Converting Audio and Video Files for your RIM BlackBerry®.
The trendy new third generation BlackBerry can do virtually everything, including play both music and video files. To play your multimedia collection on your Blackberry, you need to convert them to the right formats, and
Digital Media Converter Pro is the perfect tool for the job. Make your whole music and video collection fit in your pocket!
Convert Your Music Collection to Use on Your BlackBerry
The BlackBerry supports several audio formats. For music files, we suggest using M4A (MPEG 4 Audio) files. The MPEG 4 compression method will produce very small files with good quality.
To convert your music files for use on the BlackBerry:
- In Digital Media Converter Pro, navigate to the location of the music files and add them to the Conversion List. You can either convert existing music files on your computer, or rip CD tracks.
- Once the music files are in the List, click the Settings button. Select Audio Formats. From the drop-down list pick M4A. Switch to the Properties tab.
- The audio Frequency and the Bitrate determine the quality of the music playback and the file size. The default settings, shown above, should work for you. They produce sound of approximately CD quality with reasonable file size. Once you have selected audio properties, click OK.
- Click the Convert button on the tool bar.
Convert Your Movie and TV Collection for Your BlackBerry
To convert video files to play on your BlackBerry
- Navigate to the video files and add them to the Conversion List in Digital Media Converter Pro, or search for files.
- Once the video files are in the List, click the Settings button.
- Select Video Formats. From the drop-down list pick 3GP. The BlackBerry can play several video formats, but the Third Generation Phone format will give you the best possible quality and very small files. Click Properties.
- Always select Video Dimensions of 320x240 pixels for BlackBerry video if possible.
- We recommend the default MPEG-4 video compression, with a Bitrate of 512 Kbps. Lower bitrates will show reduced quality (less smooth motion, blocky-looking picture). Higher bitrates don't improve the quality of the video on a BlackBerry screen enough to notice.
- For audio compression, use the MPEG-4 Audio compressor, with a Frequency of 44100 Hz and a Bitrate of 64 Kbps. This will give you an audio quality better than FM radio. If the audio is music or otherwise requires very high fidelity, increase the Bitrate to 128 Kbps, which is roughly CD-quality audio. Increasing the bitrate will increase the file size. Click OK, then click the Convert button on the tool bar.
Moving Your Media Files To The BlackBerry
- Digital Media Converter Pro saves all converted files in a single folder. By default on Windows Vista, this is your Documents folder. On Windows XP or 2000 the default is the My Documents folder. You can change the Destination Folder from the Settings window of Digital Media Converter Pro.
- Use the Windows Explorer to drag the media files from your Destination Folder to the BlackBerry.
- To play music in the built-in Media application, you should place the files in the folder:
d:\BlackBerry\music
You may create more folders inside the music folder, to make it easy to organize your music collection. For instance, you might create a folder for each album. Any folders you make are for your convenience.
To play video on the BlackBerry, copy your video files into the following folder:
d:\BlackBerry\Video
As with music, you can create additional folders in the Video folder to help organize your collection.
When you start the Media player on your BlackBerry, your music and videos will be listed and ready to play.
With Digital Media Converter Pro, it's easy and fast to convert your multimedia collection into small, high quality files to play on your BlackBerry. Put your whole media library in your pocket!