[videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP
Hi everyone: I know this has probably been brought up before (I know I've mentioned it a few times), but I'm wondering that, now it seems we have a fairly good idea as to where 3GP is going, which settings would be best to use. The reason I ask is because I want to make versions of my videos for people to play back on the cell phones and other portable devices. The only problem is all the programs out there use so many freakin' different profiles in an effort to cover EVERY FRIGGIN PHONE OUT THERE, it's hard to figure out which profile to use. I'm thinking of just simply going with the Blackberry & Motorola for the most basic support. From there, I'm looking at encoding for large and small screens. From there, I'm thinking of using THE OLDEST profile setting since newer devices are bound to be backwards compatible to begin with. My question is would this be the simplest way to go or would I be going down the wrong route? Of course, since it's unlikely that one account will be able to accomondate the videos without compromising the integrity of the RSS feed, I'll have to have more than one account, but as long as the feeds are promoted on the main blog, it shouldn't matter. Thoughts? Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS & PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP
When I post videos (I haven't for months) I try to also upload them to Share on Ovi, which converts them to 3gp automatically and provides a mobile compatible channel for you to link to from your blog and an RSS feed. Gives me another outlet where people can watch my videos, and saves the hassle of converting them myself and worrying about the best way to make my blog compatible for older video phones. Rupert On 11-Feb-09, at 10:20 PM, Pat Cook wrote: Hi everyone: I know this has probably been brought up before (I know I've mentioned it a few times), but I'm wondering that, now it seems we have a fairly good idea as to where 3GP is going, which settings would be best to use. The reason I ask is because I want to make versions of my videos for people to play back on the cell phones and other portable devices. The only problem is all the programs out there use so many freakin' different profiles in an effort to cover EVERY FRIGGIN PHONE OUT THERE, it's hard to figure out which profile to use. I'm thinking of just simply going with the Blackberry & Motorola for the most basic support. From there, I'm looking at encoding for large and small screens. From there, I'm thinking of using THE OLDEST profile setting since newer devices are bound to be backwards compatible to begin with. My question is would this be the simplest way to go or would I be going down the wrong route? Of course, since it's unlikely that one account will be able to accomondate the videos without compromising the integrity of the RSS feed, I'll have to have more than one account, but as long as the feeds are promoted on the main blog, it shouldn't matter. Thoughts? Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS & PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http:// asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/ theleftwingconservative/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP
Hi everyone: Well finding a host is THE LEAST of my concerns right now. I have one which I use for my audio podcast although they support audio AND video (And even then, I can always get multiple accounts with all the email addresses I have:D). My main concern is encoding my videos whereas they can be decoded and played back by the vast majority of mobile devices on the market. I realize I may not be able to hit every one, but if I can get a simple majority of them, that would REALLY make me a happy camper. :D Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS & PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ From: Rupert Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 23:28 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP When I post videos (I haven't for months) I try to also upload them to Share on Ovi, which converts them to 3gp automatically and provides a mobile compatible channel for you to link to from your blog and an RSS feed. Gives me another outlet where people can watch my videos, and saves the hassle of converting them myself and worrying about the best way to make my blog compatible for older video phones. Rupert On 11-Feb-09, at 10:20 PM, Pat Cook wrote: Hi everyone: I know this has probably been brought up before (I know I've mentioned it a few times), but I'm wondering that, now it seems we have a fairly good idea as to where 3GP is going, which settings would be best to use. The reason I ask is because I want to make versions of my videos for people to play back on the cell phones and other portable devices. The only problem is all the programs out there use so many freakin' different profiles in an effort to cover EVERY FRIGGIN PHONE OUT THERE, it's hard to figure out which profile to use. I'm thinking of just simply going with the Blackberry & Motorola for the most basic support. From there, I'm looking at encoding for large and small screens. From there, I'm thinking of using THE OLDEST profile setting since newer devices are bound to be backwards compatible to begin with. My question is would this be the simplest way to go or would I be going down the wrong route? Of course, since it's unlikely that one account will be able to accomondate the videos without compromising the integrity of the RSS feed, I'll have to have more than one account, but as long as the feeds are promoted on the main blog, it shouldn't matter. Thoughts? Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS & PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http:// asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/ theleftwingconservative/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP
My advice would be to forget 3GP. I'm working on a project that was originally going to support 3GP, but we decided to abandon it, because it doesn't make sense for us to chase every device that can play video. We decided that we will take a different route and only support the iPhone, iPod Touch and higher-end Nokia S60 devices. Yes, there are plenty of other devices, but we'd rather target the handsets whose owners are likely to afford the data plans needed to enjoy videos on the go and provide them with nice H.264 content instead of crappy 3GP content. The 3GP-enabled phones are used by the non-tech savvy majority who will never watch our content because they don't know how or can't afford the prices the operators are asking for data transfer. Rather that waste our time on creating crappy videos that nobody'll watch, we are focusing our efforts on producing high-quality videos for those who are interested and can afford to download them. Just my $0.02 -- Jacek Artymiak http://devGuide.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50168432081 Twitter: http://twitter.com/devguide RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/devguide-net
Re: [videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP
Hi everyone: Well in my case, my content is **SPECIFICALLY** for the non-tech savvy person (Many of whom probably don't have unlimited data plans). Besides, many phones come with a way to hook it up to a USB port on a computer or hub controller anyway. True it's mainly used to transfer pictures, but there's NOTHING stopping you from transferring video from your computer to your phone. Granted it'd be slower than it would if you were transferring from computer to computer or computer to CD/DVD or perhaps even computer to your iPod. But it'd be worth it IMO. On top of that, but correct me if I'm wrong here, but aren't ESPN, CNN, the NFL, NBC Sports, The Olympics & others already streaming LIVE video in 3GP? HmmmI seemingly recall that. Perhaps I was mistaken? Cheers :D Pat Cook patsbl...@live.com Denver, CO BLOGS & PODCASTS AS MY WORLD TURNS - http://asmyworldturnsblog.blogspot.com/ AS MY WEIGHT LOSS WORLD TURNS - http://asmyweightlossworldturns.blogspot.com/ THE LEFT WING CONSERVATIVE - http://www.geocities.com/theleftwingconservative/ From: Jacek Artymiak Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 14:19 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Encoding In 3GP My advice would be to forget 3GP. I'm working on a project that was originally going to support 3GP, but we decided to abandon it, because it doesn't make sense for us to chase every device that can play video. We decided that we will take a different route and only support the iPhone, iPod Touch and higher-end Nokia S60 devices. Yes, there are plenty of other devices, but we'd rather target the handsets whose owners are likely to afford the data plans needed to enjoy videos on the go and provide them with nice H.264 content instead of crappy 3GP content. The 3GP-enabled phones are used by the non-tech savvy majority who will never watch our content because they don't know how or can't afford the prices the operators are asking for data transfer. Rather that waste our time on creating crappy videos that nobody'll watch, we are focusing our efforts on producing high-quality videos for those who are interested and can afford to download them. Just my $0.02 -- Jacek Artymiak http://devGuide.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50168432081 Twitter: http://twitter.com/devguide RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/devguide-net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
