bun