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Slim:
Hi!

Just installed Rockbox today on my 80G iPod Video, and am currently very much liking the gapless playback of my favourite live album :D

Oh. It's just gone from track 4 to track 1 out of 10; well never mind that for now.

As far as I can tell I ought to be able to play video files as well. I've looked through the notes on PluginMPEGPlayer and as far as I can tell my iPod is supported. Allegedly I should be able to click on a video file and it'll play.

Well the trouble is, I have about 15 video files on there, but I'm not able to see any of them. They aren't in the database listing and the 'files' section only has entries for calendars, contacts, notes, photos and something called 'battery bench' - no video. I can't find a video player in the 'Applications' section either.

I downloaded a recent build; has video support been removed for this model?

Cheers!
Slim

LambdaCalculus:
No. Mpegplayer is a "viewer" plugin, meaning that you select a supported file and it starts the plugin.

Also, please read the Mpegplayer wiki page again; you have to convert your video files to MPEG2 format, and all of the information on how to do that is there.

Slim:
Ah, MPEG2.

That makes sense - thanks!

Lambda Calculus to the rescue, who'd have thought it. My final year Computer Science project was an LC interpreter, all those years ago.

But it's only my second post, and I'm right off topic ..

Thanks again.

dannyboi:

--- Quote from: LambdaCalculus379 on June 30, 2008, 03:08:35 PM ---No. Mpegplayer is a "viewer" plugin, meaning that you select a supported file and it starts the plugin.

Also, please read the Mpegplayer wiki page again; you have to convert your video files to MPEG2 format, and all of the information on how to do that is there.

--- End quote ---

So RockBox is pretty much music-only and wasn't really built for video? That's sort of annoying that I have to convert my videos since I have 50GB worth of videos on my Ipod.

Chronon:
 ???

Every DAP firmware that I know of supports video in only a limited set of codecs and resolutions.  It's true that Rockbox's main focus is audio.  But your suggestion that you don't have to convert videos for other firmwares (including Apple's) is just not true.  What do you think iTunes does before you are able to synch a video to your iPod?

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