convert videos to 3gp

[mistrynitesh]

Hello all!
I am looking for an application that can convert a mpeg / ogg or any other video format into 3gp, so that I can view them on my phone. Tried to search the Adept_Manager list, but to no avail. Also tried searching the forums, but no one seems to be looking for something like this.

Does any one know of such a converter? Or is there any utility directly built into Kaffeine or something, which I am not aware of?

[Snowhog]

Re: convert videos to 3gp

Disclaimer: I have no experience or affiliation with the following link. It took just a bit of Google searching to find it.

3gp converter 0.6

[Rog131]

Re: convert videos to 3gp

Two programs for video conversion :

man ffmpeg (in konqueror-> man:ffmpeg)

NAME
ffmpeg - FFmpeg video converter

SYNOPSIS
ffmpeg [[infile options][-i infile]]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

DESCRIPTION
If no input file is given, audio/video grabbing is done.

As a general rule, options are applied to the next specified file. For
example, if you give the -b 64 option, it sets the video bitrate of the
next file. The format option may be needed for raw input files.

By default, FFmpeg tries to convert as losslessly as possible: It uses
the same audio and video parameters for the outputs as the one speci‐
fied for the inputs.

man mencoder (in konqueror-> man:mencoder)

NAME
mplayer - movie player
mencoder - movie encoder

MEncoder wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEncoder

MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is a close sibling to MPlayer and can convert all the formats that MPlayer understands into a variety of compressed and uncompressed formats using different codecs.

Maybe these help:
HOWTO: Convert movie files to 3gp (mobile) format with sound.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=375286

Convert Video to 3GPP
http://www.niemueller.de/wiki/index....vertVideoTo3GP

[mistrynitesh]

Re: convert videos to 3gp

Typing "man:ffmpeg" in Konqueror on my machine returns the following message

KDE Man Viewer Error
No man page matching to ffmpeg found.

Check that you have not mistyped the name of the page that you want. Be careful that you must take care about upper case and lower case characters!
If everything looks correct, then perhaps you need to set a better search path for man pages, be it by the environment variable MANPATH or a matching file in the directory /etc .

"man:mencoder" gives the same result.

Maybe these help:
HOWTO: Convert movie files to 3gp (mobile) format with sound.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=375286
Convert Video to 3GPP
http://www.niemueller.de/wiki/index....vertVideoTo3GP

the solution provided at the above two sites are too geeky for me... I mean, I am not so conversant with running scripts and all. I will sure learn these when I find time, but in the meanwhile, ain't there any package which can be installed right away and used as it is?