Comments on: iPod video recap

By: manuel

manuel — Wed, 03 May 2006 01:56:03 +0000

TO EVERYONE WITH IPOD VIDEO!!!!
you do not have to buy a super expensive special cable to view ipod-videos on your tv. i guess everyone here knowts the old av-cables with a red, white and yellow jack. what apple did is switch the yellow and red one. so all you have to do is use on of ‘em old cables, plug it in the tv and just switch yellow and red around and voila, video!!! it works, i have tried. do not waste 30 bux or more for a friggn av-cable.
===>>for the dummies:whats an av cable???
an av-cable has a jack on one end that looks just like the one on your everyday headphones or pc headset. it then branches into 3 other cables, one with a yellow jack, one with a red, and one with a white jack.

By: dkaygee

dkaygee — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:51:29 +0000

Love the iPod with video, but I need to get a diagram to get the microphone to work with the dock connector. I found one that will be released this Spring, but I really don’t want to wait. I’ve been able to get the L,R -audio out and video out to work through the dock connector quite nicely, but the L,R -audio in don’t seem to work by themselves to trigger the voice memo.
Videora iPod video converter works very nicely to convert almost any video to mp4 for play on the iPod with the default “one-click” settings, but I found that to get divX .avi files to convert without an audio delay, I first have to convert them to an .mpg file. Go figure.

By: dkaygee

dkaygee — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:44:11 +0000

By: NIzzle

NIzzle — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:34:38 +0000

hey, does anyone know if there is any way to build an AV cable for an ipod video with like an old headphone jack or some other easy to get parts. I don’t have the needed cable and even the off-brand ones are like 30 bucks so I just wanted to build one instead. I was hoping I could just use some old headphones or something…

By: mamadio

mamadio — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:13:27 +0000

I am wondering if there is a potential Ipod Photo hack that will allow one to view videos with it.
It doesn’t seem all that far fetched that (except for procssor speed) this could be all that complicated if one could get into the Ipod OS.
I am a long time Quicktime user and a realize that video is simply a series of still images shown in sucession, so what prevents one from viewing a series of Ipod photo images in sequence.
Anyone know of amything like this?

By: ace

ace — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:19:28 +0000

What program can I use to convert to avi so I can play them on the ipod?

By: ritesh rai ( dhumbarai)

ritesh rai ( dhumbarai) — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:15:35 +0000

Blink182 rocks………………………………………………………………………………………….and good charlotte also rocks…………………….but hiphop suckxxx!!!!

By: ritesh

ritesh — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 16:10:38 +0000

plz someone give me your idea on either choosing video ipod or a dvxpod?

By: swe

swe — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:47:11 +0000

How easy is it to return your video ipod back to best buy with the 3 year warranty?

By: Donald Trahan

Donald Trahan — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:24:11 +0000

i found the fastest easiest way for windows pc owners to prepare good quality ipod video.
NERO Recode 2 from Ahead Software
and AnyDVD ro slysoft.com to remove copy issues.
stick the dvd in with anydvd running in the background and startup recode then recode main movie to nero digital .. select the memory stick PSP option while choosing the quicktime compatible video andin about a third of the time it would take to watch the video … it is encoded and ready or ipod viewing.

By: john toga

john toga — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:54:58 +0000

hey.. to open the minis you will insert a zacto knife in the bottom edge of the usb cord connecter part, like on the right or the left side. then you just work it out on both sides and it should come out. then just slide everything out. the clicker will have to come out under the whole. IT DOES NOT come out the whole. the nanos just seperate at the sides. use your fingernails to pry it apart. it takes time to seperate the sides. try not to use a screwdriver becuase it makes dents easily. and im a real careful person and i dented my 2nd nano and ive done 2 of them allready (one of mine and one of my friends). the video is the same way as the nanos.

i am not responsible for any of your ipods breaking. this information is just here for you to observe or use. bottom line, not my fualt if you break your ipod.

also, greatest con ever: get an mini ipod (cant anymore but oh well), get the 3 year warrenty from best buy. take the ipod home. have fun with it. open it. then take out the mini hard drive (values at 200$ for a 4gb compact flash) then put it all back together without the hard drive but do put somehting in there to make up for the hard drive’s weight. take it back to best buy and return it and get a new one. (thanks to the 3 year warrenty). ive done this about 2x and i thought it was the best. then they stopped making the minis. those bastards! anyways. you could prolly do this for the ipod video but i dont know what you could use that hard drive for because it is only 1/8″ thin and i do not know of any connection for it as of now. but i am trying to figure it out.

the 3 prong cord. you might need to go to walmart or radioshack and ask for a camera cord for the 3 prong 1/8″ stereo style. they should have it. it looks just like a 1/8″ stereo cord to 2 rca cables but it has three prongs and 3 rca cable (svideo). the end of a regular headphone cord will have 3 sections on it, and it will be divided by 2 black lines or 2 white lines. the ipod video’s “special cord” has 4 sections devided by 3 lines. not that special. it came with my freakin sony camera piece of crap. anyways. thats that. you dont really have to cut anything or modify your headphones becuase it wont work that way to plug up to your computer or tv. sorry.

~john

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:16:00 +0000

hey…how do you open the iPods? and about the cutting RCA to work on a tv…i also have the RCA to 3 prong cord but dont no how to cut it or we….can you please provide a better explanation/example…thanks.

By: john toga

john toga — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 08:26:59 +0000

hey, got ipod last saterday (10-29) and this will be my 5th ipod (mini,mini,nano,nano,video) and ive taken the mini hard drives out of the minis and have kept them and returned them back with the best buy 3 year warrentee thing. the nanos dont use hard drives, well i learned that they dont use hard drives the hard way. so i traded the 2 gig in and got the 4 gig to see if it came with a hard drive, but nope it did not. so i upped it up 50$ and got the video and it does indeed have a hard drive and i removed it with out denting or marking the metal case with screwdrivers or anything (yesss!, the less marks, the less suspiciousnous). And so i have this 30 gig hard drive and i dont know how to connect it to anything.. can anyone help me? i used the mini’s hard drives as complact flash 2 cards becuase thats what they are. but i am helpless with this 30 gig thing.

By: Mark question

Mark question — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:08:39 +0000

Well, since your parser hates me, try this instead: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markquestion/58420576/

By: Mark question

Mark question — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:02:48 +0000

I figured out why I was seeing gibberish. I thought it was weird that no matter which plug I plugged in, I got some video, but it was all messed up. I also got just a buzzing noise when I plugged in any cable (well, a buzzing noise with a little sound). Then it hit me. I was seeing the ground! I made a diagram with pinouts to the iPod AV cable, the iBook AV cable, and how to convert the iBook AV cable to the iPod AV cable.
Here it is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46526784@N00/58420576/