Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Dec 2007 07:49 UTC
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:2006-01-08
Of course, on the desktop OS X, Divx/Xvid was never much of a problem. It is after all the second most widely used general purpose OS, it would be laughable if you couldn't get them to work. But the iPods/iPhones still have very limited video format playback option. Hopefully a solution will emerge for either the hacked devices or with the upcoming official SDK.
If there was ever any doubt that web-apps as the only official SDK is too limiting, just try write a video codec in Javascript 
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2005-06-29
Furthermore, Apple has updated its codecs page here
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/components.html
I've found that I only needed an XVID codec to play most of the files. Perian never worked for me for some reason...