Video iPod Available... Sort of 297
Pirogoeth writes "The fine folks over at Engadget have figured out how to get your new iPod Photo to play movies. According to the article, you use Quicktime Pro to export the movie as thousands of individual frames which you export to the iPod, send the soundtrack to the iPod as well, then, if you haven't guessed by now, while playing the soundtrack, put the iPod into slideshow mode and use the scroll wheel to manually keep the frames in synch with the sound. Sound impossible? Here's a video (in mov or wmv) of the Episode III trailer in action..."
That's pretty retarded right there (Score:5, Informative)
Geesh. Why not just print all the frames out onto paper and make a flipbook?
If you want a video player in an iPod's form factor, either sit tight for 2 years until a honest-to-goodness Video iPod to come out, or buy a Gmini 200 [archos.com] (Flash page).
I chose the latter and haven't looked back.
Re:Or... (Score:3, Informative)
1 GB of either of these formats will run you about $100. Compared to a 40GB drive at the iPod price, that's terrible.
Of course, 1 GB of video is probably plenty when the screen is 320 x 240. The one I got came with something like 32 MB.
GBA (Score:3, Informative)
Alt links (Score:5, Informative)
Mirrordot.org also has a copy available:Mirrordot.org [mirrordot.org]
iRiver H3xx (Score:2, Informative)
Steve Jobs has critized portable video players. (Score:4, Informative)
Watch the Apple Special Event [apple.com] video from Oct 2004. Skip ahead to about 12:35 in the video. Jobs says, in a humorous fashion, that he believes the competition is making a mistake with video on portable players, and lists reasons he believes they are impractical.
The arguments he makes are:
I think it's safe to say there won't be a video iPod.
Re:Why no videa on the new iPod? (Score:3, Informative)