Supported video format of the ipod?

[Stephan936]

Hi, what's the supported video format of the ipod video ? Do you need to update codecs or something ?

Thanks,

Stephan

 

[novicew]

Hi Stephan,

I found this on Wikipedia.

Video content available from the store used to be encoded as 540 kbit/s Protected MPEG-4 video (H.264) with an approximately 128 kbit/s AAC audio track. Many videos and video podcasts currently require the latest version of Quicktime, Quicktime 7, which is incompatible with older versions of Mac OS (only v10.3.9 and later are supported). Starting September 12, 2006, the resolution of video content sold on the iTunes Store was increased from 320x240 (QVGA) to 640x480 (VGA). The higher resolution video content is encoded as 1.5 Mbit/s Protected MPEG-4 video (H.264) with an approximately 128 kbit/s AAC audio track.

 

[Stephan936]

Thanks,

but... I'm not interested in downloading low quality movies for 15$ US when I can get the DVD for the same price or cheaper! I'd like to know if you can watch .avi and other home encoded format on an ipod ? (otherwise, I really don't see the point of it!)

Thanks,
Stephan

 

[Dimitri]

Well, I'm sure what he was saying is that if you use that video codec that the itunes store uses, it'll playback fine on the ipod. .avi is not supported, it must be in mpeg-4 format, <= 2.5kbps video, <= 160kbps aac audio, <= 640x480 resolution in order to be playable on the ipod.

 

[Stephan936]

ok, didn't undertood that

Thank!