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In addition to a minor update for PC Suite and iSync plugins for Mac OS, there is a brand new add-on application for the PC Suite: meet Nokia Video Manager.
The purpose of this application is to manage and transfer video clips between your phone/device and PC. The beauty of Video Manager is in the transparent on-the-fly transcoding it does for your video clips when transferred from PC to phone. This way you don't have to care which format, bitrate etc. your material is, it will get optimized quality and size-wise when copied to the phone.
Compatability is promised only for Nokia models 6110 Navigator, Nokia 6290 and Nokia 5700 XpressMusic. What's up with that, I don't know.. I tried it briefly with my Nokia N76 and it seemed to work just fine. Hopefully support is added for other S60 devices also since the video capabilities vary a lot between various models. And who knows the exact parameters for each device better than Nokia?
Let me know your experiences or enhancement ideas!
Update 13.4.2007: Based on comments from users and my experience, looks like in addition to officially compatible devices some of the newer (Nseries) devices can play back MP4 (H.264) videos produced by Video Manager. Those "un-officially" supported devices include N93/N93i, N95, N76 and E90.
-Jukka
Comments
Will it be possible to view with this application also quicktime movies on nokia phones?
Posted by: The Exit | April 12, 2007 04:53 AMYes, you can convert Quicktime (.mov) videos with this application so that they will play on the phone.
Posted by: Jukka Eklund | April 12, 2007 06:38 AMwell, I can live without File-Open... feature (to select individual files instead of searching), but it crashes every time I try to convert something on Vista.
Also i have problems with application crash in Music manager when I try to convert files (converting cd`s is ok).
how can I investigate this problem?
Posted by: panariga | April 12, 2007 06:44 AMcan it be conflict with nero 7?
panariga, sounds like there might some problem with codecs I think Video Manager uses whatever is available in Windows (also from Nero 7 in your case).
It's best you go through official channel ie.
http://www.nokia.com/A4144989
Nokia support discussions might help also, http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/
Posted by: Jukka Eklund | April 12, 2007 08:41 AMI had noticed that too about the device compatibility and just didn't think more about it. Thanks so much for the tip!!
Posted by: Darla | April 12, 2007 08:43 AMIt ain't working with N73 =(
Posted by: Henrique Gusso | April 12, 2007 09:05 AMIt doesn't do DVDs, so I'll stick with Nokia Media Studio from Makayama, which is excellent and also takes DVDs, YouTube movies etc.
Posted by: Vic | April 12, 2007 12:09 PMWill it work with E Series phones?
Posted by: ovidiu | April 12, 2007 06:40 PMHenrique, ovidiu: at this point we can only try and see if it works, I don't have the information. Please post your findings here for others too see!
Posted by: Jukka Eklund | April 13, 2007 02:53 AMI it with N80 (firmware 4.0632.0.38 13-10-2006), but it doesn't work unfortunately. Tried all the different qualities. N80 plays the audio of the clip but doesn't show the video.
Posted by: PanuV | April 13, 2007 04:29 AMI updated the post a bit. Thanks for all the comments so far!
Posted by: Jukka Eklund | April 13, 2007 05:56 AMThis is still the first version of Nokia's Video Manager. It looks like now it supports S60 3rd FP1 devices plus some high-end Nseries. Too bad that I have only N73 and E61 with me now, so I couldn't really try this application.
Posted by: Antony Pranata | April 17, 2007 06:37 PMLet's hope that the next version will support more and more devices.
i like it
Posted by: sanjay | April 18, 2007 12:15 PMIt seems that next version has been published, version 1.5.
http://www.nokia.com/A4370009
Posted by: monty | May 8, 2007 08:21 PMThanks Monty for the tip! Looks like they just updated it. And the compatibility list is updated as well:
Nokia N76, N77, N92, N93, N93i, N95, 5700 XpressMusic, 6110 Navigator, 6120 Classic, and 6290 phones
Although no mention of Eseries and the other 3rd edition (pre FP1) devices...
Posted by: Carol | May 9, 2007 04:10 AMVic, you're right. It doesn't support whole DVD convertion and YouTube service, so I would stay with my Warelex's Mobiola Studio for Nokia.
Posted by: Wiiliam | May 14, 2007 01:15 PMhi
Posted by: falcon | February 17, 2008 10:11 AMHi. Is the application available for N73 phones yet please? Does anyone know when it will be? Or is there a good alternative I could use for now?
Posted by: Fernando | April 13, 2008 01:00 PMThank you