There’s a neat video player available for android called yxFlash, which can play a wide variety of formats that the built-in player cannot. The droid does a decent job of playing back foreign video formats such as wmv, divx, flv, mkv, but sadly it doesn’t quite have enough grunt to play back high resolution clips smoothly.

So, here’s how to use ffmpeg in Linux to transcode and resize pretty much any video to a format that the Motorola Droid or Milestone plays with the greatest ease – h264 & aac. The command also resizes the video to 480 pixels high, so it’s the right size for the droid / milestone’s screen.

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