While playing around listening to some music and watching video on my BlackBerry 8310 I discovered something I had never known before. In my previous Rant! about the video options on the BlackBerry I mentioned my frustration about the fast forward and rewind increments on the BlackBerry media player. The default movement is in extremely [...]

I have been asked countless times about how to encode video to play correctly on a BlackBerry. So I decided to write up a post with a short description of the 2 free pieces of software I use to re-encode video to play on my BlackBerry 8310 Curve. There are other commercial video encoders but personally [...]

I have always held close the dream that one day I would be able to replace all my portable gadgets with my BlackBerry. While this has not yet come to pass I have started using my Curve as an MP3 player. I just cannot use the video player because it is very clunky. It is [...]

Web Site: www.videos4blackberry.info
Cost: Free ( Donations kindly accepted )
Rating: 9/10

This is one of the best ‘Free” multimedia and BlackBerry friendly sites I have ever seen. Chris (Site Developer) has done an amazing job to provide 1000s of hours of free programming for the end user and has such a wide variety of videos to [...]

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 [...]

I just read a post by Shokat about a new free (for now) Beta application called TVHarmony that converts video from multiple sources to fit on your mobile device. While there is no explicit support for BlackBerry the software does convert to Dell Axim profile format 320×240 which will work on your BlackBerry video player. [...]

Since the Mobile YouTube page does not natively support BlackBerry devices a few alternatives have popped up. One of our readers asked me how to get these video’s on their BlackBerry so I thought I would share it with the rest of you. These solutions are not pretty and quite slow but they do work [...]

Josep at MiBlackBerry pointed out to me that the new specs on the 8130 Pearl include video recording. I know that RIM is a few years behind the other headset manufacturers when it comes to camera capabilities but this is a nice update. So far I don’t see any specifics about video quality but I [...]

xPlayer is one of my favorite new applications for the BlackBerry. The media player reminds me of Winamp and just gets the job done with a very user friendly interface that now also has theme options. As I mentioned before it also helps that the software is completely free when compared to the competition and [...]

Joshua Karp at the BoyGenius reported that you can now watch CNN and ABC video on your BlackBerry from the WAP browser. The videos require OS 4.2+ which rules out older BlackBerry devices. The trick is that you have to use the WAP browser and not the BlackBerry or BES browser to download the videos. [...]