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How to get Rock Box to find media on an iPod Video.

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saratoga:

--- Quote from: nuraman00 on March 03, 2019, 07:52:53 PM ---4 of the music videos are .mp4 files.  Rock Box supports that, right?

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No.  By the way, there is a list of supported formats and instructions in the manual if you need to convert.

nuraman00:

--- Quote from: saratoga on March 03, 2019, 08:50:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: nuraman00 on March 03, 2019, 07:52:53 PM ---4 of the music videos are .mp4 files.  Rock Box supports that, right?

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No.  By the way, there is a list of supported formats and instructions in the manual if you need to convert.

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I looked at this manual, and it says .mp4 is a permissible file extension, on page 193:

https://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-ipodvideo.pdf.

Is there another page with supported formats?

Frankenpod:
Isn't mp4 a 'container' rather than a format, though?

I confess, I've long been confused by that distinction myself.  I keep meaning to read up on it but it's never seemed worth the effort to do so!

I don't think Rockbox is very good at video, but personally it seems a waste of battery-life to play videos on my player so I don't care.

saratoga:

--- Quote from: nuraman00 on March 04, 2019, 04:00:02 AM ---
--- Quote from: saratoga on March 03, 2019, 08:50:58 PM ---
--- Quote from: nuraman00 on March 03, 2019, 07:52:53 PM ---4 of the music videos are .mp4 files.  Rock Box supports that, right?

--- End quote ---

No.  By the way, there is a list of supported formats and instructions in the manual if you need to convert.

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I looked at this manual, and it says .mp4 is a permissible file extension, on page 193:

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Did you actually read that page?


--- Quote from: nuraman00 on March 04, 2019, 04:00:02 AM ---Is there another page with supported formats?

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See the "File formats" chapter.

chris_s:

--- Quote from: Frankenpod on March 04, 2019, 04:17:43 AM ---Isn't mp4 a 'container' rather than a format, though?

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Yeah. As long as the music video contains an AAC/ALAC audio data stream, you should be able to listen to it. Just without the video. Of course, that doesn't appear to be be what the OP wants. I've found it very useful in the past though, since I, like you, don't care for video on my ipod but like to play the audio portion of music videos on my iPod 4G, which seems to work well enough.

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