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does rockbox support video?

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donnaocchineri:
I have just installed rockbox in my 30GB 5th generation iPod...the software is great and I have had no problems installing or using it...my only concern is, I have found no reference to video formats supported in the user's manual and when I load a video my ipod the file is nowhere to be found...menus don't show any video options either...did I miss something here or does it mean Rockbox doesn't support video?

LambdaCalculus:
Rockbox supports only MPEG 1/2 video. See this page for more information about this, and for tools to help transcode your files:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginMpegplayer

And as a heads up, do not expect very good video performance on the iPod video. The video contains a hardware accelerator/decoder chip to help video playback performance, and Rockbox makes no use of this at all due to lack of information on this chip.

donnaocchineri:
Thanks...I'll try that

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