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Here is a list of things I used to make this tutorial possible:
- LG VX 8600 Chocolate Flip Phone
- MPEG Streamclip (Mac or Windows)
- 1gig MicroSD card (around 15 bucks on Amazon)
- USB Card Reader (99 cents on Amazon)
- My Brain

I have the lg vx8600 but I am pretty sure this will work on almost any phone you have (of course it has to have video compatibility).

When I first got my phone I also purchased a 1gig micro SD card to go along with it. I am so glad I did, because there are so many cool things a person can do with their phone. Recently I was messing around trying to put some videos on the phone and it really took a while to figure out the process. My phone accepts the mobile 3gpp video as well as mpeg-4. The problem was however, that I was trying to convert from an .mpg file and apparently the audio is hard to separate from the video. What kept happening was that my phone would play the video after it was converted on my phone, but my phone could not recognize the audio.

Finally, after hours of messing around I found a very awesome program. The name is “MPEG Streamclip“. This product allowed me to convert my .mpg videos without losing the audio file. The program works great and it is easy to use! It also has a feature to convert videos to ipod format and almost any other format you can thing of. I think it even works with music files.

One key thing to remember when transferring a video to a phone is that you must know what frame rate your phone accepts! Otherwise when you try to play a video with a different frame rate, it will look like a broken record. My phone uses 15fps so I would suggest trying that if you cannot find the documentation for your phone.

The cool thing about putting videos on your phone is that once you perfect it, you can even figure out how to fit an entire movie on your sd card! A full movie when set to the right quality should only take up around 400mb!

It may sound kind of hard to do at first, but once you know how it only takes a few minutes.

Hope someone finds this little guide of help! If anyone else wants to add to this just leave me a comment.