Support and General Use > Plugins/Viewers
Viewing movies on iPod, audio problem
cool_walking_:
Does the converted video play back properly on a computer?
Delta009:
I posted a few months ago a post that explained how to encode correctly a video for iPod using FFmpeg without the WinFF graphical interface.
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=16330.msg122226#msg122226
Just extract FFmpeg (http://ffdshow.faireal.net/mirror/ffmpeg/) to the C:\WINDOWS\System32\ folder, then open a terminal (Start --> Run, type in "cmd" then click OK) paste the command line that's in my post in the terminal and replace the parameters INPUTFILENAME and OUTPUTFILENAME by your values before hitting the Enter on the keyboard. You may need to change "mp3" to "libmp3lame".
dannyboi:
I switched over to RockBox on my Apple Ipod 5.5G.
Can I watch the movies that I originally had on my Ipod. If so, then how?
Thanks.
Chronon:
I think you got your answer in another thread. But I'll answer here for the sake of others who find their way here by searching. Rockbox plays MPEG-2 so you'll have to transcode videos to the proper format if you want to play them.
Bear in mind that your particular model of iPod has a Broadcom chip for decoding video that we don't know how to use yet. Video performance in the original firmware benefits from the use of this chip, so you're probably better off watching most of your videos in the original firmware. You can easily boot into the Apple firmware any time you like by following the instructions in the manual.
dannyboi:
--- Quote from: Chronon on September 06, 2008, 02:54:34 AM ---Bear in mind that your particular model of iPod has a Broadcom chip for decoding video that we don't know how to use yet. Video performance in the original firmware benefits from the use of this chip, so you're probably better off watching most of your videos in the original firmware. You can easily boot into the Apple firmware any time you like by following the instructions in the manual.
--- End quote ---
Cheers for that. Read this post after the one in the other thread.
Apple firmware for videos, and RockBox for audio.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[*] Previous page
Go to full version