Cheers for the guide. 

The one issue I worry about with ipod compatible h264 is that
according to apples apecs, it only supports the h264 profile called
'baseline'.

Now if I go to manually export h264 .mp4 in quicktime, in the video
options section there is the following:
restrict profiles to:

Main
Extended (greyed out)
Baseline

It looks to me like main is ticked by default, but in theory for ipod
compatible h264 I believe you need to untick main and tick baseline. 

Like I said thats just in theory, as far as I know video ipods are
likely available sometime between this wednesday and this saturday,
according to what steve jobs said and other articles published last
week. So I think we have to wait a little longer to see what the
reality is.

People wondering if their existing mpeg4 or h264 videos are ipod
compatible should not forget to make sure their audio is the right
format also. Luckily it seems most people use AAC, but theres one or 2
who use something else that wont work on the ipod.

Cheers

Steve of Elbows

--- In [email protected], "wazman_au" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I should have mentioned that the encoding was really slow compared
> with what I've been used to when encoding in 3ivx. I think this might
> be because of the multi-pass setting. You could probably use single
> pass but my understanding is the compression might not be as efficient.
> 
> Also, how I found out the "Movie to iPod" presets: I opened an
> existing AVI file, exported it using the "Movie to iPod" setting,
> opened the resulting file in QuickTime and looked under Window -> Show
> Movie Info.
> 
> The Apple iPod website suggests the video iPod is available now, so it
> will be interesting to see how they sell and what resulting feedback
> we get on our video podcasts.
> 
> All the best,
> Waz.
> www.crashtestkitchen.com
> 
> 
> 
> --- In [email protected], Deirdre Straughan
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > This is very helpful, thanks. Does anyone in the group have a
video iPod
> > yet? It would be nice to be able to test and see what actually works!
> > 
> > --
> > best regards,
> > Deirdré Straughan
> > 
> > www.straughan.com <http://www.straughan.com> (personal)
> > www.tvblob.com <http://www.tvblob.com> (work)
> >
>






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