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iPod Touch playing mp4s

  • 22-12-2009 1:28am
    #1
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭


    Does the iPod touch play ALL mp4 files?

    Have you ever converted an avi you've downloaded to mp4 and it hasn't worked on the Touch?

    Does the Touch have auto shutdown?

    Thanks, looking into getting a Touch


    edit: actually, one more question, it probably shouldn't be in this forum but whatever. Is there any mp3/video player out there that will play and video file type?


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  • #2
    bnt
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    I don't imagine it will play all MP4 files, since MP4 is only a "container format". It doesn't tell you how the data is encoded, only how it's packaged. To work on an iPod, the MP4 would need to contain video encoded in H.264 (a.k.a. x264), and audio encoded in AAC. I'm not certain these are all that the iPod Touch (or iPhone) supports, but if you see those, and the resolution is not too high, you should be OK. Or get Handbrake if it doesn't work.

    The iPod Touch has auto-standby, which uses very little power. You don't usually shut it down entirely because it takes at least 30 seconds to boot up.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #3
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,236 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    edit: actually, one more question, it probably shouldn't be in this forum but whatever. Is there any mp3/video player out there that will play and video file type?


    VLC

    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/


  • #4
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    cnocbui wrote: »
    VLC

    http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

    i meant a mp3/video player, not software

    unless you can get a vlc app for the touch? :eek:


  • #5
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Fighting Irish wrote: »
    i meant a mp3/video player, not software

    unless you can get a vlc app for the touch? :eek:
    There's a VLC Remote Control :p


  • #6
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    bnt wrote: »
    I don't imagine it will play all MP4 files, since MP4 is only a "container format". It doesn't tell you how the data is encoded, only how it's packaged. To work on an iPod, the MP4 would need to contain video encoded in H.264 (a.k.a. x264), and audio encoded in AAC. I'm not certain these are all that the iPod Touch (or iPhone) supports, but if you see those, and the resolution is not too high, you should be OK. Or get Handbrake if it doesn't work.

    The iPod Touch has auto-standby, which uses very little power. You don't usually shut it down entirely because it takes at least 30 seconds to boot up.

    OK, have you ever converted a file to mp4 using handbrake that hasn't worked on the touch?


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  • #7
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    There's a VLC Remote Control :p

    I don't understand the joke :pac:


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