Free Movie FAQ:
Watching Movies on a Mobile Device
A mobile, or portable, device is a PDA (like PalmPilot), MP3 player (Like iPod or Zune, etc.), smartphone (Treo) or cell phone with a web browser or the ability to play videos. Most mobile devices have some type of video playing software.
If you can download a movie or video file to your portable device, it has to be in the format for that particular device to play. This can be confusing since many different formats exist today. But there are some formats that seem to play on most devices- Apple's Quicktime (.mov) and Windows Media Player (.wav).
The challenge is getting your original video into one of those playable formats.
Most web browsers can locate the correct movie player needed to play the movie file. But other devices cannot. Check your device specifications to see what movie formats it accepts.
While our site makes it easy to watch movies from your PC, and to download most video files. The hard part is to get the file to play on a mobile.
Watching movies on a portable device
Some movies may not play directly on a mobile, or protable, device.
If the movie does not start playing after ten minutes (remember, mobile downloads are much slower and these are extremely large files), then the movie will probably not to start to play for a long time. In that case, try to download the file either with your mobile device or from your PC. Even if you download a non-readable file to your mobile device, it still can be transfered to your PC (if you have beam, hotsynch, etc. ability).
Most cell phones still use slow dlownload speeds and that makes it difficult to cram a large file into a small connection. Use the 64k Dial Up modem option if your mobile device has a slow connection.
New broadband access on cell phones make it possible to watch high quality movie files from any wireless device or movies stored in the device's memory.
Downloading movies to mobile devices
Watch a movie anytime you want. Download a movie to your PC, convert it to a format your mobile device uses to play movies, and you can click and watch on demand!
If the movie file can be downloaded to your mobile device, it still needs to be in a format that your device will play. It is not usually the same one as regular web browsers.
Video conversion software, such as Roxio Software, makes it easy to convert video files into many formats for a variety of platforms.