Video on an 80G iPod Video ..

[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

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]

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.

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?

[dannyboi]

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?

Oh sorry. I didn't mean that you didn't have to convert videos for other firmwares, just now I want to watch the videos that I currently already have on the iPod.
My option right now is to boot into the original Apple firmware for videos, and then boot into RockBox for my audio needs. I was hoping that RockBox was able to open the videos in the same way as it opens the database for the music.

Anyway, RockBox is a pretty good development. Keep up with the good work.

[soap]

I was hoping that RockBox was able to open the videos in the same way as it opens the database for the music.

Not to be overly pedantic, but Rockbox does not read the Apple database for music.
The music files are on the drive for anyone to look at.
Rockbox simply looks at the files and (if you choose) makes its own database.

[dannyboi]

I was hoping that RockBox was able to open the videos in the same way as it opens the database for the music.

Not to be overly pedantic, but Rockbox does not read the Apple database for music.
The music files are on the drive for anyone to look at.
Rockbox simply looks at the files and (if you choose) makes its own database.

Oh right. That does make sense I guess. That would sort of make the video files open for RockBox to open, but if only they were in the right format.
Oh well, Apple firmware for video and Rockbox for everything else seems to be working well.