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ipod video mpeg player
Noxneo:
It would be technically possible to decode WMV, but don't expect that too soon. First, we need to fully optimize the player to decode video and sound. Only after that we can focus on porting codecs to the player.
Llorean:
I'm not sure WMV is likely to ever be supported.
Videos are pretty much always going to need to be transcoded to whatever the screen size of the player is, so in the end there's not *that* much reason to support too many formats, since conversion will almost be mandatory anyway.
senab:
--- Quote from: lachlan on December 12, 2006, 07:35:11 PM ---Yeah, I don't really hold any hopes of it being able to handle wmv, but the point is that there will eventually be a wider selection of formats avaiable, and these formats will include some that are in regular use, as opposed to h.2blah blah and the mp4 container.
--- End quote ---
@Lachlan, you're obviously being slightly short sighted in your view of video formats. H264 is becoming one the most mainstream codecs available, due to its high quality. FLV is closed source and to be honest, only really used on the web, therefore useless.
In the end ask yourself, why support a lot of formats badly rather support one format well?
gravedigg154:
I don't know why people wanna run videos on rockbox so bad. Just use iTunes. It seems to be less hassle and the videos actually play with sound. I don't know what people have against iTunes. The apple firmware is much more user friendly than rockbox.
Yotto:
Well, speaking as a Linux user who abhors the iTunes and iPod interface, I would like it if video played on Rockbox. Yes, I know I can get the video into the database via special programs in Linux. I just don't want to.
Not that I'm impatient. I own a television and it plays video just fine. I'm just saying, until Rockbox supports video, I won't be watching video on my iPod :D
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