Video photos and music sharing with my phone
Video photos and music sharing with my phone I have a snazzy new geek-phone, a Shuttle from Virgin Mobile. It has a 4GB MicroSD slot so files can be exchanged with my Xubuntu system. Phone Video is in .3G2 format. The video plays in Totem, but the sound doesnt. YouTube properly uploads and converts the .3G2 videos (no need to share by e-mail). I plan to archive the .3G2 videos in their original format. This command successfully converts the .3G2 to a .avi for viewing by totem: $ mencoder media/disk/my_flix/inputfile.3g2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o Videos/outputfile.avi Computer Video Havent figured out the right command to convert movies to .3G2 yet. Phone Pictures are in .jpg format. Xubuntus standard Image Viewer is very effective for weeding through them. Computer Pictures Large pictures take a long time to show up - a 2.4 MB image froze the phone for 30 seconds. The following script uses Imagemagick to resize the photos to a smaller size...