Has anyone converted movies for iPHone??

A few days ago, in answer to one of the spammers on many of these sellphone
newsgroups, I posted the webpages for a FREE, open source, and great
running mp4 converter that would convert various movie formats into mp4,
some of the sizes and speeds I thought would be compatible with the
iPhones.

This was not done as a troll or in some attempt to poke fun at the iPhone,
but an honest attempt to do something nice for them and save them some
serious money buying some spammer's software they were hawking, here.

The webpages where the software is stored is our garage.maemo.org
repository of software to support the Nokia N770/800/810 Linux tablets, but
this software doesn't run on the tablets. It runs on a wide variety of OS
platforms it has been ported to by simply making it a java cross platform
app from some really hard working coders from across the planet, then
running it in the native JAVA runtime modules installed in their various OS
machines.

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/mediaconverter/

44,255 people have downloaded and installed this GNU freeware, including
me, and it works fantastic converting full length movies to a more tablet-
friendly, compact format that doesn't take so much memory card space/movie.
Any movie your main computer can play will convert to MP4 and run fine, at
least on my N800 tablet under Maemo Linux OS2007 I have on it at the
moment. The video is stunning! An old John Wayne western looks like fuzzy
on the big monitor, but once converted and the result played on the tablet,
it looks great...and I don't know why.

But, It's been days since I posted it, and not a single simple reply has
come back to us to report how well, if any, it runs on the iPhone or which
format looks best as the converter has many sizes and formats to choose
from. The software is quite simple to run and is made for the end user,
not the Linux hackers.

Maybe I'm not waiting long enough. If I were a jailbroke iPhone owner, I'd
certainly try playing something free before forking over $30-40 to some
spammer. It simply doesn't make any sense why there's been no reports.

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At 04 Mar 2008 01:51:09 +0000 Larry wrote:

> But, It's been days since I posted it, and not a single simple reply has
> come back to us to report how well, if any, it runs on the iPhone or
which
> format looks best as the converter has many sizes and formats to choose
> from. The software is quite simple to run and is made for the end user,
> not the Linux hackers.
>
> Maybe I'm not waiting long enough. If I were a jailbroke iPhone owner,
I'd
> certainly try playing something free before forking over $30-40 to some
> spammer. It simply doesn't make any sense why there's been no reports.

Maybe because no one needed it? I myself have several good freeware
converters on my system already, including the very fast PocketDivx that,
while not as configurable as some others, is the one I use when I'm in a
hurry. It's quick and can do batches of videos at a time.

Many iPhone owners are Mac owners and have an assortment of native apps to
choose from as well, that don't require a Java runtime.

I'm not knocking the app you're suggesting- but it'd kind of be like coming
here and posting about a great new freeware word processing app you liked.
Odds are we've got that function covered and see no need to try something
new if we're happy with, and used to, what we've already got.

Todd Allcock wrote:
>
> Maybe because no one needed it? I myself have several good freeware
> converters on my system already, including the very fast PocketDivx
> that, while not as configurable as some others, is the one I use when
> I'm in a hurry. It's quick and can do batches of videos at a time.

And keep in mind iTunes does it with a simple right-click.

But I do use PocketDivx for DVDs. Well, to be frank I don't really bother
anymore. For a few bucks I just rent the thing from iTunes--usually the
$1.99 weekly special. Surprisingly good quality. I very rarely watch a movie
more than once so the rental thing is fine for me.



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Mike