Cell Phone Movie
This guide will show you how to put full length movies and TV shows on your cell phone for free.

Dumb and Dumber playing on Samsung A950

1. Introduction
Nowadays, cell phones with multimedia capability are becoming more and more common. These phones can play your mp3 collection, but what most people don't know is that they can also play full-length video. That even includes full length movies! Assuming you have all the right stuff, you can put video files on your cell phone for free. The trick is to make your phone think that your video file is a giant FLIX message. Let's begin!

2. Required Equipment
-Cell Phone with a microSD/miniSD slot
-microSD (transflash) or miniSD card and included SD adapter
-SD Card Reader for your computer or your phone's USB cable and drivers

3. Prepare Media into MPG Format
In this step we'll find some video content and convert it into MPG format. If you already have a video in MPG format, you can skip this step. Else, look at one of the below subpages for instructions.

Convert DVDs into MPG Format
Convert videos from Youtube into MPG Format


4. Convert MPG files to 3GP Cell Phone Format
Once you have a MPG format of your video, we can convert that into a special format cell phones can read called '3GP'. To do this, we'll use a program called Nokia Multimedia Converter. The program is free, however it is required that you go through a process. It is quite difficult to sign up for an account and get a serial key, but I assure the program is top-notch.

a. Install Nokia Multimedia Convertor
1) Sign up for free account on Forum Nokia
2) Check your email and activate your membership by clicking the link
3) Download Nokia Multimedia Converter (you'll have to log in)
4) Request a Serial Key
5) Check your email and take note of the serial key
6) Run setup.exe - you'll need to fill in your forum username and serial key

b. Use Nokia Multimedia Convertor to convert MPG to 3GP

Once you have Nokia Multimedia Converter installed, click the icon near the top left of the program that looks like a folder. Browse for the mpg file that we made earlier. Once you have it, click "Convert...". This will process your video, and takes about an hour for a full movie. Once it's done, click the floppy disk icon to save your movie in .3gp format. There will be some waiting time here too, but not as bad as before. Now you have your video in a format cell phones can read. Good job for making it this far!!

5. Copy 3GP Video onto your phone's card
Now all we need to do is put that 3GP file we just made on to your phone. The process is similiar to how you would put mp3's on your phone. Using the adapter, put the miniSD/microSD card into your computer's SD card reader. Put the 3GP file on to memory card, in the MY_FLIX folder (if it exists).

If you dont have a SD card reader or the adapter that came with your memory card, you can use your phone's USB cable to transfer the movie onto your phone (a memory card inside your phone is still required). However, you'll need special drivers (eg. Music Essentials Kit) to do that.

6. Access the Video in your Phone
You'll need to go to the media player in your phone, or the My Videos/My FLIX section. This will be different on all phones, but it shouldnt be too hard to look for. Another tip is to access your camcorder, and go to your saved Videos. If the video is long, it may take a while to load, but in most cases the video should load fairly quickly.

Once the video starts, enjoy!!!

Tips and Troubleshooting
-IPOD Video Podcasts are great source of content. These should encode just fine in Nokia Multimedia Converter, but when you open them, you'll need to select 'All' for file types. Contary to what you might think, they will encode fine.