On the internet, you keep stumbling across new formats in the form of video formats, audio formats, image formats, or certain file formats. The list of formatting completions can probably go on indefinitely as new ones are added all the time.
Clips in 3GP format A video format has been around for a while, however, not all video players can play this format, we are talking about the 3gp format, you often get this format when you download a movie from mobile phone or recorded it on your mobile phone yourself.
3gp is a container format
The 3gp format is a container format, which means that there are several existing formats in this “container”, which are “formed” into a new one. The 3gp format is a container composed of an AMR, AMR-WB, or AAC-LC audio track and an MPEG-4 Part 2, H.263 or H.264 video track. It is worth mentioning that the H.264 video track is not compatible with all mobile phones, so it is less common to find a container that contains this video track.
Typical properties of this mobile phone video format
The 3gp format has some typical properties: on the one hand, a mobile phone movie in this format is mostly a low resolution one, the highest average resolution is 320 x 240 px. Of course, the highest average resolution! At the lower end of average resolutions, it’s about 128 x 96 px, which shows that this format is best suited for displaying videos on a cell phone or smartphone.
No special software is required to play a 3gp video on a commercially available computer, only a 3gp video player must be installed or a codec must be implemented for using 3gp clips.
Another option is to convert the clip to another common format, such as converting it to MPEG format. Windows Media Player can play this format without any problems, so there should be no problem watching the movie from mobile phone.
