Playing wrong resolution files on your device!

Get out of the tiny syndrome!

Over the past couple of days, I decided to take a look a what happens when you play a media file with the wrong resolution on a blackberry curve. The reason I used the curve for this test, was due to the fact that the curve is using a Divx player to play media files. This means, that any XVID, Divx converted file with an AVI extension will play with out any resolution compression.

Now the file plays! But it sucks.

Post Update: 01.03.2008

Note: Blackberry Curve 8310 only supports DIVx 4. Divx 5,6 are unsupported. If you want to have great video you need to use a MP4 Converter.. Use 320x240 Resolution. max fps is 30 .. but 23.976 fps is what you should use.

Make sure you use the mpeg4aac Audio Codec.

If you have an Ipod converter, you can use the .mp4 files from that.


The file is huge! In portable media standards that is. The file was widescreen, so the 320x240 reolution of the curve wasn't used to show the file in 320x240. It used about only 40% of the viewing area.. TINY!!

Running the file through a converter, and changing the video resolution and croping the video slightly, created a file that played in the full viewing area.

So if you are using uncoverted files, you are not only limiting the flash drive space, you are getting nothing out of the files you are watching.

It doesn't matter what portable media player you use, if you are going from, DVD to Ipod, Dvd to Zune,DVD to Iphone, DVD to Ipod Touch, DVD to Divx Portable. You need to make sure that you convert the files to the proper resolution.