The maximum data rate for 320x240 video encoded in h.264 for iPod playback is 768kbps.
>From the iPod tech specs page: http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats -Verdi On 12/2/06, Paul Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, Richard, > > I downloaded this onto my mac, brilliant cross fades on the fluffs by > the way and on the whole the video was quite informative, so that's > why I get acid indigestion, ha! Anyway more to the point, I took the > file and did a 'movie to ipod' convert in quicktime pro, and it came > out with no loss of quality but i did come out about 0.9mb larger. > My method is save your original edit in a way that you can, then open > it up in quicktime pro and movie to ipod, now I don't know if the PC > version does it properly or not, but failing that, you can convert a > movie file in itunes so that it will play on an ipod. > One thing I do know is you need to keep the kbps down below 700, this > is on the ipod specification page at apple, a view of this might help > you also. > > Paul Knight > > > On 2 Dec 2006, at 03:10, Richard (Show) Hall wrote: > > > Update on this ... I moved the .avi file to my mac and did the export, > > again, exactly according to directions (with the exception of data > > rate of > > 800) and still did not work on iPod > > > > ... Richard > > > > On 12/1/06, Richard (Show) Hall <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]<richard%40richardshow.com>> > wrote: > > > > > > We used Michael Verdi's excellent tutorial > > > > > > http://aliveinbaghdad.pbwiki.com/AIB%20episode%20format > > > > > > for compressing mpeg4 files that will work on the iPod > > > > > > I know his method works, since I put files from alive in baghdad > > on my > > > ipod with no problem. > > > > > > However, we followed the instructions exactly ... using the combined > > > brains of Maureen and I, which is AT LEAST one brain total and we > > checked it > > > twice and the file does the dreaded "won't work on iPod" thing > > and I have to > > > convert it for the iPod to get it to work and that's no fun. > > > > > > There is one difference, and maybe this is it. In Michael's > > tutorial the > > > file is an uncompressed DV file from final cut pro and in our > > case it is an > > > uncompressed .avi file from Premier and we are using quicktime > > pro for the > > > PC, and Michael is using quitime pro for the mac, but all the > > same settings > > > exist on the PC version that he refers to in the tutorial in the > > mac version > > > of quicktime. > > > > > > Oh yeah, the other thing is that we set the data rate to 800 > > rather than > > > 550. > > > > > > For the record, this evil file is presently on blip: > > > > > > > > >http://blip.tv/file/get/Inspiredhealing- > > Episode30TheDigestiveSystemHeartburnSteroidShotsForTenn947.mp4 > > > > > > Maybe someone can tell what is wrong with this file that it won't > > work on > > > my iPod > > > > > > ... thanks ... Richard > > > > > > -- > > > http://richardhhall.org > > > http://richardshow.com > > > > -- > > http://richardhhall.org > > http://richardshow.com > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- http://michaelverdi.com http://spinxpress.com http://freevlog.org Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
