MPEG PLAYER

[rockboxacdc]

i know that rockbox has an MPEG player and ive seen that on the plugins list it says it works on 4G ipod. i know how to get videos to a nano but not a 4G monochrome does it support Mpeg 4? Also elephants dream wont download can anyone get me a sample video?

[zajacattack]

Reading from http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginMpegplayer
"MPEGplayer is an MPEG video player viewer plugin. It is currently capable of playing back MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams with MPEG audio multiplexed into .mpg files (MPEG Program Stream) and raw MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video streams. To play a video file, you simply select it in the Rockbox file browser. If your file does not have the .mpg, .mpeg, .mpv or .m2v extension, you will need to use the "Open With..." context menu option and choose "mpegplayer"."

It supports MPEG-1 and 2, not 4. Try converting a video using one of the methods at http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginMpegplayer#How_To_Encode_Files

[rockboxacdc]

ok but now i have another problem my ipod will not go into disk mode when i plug it in so any solutions with that??

[zajacattack]

You can force it into disk mode by hold menu and select to reboot it, then holding play/pause and select right away.

[rockboxacdc]

when i do that it says ok to disconnect and still doesnt show up

[cool_walking_]

Try another USB port, or your cable might be broken.

[rockboxacdc]

well ive tried 2 USB ports but neither of them work and when i plug my ipod in it still turns on it just boots rockbox like it would when its out of a computer and acts as if i turned it on normally

[cool_walking_]

Yeah, you have to flick the "hold" switch on for it to boot into the APple firmware. This is in the manual...

... I'm leaving that as "APple", cause it looks weird.

[rockboxacdc]

i know that but it still wont go into do not disconnect mode

[zajacattack]

You should try a different cord to see if that is the problem.