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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / April 2007Just Received an 80 GB Video iPod
After Getting an 80 GB Video IPod , I Soon realized why Apple does so well and why some people Don't like Apple. The Player holds 20,000 songs and perhaps a few hundred videos which is overkill for me but who is complaining. While trying to put an AVI File onto the machine I Quickly learned it only plays MPEG-4 or MOV. This limits its capability as you must convert Your AVI To MPEG-4 Which takes a long time. Other than that its a fine player. I think Apple knew if it was too open no one would go to Itunes Store...and simply download and copy over to Ipod. What makes this player great is its simple use... Many people feel trapped having to deal with Itunes and Their format, but its a small price to pay for such a great product. > After Getting an 80 GB Video IPod , I Soon realized why Apple does so > well and why some people Don't like Apple. The Player holds 20,000 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > capability as you must convert Your AVI To MPEG-4 Which takes a long > time. Ask yourself the question, "what is an AVI file" and the reasoning behind this will be made a little clearer. A hint is that an .avi is not a video format. It is one of many potential video formats. >> After Getting an 80 GB Video IPod , I Soon realized why Apple does so >> well and why some people Don't like Apple. The Player holds 20,000 [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > behind this will be made a little clearer. A hint is that an .avi is > not a video format. It is one of many potential video formats. That's correct. AVI is a container. It combines audio and video in any number of formats depending on which codec you decide to use. Many codecs are available for the Mac, but, saddly, not all. You have to know which codec was used to encode the video. I doesn't matter if you're trying to play it on an iPod, a Dell box or an Xbox.., each supports only a limited number of formats. MPEG-4 is a well-defined standard supported by many vendors, including Apple. MOV is a QuickTime codec that is available for both Mac and Windows. It does indeed take a long time to convert videos from one format to another and, unfortunately, every conversion adds just that much degradation. If you've ever wondered why YouTube videos look so bad, it's because the conversion from whatever-format to Flash takes its toll. It's just like wondering why your Xbox game doesn't play on your GameBoy, but at least with video there are ways to get from point A to point B. VisualHub is a great program for performing video conversions, but, again, if you don't have the codec, you won't be able to do anything. Welcome to the real world! Just wait until you you want to convert PAL video to NTSC... ugly doesn't even begin to describe it! Bream > After Getting an 80 GB Video IPod , I Soon realized why Apple does so > well and why some people Don't like Apple. The Player holds 20,000 [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > trapped having to deal with Itunes and Their format, but its a small > price to pay for such a great product. My Canon A80 shoots movie clips (3 min. max) that end in .avi and I use iSquint to convert them to whatever my iPod needs to view in order for me to view them on the iPod. It's either free or cheap and easy to use. HTH. http://isquint.org/ -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ http://web.mac.com/barbschaller - blahblahblog - Orange Honey Garlic Chicken, 3-29-2007 jamlady.eboard.com http:/http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/amytaylor/ |
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