[MrKikkeli]

I was toying around with my 6680 last night, and the built-in movie editor caught my attention. It allows you to edit 3gpp movies quite simply yet powerfully, especially for a handheld device.

Unfortunately, when I tried to add an audio clip to my movie, I discovered the editor can only handle amr files (the recording format of the phone's recorder). I was quite disappointed since I wanted to add some music I had in mp3 format.

Of course, there are several converters available for windows ( mobileAMRconverter ) and other platforms ( perl script ). But what's the point in mobility if you still have to use your desktop computer to do what you want ?

So I was wondering: would it be possible AND viable (and simple !!) to write a pys60 script/library that would allow to convert any mp3 file to an AMR counterpart ?

I have heard of pymedia ( www.pymedia.org ): can it be ported to pys60 or installed on s60 phones ?

Maybe there's a simple hack available, since pys60 already knows how to manipulate mp3 files as sound objects, and can record sounds as amr files. Could it be used to perform a "cheap" format conversion ?

[bercobeute]

pymedia is built upon FFMPEG and it is very unlikely that this can be ported to Symbian.

[chetbox]

Nokia have a released a simple (no UI functionality) perl interpreter for S60. It may be a long shot, but maybe the perl script that converts music will work on that?

[elfgirlmccue]

Did anyone ever try this? Does it work?

Is there any way to maybe play sound into a buffer, then record sound (in a different format) from another buffer?
(I wouldn't know... but if it's possible, I'll learn python just for that!!)

Thanks,
-R