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Video iPod Available... Sort of
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..."
--Chag
Did we just slashdot his iPod?
Scientists built a car today that doesn't require any fuel at all!!
All you do is put the car in neutral, grab a buddy and stand behind the car. Then, placing your hands on the rear bumper...push. Scientists believe it's such a simple process we may all be getting around in these miracle cars any day now!
Not having enough cash for an Ipod - I'm going to use this idea with my 35mm slide projector.
Are all these "innovations" a sign that iPod is in need of a breakthrough? There are more portable players out there with more functions, and I wonder how long will Apple fans stick to it?
For example, the new Creative's Zen Micro has FM, is someone going to pre-record some radio talk shows and put it into iPod pretending that it's doing radio too?
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
Sound impossible?
No, Just stupid.
Here's a video (in mov or wmv) of the Episode III trailer in action...
...which can be played on an iPod, which someone can make a movie of... which can be played on another iPod, which...
play movies too.
I had to flip the pages and hum the soundtrack, but the hand-drawn stick figure animations were outstanding.
Can't you read? It says iPod right there in the subject line.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I've determined a hack to make my original 20 gig iPod play holographic content in surround sound with no additional hardware needed!
Four hits of acid and stare really hard. Much more elegant (by orders of magnitude) and less of a brute force approach than TFA.
How the hell can you scroll a porn movie, hold a kleenex and rub the lamp at the same time?
printf($randomline(sigs.txt) \n "-- "$randomline(authors.txt));
-- myself
Your coral-fu is weak. It does not work.
Can someone say "Carpal Tunnel Syndrom"? That's begging for a repetetive stress injury, if you ask me!
The CB App. What's your 20?
"This is like saying that your printer can play movies if you print out each frame and then flip through them.
Get a Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 4650DN (duplex for double-sided printing) and plug it into three-phase power and it'll print fast enough to do this...
Of course, you won't be able to hear the soundtrack over the whine of rollers and gears burning themselves up...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Fantastic new invention found!
Still images placed on a reel and handcranked through light and synched with a nearby phonograph result in what is being called a "motion picture".
For this breaking story and more, stay tuned to our radio broadcast!
shame on us / for all we have done / and all we ever were / just zeroes and ones
Jerky low-res video, out of sync audio, why, it's a perfect pocket-size recreation of XingMPEG on my 486 laptop!
Course, there's probably some old geezer who thinks us youngins have it real good cause in his day he had to crank the projecter by hand. Oh, wait...
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
It is possible to play movies using a book. Simple use Quicktime Pro to export the movie as thousands of individual frames, print each one, bind them together and flick through them really fast. Audio can be obtained by copying the soundtrack onto a cassette tape and listening to it with your walkman.
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Can't you read? It says iPod right there in the subject line.