Version 0.85 of Mobile Divx is out.
Click here to download. I wonder what they’ve updated. I told myself I wont upgrade my E61 until I finish SuperMiners. So I also wont upgrade my Divx until I finish that damn game, last few levels . .. last few levels . . .
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I had been perfectly happy with the retro ringtone that was built in with the E61; and now Ed posts about the exquisite ringtones of the Nokia 8800, and now I want more!!!!
Here are some links to some more ringtones . . .
N8800 Sirocco Edition by Brian Eno (Rapidshare)
Original N8800 AAC Ringtones by Ryuichi Sakamoto (YourFileHost)
N5500 Techno Tunes (Rapidshare)
Can someone help me with Dr. Divx? I got some emails before you guys saying that freeware Dr. Divx can be used to convert video files for the E61. I’ve toyed with it a couple of times and all I got were garbage. Can anyone send me their Dr. Divx settings that work?
From Allen.
I found a solution to my sound problem
I just use smartmovie
the sound is perfect and it even speak french(my language)
they also have converter which work very well but a little slowI prefer using mencoder ( i’m from linux) and it is very fast these are my settings
mencoder gives.avi -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:preset=192:mode=3 -lavcopts vbitrate=512 -vf scale=320:240 -ffourcc DIVX -o give512.avi
I hope you will do a new entry using this info so more people will know about this soft
Steve Litchfield wrote an article on how to pump up the volume on the E61 when playing music using the built in music player. In my opinion, just get OggPlay and use the volume boost option.
I’m leaving for Singapore tomorrow morning. I will be there from October 4 to 6. From the 6th to the 8th, we’ll be flying to Siem Reap in Cambodia, then back to Singapore till the 10th of October. I will be away from my blog for a whole week. I’ll try to post updates whenever I can, but don’t hold your breath.
I loaded up my E61 with music and tv episodes. I’ve officially switched from Real Player to DivX. I don’t know if it’s because I’m more used to divx and xvid files or it’s because it is a better app, but for now, divX it is. I used Super before with most of my video conversion, but I’ve had problems with it whenever I had to convert mpegs. I have some old mpegs tucked away in my hard drive and whenever I want to bring those files around, I can’t do so with Super.
One program that I’ve been using for the longest time is TMPGEnc 3.0 Xpress from Pegasys. Version 4.0 is currently out but being the cheapo that I am, I am reluctant to upgrade. And besides, the older version hasn’t given me any problems.
I just wanted to share my E61 template for this program. This was the first time I transcoded videos from different sources using this program, and the settings that I’ve used might not be the most efficient, but for now it works for me.
Size is 320X240 pixels
Framerate is 25 fps
Video Codec is DivX 6.2.5 Codec
Audio Codec is mp3 32kbit/s 16,000Hz, Mono
Before, I scoffed at the idea of encoding videos into mono, but doing so somewhat makes the volume a little bit louder. I have an Athlon64 3200+ generic computer with 1 gig ram and I was able to convert a 42 minute divx file (prisonbreak episode) into a smaller package for the E61 in 16 minutes. The original file size was 350MB. It shrunk down to around 95MB.
Not like with using Super and RealPlayer, I did notice some artifacts (those annoying squarish things that pop up every now and then), but for now they’ll do.
OggPlay took the place of Nokia’s built in Music Player in one of the 7 slots in my Standby Applications Bar. I have very few issues with the built in Music Player but after fiddling with the options in OggPlay, I was convinced that this audio player app. is more suited for my use.
OggPlay is available in two versions, the Non-MMF version which can solely play Ogg Vorbis files and the MMF version which can also handle AAC, MP3, WMA, and other common audio file formats. I have the MMF version installed because most of my music is in AAC.
One of the things that annoy me with the built in Music Player of Nokia is that after playing an audio track, before playing the succeeding file, I get this weird little sound (sounds a bit like a tsk, if you want to get more technical, it sounds like a glottal stop) that is clearly audible when using headphones and I really find it annoying. OggPlay also has a tiny sound inbetween tracks but it’s less pronounced.
I went Oggplay’s website and downloaded the s60v3 version for my E61. I also found a mcNuOggPlayQVLS.SIS file in there that’s supposed to be a skin for phones with 320X240 resultion (which the E61 has). Installation of Oggplay went without a hitch, but when I tried to install the skin, the installation was halted. I got some error messages and I decided to just forget the skin and start OggPlay. Even without installing the skin, OggPlay seemed to work well.
I went back to the OggPlay website and found another skin which is for QVGA devices, and a lightbulb flared in my head. Hmmm… E61 is QVGA so this just might work (even if the QVGA file is for 240X320). I stubbornly installed it and it got through. I scratched my head and wondered why a file that shouldn’t work with my phone got installed with no glitches, but the one thats supposed to be for the E61 gets error messages. I clicked OggPlay once more and . .gaaah!!! . . . Oggplay occupied just two thirds of my screen. I tried to uninstall OggPlay and I couldn’t. Once more some error messages. I then uninstalled the skin and OggPlay reverted back to its original state.
OggPlay is skinnable. There are some interesting skins available out there but sadly none for the E61.
Digging through the options in OggPlay, I found probably the singular feature that made me switch music players. OggPlay has a volume boost feature. This can be accessed by Options > Options … > Settings > Volume Boost (and make sure no music file is playing, the options menu won’t show up if the player is active).
If you’re like me, you’ll find that the built in audio player sounds tiny especially when you’re walking in noisy streets or riding a subway train thats more crowded than Times Square on New Years Eve. The 12 db Volume Gain enabled me to totally tune out everything on my ordinary Audio Technica earbuds. I would assume that those with in-ear headphones wouldn’t have problems with the volume, but for the rest of us that can’t afford $100 canalphones, the volume boost is a welcome feature.
Also, don’t forget to assign hotkeys to everything. The default hotkeys (shortcuts) will have 2 and 8 functioning as PageUp and PageDown when scrolling through your music collection; 4 and 6 as Rewind and FastForward. All 12 hotkeyscan be customized and assigned to a specific number key (0 to 9, * and #).
One thing though that I miss with the built in Audio Player is its ability to minimize to the Standby Screen. Oh well . . .
Convergence has probably been the big word for the past couple of years in mobile telephony — Cellphones that act like PDAs, Nokia being ranked as the number 4 manufacturer of digital cameras (on the basis of their camera enabled phones), massive on-board storage for mp3s and videos on certain phone models; It’s no surprise that Nokia recently unveiled products specifically to enhance the experience of listening music on their mobile handsets.
Check out CNet for the complete list of music accessories for Nokia mobile phones.
Is it just me or the new fashion headset (BH-302) really looks hideous? I like the new 40mm headphones though 
DivX on the E61!!! Woohoo!!! No more reconverting divx to mp4.
Get it here.
I haven’t had much time to play with it, but one thing I learned is that its default full screen mode is Landscape which doesn’t really suit the E61.
Dig through the menu and change the fullscreen mode to portrait.
More of my thoughts later. :)
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