Comments on: Mobile Phone Video Formats

By: Web Design

Web Design — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:32:19 +0000

Thanks again I’ll take a look at the site and see how it works.

By: Internet Video Gal

Internet Video Gal — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:48:48 +0000

You are more than welcome. I am always happy to help. I think you are right that MP4 or 3GP would be the most common at this point. Can’t please everybody! Check out the send to mobile service. I am not 100% sure it would work for you but it might. That is not an affiliate link.

http://www.sendvideotomobile.com/

By: Web Design

Web Design — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:17:16 +0000

I’m hosting my videos on my own GoDaddy server so I basically have to worry about converting the videos myself. I can only convert them into two formats (one for the computer and one for the mobile devices). I can’t convert more than two because I will constantly be adding new videos and will not have the time to render them more than twice. For the computer I’m going to use FLV but for the mobile devices I’m not sure. It seems like the best choice would either be MP4 or 3GP. Based on the link you gave me, most of those phones support MP4. The list did NOT have Android, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry. I finally figured out what the iPhone supports so no worries about that Is there any thing else you could point me to that might help? Thanks so much!

By: Internet Video Gal

Internet Video Gal — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:06:42 +0000

Hi Web Design!
You ask a great question. Which file format you use is hard to say because things are changing every day. One thing that can make life easier is to have a service like “Send Video To Mobile” which reads things for you and then automatically sends out your video in the best format for that particular situation. Where are your videos hosted? Hosts are scrambling to keep up with this and some do better than others. If you are hosting on Amazon S3, then of course you have to keep up with it yourself.
I am sorry but I do not know precisely about each of thee devices you asked about specifically.
Here is a link to a fairly extensive list (Sony, Motorola and Nokia) of cell phones and the formats they use:

http://www.xilisoft.com/3gp-video-converter/cell-phone-list.html

And here is another link from the same website with some software for iphone conversion. (Neither of these are affiliate links)

http://www.xilisoft.com/iphone-video-converter.html

I hope this helps.
Lorraine

By: Web Design

Web Design — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:33:02 +0000

I guess I should also ask if the Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, and iPad support 3GPP or MPEG-4 (.mp4)?

By: Web Design

Web Design — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:28:54 +0000

Thanks for such a great article! Could I ask you a quick question? Which video file type should I use? I would like to use a format that will work with the most mobile devices possible. Thanks