At first I almost gave up and thought why didn’t they just spend a little bit more and get me a Zune or a ipod. Since I thought it was hopeless to find a converter or a site with videos that work on the Walkman. Then I did some research and found a program. Nero Recode 3 which is part of the Nero 8 software.
This program can take any video format and convert it into a mp4 format that Walkman will recognize. Even existing mp4 videos that do not work on Walkman. You can try Nero 8 for 15 days free, buy the thing from the Nero site, or get it by “other means”.
I have also found another program that works to get videos to work on Walkman and this one is from Sony themselves. Image Converter 2 Plus which is works fine to convert videos to mp4 format for the walkman even though on the site is does not list the Walkman as a supported device. (Nice going sony) But I tried to take a existing mp4 vodcast from G4 and make it into a mp4 that would work on my Walkman but then it said the format is not recognizable. So therefore you can’t take mp4 and convert into mp4 for your Walkman with Sony Image Converter 2 Plus. So I suggest just use Nero 8’s Recode software which works great for me.
If anyone reading this does know of a website with mp4 or m4v videos that for sure work for the walkman please leave it as a comment.
In a later post I will show step by step how to convert to mp4 using Nero Recode.
December 31, 2007 at 2:53 pm |
I posted this elsewhere, but will post it again here. I found a video converter at a webste called nchsoftware.com. The converter is called Prism Video Converter and it is FREE. I”ve tried it with some movies I downloaded and transferred to my NWZ-A818 Sony Walkman and it works great. It also converts video files to many different formats. They say that anything that can be played using Windows Media Player can be converted to work with the Walkman.
January 10, 2009 at 4:31 pm |
I tryed to use prism, and it converted with no errors(Thankfully). But i checked my Mp3 Sony Walkman, and it wasn`t there i was kind of, VERY, Dissapointed ;[.
Ill try it again, And let you know, ;[
January 10, 2009 at 4:34 pm |
Besides where will it convert to ;P
February 7, 2009 at 9:00 am |
Just tried prism to convert MP4 to MP4 for my NWZ-A818 and still got the wrong file format. Tried again, but this time reduced the video size to 320 x 240, SUCCESS.
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Previous files all play on the ipod but not on the Walkman. Off to try some more
March 30, 2009 at 9:11 am |
I tried out Prism also, and it worked! thanks to much, ive been looking and looking for ways to add video to a walkman.
April 15, 2009 at 9:50 am |
Hey, cool tips. I’ll buy a bottle of beer to the man from that forum who told me to go to your blog
May 28, 2009 at 4:45 pm |
Try simple converters for IPOD and use bitrates around 350 and Audio with 96kBit. It works!
August 22, 2009 at 12:35 am |
Handbrake is free, and works if you set the advanced setting text box to bframes=0:cabac=0:level=13 and the resolution to 320×240 on my NWZ-E438
October 11, 2009 at 1:53 pm |
itz fabulous…………..