Turns out the app is worthless and does not work. I guess I am back to using Seabyrds Video Converter. Thanks for the heads up Brian & Deb.
After months with no updates for Seabyrds Video Converter I am glad to see another contender offering a free BlackBerry video converter. Stefano has discovered a new converter called MediaCell BlackBerry video converter 2.0 which supports many formats. I have copied the description below for reference. I will be trying this out tomorrow and I will report back with what I find.
Website: http://www.media-cell.com/
Alternate Download Site: http://www.freshfolder.com/file-60523
MediaCell Video Converter for Blackberry is the best software for MP4 file conversion of portable Blackberry devices. MediaCell Blackberry Converter introduces unmatchable video compresssion ratio and conversion speed (7 times of the playback). . The technology that lies behind MediaCell allows us to re-compress Video files without causing any addition loss in video quality. Key Features: Unmatchable video compresssion ratio and conversion speed is 7 times of the playback speed. Support Set the start position and end position of source file to convert (cut movie clip to convert). Support almost all popular video files (AVI, MPG, MPEG, ASF, MOV, RM, RMVB, 3GP, AMR, FLV, FLIC, SW, etc). Converts all formats to Blackberry MP4 format that can be played on general portable video device such as Blackberry player. Best quality: the support for the latest industry standards ensures the videos you create with best picture and audio quality. User-friendly interface: without any complicated settings. Hardware auto-detect: Automatically detect your hardware and decide the best converting speed.
Brian Not Registered
Posted: November 19, 2007 at 6:18 PM EST
Mediacell does not work. additional comments from blackberrycool can be found on this app.
cherri Not Registered
Posted: November 20, 2007 at 2:11 AM EST
i used this application today, converted several youtube videos in less than 5 minutes…then transferred to bb (8310) FROM the actual application…so not sure why someone would say it doesn’t work …
Thomas Einwaller Not Registered
Posted: November 20, 2007 at 3:09 AM EST
I downloaded, installed and tried this app. I do not understand why so many people say it does not work. I converted two 700 MB xvid movies into 66 MB MPG4 movies, copied them to my Curve and everything worked fine.
steve Not Registered
Posted: November 28, 2007 at 1:57 AM EST
I have used Seabyrds Video Converter and it works well. You just need to ignore the error messages on the VBR video encodings.
Also, I really like to use Videora iPod Video Converter. It has MUCH better video and audio quality. But the files are bigger also. Just make sure and encode the video as MPEG4 and not H.264. Then it will play fine on your Blackberry.
Here is a link for an article on this.
http://free-bb-video.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-convert-dvds-to-blackberry-video.html