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mp4 videos wont play on ipod video 5g

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Mikey5g30gig:
I just picked up my 5th Gen 30GB Ipod Video at a local pawn shop for 40 dollars.  I loaded Rockbox and have been able to dual boot so far with 1.3 Apple Firmware and rockbox, and they share the database.  After "showing all hidden files", I noticed I would have to take a 430MB(MP4) and convert to a 1.6GB(MPEGI,MPEGII).  With the stock HDD at the moment I did not want to loose that much space to one video.  So for now the dual boot, will let me watch movies with the Apple FW, and enjoy games, themes, customizable EVERYTHING with Rockbox.

Is there now way to just add a couple codecs' to the mpeg player?? Just wondering, THANKS!

saratoga:
Given the extremely slow CPU on the Video, its not going to be feasible to achieve higher quality per compression than MPEG2, which is pretty close to ideal for such an old processor.  But yes, you could add support for other similarly low CPU codecs. 

[Saint]:
I feel compelled to point out that Apple is able to do this due to the Video's video decoder hardware, which Rockbox ignores completely.


[Saint]

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