PureMobile sent us in a 16GB iPod Touch for the purposes of this article. This is one of the few times an - essentially - mp3 player comes with a powerful operating system (other examples include the Linux-based Archos and Sandisk offers). Read on for more.
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Member since:2005-10-01
The lack of avi support (namely divx and xvid)in the ipods has always been a turn off for me. I had this same issue when I bought my mac mini long time ago. Was expecting that I could just download divx and play my collection of avi file I've collected over the years only to find that quick time hates .avi so I used VLC.
I want to get an iPod touch for what amounts to a portable internet tablet, but hate the idea of having to transcode movies to play on it. So right now i'm up in the air about getting an iPod touch and having better internet or getting a archos 605 and having better media but worse internet.
Member since:2005-06-28
Member since:2006-04-09
Quoting Square: "Was expecting that I could just download divx and play my collection of avi file I've collected over the years only to find that quick time hates .avi so I used VLC."
Quicktime is just missing the appropriate codecs. Try this, its a real lifesaver:
http://perian.org/
Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional Media Types:
* AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
* MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
* AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
* Subtitle support for SSA and SRT
Its also free and opensource.
Hope this helps. :-)
Member since:2006-01-08
Member since:
2005-06-28
Just FYI, I am not a newbie in video technologies (you possibly missed my filmmaking/video blog).
The point is, it's not just the .avi container problem, but the fact that XViD is usually muxed with mp3, not AAC, which is another detail that needs to be taken care of, should Apple decide to support XViD. In reality it's a strategy/policy issue, not a technical one.