what to do with .3g2 video files?

[kevinmichaels]

Good to hear, ed. Kudos for your patience and tenacity.

Kevin

[tearaway]

I read this post with interest. I have a Treo 650 and I took down to St. Kitts and camcorded the new digs my wife is settled in while she goes to vet school, but back home I find I can't get the 3g2 files off the Treo to play on Quicktime, or most anything else, or find any way to convert them.

Apparently there is a lot of MP4-related video implementations out there and the Treo 650 has two formats as told on palmone.com. So, two different Treo 650 users may have different results, say with the latest Quicktime.

The VLC Player download was an excellent idea. Trying many products, this is the only one that will play for me the 3g2 file I take off my Treo via a SanDisk. However, I use Windows and the Windows version of Front-End Digital Media Workshop cannot convert to MP4 due to a licensing issue with the AMR audio, so says krwekx.com on the relevant download page: "Windows versions only do not have mp4 audio or 3gp (amr) audio conversion due to license issues." This topic is touched on at kinoma.com as well: "Actually, the Treo 650 writes out .3G2 files to an SD card, so in theory, Player EX should be able to handle them. The problem is that the audio is QCELP, not AAC, so it gets confused and wigs out." Somehow I feel the problems encountered by the developers of the Kinoma Player and the Front-End Digital Media Workshop are the same obstacles preventing me an easy way, to say, share my video files through a Web site in a way that can be easily viewed by our family of mostly Windows users.

Does anyone out there have any updates on this topic or suggestions?

Thanx.

[Crossett]

This is just too lame to be true. The Palm 700wx running MICROSOFT WINDOWS mobile OS can't save the video in a Microsoft software viewable format.

In the My Pictures folder the video shows up with a Windows Media Player Icon so shouldn't Windows Media player convert/play this file format?