Instructions for converting Videos for playing with mobile phone
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To play Videos with a mobile phone it is often necessary to convert
them. The instructions below are given for a Linux system using the
tools

mencoder	
mplayer
lame
ffmpeg
w32codecs	codecs for Video

The tools must have been installed. 

Installing the tools is different for different Linux distributions.
For Debian and Ubuntu the tools could be installed using apt-get.

For Suse and Redhat normally rpm is used - therefore try to find
the rpm packages in the internet - www.sourceforge.net could be
a good starting point for search.

Normally there exist binary packages for the most common Linux Distros.

For Debian you may add the following entries in the /etc/apt/sources.lst
file:

# Christian Marillat's packages (mplayer, lame)
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

after "apt-get update" you should be able to install all of the above mentioned
software whith "apt-get install mencoder mplayer lame ffmpeg w32codecs". 
Dependent packages will be installed and conflicts normally solved.

It may be the case that you must give the exact name of the 
mplayer and mencoder package like mplayer-686 - 
"apt-cache search mplayer" tells you, which packages are available.

For Suse / RedHat / Fedora you normally download the needed rpm-packages
and install it with
    rpm -ivh package.rpm

If there are dependencies, you have to download the missing packages.
If you have the newer versions of the distributions you can use yum for
Redhat / Fedora - or also apt4rpm - which could be make the installation
more easy.

It should also be possible to download the source and build the executables.

First copy the shell Script to any directory in the PATH, so your system
could find it - e.g. /usr/bin - yes - you need therefore admin rights.
If it does not work - check the execute permissions of the script.

For conversion of a video to play it with a mobile phone just enter

     convert_video_mobile_phone.sh videofile

This could be done under normal user rights

If you have enough space on your harddisk the converted video with
a additional .avi should be in the Video-Directory after a while.

Download it to your mobile phone and enjoy.