May I remind everyone that the famous project iPodLinux, a so far successful attempt to port Linux to the iPod, gives the video functionality to the iPod Photo. And not just the iPod Photo, for that matter. It gives video support to every iPod except for the Nano and the Video, which is probably being worked on as I type. The video worked with sound and everything. The only issue currently is the power and CPU usage, which is also being worked on.
I, personally, am fully content with my 30GB iPod Photo. It can already do what people now have to pay $299 to do.
One problem Apple is having is the way they release products. Everyone was content with the Mini and Photo, but they instantly replaced it with a Nano, and then a month later, the Video. There is no more normal-sized iPod, and no more compact Mini either. Just an iPod you break if you breathe on it the wrong way and an iPod that ate too much.
If you haven't thrown out your iPod yet, feel free to email me to get video working on it. If you have a grayscale iPod, you will only be able to view grayscale videos. It involves encoding your video with a handy tool named Mencoder, which, being open-source, will work on Windows, OSX, and Linux. You run it with one command through a terminal, and then wait for it to finish up. Nothing ever has to be 'official' to work. Hardware is hardware, and as long as we have hackers and Linux users out there, we will always have the ability to work around the limits that big corporations put upon us.
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May I remind everyone that the famous project iPodLinux, a so far successful attempt to port Linux to the iPod, gives the video functionality to the iPod Photo. And not just the iPod Photo, for that matter. It gives video support to every iPod except for the Nano and the Video, which is probably being worked on as I type. The video worked with sound and everything. The only issue currently is the power and CPU usage, which is also being worked on. I, personally, am fully content with my 30GB iPod Photo. It can already do what people now have to pay $299 to do. One problem Apple is having is the way they release products. Everyone was content with the Mini and Photo, but they instantly replaced it with a Nano, and then a month later, the Video. There is no more normal-sized iPod, and no more compact Mini either. Just an iPod you break if you breathe on it the wrong way and an iPod that ate too much. If you haven't thrown out your iPod yet, feel free to email me to get video working on it. If you have a grayscale iPod, you will only be able to view grayscale videos. It involves encoding your video with a handy tool named Mencoder, which, being open-source, will work on Windows, OSX, and Linux. You run it with one command through a terminal, and then wait for it to finish up. Nothing ever has to be 'official' to work. Hardware is hardware, and as long as we have hackers and Linux users out there, we will always have the ability to work around the limits that big corporations put upon us.