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Video iPod Available... Sort of

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

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..."

16 of 297 comments (clear)

  1. Ugh... by Chagatai · · Score: 5, Funny
    That is one ugly, ugly brute force hack, if I have ever seen one. It's so ugly it hurt my feelings.

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    1. Re:Ugh... by identity0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Look at the bright side. Now instead of looking fashonable with their white earphones, we'll get to see ipod-people looking ridiculous as they scroll furiously to keep their video in sync with the sound while walking down the street.

      It'll be beautiful, I tell you, especially if they walk into a lamp post while doing it.

  2. In other news... by Dominatus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

    1. Re:In other news... by rrkap · · Score: 4, Funny

      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!/

      There is, however, considerable debate among scientists weather this cooperative mode of operation is superior to the single operator mode in which the user places his feet through a hole in the floor and runs really fast that has been proposed by F. Flintstone and B. Rubble

      No, I can't spell

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    2. Re:In other news... by Elminst · · Score: 5, Funny

      No.. the downside of the hill is easy. It's the upside that kills you.

      badum ching. ;)

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  3. Great Idea! by maeka · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not having enough cash for an Ipod - I'm going to use this idea with my 35mm slide projector.

  4. Time to upgrade? by fembots · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

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  5. Well.. by $0+31337 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sound impossible?

    No, Just stupid.

    1. Re:Well.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It highly depends. Can you hold the Ipod with one hand and scroll the wheel well? For, uhh.. never mind.

  6. Video in Action by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

  7. I used to have a paperback book that could... by SkyMunky · · Score: 5, Funny

    play movies too.
    I had to flip the pages and hum the soundtrack, but the hand-drawn stick figure animations were outstanding.

  8. Re:WTF? by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Seriously, why is this news?"

    Can't you read? It says iPod right there in the subject line.

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  9. In other news... by dr00g911 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  10. ack by krunchyfrog · · Score: 5, Funny

    How the hell can you scroll a porn movie, hold a kleenex and rub the lamp at the same time?

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  11. Printer hack by TWX · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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...

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  12. In related news: by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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