Thanks for the various responses. After hunting around I stumbled on a very good solution through an unexpected route!
Turns out the iPad3 CAN play HD files from get_iplayer, but smarta** iTunes decides it can't. So instead I use GoodReader, an excellent PDF reader which, it turns out, does a load of other things. I can drag the files across to GoodReader in iTunes (or use any of several other methods) and to my surprise even the HD files play beautifully. The weirdness of iTunes! ----- Original message ----- From: Ann <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: HD to iPad Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:28:46 +0100 Does anyone know how to get HD content from get_iplayer into a format which an iPad3 will accept? Currently HD downloads are accepted by iTunes (and playable with VLC etc) but then rejected on sync to the device, as being unplayable. I saw that one person (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2010636) had been exploring this in 2009 but I can't find a solution posted anywhere. My temporary workaround is to reencode the file with Handbrake, but this is wasteful and slow (and discards the nice MP4 tags which get_iplayer adds). Thanks. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
