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Looks legit. Reminds me of the mortables (sic—that’s what we called them) Motorola used at the time for the same reasons. The other reason for the exploded nature of the board was that initial bring-up of the hardware might involve adding jumper wires and making component changes to correct for errors in the preliminary schematics. Much easier to perform when almost every circuit trace isn’t buried in the board beneath the tightly spaced components as they are in the finished product!

If you want to start working with FFmpeg, I’d recommend looking at ff•Works, née iFFmpeg. It’s a well-done shareware graphical front-end to FFmpeg that makes it easy to use for common tasks by offering a wide number of presets, while making most encoding options available through the GUI and still offering command-line access for the rest. The one caveat is that ff•Works does not include an FFmpeg binary, and one must be compiled or downloaded first. This is actually a feature since it allows ff•Works to switch between multiple FFmpeg binaries as required, e.g., stable, nightly, or custom, without needing to update ff•Works itself. The ff•Works website and documentation point to several precompiled community FFmpeg binaries for downloading to get one started, and the program makes installing and managing the binaries very straightforward.

JinTech said:

Samsung Customer Service Rep: "Just don't fold it and you will be fine"

"Doctor! Doctor! It hurts when I do this!"

"Then don’t do that!"

If you want to be nitpicky, the phone pictured in the article is a RAZR V3, and not a V3m. The CDMA V3m (and its immediate predecessor, the V3c, which lacked a microSD card slot) were readily identifiable by the camera bump necessitated by the lens stack for a megapixel camera, an upgrade from the original GSM V3’s VGA camera. This is a V3m: