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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..."

5 of 297 comments (clear)

  1. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post... kind of...

  2. mmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mmm

  3. WTF? by LordBodak · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seriously, why is this news?

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  4. hmmmmmmm by kech · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    make my score low, no matter what i post i always get a low score. slashdot and all the admin boobs here suck. that being said, the video ipod is just a bad hack. wait till the real video ipod comes out.

    1. Re:hmmmmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      -1 lame complainer. In the words of Tucker Carlson, "I thought you were going to be funny. Cmon, be funny!"