You guys rock!

[Jman]

Dear RockBox creators/programmers/technical gurus everywhere,

It's the most amazing thing when you watch something happen that you had previously thought to be impossible. I wanted a video player for as long as I can remember, but only had a 1GB 1st Gen iPod Nano that I got a while back. I couldn't understand why Apple hadn't put on video support, if it could display pictures, I reasoned, it could play videos (excuse my oversimplied technical ignorrance). Finally a few days ago I went online to search for something that could possibly let me play videos. Finally I came upon this site, and downloaded Rockbox onto my iPod. Then I got excited after reading about the .mpg video player plugin. And after downloading VLC and following all the instructions I got a video on my iPod. I hit 'PLAY' and was instantly blown away. There I was watching a video, formatted perfectly, on my iPod nano. I don't mind the small screen size, and was amazed at the audio quality. So here's to you Rockbox community, for making my day. I look forward to utilizing this feature in the months to come. Thanks for making see the impossible!

Best Regards,
Josh Moskowitz.

One more thing, what I could not find here:http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IpodRuntime#Results was a battery life for video playback. Does one exist, or should I make one?

P.S Hope this post belongs in this forum.

[ColdSphinx]

If you want to test the battery life vor videoplayback you are welcome to test and post you result.
Simply use the "battery_benck" plugin and play a huge video file that's long enough unil your player shuts down automatically

[Jman]

I think I will do that. Unfortunately I have that problem which after some searching seems common among 1g Nano Rockbox users. In that after only a few hours of use, the battery is completely dead. Does Rockbox use a ridiculous amount of battery life? Or as I read, is this really an Apple firmware glitch? Or even perhaps the result of watching a long movie, which could drain the battery at a much higher than expected rate. I'll give it a day or two to fully charge as recommended, and then do a battery life test.

One more thing I noted, in the Rockbox settings you can can actually change the capacity of the iPod battery (in mA). Is this safe at all? It doesn't seem like a good idea to play around with the amount...

[Toxikator]

First: Rockbox does tend to burn more battery than the iPod firmware because (obviously) Rockbox devs cannot optimise for the hardware the way Apple can, not knowing everything about it.

Second: The battery life setting does not change how the battery works, it simply changes the battery information reported to rockbox for more accurate estimates of remaining battery life.