Which file format do you need for mobile phone videos?

Typical video formats include MPEG 1 and 2, WMV, FLV or AVI, for example. Not all of them are suitable for viewing on mobile phones. One of the most common video formats is MP4. You have to define the format before you can play it out using the editing program.

Which file format a mobile device needs

• First of all, you should be clear about the difference between the file format and the video format. Videos are stored in so-called containers, which corresponds to the file format. One file format can save several video formats.
• For example, the MPEG container can contain the MPEG 1 and 2 video formats.
• Which file format you need to play videos on the mobile phone depends mainly on the compression performance of the format. It has to reduce the size of the video file considerably, but with little loss of quality, in order to be able to play it on the mobile device.

Mobile phone video formats

• MPEG 4 has proven to be a suitable file format for videos. The corresponding video format is MP4 or H.264 and 263.


Nokia 5230 video formats - you can play them

The Nokia 5230 is a smartphone with a wide range of features. You can do it …

• The format you need to watch the movies on your phone also depends on the overall size of your original video.
• If the length of the file is up to three minutes, it is recommended to output the file as 3GPP.
• For longer films, you can also choose the formats MOV, MP4 or DivX.
• With some formats it is possible to embed subtitles, additional text information and menu displays. This applies to the MP4 format, for example.
• Note that outputting what was originally a large video in the format recommended for the Playing on mobile devices is suitable, the greater the compression, the longer it can be fails.