Play Movies On An iPod Photo?

[Kent Pribbernow]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/entry/3756421320807387/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/entry/3756421320807387/</a><br /><br /></div>That crazy gadget freak Phillip Torrone is on the loose again, hacking away at poor defenseless iPods. This time he has managed to discover a way to play Quicktime movies on the iPod Photo. Well...kinda.<br /><br /><i>Since we started playing with the iPod photo, most observers have asked us “can that thing play movies” the short answer is no, only music and photos—but the longer answer is “sorta, but not really anything worth calling a movie”. In this week’s how-to we’ll show you how to “play” a movie on an iPod photo by exporting frames of a movie, importing them to the iPod and playing them manually by click-wheeling through thousands of images, or even viewing 3d views of objects. Pointless? Yes, will a lot of people try this and put movie trailers and porn on their iPod photo? You betcha, and we’re here to help as always.</i><br /><br />It's a great article that delves into the strange nuances of the latest iPod. Oh, and if you happen to come across Philip Torrone in person one day, and he begins admiring your MP3 player...RUN! Run far away! :lol: <br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/3116780688156545.JPG" />

[Gary Sheynkman]

That is amazing!

If there is a will the is a way

[Suhit Gupta]

I wasn't actually going to post on it, but given this news article I guess I will. iRiver has put out a new firmware version that adds video to their H320 and H340 MP3 players. It is not listed on the iriveramerica site yet, hopefully soon though... Downside is that it gives you only 10 fps, but pretty cool feature from a device where you weren't even expecting to play video.

Suhit

[TomB]

Go Phillip! On one hand, I hope that people starting to do this sends a message to Steve Jobs that his statement about movies not being right for iPods missed the expectations of his users. On the other hand, why even bother when you can get an iPaq that is smaller (thinner) with a 320 x 240 display, full synchronos stereo sound, games, books, PDA functions, you name it - at half the price? I guess this is like climbing mountains. It can be done so do it!? :wink:

[theone3]

I guess this is like climbing mountains. It can be done so do it!? :wink:Clearly, this person dosent get out enough ;)

[TomB]

Hey theone3, thanks for your post but you have me scratching my head! Other than Phillip's cool tinkering, what I am missing?

*iPod Photo: 220 x 170 65K color screen five hour battery life for music and slide show. If the processor was able to decompress MPEG4 there is no doubt the battery would life would drop a few hours. It plays music and manually animated stills and costs between $500 and $600 (40GB/60GB).
-Small and trendy - looks very nice!

*Referbed, overclocked iPaq 1910: 320 x 240, 65K color screen three hour battery life playing films continuously at 12fps - full media player and PDA functions and costs $220 (1GB removable storage - one film / 160 songs).
-Lighter and about the same volume (thinner but a tad wider) - looks OK.

It is clear these devices are night and day in their appeal, cost and utility and certainly what their functionality is. I sometimes use my iPod mini for listening to music but most times use one of several two-year-old iPaq 1910s for that and everything from teleprompting to watching overnight shifts of Conan and Letterman on the subway to work.

So theone3, where were you going with your post?

[TomB]

I will answer my question to theone3 for those who were wondering. It appears that Apple has done such a major marketing job that tech salesmen are telling me people are asking for iPods who have no clue what they do or how they are used. So what we have here is a level of buzz that overrides the lower cost and higher utility of Microsoft hardware. All of a sudden, the hack mentioned does start to make some sense.