Thursday, May 10th 2007 by Vincent Nguyen
Worth Reading?
+2 [2 votes]
Ocean’s media player is intuitive and very easy to use. It supports MP3, AAC, WMA, MPEG-4, H.264, VOD and MOD files formats. While in video mode, flipping from portrait mode to landscape mode is as easy as clicking the down button on the D-Pad or you can simply flip up the Ocean/s screen. I’ve created a video walkthrough for your viewing pleasure.
Full review: Helio Ocean hands-on review
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The new Ocean’s launched on Friday, and I came across a promotional code to save some serious green when you go to buy it.
==> $75 off the $295 pricetag
==> $30 Activation Fee waived
==> $25 off first four months of service ($100 total)
Go to the Helio website and use the promo code B2BDGOD
I ordered my Ocean on Friday and got it this morning… and it’s awesome!
I’ve been wondering… how do you put your own videos on the ocean…
I converted one of my files to h.264 and put it into the helio videos folder on my micro sd and it doesn’t show up in the media player… do I need to name the video a specific name or somthing?
I have been trying the same thing. you have to convert your videos to 3GPP or 3GPP2 ( a cell phone format). I use quicktime pro. I’m not sure if regular quicktime does it. You can use H.264 or mpeg-4 compression. I have been setting my data rate pretty high and keyframing at 1. The actual video looks great until there’s some movement. I thought this phone would basically play videos like a small tv. Maybe it can, but I haven’t found the right combination of frame rate, compression, data rate and keyframing. Still I really like it. If anyone else can help please chime in!
yep I got it playing too…
but it sucks…
unless you use somewhere under 100kb/s for the video… wich isn’t very purdy..
maybe a software update will help with this…
or maybe its just not powerfull enough….
ive tried everything to put my own video on my ocean and nothing has worked! this is driving me crazy! okay i converted the file to h.264 and tried to play it and it says sorry. cannot play video.