Video playback from windows mobile phone

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TMC2K - 25 Apr 2007 18:32 GMT

Do I understand the following.
MS ships an operating system Windows Mobile with Windows Media Player.
When I record a video on my Windows Mobile phone (Treo 750) using Media
Player, it records in .3gp format. I can not play this format on My computer
running XP WMP 11. I can not chose a different format to record on the phone.

How do I share video with others on their PCs without me or them having to
install all sorts of encoding software or codecs?

Why is this the case? Is there something missing in Windows Mobile or from
the phone maker?

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Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] - 28 Apr 2007 17:40 GMT

>Do I understand the following.
>MS ships an operating system Windows Mobile with Windows Media Player.
>When I record a video on my Windows Mobile phone (Treo 750) using Media
>Player, it records in .3gp format.

Media player on windows mobile has no recording functions. So, you
must be using some other capture software on the phone (what is it?)

> I can not play this format on My computer
>running XP WMP 11. I can not chose a different format to record on the phone.

FFDShow can be used to "read" the 3GPP video stream (it's actually
MPEG4 data)

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173941

>How do I share video with others on their PCs without me or them having to
>install all sorts of encoding software or codecs?

You can't guarantee that. So you would need to "transcode" the data.
In theory, if you have FFDShow installed (so WMP can play the file),
windows moviemaker should be able to read the data and convert it to
the WMV video file format. Most windows users should be able to view
that in media player versions 7-11.

Cheers - Neil
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