Actually this is a bit offtopic for this blog, but I’ll write it anyway. I liked my Nokia E61, the screen is a lot wider and has more colors than my previous phones, and I can get a free DivX player for this device (actually almost any S60 devices are supported now) from http://mobile.divx.com/login/ (registration needed).

In Windows, to Encode a DVD to be viewed on the device, I use DVDx (with XVid Codec that you can download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow. This program is very easy to use, and it is quite fast.

In Mac (I am using Mac OS X Intel/MacBook), I use Handbrake” to rip the DVD, but I still don’t know why it wont play on the mobile DivX player. The solution is to convert the resulting file using ffmpeg.

To encode almost any movie format, including the output of Handbrake (I have only tried MOV, MP4, WMV and AVI tough), just type:


ffmpeg -i inputfilename.avi -vcodec xvid -b 256 -acodec mp3 -ab 64 -s 320x240 outputname.avi


And you get a playable file for the E61, and for those of you who don’t know, you can select ‘Data Transfer’ instead of PC Suite to transfer data directly to the memory card (this works on Mac OS X also).