Battery life on video Ipod?

Lafortezza

Just wondering how much battery life people are getting from their video Ipods on continuous video playback.

I'm running at about 100 minutes on a full charge, 30GB, about a month old.

Bard

An hour and a half to two hours is about the most you'll get from what I've heard.

netwhizkid

I can concur with this, about two hours is what I am averaging about on my 30gig Video Ipod. It is starting to bug me as I might be heading on a few long haul flights in the coming months and one of the main reasons I bought an Ipod was for something to listen to while on journeys like this and so as to not be forced to depend on our terrible radio selections here for music while in the car. I must get a FM transmitter first. Something like this will be my next purchase though, power on the move.........Man how I love my gadgets.

hallelujajordan

netwhizkid wrote:

It is starting to bug me as I might be heading on a few long haul flights in the coming months and one of the main reasons I bought an Ipod was for something to listen to while on journeys like this and so as to not be forced to depend on our terrible radio selections here for music while in the car. I must get a FM transmitter first. Something like this will be my next purchase though, power on the move.........Man how I love my gadgets.

But you get 12 hours of music . . you get a long way around the world in 12 hours ! BTW, steer clear of the FM transmitter. . unless you are living in the sticks !

Bard

hallelujajordan wrote:

BTW, steer clear of the FM transmitter. . unless you are living in the sticks !

No need if you tune it to an unused frequency that doesn't have too many stations near it... if that's possible...

hallelujajordan

Bard wrote:

No need if you tune it to an unused frequency that doesn't have too many stations near it... if that's possible...

Great in theory but in practice very difficult. I guess it depends where you are living, but in Dublin it's easy to tune to an unused frequency in one fixed location but as soon as you drive any distance at all, you start to get interference. Also, the sound quality is not half as good as a hard-wire solution.

iFight

I get two hours plus ish normally (I think) on the 60gb

Bard

hallelujajordan wrote:

Great in theory but in practice very difficult. I guess it depends where you are living, but in Dublin it's easy to tune to an unused frequency in one fixed location but as soon as you drive any distance at all, you start to get interference. Also, the sound quality is not half as good as a hard-wire solution.

... and all I'm hearing there is yet another reason not to live in Dublin

TerrorFirmer

I don't get Ipods as video players when the playback time is so bad.

Using my Nokia 9300 to play divx and xvid movies, I get at least 250-300 minutes, sometimes more....Any Nokia S60 phone, since MMC expansions slots came into practice in 2002 or whenever, can support software to play divx/vxid video and lasts about 3 or 4x longer then a Video ipod (if not more) would with a decent battery...

dingding

I get 2 hours listening to musinc on a30GB video ipod.

A related question, how do you turn it off.

Creamy Goodness

dingding wrote:

I get 2 hours listening to musinc on a30GB video ipod.

A related question, how do you turn it off.

hold play/pause button i think, i always have this problem with my brothers video ipod.

thank god i fecking don't have one anymore.

netwhizkid

dingding wrote:

I get 2 hours listening to musinc on a30GB video ipod.

A related question, how do you turn it off.

Hold the Pause button for a few seconds and it will turn it off then slide over the hold button to the right on the top and it won't come on again until you slide the "Hold" button back to the left. Cool little gadget was experimenting adding videos to it yesterday however this makes the battery use up even quicker when you play them back. :mad: