Nokia N810. AVI not supported.....
 

Taking pictures and video on my Canon SD1000, removing the card and putting into the N810. I can view the still photos, but it won't play back the movies I recorded. The movie is listed as this under file manager, removable memory. MVI_0035. When I try to play it, it opens the Media Player and gives me "File format not supported" After I hit okay, its listed as MVI_0035.AVI

I'm totally new to this, and not at all tech savvy. Can somebody please help. Thanks in advance!!!!

(I have a mini SDHC 4gb card)

Re: Nokia N810. AVI not supported.....
 

You probably need to use the Internet Tablet Video Converter

http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/videoconverter

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Have you tried Mplayer? *.avi is like *.doc, there's no telling what's hiding behind the extension.

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install mplayer i've yet to get a file it can't play.

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Can't imagine that 'old' video formats like MPEG1/2, MJPEG are supported. It doesn't matter what player app you choose. In MPlayer it will be a slideshow with distorted sound.

I can't play movies from a Canon digicam or a MPEG2 stream from my DVB card. These ~640x480 formats are to much for a N8x0.

If you have the time in holiday/business and your notebook, you can convert it to a MPG4/DivX format. Or instead of that: use your notebook to watch the movie. And let your tablet at home if this one can't play usual movie files :(

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Thank you all for your help. I'm trying to play the movies by taking the card directly out of the Canon, and playing it in my NIT. I'll be travelling for a year, and was hoping to upload the movies to an online site. So, I won't have another "safe" computer to do this from...just me and my trusty N810. If i shrink the resolution on the movie from 640, to 320 and from 30 fps to 15fps, do you think that will work, or do you think I should install the MPlayer on the N810. Thank you all so much!!!

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Upload the movie with your N810 to an online site is no problem. Playing a movie recorded from a Canon digicam isn't that what you expect.

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Well, I was hoping I wouldn't have to step into any intenet cafes unless I absolutely had to...was hoping to use free hotspots to do all of my transactions in fear of what computers in internet cafes can do to one's self security. Plus, I'd like to watch them on the internet tablet, then upload them. I guess I'll try MPlayer and let you all know how it goes. thanks to all!!!!

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funny that the movie included with the N810 file called NokiaN810.avi is obviously an avi video file. And it plays too.

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I tried MPlayer and it doesn't play the movies that i downloaded that the preinstalled media player had no problem playing before, and it won't play the movies i recorded on canon either. MPlayer sort of plays the movies I had before, but not the ones I took on my Canon...some sound from the Canon video, but that lasts about 3 secs. Any other suggestions? Since I'm clueless about formatting, should I format the SDHC card on my NIT, before I use it in Canon? Thanks in advance!!!!

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I've never had any look playing video I record from my Canon camera. Heck, even the video converters error out from the file. But it does work with .avi files..I've noticed it's only the canon recorded .avi files that I have that choke on the conveter.

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i have an SD1000, the AVI's use MJPEG compression, even to edit or play that on windows sometimes u need the MJPEG decoder/encoder

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I have a Canon A720 IS. mplayer will play the Canon video well if I record the video on the Canon at 320 x 240. If I use 640 x 480 mplayer does not play it. I did a pretty extensive search and found a couple of commercial conversion software packages that will convert the 640 x 480 video to lower resolution which works with mplayer. As I recall they cost about $30 US. I did not find any free software that would convert the Canon AVI files.

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First, you don't need to format the SD card in the NIT first. Apparently it can "see" the card, it just can't play your Canon's avi files.

Since you have the Canon encoding at a size greater than the NIT can handle, it makes sense to me that they don't play. And for your on-the-road circumstances, it sounds like you aren't going to convert the files unless you do it in the N800 itself.

Nobody in this thread has come up with a way to do the conversion within the NIT. But it sounds like you can set preferences with the Canon to make 320 x 240 movies. So why don't you just do that when you want to watch them on the NIT. Other, larger-format movies you could upload to the 'net via the NIT for later viewing.

BTW, you don't have to worry about internet cafes and identity security if you aren't doing things like using your password to check your bank account. So it would be safe to use them; the problem is that the computers you get to use almost certainly aren't going to have the conversion software you need.

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well, i'll find out if canola or mplayer will make this 300 mp4 movie the most enjoyable, should be ready by the morning[IMG]http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3...0mp4an3.th.png[/IMG]

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ahh, canola kept skipping the 300 mp4 movie, to the next movie when selected, but the native media player handles it with ease!

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I don't know if it's too late to help but I found that if I had an Avi file, I just renamed it to .mpg and pasted the file onto the N800 card and when I ran it, it played perfectly.
There was also a file that was on my hard drive that was called (filename).avi.mpg and that played on the N800 too. So also did a movie straight from my Panasonic Camera that is an Apple .mov So I think you've either got to convert the files that won't play into mpg1 format. Lots of free applications do this on the PC. Or do as others have rightly said here, to use the Nokia Converter to make it compatible.
There seems little quality loss in the re-formatting of the movie file.

Hope that was helpful and not too late. Try renaming the avi as .mpg after all an avi is an mpg but it's different compression and probably slightly different codecs too.
Plado