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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..."
In the Engadget Podcast the other day they discussed the idea of having Picture Podcasts. Where at certain points during a podcast they could have a way to display a picture on "picture" supported audio players (ipod, iriver, etc). I thought it was an very very cool idea, I don't have a photo ipod or any of the others, but it would be a neat feature if i had one.
Kyle
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Or you could just buy somthing that can play both video and audio. Like a PDA or one of the many portable media centers on the market. This is like saying that your printer can play movies if you print out each frame and then flip through them.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
--Chag
Did we just slashdot his iPod?
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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.
Geesh. Why not just print all the frames out onto paper and make a flipbook?
If you want a video player in an iPod's form factor, either sit tight for 2 years until a honest-to-goodness Video iPod to come out, or buy a Gmini 200 (Flash page).
I chose the latter and haven't looked back.
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.
What is more likely?
1) The new color iPod does not have video because the hardware can't support it.
2) Apple does not have a way to sell movies and videos on iTunes.
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
You could just buy a portable video player that does everything the iPod does and more for about the same price.
Mod me as a troll of you wish, but I'm not trolling.
I think the fact that so soon after the new ipod comes out people are brute forcing it to play movies is a demonstration that Apple may be losing its direction in innovation
I'm an avid digital photographer, and in almost all of the photo boards I hang out on, the opinion of the photo ipod was generally disappointing. How hard would it have been to put a freakin CF card reader in it? How hard would it have been to enable movie playback in at least ONE format?
The ipod was helped in its jump to the top by the fact that it was innovative, so much so that people were willing to ignore its high price tag. Apple missed two big opportunities on this one; movie playback AND easy storage transfer from camera media.
I'm not buying a photo ipod now, but I would've in a second if it had those two features. Apple, I hope this is an isolated incident.Let's get one thing perfectly clear, I did not vote for George W Bush, and I do not endorse what he does or says.
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How the hell can you scroll a porn movie, hold a kleenex and rub the lamp at the same time?
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-- myself
Am I the only one who does not need this feature? I listen to my iPod when I'm on the train, when I'm walking somewhere, or when I'm working out.. all of these activities require using your eyes, so watching video is out of the question. Am in the minority here?
This sounded so really ridiculous, I had to read it again. Then, it seemed even more so :) I laughed so loud I hope the neighbors didn't think I went nuts :D
:D Oh, come on :)
:D
So really, this is something a regular sane fellas would do with their iPods
You even can grab a dead cat and pull it with a piece of rope, but it won't run, even if you mew in the process
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
The Gameboy Advance SP can play movies too. No need to convert the files either. Just put on CF and go. :) My brother has one and it was pretty cool until he updated the firmware and broke it... bummer.
Your coral-fu is weak. It does not work.
Google Cache w/o photos: Google Link
Mirrordot.org also has a copy available:Mirrordot.org
Big Dig-ing until the money is gone...
Now I'm waiting for someone to visit Radio Shack, buy one of those little motors and hook that up to the scroll. Play with resistors to get it to the right speed.
Bonus points if you can pull juice right from the iPod's battery...
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
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?
I think I'll stick with my zaurus, thanks.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
"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".
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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.
The US iRiver H320 and H340 models can playback XVID if you flash them with the recently release v1.20 Korean FW (iRiver is a Korean company). Don't worry, all the menus will still be in English. The video does need to be down-converted to the proper resolution and framerate before playback, but it is a trivial process that can be automated using VirtualDub or any other number of programs. At $300, the H320 is by far the most versatile DAP on the market, imo.
Watch the Apple Special Event video from Oct 2004. Skip ahead to about 12:35 in the video. Jobs says, in a humorous fashion, that he believes the competition is making a mistake with video on portable players, and lists reasons he believes they are impractical.
The arguments he makes are:
I think it's safe to say there won't be a video iPod.
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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To start with, for you apple-crazed mods, this isn't a troll.
:). Basically, Apple needs to solve this "there are better mp3 players for less" problem. They're not going to cut prices (see the fact that their computers cost twice that of an equivalent PC--I simply can't afford a decent G5), so they might as well make what they're already selling better.
iPods are nice. Now when I bought my mp3 player a year ago, I got a 20GB Lyra for $180. Since the cheapest iPod was $400, it was definitely worth it. Plus the Lyra didn't have the battery problems the first-gen iPods did, and it had considerably longer battery life.
Well now iPods are lots cheaper. And they have somewhat better battery life, no dying batteries, and hold more. But if I wanted a new mp3 player today, I still wouldn't get an iPod. Because for the price of an iPod, I can get:
1. A Creative Zen Touch 20GB, has a touch scroll similar to the iPod's and has 60-80% more battery life. Plus I save $90. And it looks cool like the iPod.
2. A video player--larger than the Zen or the iPod, but plays both music, video, and all that.
Now if the iPod, at $300, had number two in there... lets just say it might find its way into my budget
Can't you read? It says iPod right there in the subject line.
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