Lets get a list going of software you use to convert/rip dvds/movies to the new IPOD format. I am a windows user so the two programs I have heard most about 'HandBrake' and 'Mac the Ripper' wont work for me. Anyone know of a GNU free OS software for windows that will rip a dvd to h.264 in one simple process?
Thanks in advance.
J
I think they are planty, h.264 mp4 is great quality, the best yet in my opinion. But its the fact that people want to freedom to be able to use any file format. If you get a new IPOD like I did (should receive in next week)you will notice that it takes almost double real time to encode h.264 on a AMD 3300 barton. Other codecs take far less time, (less quality) but we will have to put up with the slower conversion, or buy better CPU's.
Will people please stop shouting that it's NOT the video IPOD. It's is. Even though we all know it's the 5th gen IPOD that supports video files. it is the first of the IPODs to do so thus earning the street title "video IPOD." If I see someone looking at their IPOD I'm not going to ask, "hey bro, is that the 5th generation you got there."
I'm going to ask, "Hey dude... It that a video IPOD"
and everyone else will do the same. Saying it's not a video IPOD is, for some reason, your way of defending apple if the product doesn't fly. Part of this is true, apple didn't remake the IPOD from the ground up, it is still an IPOD 5th gen. My point: Since it plays video, and no ipod before (legally) has, it will always bear the name video IPOD until apple releases a video player that will probably be the VPod or something.
The video bloggers and video pocasts are what will matter. Once I have my ipod getting the new CNET new product video podcasts every morning, I'll write back and tell you what the next best player is after watching the future reviews. I'm thinking of doing my own video podcast, and hopefully after christmas everyone will buy one of these things and I can expand my martket on my way to stardom. Not very likely but if apple helps then I'll help apple.
Mainly it's the ability to play multiple file formats. For example you have a P2P movie collection on your HD, chances are that only a couple out of the 100 movies are the same excact format. Apple only accepts a small range of these so in order to watch all your movies on the IPOD you have to reencode them taking about a year. However on the bright side, Apple has now defined a file format that may take over the P2P networks making a universal pirate ship for video.
While hardly a HD res, the IPOD also supports mp4 2.5mps 480x480 resolution. For NTSC, the picture occupies approximately 480 of the 525 scan lines. For broadcasts the portion of a scan line that is visible can hold up to about 440 dots so a grid 480 high by 440 wide represents the maximum amount of picture detail possible. This means any show properly encoded will look just fine on a regular TV, like the one I own::sigh:: I ordered a 60 gig, why? because it's cheap, for the same price I could get a 30 gig creative vision that wont fit in my pocket. It's just a good deal, and I've never been a big apple guy before. (I don't mean new york)
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Lets get a list going of software you use to convert/rip dvds/movies to the new IPOD format. I am a windows user so the two programs I have heard most about 'HandBrake' and 'Mac the Ripper' wont work for me. Anyone know of a GNU free OS software for windows that will rip a dvd to h.264 in one simple process? Thanks in advance. J
I think they are planty, h.264 mp4 is great quality, the best yet in my opinion. But its the fact that people want to freedom to be able to use any file format. If you get a new IPOD like I did (should receive in next week)you will notice that it takes almost double real time to encode h.264 on a AMD 3300 barton. Other codecs take far less time, (less quality) but we will have to put up with the slower conversion, or buy better CPU's.
Will people please stop shouting that it's NOT the video IPOD. It's is. Even though we all know it's the 5th gen IPOD that supports video files. it is the first of the IPODs to do so thus earning the street title "video IPOD." If I see someone looking at their IPOD I'm not going to ask, "hey bro, is that the 5th generation you got there." I'm going to ask, "Hey dude... It that a video IPOD" and everyone else will do the same. Saying it's not a video IPOD is, for some reason, your way of defending apple if the product doesn't fly. Part of this is true, apple didn't remake the IPOD from the ground up, it is still an IPOD 5th gen. My point: Since it plays video, and no ipod before (legally) has, it will always bear the name video IPOD until apple releases a video player that will probably be the VPod or something.
The video bloggers and video pocasts are what will matter. Once I have my ipod getting the new CNET new product video podcasts every morning, I'll write back and tell you what the next best player is after watching the future reviews. I'm thinking of doing my own video podcast, and hopefully after christmas everyone will buy one of these things and I can expand my martket on my way to stardom. Not very likely but if apple helps then I'll help apple.
Mainly it's the ability to play multiple file formats. For example you have a P2P movie collection on your HD, chances are that only a couple out of the 100 movies are the same excact format. Apple only accepts a small range of these so in order to watch all your movies on the IPOD you have to reencode them taking about a year. However on the bright side, Apple has now defined a file format that may take over the P2P networks making a universal pirate ship for video.
While hardly a HD res, the IPOD also supports mp4 2.5mps 480x480 resolution. ::sigh::
For NTSC, the picture occupies approximately 480 of the 525 scan lines. For broadcasts the portion of a scan line that is visible can hold up to about 440 dots so a grid 480 high by 440 wide represents the maximum amount of picture detail possible. This means any show properly encoded will look just fine on a regular TV, like the one I own
I ordered a 60 gig, why? because it's cheap, for the same price I could get a 30 gig creative vision that wont fit in my pocket. It's just a good deal, and I've never been a big apple guy before. (I don't mean new york)