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1. d723
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I got a new phone that takes videos and I want to upload them to my WordPress blog using my blogging client (ecto on OSX). The file extension is .3gp and I believe the mime type is 'video/3gpp', I tried adding this to the $mimes array in admin-functions.php, but no love. Also tried disabling the test for form, size and type, still no love. Any ideas?

2. Gecko
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Im trying the same, at the moment i have a good idea of the problem. It can be played on Quicktime so im trying this

   'mov|qt|3gp|3gpp' => 'video/quicktime',

   I will report on the result later.

3. jammo
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   how about getting an app that converts FROM 3gp to something easier to display on a blogpage?

   WMV files play well on the web?

4. loob
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Well, jammo, you can do that, there's plenty of free converters out there. Problem is that you might wanna upload your 3gp files onto your website without converting them first.

   Gecko, Quicktime is doing it and Real Player is doing it too, but both play 3gp files onto a client (that's the whole application not just the player, right).
   There's a pluging allowing you to make 3gps videos available on your weblogs (coolplayer). But you'd have to go through editing lines of code for each post.

   I think that the trick would be to develop an admin interface that would let you customize the ligne CoolPlayer would build to link the video on the post. Then, it's a simple download of the 3gp file on the client machine when the reader click on the link.

   That's what I came up with while thinking about it. As long as the online players won't play 3gps, we'd have to go through the client way.

   Anyway guys if you find anything, I'm interrested cuz I'm also trying to upload Mobile Phone videos the easiest way on a WordPress weblog.

   Keep posting tho' ;-)

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