Smooth Video Playback on the Sony Ericcson P1i

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Time to confess, we’ve all done it. Copied a video that plays fine on the computer yet shutters, skips and pops as soon as it hits your Sony Ericsson P1i. There is a fix. Limited system resources to decode large video files is one gotcha, the fact I broadcast audio to a Bluetooth headset makes the ‘shutter, skip, pop‘ effect even more annoyingly obvious.

This hindrance can be solved by re-encoding the video files with a lower resolution and bit rate that the Sony Ericsson P1i video processor can keep up with.

Requirements

  • ImTOO 3GP Video Converter 3
  • A video file format supported by ImTOO 3GP Video Converter 3 (various popular video file extensions)
  • The supplied USB data-cable

Re-encoding your video file

  1. Open ImTOO 3GP Video Converter
  2. Press Add
  3. Select your video file
  4. From the list tick the check box beside the video file
  5. Set Video Codec to mpeg4
  6. Set Video Size to 320×240
  7. Set Bit Rate to 256
  8. Set Audio Bit Rate to 48
  9. Press Encode
  10. Transfer the optimised video file to your Sony Ericsson P1i

There you have it, smooth video playback on the Sony Ericsson P1i with the latest TV shows, feature films and music clips. What videos do you play on your Sony Ericsson P1i?

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This entry was written by Michael Visser, posted on February 19, 2008 at 11:39 pm, filed under Uncategorized and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

8 Comments

  1. Manu
    February 21, 2008 at 1:05 am
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    plz send me new links of P1i

  2. Michael
    February 21, 2008 at 9:39 pm
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    Hi Manu,

    That’s kind of vague, what links are you seeking?

    Cheers!

  3. Andrew
    February 22, 2008 at 1:03 am
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    Thanks a million! Was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why the videos wouldn’t play.

  4. Michael
    February 22, 2008 at 1:16 am
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    Hi Andrew,

    No problem, glad it’s all working out for you. How big are the files you’re encoding? I’m yet to have any problem with original 350+Mb AVI files.

  5. Manu
    February 24, 2008 at 7:23 pm
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    Thankz for reply
    I need some good converter video for my P1i, looking foe some good softwares by which i can acess orkut/gmail on my P1i
    kindly SEND ME
    sorry if any mistake, new to this site
    +919425302235

  6. Michael
    February 25, 2008 at 12:28 am
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    Hi Manu,

    Download ImTOO 3GP Video Converter, it is simply the shiznik.

  7. V@NJ@
    March 20, 2008 at 6:07 am
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    What about SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer.

    A GUI to ffmpeg, MEncoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc,
    ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn.

    Current version SUPER © v2008.build.25 (Feb 5, 2008) and I must say it’s doin’ a lot of things other’s can NOT !

    Just type SUPER © in your favorite “search” engine ;)

  8. bee
    April 4, 2008 at 8:15 pm
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    guyz…chlout with yasa mp4 converter…mp4 formats r fabulous to watch in SE fones though file size is enormous…

    imtoo converter is gug too…newways…cchk out mp4 formatz..

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