

There are at least four "profiles," or feature sets, that can be used to encode H.264 (aka AVC). That is, not all H.264 videos are created equal.

because they cannot be played on this iPod," I think most often this is a profile-mismatch problem. If you have H.264 movies that work great in QuickTime/iTunes, but you can't get them onto your iPod and iTunes gives the dreaded error message "some videos were not copied.

#CINEMATIZE YOUR VIDEO MAC#
Here are a few things I've learned in my interweb travels that might be helpful to you folks: (BTW, I'm using XP, so if you're using a Mac or Linux, YMMV.) Hmm, she has an Alpine unit w/iPod adapter in her car, wonder if it will still show the video if controlled through the head unit?Īlthough I'm pretty much a newbie at encoding/transcoding video, since I got my new iPod I've been doing a LOT of research on the subject. Oh yeah, playing through the truck speakers drove my wife nuts. Not something I would want to do often, but worked fine for the trip, especially since the iPod was plugged into power.
#CINEMATIZE YOUR VIDEO SERIES#
I did this with a couple of series episodes for a road trip a while back. I have to manually set the rip to NTSC 29.XX to get smooth playback. NOTE: there is a bug in the latest version of Handbrake, if the DVD doesn't used 3:2 pulldown (which handbrake assumes it does) you'll get a 23.whatever framerate. Handbrake -> select the Title you want from the menu(you'll need to know the duration of the episode you want) and simply set the criteria listed previously in this thread. MacTheRipper -> Title or Title Set extraction, then encode for iPod with something else. Not sure if this has been asked, but what's the best way to rip stuff that is broken up by episode from a DVD to be played on your iPod? If anybody has done any experimenting with this kind of workflow, please let me know - I will be much appreciative! The HD material would probably be uncompressed 10-bit, maybe DVCPRO HD, maybe even H.264. The goal would be to preserve the quality of the source HD material as best as possible, while also preserving the 16:9 aspect ratio so no data is lost, and material is squished.
#CINEMATIZE YOUR VIDEO 720P#
The scenario is, I am wondering what the best way is to encode HD-sourced material (both 720p and 1080i) for playback on the iPod, both its built-in screen, and then output via composite to an NTSC monitor. Is video refitted to fit the physical screen? Are parts of the video frame ever not displayed on the iPod's screen (cut off)? How is wide-format material displayed on the non-16:9 screen? Black bars? Same goes for if you are watching videos on the iPod that are 16:9 that are smaller resolutions than the iPod's screen. I am curious about how the new iPod plays 16:9 content on its screen, when you are encoding at resolutions that surpass the pixel resolution of its built-in screen.
