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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..."

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  1. That's great but.. by DeepFried · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have another great solution. This one is time tested and will not drain your batteries.

    Step 1.Print all the individual frames to paper
    Step 2.Animate!

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  2. A way to do this without the ipod by raider_red · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You could take the individual frames and print them onto paper. Then you could use it as a flip book and play the soundtrack on your computer. The only problem is that we'll pretty much wipe out a whole forest just to run one movie.

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  3. great.... by .silG.00 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    if sites with images die... why put a direct link to a VIDEO file on /. ???
    bittorrent ppl...

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  4. Wow.. by I7D · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a...

    forget it

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