Lobzang tip #7 : BlackBerry under linux fedora 8

install barry tool

 wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/barry/barry-0.13.tar.bz2?modtime=1217433309&big_mirror=0  

 yum install libusb libusb-devel  

./configure
make
make install
 

allow linux to charge your blackberry

lsusb -v | grep MaxPower
    MaxPower                0mA
    MaxPower                0mA
    MaxPower              500mA
    MaxPower                0mA
    MaxPower                0mA
    MaxPower                0mA
    MaxPower                0mA
 

system information

mount the device

/dev/sdb1               /media/dos              vfat    noauto,user 	0 0

mount /media/dos 
 

/media/dos/BlackBerry/ringtones
/media/dos/BlackBerry/pictures
/media/dos/BlackBerry/music
/media/dos/BlackBerry/videos
 

how to re-encode videos blackberry compatible ?

#!/bin/bash
[ $# -eq 0 ] && echo "usage : $0 [film.avi]" && exit
for i in $*
do
source=$i
target=$(echo $source | awk -F. ' { print $1"_blackBerry.avi" } ')
encoding=$(mplayer $source -ss 30  -vf cropdetect -ao null -vo null -frames 10 2>&1 | grep -E "Crop area"  | tail -1 | awk -F\( ' { printf $2 "\n" } ' | sort -u | awk -F\)  ' { printf $1  } ')
mencoder $encoding,scale=320:240  $source -o $target -of avi -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=128
done
 

Supported formats (extracted from www.blackberry.com support

Recommended video format for local playback