640x480 video on ipod??

[Fromasta Flex]

I thought I heard that videos for ipod can now be in 640x480 resolution, so I fired up Handbrake and converted a dvd into that, and iTunes said it can't be played on my iPod. What's the deal? Does it have to be the new iPods that were just released? If so, ARGH!

 

[trpnmonkey41]

I haven't seen anything that says it is specifically the new models that do it but are you running the latest firmware?

 

[Fromasta Flex]

yes everything is up to date....maybe something in handbrake went screwy......but it happened 2 times...i'm going to be mad if its only the new models. i'm already mad that the search feature is only on the new models.

 

[Aptmunich]

Try the latest iSquint instead, that should work, I think it needs fairly specific settings.

You also need iTunes 7 and the lastest firmware on your 5th gen iPod.

 

[Fromasta Flex]

I've used handbrake all the time and it was fine, so this is odd. I thought iSquint couldn't do it from DVDs directly?

I have iTunes 7 and the latest firmware as well.

 

[Fromasta Flex]

Hey, I figured out the solution myself. You must use the mpeg-4 codec and not the AVC/H.264 codec in order to take advantage of the 640x480 resolution.

 

[jlbrew3]

Interesting, that seems a bit odd that iTunes won't support H.264 coding for the higher resolution, but it will support mpeg-4. Weird.

 

[Aptmunich]

That kind of defeats the purpose though.

The iPod has always been able to playback larger resolution Mpeg-4 files (that's why iSquint has had an 'optimize for TV playback' setting for some time now.

The new feature that was recently introduced with the 5.5 gen iPod was support for playback of h.264 640x480 movies.

 

[Fromasta Flex]

Hmm....well then I have no idea, but using the other codec is how I got it to work.