[Smacca]

I've been using the Blackberry/Roxio Media Manager that comes as part of the BB Desktop Manager to load video files onto the micro card on my Curve. It's great -- I can take a 700Mb mpeg or avi video, set the software for maximum file size reduction, drag it down to the SD card panel, and it converts it to a format the Curve can play AND reduces it to about 180Mb.

The problem is, it takes at least an hour to do all this, and I can't use the phone during his time.

Does anyone know a way to get the BB-Roxio Media Manager to convert the file WITHOUT copying it onto the Blackberry, just into a holding folder? If I could do that, then I could just copy the converted files on whenever I wanted, and it wouldn't take long.

And if I can't do it with the BB-Roxio media Manager, does anyone know of another program (strong preference for a FREE program here, ladies and gentlemen) I could use to convert and reduce avi mpeg etc files to whatever BB uses?

I apologize in advance if it's obvious how to do this with the BB-Roxio software -- I'm pretty dumb when it comes to finding ways around problems like this.

[CableGuy711]

I dont use Roxio Media Manager, I use Blackberry Video

a very simple, and free program to convert videos.

it can be found here on blackberry forums, (prob in a sticky in the 8800/8100 forum)