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Rockbox Development => Feature Ideas => Topic started by: failsandwich on May 07, 2020, 08:33:01 AM

Title: How come Rockbox still has zero video playback support on the iPod Video?
Post by: failsandwich on May 07, 2020, 08:33:01 AM
I mean, it has the MPEG Player plugin, but that's a bit annoying to use since MPEG1 and MPEG2 videos have ridiculous filesizes. Will the iPod Video port ever have support for MP4 videos, or will that poor video decoder chip forever remain ignored and unused?
Title: Re: How come Rockbox still has zero video playback support on the iPod Video?
Post by: saratoga on May 07, 2020, 12:21:19 PM
I doubt anyone is going to do the (extreme) amount of work required to reverse engineer an entire second processor just to watch 320x240 resolution videos at a slightly lower bitrate. If you really want to though, no one is going to stop you.
Title: Re: How come Rockbox still has zero video playback support on the iPod Video?
Post by: failsandwich on May 08, 2020, 11:41:48 PM
I guess you're right. There'd be no real benefit to doing such a thing. I certainly wouldn't be able to reverse-engineer the video chip, and even if I could I'm far too lazy and easily sidetracked to actually finish it. Guess I'll just have to keep using Windows Media Center...
Title: Re: How come Rockbox still has zero video playback support on the iPod Video?
Post by: iPodHackz on January 14, 2021, 10:37:40 AM
btw i know how to convert youtube videos onto ur iPod 5th gen
im realeasing a vid on my channel in like a month so u can check it out
Title: Re: How come Rockbox still has zero video playback support on the iPod Video?
Post by: LambdaCalculus on April 21, 2021, 10:17:15 AM
btw i know how to convert youtube videos onto ur iPod 5th gen
im realeasing a vid on my channel in like a month so u can check it out

Not to be rude, but this sounds unnecessary. There are instructions on how to convert videos quickly and easily using VLC right on the wiki:

https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/Main/PluginMpegplayer#How_To_Encode_Files (scroll down a little and you'll find them)

This is the easiest and most fool-proof way of doing so, and will work on every OS that has a port of VLC to it.